Prior to his death on December 13, 1983, Father Alexander Schmemann celebrated his last Divine Liturgy on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day, at St. Vladimir’s Seminary. At the end of the Liturgy he called upon all of us to give thanks…
“Our thoughts create either harmony or disharmony in the world.” Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica There can never be enough said to reprove the belief that whatever a man does behind closed doors, “as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else,”…
By popular demand, the famed KONEVETS QUARTET, from the Konevets Monastery near St. Petersburg, Russia, is returning to the U.S. for a Fall concert tour. The KONEVETS QUARTET was founded by graduates of the St. Petersburg Music Conservatoire in 1992. Their repertoire includes…
“Be mindful, O Lord, of the presbytery, the diaconate in Christ and every priestly orde.” From the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great We returned yesterday from Chicago and the 50th Biennial Antiochian Archdiocese National Convention. It was a…
“A devout woman once wrote thus, ‘In my own family I try to be as little in the way as possible, satisfied with everything, and never to believe for a moment that any one means unkindly toward me… It all…
