I think I am going to be stuck on the question of how we assess liturgical reform for the rest of my life.
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Author: Nicholas Denysenko
Nicholas Denysenko received a Ph.D. in liturgical studies and sacramental theology from The Catholic University of America in 2008. He is assistant professor of theological studies and director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he teaches courses on liturgy and Eastern Christianity. He serves as deacon at St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Tarzana, California. He is currently working on a monograph treating liturgical reform in the Orthodox Church.
Divine Grace for the Healing of Bigotry
Regular participation in this liturgy should invite us to see ourselves in the face of the other because of what we have in common – the image and likeness of God.
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A Blessed Assumption/Dormition
August 15 Today, billions of Christians honor the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary. In the Byzantine Church, this feast is known as the Dormition
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
The Lord whom we glorify in song at each Liturgy is the same Lord who never ceases to pray that those whom he has chosen will be one, as he and the Father are one.
Read moreNew Study on Religion and Nationality in Central and Eastern Europe
The Pew Research Center has published a new study of religion and national identity in Central and Eastern Europe.
Read moreArs praedicandi: Sunday of the Paralytic
For us, the content of this new, very human life is to really become glorified human beings who are without sin.
Read moreFirst Communion: Questions from an Eastern Christian
an you imagine your Church celebrating the communion of infants who have been fully initiated into the Church?
Read moreShared Ministry and Divine Grace: Restoring the Diaconate in Orthodoxy
Note: This essay was first published by Public Orthodoxy, a blog of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University, on March 7, 2016. Republished
Read moreUpdate: Deaconesses in Alexandria
Five deaconesses consecrated.
Read moreArs Praedicandi: Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
JRR Tolkien might have said that we have a fool’s hope: but we confess our faith in the one whose cross is foolishness to the wise and mighty of this world, the one who humbled himself and was exalted by God.
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