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Review: The Sermon on the Mount(Post)
The Sermon on the Mount is the single largest teaching of our Lord Jesus. It is thick with content; it contains the Beatitudes, the Lord’s Prayer, and meditations on the relationship between the o ...
Thou Art a Vineyard - Michael Legaspi(Post)Thou Art a Vineyard: A reflection on the season of Great Lent from St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary Associate Professor of Old Testament, Michael LegaspiLast year, in the middle of Gr ...
Review: Harp of Glory(Post)From the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Comes a distinctly African hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary:For the roots of the tree of your love are entwined within my heart, And that tree grows in stature a ...
Review: The Liturgy of Death(Post)The Meaning of Death Ravaged by Secularism and the Church as “Co-Conspirator”Priest, dean, and historian, Alexander Schmemann was, perhaps, first and foremost a liturgiologist, a critical examiner of ...
Review: His Life Is Mine(Post)His Life Is Mine. The title of this work stands as something of a promise fulfilled. Having believed that life—true life, eternal life—is found in Christ, the Russian Athonite monk, Sophrony set abou ...
Review: Hymns of Repentance(Post)Of the likely hundreds of kontakia, or hymns, composed by St Romanos the Melodist, fifty-nine of his genuine “sermon-poems” survive today, yet he is known mainly as the author of the Akathist Hymn to ...
Review: Orthodox Christianity, Vol. 5: Sacraments and Other Rites(Post)The Sacraments of the Church as “Arsenal”In the fifth volume of his masterwork series, Orthodox Christianity (published by St Vladimir’s Seminary [SVS] Press), Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev describes ...
Review: Beauty For Ashes(Post)The Church As Mystical Vessel and the Bishop as Protagonist The purpose of the Church is not to create individuals who do something, but rather who are something. That was what author and academic St ...