In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Today God calls someone a word that no one ever wants to hear: “ fool “! How scary is the thought of being called a fool by God! Why does God call this man...
The festal cycle of the Church sanctifies time. By this we mean that the tedious flow of time is imbued with sacred content as we celebrate the events of the past now made present through liturgical worship. Notice how often we hear the word “today” in the hymns of the...
17 And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, 18...
Homily delivered Sunday, December 10, 2017, in Three Hierarchs Chapel By Archpriest Chad Hatfield, President of St. Vladimir’s Seminary Gospel Reading: Luke 17:12–19 Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said...
Sarah Byrne-Martelli, BCC, was Board Certified with the Association of Professional Chaplains in 2004. She is a Chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital and is endorsed by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese. She received her Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and currently is a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.)...
By Alumnus Archpriest Steven Kostoff (Master of Divinity, ’81) This pales beside the Divine Liturgy, the Eucharist, and the real ‘Super Sunday’, Pascha! The Super Bowl and the secular Super Sunday is now over. One more game for the history books (though I rather doubt that serious history books record...
By Harrison Russin, Ph.D. candidate in Musicology, Duke University; Dean’s Fellow and Lecturer in Liturgical Music, St. Vladimir’s Seminary On Saturday, February 10, 2018, at 6:30 p.m., the seminary Chorale will commence its “Orthodox Masterpieces” series by singing Great Vespers in Three Hierarchs Chapel, featuring select compositions by Archpriest Sergei...
Seraphim O’Keefe is a third-year seminarian at St. Vladimir’s. He delivered this reflection as a sermon at Christ the Savior Church in Southbury, CT, where he serves for his parish assignment. *Author’s note: Quotations from The Ladder of Divine Ascent and other texts are often changed in this reflection to...
Archpriest Sergius Halvorsen is director of the Doctor of Ministry Program and assistant professor of Homiletics and Rhetoric at St. Vladimir’s Seminary. He delivered this sermon on November 8, 2018 on the Feast of the Synaxis of Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers at the Seminary’s Three Hierarchs Chapel...
Deacon Basil Crivella is a 3rd-year Seminarian in St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program. He belongs to the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the Midwest. Deacon Basil prepared this sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of St. John Climacus. - In the name...