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...

People driving on East 13 th Street in Wichita, Kansas are treated to a heavenly sight. On St George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral’s exterior, mosaics of Christ, the Theotokos, St John the Baptist, St George, and the Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, bear silent witness to passersby. The mosaics, created...