Human suffering, no matter the form it takes, be it natural disasters or human-initiated evil, leads many to doubt the omnipotence of God. Catastrophes such as tsunamis, wars, or ethnic “cleansings,” whose human casualties number in the thousands or hundreds of thousands (or more), stretch our sensibilities so far that...
As we approach Pascha, the Feast of Feasts, it is fitting that we consider once again the nature of the banquet to which we are invited. As we will sing at Matins on Holy Thursday, we are called to ascend, with our minds on high, to enjoy the Master’s hospitality...
His Grace Basil (Essey) (SVS '73), has been named secretary to the Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America. His Grace is the Bishop of Wichita and the Diocese of Mid-America in the Self-Ruled Antiochian Christian Archdiocese of North and South America. The SVS Board of Trustees bestowed the degree...
At the invitation of His Beatitude Sawa, archbishop of Warsaw and metropolitan of All Poland, Fr. John Matusiak delivered the keynote at a national gathering of Orthodox catechists held at the Orthodox Culture Center, Bialystok, Poland, September 24–25, 2010. The conference was organized by the Publishing Department of the Orthodox...
The Very Rev. Michael Westerberg and his wife, Matushka Lydia, rejoiced with friends and parishioners on Sunday, October 10, 2010, as they celebrated thirty years of service at Holy Transfiguration Church, New Haven, Connecticut. His Grace, The Rt. Rev. Nikon, bishop of Boston and New England, presided at the hierarchical...
Archpriest Alexander Atty, SVOTS alumnus ('79), was recently installed as the seventh dean of St. Tikhon's Seminary. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), and His Grace Tikhon, bishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, the seminary's rector, concelebrated the formal installation Service of Thanksgiving at...
Today we commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the repose of His Grace Boris, bishop of Chicago and the Midwest (1978–1988) and St. Vladimir’s Alumnus (’46). The son of a priest, Bishop Boris felt nurtured and called to service in the Church from an early age. “Ever since I can remember...