July 19 Lecture: Fr. Andrij Hlabse ~ Drawn Together in Harmonious Praise

Location: The Bartlett Center, Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology

Fr. Andrij Hlabse, S.J., will be presenting “Drawn Together in Harmonious Praise: The Eucharist as Source and Summit of Faith from a Byzantine Theological Perspective” on Wednesday, July 19 at 7 p.m. at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology (MTSM). The event, part of the 2023 Sacred Music Institute Conference, is free and open to the public.

Fr. Hlabse was ordained in the Byzantine Rite in 2018, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in theology at Notre Dame, focusing on the development and relations of the Latin and Greek theological traditions to 1600 and liturgical studies.

Fr. Hlabse got his Bachelor’s in music performance (as a jazz saxophonist) and romance languages from Notre Dame in 2006. He entered the Society of Jesus in 2007 en route to earning his master’s in philosophical resources from Fordham University, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and a Licentiate in Eastern Ecclesiastical Sicences iwth a concentration in Patrstic and Eastern Christian theology from the Potnifical Oriental Institute in Rome. While in Rome, he also served as director of the choir of the International College of the Gesu and the Church of the Gesu. He taught religion and spanish and served as liturgist at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago.