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Webinar at Yale ISM: Religion and the War in Ukraine

March 6, 2022 Mark Roosien Announcements

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music will be holding a virtual webinar this Friday, March 11, at 2:30PM Eastern Time, titled “Unorthodox War: Religion and

Olexiy, 8, stands in a crater left by an explosion outside his home after shelling damaged the house in Avdiivka in the early hours of Thursday © AP

Let us Pray for Ukraine…and for the Tyrants

February 25, 2022 Katharine E. Harmon

Let us pray for the people of Ukraine—and let us pray that God might give a new heart and a new spirit to the People of God—and to the tyrants.

The Ukranian Crisis and the Joyful Season of Lent

March 13, 2014 Other Voices Liturgical Spirituality

by Deacon Nicholas Denysenko
“I marvel at the paradox of beginning a military incursion on the first day of Lent. Lent is a season of joy for Orthodox Christians—we sing Alleluia more often in Lent than we do during the rest of the liturgical year—and we celebrate the real purpose of Lent by intensifying prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.”

The Christmas Carol: A Reflection

December 27, 2012 Other Voices Liturgical year

by Nicholas Denysenko
Has a particular Christmas carol touched you this Christmas?

Notes from abroad

June 6, 2010 David Fagerberg Devotions and Sacramentals Liturgical Spirituality

My wife and I are just recently back from two weeks in Poland and Ukraine. I would like to share some impressions cursorily, and one at some greater length.