Category Archives: Liturgy & Sermons

The Byzantine Liturgy and the Grammar of Salvation

Posted on 19 July 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr Khaled Anatolios The association in this commemoration of St. Gregory Palamas between the overcoming of the passions and the indwelling of the divine Trinity brings to light the dogmatic matrix that governs and permeates the Byzantine liturgy’s conception … Continue reading →

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The Path Upward: Liturgy, Universalism, and George Seferis

Posted on 25 August 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Christopher Howell Burning burning burning burning O Lord Thou pluckest me out O Lord Thou pluckest burning ~ T.S. Eliot ~ “When you asked me about hell the other day,” wrote Philip Sherrard in a 1966 letter to the … Continue reading →

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“Let Every Mortal Leap for Joy”: Apocatastatic Hymnody in Orthodox Worship

Posted on 17 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

 by Brad (Reader Irenaeus) Jersak, Ph.D. “The primary means of theological education in the Orthodox Church is through worship.” ~ Archbishop (ret.) Lazar Puhalo Hymnody as Theology I began my decade-long journey toward Orthodoxy in 2003 under the tutelage of … Continue reading →

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The Kneeling Prayers of Pentecost

Posted on 7 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Deacon: Again and again, on bended knees, let us pray to the Lord. Choir: Lord, have mercy. (3x) Priest: O Lord, Who art immaculate, spotless, without beginning, invisible, incomprehensi­ble, inscrutable, unchanging, unsurpassable, immeasurable, forbearing, Who alone hast immortality, Who dwellest … Continue reading →

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The Ascension of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ

Posted on 28 May 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Protopresbyter George Dion Dragas, PhD, DD, DTh “And while he was blessing them, he departed and started to ascend to heaven.” (Luke 24:51) The Ascension as the pinnacle of the Feasts of the Lord: How bright and wonderful is … Continue reading →

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Holy Week in Exile

Posted on 12 April 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr Gregory Mathewes-Green For Orthodox Christians this year’s Holy Week will surely be one of the strangest in our two millennia history. While that history is replete with occurrences of disruption and even civil chaos, there has probably not … Continue reading →

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“Behold, the heavenly powers are joining our worship”

Posted on 20 March 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel
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Fire of the Spirit

Posted on 21 August 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr Kenneth Tanner I am inspired by these children at the front today, bowing as the cross passed them in procession. They were not reverencing an instrument of torture but their God, who hangs from a tree to show … Continue reading →

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