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Rt. Rev. Fr.
Roman Bozyk
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ACADEMIC EVENTS
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INAUGURATION
Program of Inauguration 2019
Inauguration 2019
On Sunday. September 15, 2019, at 2:00 pm over 70 guests gathered
at St. Andrew's College for the Inauguration and Awards Ceremony.
The event began with the traditional Academic Processional
Entrance of the Members of the Platform Party led by the Order of
St. Andrew Honour Guard with ceremonial banners. The Master of
Ceremonies, V. Rev. Fr. Roman Bozyk, Dean of Theology and Acting
Principal of St.Andrew's College, welcomed everyone in attendance
and introduced the members of the Platform Party.
The Inaugural Address "The Orthodox Church and Ecological Issues"
was delivered by V. Rev. Fr. Roman Bozyk who particitated in the
Halki III Summit convened by His All-Holiness Patriarch
Bartholomew in June 2019 in Istanbul.
The program included the presentation of Scholarship and Bursary
Awards to deserving students of the Faculty of Theology, St.
Andrew's College Member Students, College Residence students, and
to students of the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies. These
awards are made possible thanks to the many generous donors who
recognize the importance of encouraging and rewarding academic
endeavours.
The program concluded with the Ceremonial Recessional and was
followed by a delightful reception during which the students and
guests had the opportunity to visit and pose for photographs which
will become part of their fond College memories.
Inauguration Address of
DEAN AND ACTING PRINCIPAL
With the Blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan YURIJ and at the
invitation of His All-Holiness Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW of
Constantinople, I was able to attend a 4-day conference – Halki
Summit III held in Istanbul, Turkey at the end of May, the
beginning of June of this year. This was the third summit that was
held by the Ecumenical Patriarch on the Environment and care for
God’s Creation. This year not only were experts in Orthodoxy and
Ecology invited, but also Deans of Theology of Orthodox seminaries
and other educational institutions. The Patriarch brought Deans to
this meeting to emphasise to them how changes and improvements to
our care of God’s Creation must start at the level of Seminary
Education. The future clergy of the Church should not be
by-standers in the climate change talks but supporters and even
instigators of positive change and continued care for the world.
The world is one of the gifts God has given us and thus for which
we will have to answer at the Second Coming of Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. The importance of taking care of the world’s
environment should be taught in seminary classes, and preached in
sermons.
Actually, I am not the first to speak at a St. Andrew’s College
Convocation or Inauguration on this topic. His All-Holiness
Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW honoured St. Andrew’s College by accepting
an honourary Doctorate from the College and at the special
Convocation in this auditorium in 1998 spoke on climate issues and
our need to protect the world in which we live. Care for the
environment as a Christian virtue has been a long time priority of
His All-Holiness.
Whenever an Orthodox Christian begins to speak about the
ecological crisis, he/she must begin with the blessing given to
humanity to care for the world that the Lord has created. We human
beings are the apex of creation created in the “image and
likeness” of God (Gen 1:26) and we are given the responsibility
for the rest of Creation “and let them (ie.us) have dominion over
all the earth” (Gen 1:26). This dominion that we have over the
world cannot be interpreted as wanton dominance for uncontrolled
exploitation of resources that has been the practice so often by
governments (either left or right) or by companies looking first
of all for profits. As early as 1967, the Journal Science printed
an article by a Dr. L. White accusing the Christian Church of
destroying the environment and the world itself by her
encouragement of uncontrolled exploitation of resources. I believe
it was not the Church that was responsible, but those, over the
centuries, that ignored or contradicted the necessary care for
creation that faith in God-the-Creator demands of all His
children.
The care, control or dominion spoken of at the beginning of
Genesis is not exploitation and use, so much as it is an
obligation to take care of the gift given to us by God. We are the
tenants mentioned by Christ who are to give a report about what we
have done with the vineyard entrusted to us. What will be our
answer?
Dominion implies a responsibility as caretakers of God’s Creation
not licence to do as we wish. Dominion over creation (Genesis
1:26) was a loving care and stewardship of the world – which
belongs to God. This loving care was lost or corrupted by the Fall
of Humanity after the sin of Adam and Eve. Our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ renews the world by entering and blessing the world
at His Baptism and by His Holy Resurrection which grants us
forgiveness and eternal life and as such brings peace and
reconciliation again to the entire Creation. Now we, as followers
of Christ, must forsake wanton exploitation and return to the
loving care of the world as stewards who will be called to give a
report. We speak often of God’s gifts of speech, life,
intelligence etc. and for each of these we will render God a
report - and so, too, should we see our care and dominion over the
world as something we do piously so as to have a good answer as
stewards at the coming judgement.
This beautiful
planet has been lent to each person in the world to take care of
and protect as were the “talents” in the well-known parable of
Christ.
When I was at this Halki Summit, I thought about how Orthodox
Seminaries can help to prepare better stewards of his Creation. I
began to think that theologically we do mention such issues in the
Scripture courses, the Ethics courses and in practical terms.
Thanks to the Board and Administration of St. Andrew’s College and
even moreso to the initiatives of our caterers, we are leaders on
campus in recycling/composting and the like. Nonetheless, God has
a way of keeping us humble – as I was reminded of the image shown
at the beginning of June around the world (and on Turkish T.V.) of
Canadian garbage sitting in the hot Philippine sun.
We can always do better and His All-Holiness the Green Patriarch
invited Deans to the Halki Summit to impress upon all of us, the
urgency of good theological education on the theme of the
universal and important blessing given to us to care for the world
that God has created.
Fr. Dr. Roman Bozyk
September 2019