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A one-day seminar on the Healing of the Mind, Heart, and Will according to St. Nicholai of Zica the Serbian saint who compiled the Prologue of Ohrid.

Presented by V. Rev. Fr. John Finley

Saturday, December 7, 2019

St. Athanasius Antiochian Orthodox Church

7921 Cottonwood Ln, Sacramento, CA 95828

To register, please email Sarah Burkett at sburkett@stathanasiusaoc.org or call 916-790-8057

Schedule:

• 10:30a Session 1 on the Virtues and Vices
• 11:45a Break
• 12:00p Lunch provided
• 1:00p Session 2 St. Nikolai on the Mind, Heart, and Will
• 2:15p Break
• 2:30p Session 3 Quotes from St. Nikolai and other Fathers
• 3:45p Break
• 4:00p Great Vespers

Fr. John Finley lives in Santa Ynez, California, is a member of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church in Santa Barbara, CA, and has been a field staff member of the Department of Missions and Evangelism of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America since 1996. (www.missionsandevangelism.com) He was ordained to the holy priesthood in 1997.

He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oklahoma Baptist University; a Master of Sacred Theology from St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology; and a Master of Arts in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Fr. John is a music composer and arranger, and the author of Sacred Meals from our Family Table, 2005.