This year’s public lenten retreat on Saturday, April 2, 2011, will take participants “Back to Basics” in an exploration of the biblical books of Genesis, Proverbs, and Isaiah. The Very Rev. Dr. Harry Pappas, adjunct professor of Pastoral Theology at our seminary and retreat master for the day, will be examining the overall theme, "Back to Basics: Old Testament & Life."

Father Harry bases his teaching of homiletics and pastoral theology on his seminary training at Holy Cross School of Theology, graduate work in biblical studies at Harvard and Yale, and more than twenty years of pastoral experience. He has served as deacon in New Haven, Connecticut; interim pastor in Kingston, New York; and pastor in Enfield, Connecticut, Nashville, Tennessee, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also worked as a part-time associate at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in New Rochelle, where he drew large crowds to his scriptural studies classes. Currently, he is the pastor at Archangels Church, Stamford, Connecticut, a parish of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

His particular interests in parish work include Bible study, preaching, worship, contemplative prayer, pan-Orthodox cooperation, and ministry development, especially social outreach and missions. He has made multiple trips to Project Mexico’s St. Innocent Orphanage in Mexico and the Hogar Rafael Orphanage in Guatemala. He has taught at Yale Divinity School, Holy Cross, and the Resurrection of Christ Seminary in Albania.

The schedule for the day and campus venues are as follows:

“Back to Basics:  Old Testament & Life”

  9:00 AM   Divine Liturgy in Three Hierarchs Chapel

10:15 AM   Brunch in Kunnett Auditorium, Three Hierarchs Chapel lower level

11:00 AM   1st Meditation, Discussion, & Break:  "How Life Begins (Genesis)" in Met. Philip Auditorium, John G. Rangos Family Building, top level

12:30 PM   2nd Meditation, Discussion, & Break: "How Life Works (Proverbs)" in Met. Philip Auditorium, John G. Rangos Family Building, top level

  2:00 PM   3rd Meditation, Discussion, & Break: "How New Life Appears (Isaiah)" in  Met. Philip Auditorium, John G. Rangos Family Building, top level

 

Participants may register for the retreat online for a fee of $10, which includes Brunch.

For further information, please contact events@svots.edu, or call 914-961-8313 X351.

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