Welcome to the New Academic Year!

Dear Pastoral School Faculty and Students,

I would like to welcome everyone to the first day our courses for this academic year! If you have not yet registered please do so as soon as reasonably possible – you'll want to get involved in the discussions in your classes right away!

If you have technical questions please reach out to our IT Lead, Deacon Joseph Appling:

joseph.appling@orthodoxtheologicalschool.org

We are very grateful for Fr. Joseph for his diligent work for our school – please remember him in your prayers!

If you have any other questions please reach out to me – my contact information is below. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions whatsoever or if I can be of any help to you whatsoever! Your feedback is always welcome.

Tonight at 8:00 p.m. EDT I will serve a moleben for the Beginning of Every Good Work at our parish in Ann Arbor. With the Lord's blessing I have great hope for a wonderful year together as an academic family - may the Merciful Lord grant us a spiritually profitable academic year!

With Love in our Lord Jesus Christ,

Fr. Gregory Joyce, Dean
fr.gregory.joyce@orthodoxtheologicalschool.org
Cell/SMS/Viber/What’s App: +1-734-649-5746

P.S. Please connect with us via Facebook (@orthodoxtheologicalschool), Instagram (@orthodox_theological_school), or the Dean’s List blog (http://psdcma.blogspot.com/). And please share the word about the Pastoral School – you are our best way to inform others about our programs!

New Students Accepted

The Pastoral School Fall semester begins on September 9, 2019. We are pleased to announce that the following students have been accepted for the coming semester:

Baksheev, Subdeacon Gennady
Brkovic, Marko
Chaika, Vadim
Erfe, Luke
Fimmel, Seraphim
Grigaitis, Deacon John
Justiniano, Deacon Seraphim
Levitskiy, Vladislav
Orloff, Subdeacon Sergei
Peterson, Subdeacon Michael
Regado, Roman
Sheck, Joseph
Solis, Gregory
Stefan, Laurence

We congratulate these students on their acceptance to the Pastoral School! Most will be studying in the Pastoral Theology Program, others in the Catechist Program.

The next application deadline for the Pastoral School is February 1, 2020. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so those who would like to apply are welcome to do so at any time for the next semester. The application form can be found here:

APPLICATION FORM

We welcome your application! If you have questions, please contact me.

Fr. Gregory Joyce, Dean
fr.gregory.joyce@orthodoxtheologicalschool.org
Cell/SMS/What's App/Viber: +1-734-649-5746

TIME SENSITIVE: Dogmatic Theology Text Book

Those who will be taking Dogmatic Theology, which I will be teaching this semester, would be well served to purchase the main textbook, “Orthodox Dogmatic Theology”, by Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky. Here is the link to Archangels Books in St. Louis, with whom the Pastoral School has a cooperative relationship:

ORTHODOX DOGMATIC THEOLOGY

The book is also available on line, but if possible, it would be ideal for the students to have this very important book in their personal library. On line versions can be found with a simple search. The other book that will need to be purchased is The Truth of our Faith Volume II – On the Christian Mysteries by Elder Clopa. That one comes later in the semester, but it is not a bad idea to pick it up now, when you are purchasing the Pomazansky book. Here is the link at Archang
els Books:

THE TRUTH OF OUR FAITH

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or concerns.

Fr. Gregory Joyce, Dean
fr.gregory.joyce@orthodoxtheologicalschool.org
Cell/SMS/What's App/Viber: +1-734-649-5746

Academic Calendar 2019-20

Please find the 2019-20 Academic Calendar at this link:

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2019-20

There are two important messages here:

1. Classes begin in one week! Those who have applied for admissions will hear from the school in the next 24-48 hours. Returning students should register for classes now.

2. Faculty and students are asked to review the calendar and put the information from this calendar onto their own calendars so that deadlines are not missed.

As always, please contact me with questions.

Fr. Gregory Joyce, Dean
fr.gregory.joyce@orthodoxtheologicalschool.org
Cell/SMS/What's App/Viber: +1-734-649-5746