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Schedule

Tuesday, December 23 - Travel Day
   - Evening:  Registration for Youth Conference (3-9 pm)

Wednesday, December 24
 8:00                Morning Prayer and Breakfast (hotel)
 9:00                Brief Moleben/Greeting of Myrrh Streaming Icon of Iveron Mother of God - Welcome
10:00-11:00     1st Lecture   (Prof John Hadjinicolaou)The Holy Fathers
11:15-12:00     Workshops divided by age
12:00-1:00       Lunch (hotel)
1:00-2:30         2nd Lecture (Prof John  Hadjinicolaou) The Holy Fathers
2:30-3:30         Choir rehearsal/Communion Rule
4:00                 Start leaving for church (Choir can continue rehearsing at church.)
5:00                  Hierarchal All-Night Vigil
                                  (Metropolitan Hilarion and Bishop Gabriel presiding)
7:30                 Dinner (Church Hall)
9:00                 Begin leaving to return to hotel/Voluntary discussion time
11:00               Lights Out

   Thursday, December 25
8:00                 Leave hotel for Church
9:00                 Greeting of Metropolitan Hilarion
                                Hierarchal Divine Liturgy  
                                 (Metropolitan Hilarion and Bishop Gabriel presiding)
12:30               Immediately following Liturgy; group photo in church
1:00-2:00         Lunch (Church Hall)
2:00-5:00         Visit to Old Montreal
6:30                 Dinner (Church Hall)
8:30                 Return to hotel followed by free time
11:30               Lights out

 

   Friday, December 26
8:00-9:00         Morning Prayer, Breakfast (hotel)     
9:30-10:30       3rd Lecture (Joseph Kimball) Response to Prior year lecture on
                                                            Psychology/Psychiatry.
10:30-12:00     Panel Discussion – Q&A – divided by ages.
12:00-1:00       Lunch (hotel)
1:00-2:30         4th Lecture (Father Serge Arlievsky)
                                                            The Calendar question.
                                    2:30-5:30         Social time (Bookstore, pool, etc)
6:00                 Banquet (hotel)
8:00                 Talent Night
12:00               Lights out

Saturday, December 27 - Travel Day  (Return Home)
   - Check out of Hotel by 10:30 am

 

 

Our Keynote Speaker

DR. JOHN HADJINICOLAOU

Dr. John Hadjinicolaou was born and raised in Thessaloniki , Greece , where he completed his primary and secondary education.


Subsequently he completed three degrees in the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki , Greece one in Byzantine  Music ,one  in Civil Engineering  and one in Orthodox Theology.
He came in Canada in 1977 where he completed a Masters and a Ph.D.  in Environmental Engineering at McGill University.


Since 1983, he teaches as a professor at McGill University and from 1990 at Concordia University also. He also holds an MBA degree from McGill .


From 1998 until now he is the director of the Orthodox Theology programmes at the University of Sherbrooke at both undergraduate and graduate levels.


In 1983 he founded and has directed of the Montreal Centre for Greek studies and since 1987 is the president of the Orthodox publishing company Alexander Press.


From 1996 he has been an UN  International expert and professor in environmental issues.
He is married to the psychiatrist Dr. Evangelia Amirali and they have four sons.