Category: Prayer

Translation of the Relics of Aquinas marked Jan. 28

20/1/2020

The Order of Preachers and the Studium Catholicum celebrate the memorial of the Translation of the Relics of St Thomas Aquinas on Tuesday, January 28. This year the day is marked with a lecture in Finnish at the Studium's Angelicum Hall from 6.30 p.m. and sung vespers at 8 p.m.

You can join a song rehearsal for the vespers with brother Marie-Augustin OP at the Studium on Monday, January 27th between 6 and 7 p.m.

Here you will find the FB event page for the celebration of the translation of the relics at the Studium.

Programme

18:30 Lecture by Marika Räsänen on the Translation of the Relics of St Thomas Aquinas från Italy to France in 1369-1369.(”Pyhäinjäänteiden matkassa. Tuomas Akvinolaisen reliikkien siirto Italiasta Ranskaan 1368-1369”)
18:50 Discussion in Finnish: Seppo Heikkinen, Johanna Korhonen, Marika Räsänen and Hilkka-Liisa Vuori.
Moderator: Br Marie-Augustin OP.
19:30-19:50 Introduction in Finnish to the songs of the evenings vespers by Hilkka-Liisa Vuori.
20:00 Vespers of The translation of the Relics of St Thomas Aquinas. Singing: Br. Marie-Augustin and Vox Silentii. (Click here for a sample of their singing)

Click for pdf programme in Finnish

A seminar on the Ignatian Way on June 20th

3/6/2019

The Ignatian Way - A Seminar on Spiritual Direction will be given by Father Charles Pottie-Pâté SJ at the Studium Catholicum in Helsinki on Thursday, June 20th, 2019 at 9.30-12.30.

At 8.30 a.m., an hour before the seminar starts, the Studium hosts an Ecumenical Morning Prayer, which participants of the seminar are also welcome to join. The prayer concludes with coffee & tea.

The Ignatian Way seminar is organised by the Helsinki Parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Studium Catholicum.

Seminar Registration by June 18, 2019 by e-mail to peccator@me.com.

Fr Charles Pottie-Pâté SJ

Father Charles Pottie-Pâté is originally from Nova Scotia with Acadian roots. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1959 and has completed 60 years as a Jesuit. He taught liturgy and sacramental theology from 1980 to 2006 in the universities of Toronto, Ottawa, Rome, and Halifax. He has been giving the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola since 1970 in one form or another, accompanying people in their journey of faith.

He has been in the Calgary Diocese since September of 2011 and his ministry involves the continuation of his work with Ignatian Spirituality, including spiritual exercises, retreats, spiritual direction, and as Jesuit liaison with Christian Life Community – a lay association rooted in Ignatian vision.

Click here for an advert in pdf format

Lenten Retreat with Catherine Aubin OP from April 5

1/3/2019

This year, the Studium's traditional Lenten Retreat takes place in the first week of April. From April 5th through 7th, Sister Catherine Aubin OP leads us in the 9 ways of prayer of St Dominic.

From Body To Heart:
A Path to Eternity Through
St. Dominic’s
Nine Ways of Prayer

Friday, April 5th at 17.30-21.00
Saturday, April 6th at 10.30-16.30
Sunday, April 7th at 10.30-15.00

Please note that the number of places is limited. The fee is EUR 25. The language of the retreat is English.

The deadline for registration and payment is March 15th. Please pay the participation fee to the Studium Catholicum account Nordea FI40 2001 2001 0002 81
and notify Lucia Indren by e-mail at lucia.indren@studium.fi or by phone or text message to 040 414 5861 that you wish to take part in the retreat.

Click here for a pdf version of the retreat advert.

Ten Years of Ecumenical Morning Prayers

4/9/2018

The first Ecumenical Morning Prayer was held on October 2, 2008. Welcome to celebrate the 10-year Anniversary of Ecumenical Morning Prayers at the Studium Catholicum on Thursday, October 4 at 8:30 a.m. Bishop Teemu Sippo SCJ, among others, will participate in the anniversary prayer. As usual, there is coffee after the prayers.

The Facebook event page for the anniversary celebrations is here.

Talk on Family Prayer on Sept. 7

28/8/2018

On Friday, September 7th, Father Jose Kulathoor will give a talk at the Studium Catholicum on the sucject of Family Prayer. Father Jose is part of the Apostolic Visitation for the Syro-Malabar faithful in Europe.

Talk on Family Prayer
at 7 p.m. on September 7th

Fr Jose is from Kerala in India and was ordained 29.12.2012. He served as a priest in his home diocese in Kerala for 2 ½ years and is now stationed in Rome, where he is working on his doctorate in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

During the time of studies in Rome, he is also helping the Apostolic Visitation for the European Syro-Malabar community, a new arrangement made by the Holy Father for the pastoral service of the Syro-Malabar faithful in Europe, including celebrating Holy Mass for the Syro Malabar Faithful in Italy, Norway, Sweden and Finland. He first celebrated Mass according to the Syro-Malabar rite in Finland in December 2017. On this trip he will be celebrating Holy Mass in Malayalam at St Mary's Church at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 8th.

Bishop Stephen Chirappanath, Apostolic Visitator for the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Europe, visited Finland in June.

The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the second-largest Eastern Catholic Church in the world with over 4.6 million members worldwide, is based in Kerala and traces its origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.

Lenten Retreat: Sr Tamsin and Living the Beatitudes

20/3/2018

From Friday, March 16, through Sunday, March 28, Sister Tamsin Geach OP from England was at the Studium Catholicum giving a Lenten Retreat titled Living the Beatitudes - A Lenten Reflection. Sr Tamsin has kindly agreed to share her tallks online.

Sr Tamsin's first talk is available here: The Beatitudes as imitatio Christi. You can also listen to her talk on YouTube. Sr Tamsin's second talk was on The Beatitudes as an Examination of Conscience. The audio version is here. Sr Tamsin's third talk was on The Beatitudes as a Programme for Action. The audio version of that talk is available here. The fourth and final talk was on The Beatitudes as a Pattern for Prayer. The audio version with extra material is available here.

Nine Ways of Prayer on June 2 & 3

29/4/2017

Come to the Studium Catholicum to learn more about the Nine Ways of Prayer of St Dominic from Sister Catherine Aubin OP, who will be visiting the Studium the first weekend in June.

9 Ways of Dominican Prayer

with Sr Catherine Aubin OP

from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, June 2,
and
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 3

The talks will be given in English. For more information, please contact Lucia Indrén at lucia.indren@studium.fi.

Reception of the Order of Preachers

26/1/2017

On Wednesday, January 25, a delegation of three brothers from the Curia of the Order of Preachers at Santa Sabina in Rome arrived for a visitation of the Studum Catholicum in Helsinki. For us it is always a great joy to have six Dominican Brothers present in Helsinki at the same time.

Six Dominicans in Helsinki: Marie-Augustin Laurent Huyghues Beaufond OP, Antoine Lévy OP, Vivian Boland OP, Gabriel Salmela OP, Krzysztof Poplawski OP and Orlando Rueda Acevedo OP.

The delegation from the Council of the Dominican Order is headed by the Vicar of the Master of the Order, Fr. Vivian Boland OP, who is Irish. The other members of the delegation are the Socius for the Apostolic Life, Fr, Orlando Rueda Acevedo OP from Colombia, and the Socius for Central & Eastern Europe, Fr. Krzysztof Poplawski OP from Poland.

Among the guests at the reception held at the Studium in honour of the visitors from Rome was the Orthodox Metropolitan of Helsinki Ambrosius.

Advent Retreat in Finnish

14/11/2016

Father Gabriel Salmela OP leads a three-day Advent Retreat at the Studium from Friday, November 25, through Sunday, November 27, at the Studium Catholicum in Helsinki.

Ecce rex tuus venit

Please note that this retreat is held entirely in Finnish.

The price of the retreat is €25.
Bank details: Studium Catholicum acc.
Nordea FI40 2001 2001 0002 81
Registration and further information:
lucia.indren@studium.fi or 040 414 5861
Please enroll by November 14, 2016

Pdf advert in Finnish

Five-day course on Judaism

23/5/2016

Join us for a five-day intensive course on the Psalms in Judaism and Introduction to Judaism: Sources, Calendar, Liturgy, Ideas at the Studium in June.

The course is taught by Rabbi James Baaden of Sha’arei Tsedek, North London Reform Synagogue, UK, on June 15rd-19th. The course is held in the evenings on weekdays and in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. On Wednesday, June 15, the course begins at 6.30 p.m.

Rabbi James Baaden returning to the Studium for another crash course in Judaism!

The course fee is EUR 30. For registration (by May 20) or more information, please contact Lucia Indren (lucia.indren@studium.fi or 040 4145861).

Course advert in pdf format

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Translation of the Relics of Aquinas marked Jan. 28

A seminar on the Ignatian Way on June 20th

Lenten Retreat with Catherine Aubin OP from April 5

From Body To Heart:
A Path to Eternity Through
St. Dominic’s
Nine Ways of Prayer

Ten Years of Ecumenical Morning Prayers

Talk on Family Prayer on Sept. 7

Talk on Family Prayer
at 7 p.m. on September 7th

Lenten Retreat: Sr Tamsin and Living the Beatitudes

Nine Ways of Prayer on June 2 & 3

9 Ways of Dominican Prayer

with Sr Catherine Aubin OP

Reception of the Order of Preachers

Advent Retreat in Finnish

Ecce rex tuus venit

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