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As you do your Christmas shopping, you can support the seminary in a few simple ways. If you shop at Amazon, you can put your shopping to work for us as well. Anything you buy at Amazon can be credited to us if you enter Amazon through our seminary link. This applies to books, electronics, … Continue reading Help the Seminary with Your Christmas Shopping

The seminary community would like to issue everyone a warm invitation to our service of Advent Lessons and Carols. This treasured annual event takes place this year on the Second Sunday in Advent, 8 December, at 4:00pm. The Seminary Choir will be joined by Resurrection Lutheran Choir, under the direction of Dianne Humann, with instrumental … Continue reading Advent Lessons and Carols 2013

Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, is again pleased to offer to the church the annual pastor’s desk diary. It contains readings from the three-year and one-year lectionaries, including variants for the major Lutheran churches in Canada (LCC, ELCIC, WELS). The original work of Thrivent Financial in the US has been adapted to the Canadian … Continue reading Lutheran Pastor’s Desk Diary 2014

The 2014 Pastor's Desk Diary is in final editing and should be posted to Lulu.ca for printing on demand by 1 November. Thank-you for your patience.

A church choir prophesies, that is, proclaims God’s Word to the worshippers. That is just one of the Old Testament worship principles even modern churches should keep in mind. Such insights into worship and music were part of Heidi Gallas’s presentation on “Music in the Old Testament” shared with the seventy-five attendees at the Concordia … Continue reading Harvest Day 2013

The following sermon was preached by Rev. David Duke in the seminary's Martin Luther Chapel for the Festival of St Luke, Evangelist, on 18 October 2013. The text was Luke 10:1-9. St Luke, Evangelist, a gift to us from God. How is he a gift to us? Well, among many things, it seems he did … Continue reading St Luke, Evangelist

Thanks to the Canadian Lutheran for this story. PAT students and mentors pose with the CLTS community after morning chapel. ST. CATHARINES, Ontario – The Pastors with Alternative Training (PAT) program had a special session at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario on October 2-5. Five students from diverse cultural and ethnic … Continue reading Intensive PAT Session at CLTS

We offer the following story thanks to the Canadian Lutheran. On January 13, 1914, Ernest Shackelton published the following notice: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” Five thousand applications were received in response to this … Continue reading Applicants Wanted for the Greatest of all Adventures

The printing service lulu.com, through which we are selling the Festschrift volume for John Kleinig, regularly offers discount codes to consumers. For example, right now you can get an additional 5% off the price of any single book by entering the code FAST5. Use it now to get your copy of this marvellous set of … Continue reading Discount on Kleinig Festschrift

On Friday, 4 October 2013, at a festive banquet in Springfield, Illinois, attended by Lutherans from across the continent, the Reverend Doctor John W. Kleinig was presented with a Festschrift by DOXOLOGY: The Lutheran Centre for Spiritual Care and Counsel. Dr Kleinig is retired from a long career as pastor and professor of Old Testament … Continue reading Seminary Publishes John Kleinig Festschrift