Fall 2025 Orthodox Curriculum

online Course List and Sign-Up Form for Fall 2025 Orthodox Curriculum

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We are delighted to announce a curriculum for the Fall 2025. Following our Survey of Interest and Educational Workshop, this course offering will be our first, and we are looking forward to see how it progresses. Please sign up for classes below. Additional course details are listed at the bottom of the page.

Online Course Sign-Up Fall 2025:

Please note that scheduling of class timetables will occur in the Fall, based upon the availability of teachers and students. We will try to accommodate the needs of those who have signed-up as best we can. However, as we cannot guarantee a convenient time for everyone, this sign-up form is not yet binding.

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I am interested participating in the following courses.

• Adult Catechism
• Children’s Catechism
• Kinderkatechismus in deutscher Sprache
• Orthodox Book Club: Christian Literature from an Orthodox Perspective
• Русская грамота
• Romanian Literacy
• Deutsche Sprachkenntnisse
• Introduction to Latin, ages 9-14
• Physics for Kids, ages 8-12
• Shakespeare for Secondary School Advanced English

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Online Course List in Detail

Our Fall 2025 Curriculum includes the following online classes:

Catechism Classes

• Adult Catechism, led by Fr. Robert Williams and Hieromonk Fr. Theodore Stanway. Cost: Free.
  • In 2017, Fr. Robert earned a distance-learning Certificate and Diploma of Orthodox Studies through the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge. A few years later, in the Cathedral of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, Munich, Metropolitan Mark (Arndt) ordained him a Deacon in 2020, and Priest in 2023. With his family, he moved to Ireland in 2023 to found the Saint Patrick Orthodox Mission in Clifden, Ireland.
  • Fr. Theodore earned a theological degree, followed by a Master of Divinity degree, from Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, Jordanville, New York. Meanwhile, 2021 saw his ordination to the rank of Hieromonk in the ROCOR diocese (the same diocese to which this Saint Patrick Orthodox Mission belongs).
• Children’s Catechism, age 8-12, monthly, led by Matushka Anastasia Williams. Mat. Anastasia, wife of Fr. Robert, grew up in a large Orthodox family in Virginia, USA. She earned a Masters of Education from George Mason University in 2009. After raising their family for 14 years in Munich, Germany, they then moved to Ireland in 2023. Here, she helps run the Saint Patrick Orthodox Mission in Clifden, Ireland. Cost: Free.
• Kinderkatechismus in deutscher Sprache, unterrichtet von Thomas Rabius. Herr Rabius hat 2021 sein Studium der Orthodoxen Theologie an der LMU München abgeschlossen. Seit 2021 unterrichtet er junge Studenten in Salzburg in orthodoxen Lehrplänen. Für die Orthodoxe theologische Fernschule unterrichtet er auch über orthodoxe Gottesdienste. Kosten: Frei.

An Orthodox Book Club

• Book Club: Christian Literature from an Orthodox Perspective. Meeting online monthly, the book club will examine the Orthodox merits of Christian authors such as Lewis, Tolkein, and Dostoyevsky. With the good advice of Saint Basil the Great, the goal will be to understand our literary heritage in the proper context of the Orthodox Faith. Cost: Free.

Foreign Language Literacy Classes

• Русская грамота, преподаватель Елена Шерстнева. До переезда в Ирландию г-жа Шерстнева изучала филологию и преподавание русского языка и литературы (1992-1997 Калининградский государственный университет, Калининград, Россия). До 2001 года она работала учителем по русскому языку в одной из калининградских средних школ. Стоимость: 5 евро в час/ученик.
  • Russian Literacy, taught by Elena Sherstneva. Before moving to Ireland, Mrs. Sherstneva studied philology and teaching of the Russian language and literature (1992-1997 Kaliningrad State University, Kaliningrad, Russia). Until 2001, she worked as a Russian language teacher in a Kaliningrad secondary school. Cost: 5€ per hour/student.
• Romanian Literacy, potential, TBA.
• Deutsche Sprachkenntnisse, unterrichtet von Marlene Möser. Frau Möser ist in Österreich frisch gebackene Abiturientin und plant eine Ausbildung zur Lehrerin für die deutsche Sprache in der Volksschule. Kosten: 5€ pro Stunde/Teilnehmer.

Supplemental Academic Classes

• Introduction to Latin, ages 9-14, taught by Anna Grünert. From Switzerland, Ms. Grünert earned her BA and MA degrees in patristics at the Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University for the Humanities, Moscow. She then completed a PhD on the Homilies on the Psalms by Basil of Caesarea. Cost: 5€ per hour/student.
• Physics for Kids (can be both in German and in English), ages 8-12, once a week, taught by Kamila Murat. In 2022, Mrs Murat obtained her Bachelor’s degree at the Institute of Quantum Physics at the University of Hamburg with the thesis, ‘Efficient RF evaporative cooling of rubidium atoms up to Bose-Einstein condensation.’ Cost: 5€ per hour/participant.
  • Physikunterricht, 8-12 Jahre, einmal pro Woche, unterrichtet von Kamila Murat. Im Jahr 2022 erwarb Frau Murat ihren Bachelor-Abschluss am Institut für Quantenphysik der Universität Hamburg mit der Diplomarbeit, “Effiziente RF evaporative Kühlung von Rubidium-Atomen bis zur Bose-Einstein-Kondensation.” Kosten: 5€ pro Stunde/Teilnehmer.
• Shakespeare for Secondary School, Advanced English, taught by Rory McQuillan. Thoughtful and widely-versed in classical literature, Mr. Macmillian, with his family, attends the parish of Saint John of Shanghai in Belfast. His extensive research into the Irish Orthodox Saints, such as our local Saint Féchín, features in his books as well as his blog. Cost: 5€ per hour/student.