Orthodox Church in America Archives

The Letter on the Ordination of the Deaconess

October 25, 2017 Nicholas Denysenko Eastern Liturgy Ecumenism

How should the Church proceed in this situation? Carefully, and with prayer.

Documentation: Orthodox Liturgists Support Ordination of Women Deacons

October 25, 2017 Editor Eastern Liturgy Ordained Ministry

“The reinstitution of the female diaconate does not constitute an innovation, as some would have us believe…”

Concerning the Cross

September 24, 2013 Other Voices Eastern Liturgy Ecumenism Liturgical Spirituality

Today, let us take up our crosses in Paschal joy. For when we do, we perform the countercultural ministry God has entrusted to us by acting as God’s prophets when we proclaim the way of the authentic human being to the world—the human being known as Jesus Christ.