St. John Vianney Seminary
Lay Division
Our 2020-2021 classes are off to a great start!! This school year is a new — and hopefully temporary — time for the Biblical and Catechetical Schools with online classes. Due to current COVID-19 restrictions/considerations, all 2020-2021 classes will be taught online for the entire 2020-2021 academic year. (Our plan, dependent on COVID status, is to return all continuing 2020-2021 classes back to their hosting parishes for the 2021-2022 year, as well as start up some new classes at new locations. Click HERE for tentative 2021-2022 schedule.)
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Classes started the week of Sept 14, but it’s not too late to register for class. See “News & Events” below or visit our Registration page.
The St. John Vianney Theological Seminary Lay Division houses our flagship programs of the Biblical and Catechetical Schools in addition to a number of Enrichment Courses that help people know, love, and share their faith. We currently serve 2,500 students in 70 locations throughout the Archdiocese of Denver and the Diocese of Colorado Springs.
The Biblical School is a four-year journey through every book of Scripture that helps people understand the narrative history of God’s saving acts through His patriarchs, prophets, and people, leading up to the fullness of revelation in Jesus Christ.
The Catechetical School is a two-year journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church that reveals the Catechism to be not a dry book of dogmas but rather a “Ladder of Ascent” which leads us to communion with God in a life of prayer.
In addition to our flagship Biblical and Catechetical School programs, we offer year-long, lecture-based Enrichment Courses, that delve deeper into special interest topics. This year, we’ll offer the following three Enrichment Courses: Dante’s Divine Comedy, Icon: Catholic Art & Culture, and The Wisdom of the Saints. (Apologetics is taking a break for 2020-2021, but we hope it’ll be back on the schedule for the 2021-2022 academic year.)
“Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ.”
St. Jerome
Introducing our new scholarship fund to help students encounter Jesus through study and prayer!
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From the Wilderness to the Promised Land
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"...our day today seems like a time of great testing: a virus, an economic disaster, unemployment issues for millions, rioting and looting, and all in an election year! So much that can cause anxiety and stress, as came upon Israel in the wilderness. We may seem like we are in our own wilderness today, aimlessly wandering without a sense of where this is all going."
Lay Division Interim Director Daniel Campbell offers a reflection and some words of encouragement on behalf of all the faculty and staff of the Lay Division as we begin this school year.
From the Wilderness to the Promised Land - St. John Vianney Lay Division
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IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER FOR A 2020-2021 CLASS!! Click HERE to go to our Registration Page.
Due to current COVID-19 restrictions/considerations, all 2020-2021 classes will be taught online for the entire 2020-2021 academic year. (Our plan, dependent on COVID status, is to return all multi-year classes for 2020-2021 back to their hosting parishes for the 2021-2022 year. Click HERE for tentative 2021-2022 schedule.) We’ve listed a few helpful links below for your convenience (you can find them elsewhere on this website):
