TUTORS
JULIE ABERNETHY
Director, English and Scripture Instructor
Julie Abernethy was born and raised in Saskatoon, where she attended both elementary and high school. She completed her B.A. in English and Philosophy at Christendom College before going on to teach high school at Seton School, a private Catholic school in Virginia. She later completed a degree in Education at the University of Toronto. She has experience teaching a wide variety of subjects to students of all ages in Canada, the U.S. and Switzerland. She is the founder and director of the Paideia Centre for Truth, Goodness and Beauty.
SISTER PETER MARY
Art and Grade 1-4 Instructor
Sr. Peter Mary entered religious life with the Little Sisters of the Poor in 2000. She served the elderly in multiple locations across the USA and France. In 2013, while on sabbatical, she felt called to be a visible sign out in the world. With the help of a discernment team under the direction of Bishop Bolen, she received dispensation from her perpetual vows and made private vows as a consecrated lay woman in 2016. When asked what her ministry is, she will reply: "I go where God sends me." Since 2016, Sr. Peter Mary has served with people who are elderly, mentally disabled, and incarcerated or recently released. She currently is the part time pastoral associate at St Paul's Co-Cathedral and looks forward to her work with the Academy.
CHERYL BOSCH
Sacred Music Director
Cheryl Bosch completed her Bachelor of Music in Voice at the University of Calgary in 2012. During her education, she participated in the Collegium Musicum ensemble performing music from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Shortly after graduation, she moved to Saskatoon with her husband. She has been teaching private voice lessons for over 7 years. From 2016-2018 she directed Collegium Cantorum presenting William Byrd's Mass for 4 Voices, Allegri's Miserere Mei along with other sacred hymns for several Masses. She is looking forward to passing on a love for Sacred music to the students of the Academy of Our Lady.
HIEROMONK GREGORY HRYNKIW
Guest Instructor
Hieromonk Gregory Hrynkiw, has been a Byzantine-Catholic monk since 1989. On 8 October 2010, he made his solemn profession of monastic vows (great schema) into the Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs. The Hermitage is a form of consecrated life under the jurisdiction of Bishop Bryan Bayda (Eparchy of Saskatoon), which follows the ‘middle path’ of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, uniting both the contemplative (theoria) and active (praxis) aspects of monastic life. In 2014, Hieromonk Gregory completed his doctoral dissertation in Sacred Theology at the Angelicum in Rome. At present, he is in Saskatoon, preaching, teaching, and writing on the works and theology of
St. Gregory the Theologian.
MICHAEL SIEBERT
Latin, Music, Logic, and
Grade 5/6 Instructor
Michael Siebert grew up on a farm in south west Saskatchewan, graduating from high-school in Herbert. He earned Bachelor degrees in Church Music and Philosophy at Concord College and the University of Winnipeg, and did an MA in Early Christian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In 2014, he completed a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, specializing in Medieval Philosophy. His research focuses on St. Augustine’s early doctrines of learning, illumination, God, and the soul. He has taught sessionally at the University of Toronto and the University of Regina, and also has spent time running the farm with his parents. He has a great love of classical education and choral music, and a special interest in the relation between philosophy, religion, and politics.
ANNE LAFLECHE
Literature, Composition, and Gr. 1-4 Instructor
Anne LaFleche completed her Bachelor of Education at the University of Saskatchewan in 2021. After teaching French kindergarten in Saskatoon for a few months, she became a missionary with NET ministries Canada. As a missionary, Anne served the community in Whitehorse, Yukon through catechism classes, school retreats, and youth events. Following her year of missionary work, she stayed in Whitehorse for the 2022-2023 school year and worked as religious education coordinator at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Secondary School. She is grateful to be back home in Saskatoon, and she will begin working on her Masters of Religious Education through Newman Theological College this winter. At the Academy of Our Lady, she is eager to share her enthusiasm for literature and writing with students.