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• Holy Cross Seminarians Invited to Ireland

  For most Bostonians, Irish or not, St. Patrick's Day is an annual celebration highlighted by parades and beer-fueled revelry. For three Holy Cross seminarians, however, St. Patrick's Day will mark the beginning of twelve days in Ireland for more serious reasons: to engage with the Orthodox community of Dublin and visit holy sites around the country, such as ancient abbeys. While in Cork, Adam Murphy, Alex Karcher, and Christian Toumbelekis will deliver a talk about Orthodoxy at University College Cork, part of the National University of Ireland. The invitation to speak in Cork came via a friend Adam Murphy made...

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• HCHC Observes Clean Monday with Annual Retreat

  On Monday, March 11, the Hellenic College Holy Cross community observed the start of Great and Holy Lent with a day-long retreat. Students, faculty, and staff gathered in Holy Cross Chapel for Orthros, after which His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Geron of America, delivered the keynote address. His Eminence chose as his focus John 15:7-17 and elucidated its message to the keenly attentive audience, who were given copies of the selected passage in Greek and English. His Eminence pointed out the "very specific and dominant verb" that appears multiple times and is usually rendered in English as "abide" or "reside" but...

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• HCHC Hosts Second Annual Fresh Check Day

  The Office of Spiritual Formation and Counseling Services, in collaboration with the Office of Student Life, sponsored HCHC's second annual Fresh Check Day on March 8. These fun-filled events, held on many college campuses around the country, serve a serious purpose: to promote students' mental well-being and make them aware of the resources available to them at school, in the community, and nationally. "We spend most of our time on intellectual and spiritual activities here at HCHC," says Dr. Bob Murray of the OSFCS, "so this is an opportunity to learn about mental health issues in our society." Each booth...

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• Leadership 100 35th Anniversary Conference Concludes; $2.9 Million In Grants Approved By Executive Committee

  The following press release was issued on March 1, 2019, by Leadership 100. Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Fund, Inc. 645 Fifth Avenue, Suite 403 New York, NY 10022 www.L100.org Leadership@L100.org Leadership 100 concluded its 35th Anniversary Conference on February 23, 2019, with the Grand Banquet presentation of the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Award for Excellence to George Veras, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Producer of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Stellene Volandes, Editor-in-Chief of Town and Country Magazine, the oldest continually published magazine in the country, according to Argyris Vassiliou, Chairman of Leadership 100. The Conference, livestreamed for...

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• Crossroad Director Attends Ecumenical Patriarchate Forum On Modern Slavery

  Kyra Limberakis, Director of the Office of Vocation and Ministry's CrossRoad program, recently attended a remarkable and timely forum on modern slavery in Istanbul, Turkey. Titled "Awareness, Action and Impact," the forum, held January 5-8, was convened by the Task Force on Modern Slavery that was established by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Task Force includes His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas of the Dardanelles, Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, Presvytera Maria Drossos, and the V. Rev. Nephon Tsimalis. The aim of the forum, third in a series that began in 2017, was to transform awareness of this pressing issue into a...

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• HCHC Board of Trustees Meets

  The HCHC Board of Trustees recently met for their regularly scheduled winter meeting on the campus of our beloved school. Under the Chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Geron of America, a full presentation on the state of the school was presented by Trustee committees as well as the President, Rev. Christopher Metropulos. This included, but was not limited to, the financial condition of the school as well as past and expected enrollments for the fall of 2019. Throughout the United States, numerous small liberal arts colleges are facing closure or planning to close or to shutter programs in light...

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• V. Rev. Dr. Maximos Constas Speaks at Korea Symposium

  V. Rev. Dr. Maximos Constas, Senior Research Scholar at Holy Cross, was a featured speaker at a recent International Symposium on the Environment in Seoul, Korea. The symposium, which was attended by more than 400 people, was part of a celebration to mark the fiftieth anniversary of St. Nicholas Cathedral. His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew delivered the keynote address at the symposium and was followed by Fr. Maximos, whose topic was "A Tale of Two Trees: Nature and Human Transformation." The paper explored St. Maximus the Confessor's interpretation of the two trees in paradise, the Tree of Knowledge and...

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• HCHC Mourns the Passing of Bishop Athanasius

  The entire HCHC community deeply mourns the untimely passing of His Grace Bishop Athanasius of Kisumu and Western Kenya at the age of 48 in Worcester, Massachusetts. His Grace fell ill just after celebrating the Divine Liturgy at St. Spyridon Cathedral in Worcester and, despite the best possible efforts over several weeks to save his life, ultimately succumbed on January 4. A wake will be held at St. Spyridon on Sunday, January 13, from 4-9pm, with a Trisagion service at 7pm. There will also be a wake at Sts. Constantine and Helen Church in Webster, Massachusetts, on Monday, January 14,...

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• Holy Cross Student Produces “Love to the End” Documentary Film

  Growing up in Bangalore, India, Anberin Pasha dreamed of becoming a filmmaker. "Every weekend I would go see art films at a cinema near our house and knew very early that I wanted to make films, especially documentaries." But she never imagined that her path to realizing that dream would take her to Florida, then to Serbia, and ultimately to Holy Cross, where she earned a Master of Divinity degree last May and has just begun the two-year Master of Theology program. Anberin went to the University of Florida to study documentary filmmaking. Her thesis film, about a white woman...

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• Rev. Dr. Eugen Pentiuc Co-Editor of Pan-Orthodox Study Bible

  Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins at Holy Cross, Rev. Dr. John Behr, Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, and Dr. George Kiraz, founder and director of Gorgias Press, recently met for the second time to discuss the next steps toward producing a Pan-Orthodox Study Bible (POSB), of which they are the general editors. At the meeting, which took place at the Beth Mardutho Syriac Institute headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey, on October 25, the three general editors decided on the main vision and structure of this important...

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