Metropolitan William Skurla, President of the Byzantine Catholic Seminary, welcomed staff, faculty, and students to a new year of mentoring, teaching, and learning at a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in the Seminary Chapel on Monday, August 27, 2018. This opening liturgy followed a week of orientation which included focus on the four pillars of formation (human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral), a building clean-up day, and an in-house retreat. In his homily, the Metropolitan encouraged the community to remain both humble as well as faithful as they seek to rise above the failures of the Church.