Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   ‘When, by your suffering and resurrection, you had renewed the world aged by many sins, you ascended into heaven, riding on clouds. Glory to your glory’ (Ode 1, Ascension). Saint Iosif of Thessaloniki, who wrot...

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, dist...

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous   The notion that the Church has laws for all people and all circumstances appears not to be the case in practice. Moreover, such an idea would negate the uniqueness of the person and would amalgamate all people together, ...

Preserve us, Your servants, those who minister, our leaders, the armed forces, and the people present here, in Your holiness. (Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, p. 46) — Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unle...

The Saint Vladimir’s Summer Music Institute is this June 21-24 with in person and virtual options. The focus of this year’s Institute is on the living practice of creative music-making and composition within the Orthodox liturgical tradition in No...