Very Rev. Dr. J. Sergius Halvorsen is director of St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry Program and assistant professor of homiletics and rhetoric. He delivered this sermon at the Seminary’s Three Hierarchs Chapel on July 15, 2019, the Feast of Holy & Great Prince Vladimir. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of…
Very Rev. Dr. J. Sergius Halvorsen is director of St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry Program and assistant professor of homiletics and rhetoric. He delivered this sermon on the Sunday of the Paralytic, May 19, 2019. Christ is Risen! Picture yourself driving down a country road…at a moderate speed It is a beautiful, bright spring…
7 April 2019 Deacon Basil Crivella is a 3rd-year Seminarian in St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program. He belongs to the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the Midwest. Deacon Basil prepared this sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent, the Sunday of St. John Climacus. In the name of the Father,…
Archpriest Sergius Halvorsen is director of the Doctor of Ministry Program and assistant professor of Homiletics and Rhetoric at St. Vladimir’s Seminary. He delivered this sermon on November 8, 2018 on the Feast of the Synaxis of Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers at the Seminary’s Three Hierarchs Chapel. In the name of the…
Seraphim O’Keefe is a third-year seminarian at St. Vladimir’s. He delivered this reflection as a sermon at Christ the Savior Church in Southbury, CT, where he serves for his parish assignment. *Author’s note: Quotations from The Ladder of Divine Ascent and other texts are often changed in this reflection to make them more immediately comprehensible.…
By Alumnus Archpriest Steven Kostoff (Master of Divinity, ’81) This pales beside the Divine Liturgy, the Eucharist, and the real ‘Super Sunday’, Pascha! The Super Bowl and the secular Super Sunday is now over. One more game for the history books (though I rather doubt that serious history books record Super Bowl game results). The colossal social phenomenon…
His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) and Chairman of the Board of our seminary, led the Orthodox Christian delegation in the 45th March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday, January 19, 2018. Seminarians, faculty, and administration from St. Vladimir’s Seminary joined him and Orthodox Christians from all jurisdictions around the…
His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) and Chairman of the Board of our seminary, will lead the Orthodox Christian delegation in the 45th March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday, January 19, 2018. Seminarians, faculty, and administration from St. Vladimir’s Seminary will be joining him and Orthodox Christians from…
By Sarah Byrne-Martelli, Seminarian Sarah Byrne-Martelli, BCC, was Board Certified with the Association of Professional Chaplains in 2004. She is a Chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital and is endorsed by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese. She received her Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and currently is a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) student…
His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, Chair of the Board & Spiritual Head of St. Vladimir’s Seminary Christ is born! Glorify Him! My beloved Brethren and Blessed Children in the Lord, As we come to the end of the civil year, we reflect back on a period in which tragedy, acts of terrorism, shootings in public spaces,…
