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The 2023 Diaconal Liturgical Practicum of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) will be held June 19–23, 2023 on the campus of St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NY. The five-day program will offer intense practical liturgical training for deacons and lay diaconal candidates. In addition to liturgical practice...
The Institute of Sacred Arts at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) and Great Music Under a Byzantine Dome hosted a concert performance by the world-renowned ensemble, Cappella Romana , on Friday, February 17, 2023. The event was held at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York...
For two days, seminarians, faculty, and staff at St Vladimir’s Seminary met at Three Hierarchs Chapel to pray together and listen to a series of talks for meditation. This year, Dr Peter Bouteneff presented a four-part series titled “The Social Self and the Inner Life: Reflections on Communion, Introversion, Extraversion...
Hymns for the Theotokos & the Lenten Season You...
Assistant Professor of Liturgical Theology, Dn Vitaly Permiakov , spoke at the 2023 Lenten Retreat at Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco on the weekend of March 18-19. Over 75 parishioners and guests attended the retreat, contemplating the topic "Standing in the temple of thy glory: liturgical theology in the...
His Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) served at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) on March 24 and March 25. On Friday, March 24, His Beatitude presided over the morning Presanctified Liturgy and the festal vigil...
St Vladimir’s Seminary students, faculty, and guests performed a concert titled “Hymns for the Theotokos & the Lenten Season” on Sunday, March 26 at 5 p.m. EDT in the Three Hierarchs chapel on campus. Three ensembles—a male choir, a women’s choir, and a mixed choir—sang selections of traditional and contemporary...