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The St. Vladimir's community celebrated the Vigil and Feast of Theophany on January 5 and 6 with a full liturgical cycle. A longstanding tradition followed, with Dean The Very Rev. Dr. John Behr and family, Assistant Professor The Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel and family, and Director of Alumni and Admissions Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak and family, opening their homes for hospitality and fellowship. Liturgist and octogenarian Archimandrite Ephrem Lash, a seminary guest for the week, joined in for all the liturgical and community events, and offered the homily for Theophany's Divine Liturgy.
The Sunday prior to Theophany, The Rev. Kyle Parrott (SVOTS '14) also presented a homily in Three Hierarchs Chapel, titled "A Flame of Love." He noted that "Even if we have neglected our Christian calling, or are burnt out from church life, if our energy is spent from keeping faith in a culture that sees us as strange and irrelevant, if our love for our neighbor has been quenched by conflict with friend and family, or if our devotion to God has been smothered by the thousand problems in our lives, even with all this, we are unable to completely extinguish this light which Christ keeps smoldering in our souls, waiting for us to return again to the high calling of our baptism."
Continued Fr. Kyle,"To tend that light we are called to 'prepare the way of the Lord' by preparing our hearts. The Apostle Paul gives us a few ways to do this in today's epistle: 'Be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry' (2 Tim. 4:5)."
