Pascha approaches: we should reflect once again on this crux of our faith, orient ourselves anew by the perspective that it offers, and enter afresh into its mystery. By his death, his voluntary self-offering in love for us, Christ has destroyed death and granted us life. We say such words...

Seminary Alumna Beryl Knudsen says she has seen first-hand how hope in God positively affects those with mental illness. Writing in the News-Times’ “Forum on Faith,” Knudsen, a chaplain at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, shared the story of her sister-in-law, who struggled with mental illness for forty years before passing...

I taught medieval history at Wichita State University, KS, and I am a translator. When I get stuck in a stubborn paragraph, I say a short Latin prayer to the Holy Spirit: “ Veni, Sancte Spiritus; et emitte coelitus lucis tuae radium. Veni, pater pauperum; veni, dator munerum; veni, lumen...

St. Vladimir’s Seminary Alumna Sister Margarete (Roeber) now serves her monastic community of Holy Assumption Monastery , Calistoga, CA, as Mother Macrina. Mother Macrina was tonsured to the rank of Stavrophore on Wednesday, December 19, 2018, by the hand of His Eminence Benjamin, archbishop of San Francisco and the West...

St. Vladimir’s Seminary Alumnus Dn. Narek (now Fr. Andrew) Garabedian was ordained as a priest of the Armenian Church of America on Friday, June 28 and 29, 2019. Father Andrew was ordained by the hand of fellow Alumnus His Grace, Daniel (Findikyan ), primate of the Ea stern Diocese, at...

Alumnus Deacon Larry Soper (M.Div., ’19) has been ordained as a priest for the Serbian Orthodox Church's Eastern American Diocese . His Grace Bishop Irinej , a fellow SVOTS alumnus (’82), presided over the Divine Liturgy and ordination Sunday, July 7, 2019 at St. John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Church...

Dr. Paul Meyendorff , professor emeritus at St. Vladimir’s Seminary and editor of the St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly , was one of numerous Orthodox delegates who participated in the Plenary Session of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches. Held in Nanjing, China June 13-19, 2019...

I am a relatively new bishop, having served happily as a pastor for 33 years before being elevated to the episcopacy. I still have the honor of glimpsing into the intimate dynamic between people and God, as they approach me with pastoral issues—perhaps even more deeply, in my new role—and...

Saint Vladimir’s Seminary Alumnus Very Rev. Andrew Tregubov has been elevated to the dignity of mitered archpriest for his many years of service to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon , archbishop of Washington and metropolitan of All America and Canada, awarded the miter to Fr...

Alumnus Deacon Simon Menya (’18) was ordained to the holy priesthood Wednesday, July 31, 2019, by the hand of His Grace, Silverstros Kistu Maximos, bishop of the Ugandan Orthodox Church’s Diocese of Gulu and Eastern Uganda . His Eminence, Metropolitan Innocentios of Rwanda and Burundi also participated in the service...