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August 11, 2023

Ontario Catholic college a vocations’ breeding ground

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry’s Bay, Ont., has for years been producing graduates well-versed in the Catholic faith, but it is also gaining a reputation for producing priests and religious.

Nine priests. Four professed religious sisters. Four seminarians. Three novitiates. Two transitional deacons. One sister poised to profess her final vows.

Published in Canada
April 28, 2021

Film club creates movies with a Christian edge

Alfonso Menano takes some direction from co-director Conrad Sibiga on the set of Joe.

Just days before Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland won Best Picture at the Oscars, student auteurs at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry’s Bay, Ont., gathered virtually for the premiere of the John David Filmmaking Club’s new movie titled Joe.

Published in Youth Speak News
February 28, 2020

Little college working on big plans

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom president Ryan Williams outside St. Joseph Hall.

BARRY’S BAY, ONT. -- Seven months into his job as president of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, Ryan Williams has moved well past the phase of getting to know the campus.

Published in Higher Education
February 5, 2020

Creator has starring role on Catholic college stage

Students involved in the production of The Song of Bernadette go through a rehearsal. Lucy Gay, right, plays the schoolmaster in front of a class that includes Geneva Ulmer, Mary-Rose Lee Wah, Nikola Vanderheyden, Mary Zwicker, Leah Myers and Gabriela Jezierski, who is playing the role of Bernadette.

At Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, theatre is as much about keeping the Creator in the creation as it is about staging an entertaining production.

Published in Youth Speak News
October 19, 2019

New president lands at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom after many travels

Ryan Williams and his family have found a new home in Barry’s Bay, Ont.

Ryan Williams has travelled many roads in his career over three continents, and they’ve finally led him to a small town in eastern Ontario.

Published in Higher Education
August 21, 2017

Man needs beauty out of hunger for God, says author

Michael D. O'Brien, bestselling author and visual artist spoke on Beauty and Christian art at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College's annual Wojtyla Institute Aug. 10-13.

BARRY’S BAY, Ont. – Man’s need for beauty springs from his profound hunger for God, artist and best-selling author Michael D. O’Brien told a conference at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College.

Published in Canada