On Saturday, St. Vladimir’s Seminary celebrated the patronal feast of the Seminary’s Three Hierarchs Chapel and hosted the 38th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture. The Seminary community gathered in the morning for Divine Liturgy for the Synaxis of the Ecumenical Teachers and Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian...
Though he reposed nearly forty years ago, hear Fr. Alexander Schmemann speak to us today through the new podcast, Schmemann Speaks. Schmemann Speaks features the words and wisdom of Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann (1921–1983), from the archives of St. Vladimir's Seminary. His words—captured at various retreats and lectures decades ago—are anything...
Father Alexander Schmemann did not approach liturgy as something for academic theologians to tinker with. He rather approached liturgy as a source for theology itself—the ontological condition for theology, in his words. I tell people that the rest of my graduate education was spent trying to get the number of the bus that hit me.