Category: Sacramental and Liturgical Life
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The Exhortation of Jesus Invigorating Spiritual Life
by V.K. McCarty Look not at the things which are seen, but at those which are not seen; for the things which are seen may be timely, but the thingswhich are not seen are for eternity. (Cyril of Alexandria, Homily 104) Jesus offering the parable of the great feast awaiting us, as one step in […]
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Celebrating Archangel Light
by V.K. McCarty Commanders of the heavenly hosts,we who are unworthy beseech you,by your prayers encompass us beneath the wings of your immaterial glory,and faithfully preserve us who fall down and cry to you:Deliver us from all harm, for you are the commanders of the powers on high!(Troparion for the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael […]
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The Gospel of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
by V. K. McCarty | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind. . .”* The Pentecost feast-day reading from Acts (2:1-21) is absolutely […]
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The Sacrament of Adoption and the Orphan Crisis in Romania
by Petre Maican | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски Recently, a newspaper article brought to the attention of the public a rather unusual request made by an Orthodox believer to his bishop in Romania. The believer asked the bishop why the Church is not doing anything about the situation […]
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Anticipating Kassia’s Cosmic Hymn
by V.K. McCarty | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Русский | Српски In preparing to participate in the services leading to Pascha, a memorable element of the Liturgy for many of the faithful is the Hymn of St. Kassia (ca.810-ca. 865 CE), “Lord, the Woman Fallen into Many Sins.” It is remembered as a […]
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Schmemann for Our Time: Christ, the Crisis of Our Age
by Fr. Alexis Vinogradov | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Русский | Српски Each year since his death in 1983, Father Alexander Schmemann’s legacy is evoked through an established annual lecture in his name at St. Vladimir’s, the theological seminary in New York in which his ideas flourished, nourishing generations of clergy and faithful […]
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Community or “Comspoonity”?
by Fr. Bohdan Hladio | Ελληνικά | Русский One of the greatest impacts of the current pandemic is the effect it has had on interpersonal relations. The inability to embrace or hold a friend’s hand, the need for “social distancing,” and the knowledge that anyone we meet is potentially the carrier of a deadly disease all […]
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Who Are You When You Feel Liturgically?
by Andrew Mellas | Ελληνικά What is emotion? Do emotions have a history? Who has emotion? Are emotions innate? These questions are far more complex than they might seem. Indeed, in recent years, scholars have explored how emotions were understood and enacted throughout history, investigated how emotional discourses acted as drivers of cultural and political […]