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A warm welcome awaited all who ventured out into last Saturday’s heat to attend Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary’s annual placement service. Every spring around this time students are assigned to a year of internship, called vicarage, and graduates receive their first calls from synod's congregations. The festive mood and music is appropriate for this very … Continue reading Call Service 2012

Preached by Revd Dr Wilhelm Torgerson at the CLTS Call Service, 26 May 2012, The Eve of Pentecost, at Grace Ev. Lutheran Church.  “D o n ’ t   U n d e r e s t i m a t e !”  St. Luke 5:1-11 You’ve no doubt heard them, those words by coaches of … Continue reading Call Service 2012 (sermon)

Preached by Dr Wilhelm Torgerson in the Martin Lutheran Chapel of CLTS, 25 April 2012  II Timothy 4:11 Festival of St Mark the Evangelist “Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is very useful to me for service.” What a wonderful word, what an expression of loving kindness: … Continue reading St Mark, Evangelist

The following sermon was preached by Dr Wilhelm Torgerson in the seminary's Martin Luther Chapel on Easter Wednesday, 2012.  I Corinthians 15:12-20 Did you hear about it? During excavations in Jerusalem a parchment was found, apparently containing a confession by the Apostle Peter. In it he remorsefully admits that in that fateful year 33 A.D., … Continue reading Sermon for Easter Wednesday

The coffee was cooking. The bacon was sizzling. And in the background you could hear the clatter of cups and cutlery as seminarians and their sons began setting up the serving table for a Men’s Breakfast, Saturday, 31 March, at Grace Lutheran Church in St. Catharines. James and Tyson and Rev. Juritsch were the first … Continue reading Father-Son Breakfast with Pastor Kevin Fast

During March Break week, 20 confirmands from 7 East District congregations met at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary for the annual Confirmands’ One-Day Retreat. The theme of the day’s activities was the signs and symbols of the Christian faith. The confirmands worshipped in the seminary chapel, heard a presentation on Christian symbolism, toured the building, and … Continue reading Seminary Confirmands’ Day

St. Matthew 16:13-19 Preached by Revd Dr Wilhelm Torgerson in the seminary's Martin Luther chapel on Wednesday, 7 March 2012, in the week of Lent II.  “Church is a drag.” Most of you will likely know people who hold this deep conviction. And many of those who think that way probably have never seen the … Continue reading St Matthew 16:13-19

The following sermon was preached in Martin Luther Chapel by Dr John Stephenson on 24 February 2012 for the Feast of St Matthias.  St Matthias 2012 Acts 1:15-26 & St Matthew 11:25-30 During this holy season, exercise some self-discipline by cutting down on your consumption of necessaries and luxuries—that’s part of what “Take My yoke … Continue reading St Matthias

“And a good time was had by all” The chocolate was flowing in the fountain, the wine was poured into glasses, the meal was done to perfection, the snow was lightly falling, and the conversations were animated for the 190 guests at the Seminary’s “Chocolate, Wine and Roses” event Friday, 10 February, at Hernder Estate … Continue reading Chocolate, Wine, and Roses 2012

The following sermon was preached by Dr James Keller in the CLTS chapel on 2 February 2012 in observance of the Presentation of Our Lord and the Purification of Mary. “A Glimpse of Glory” – Luke 2:22-40 It seems that every once a while, in the middle of our often dull, dreary lives, we get a … Continue reading The Presentation of Our Lord