The Last and Great Day of the Feast
Pentecost Sunday is also called “Trinity Sunday.” The One God is the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit—One God, therefore, worshipped in three…
Reflections in Christ
June 6, 2014
Leave-taking of the Ascension
Psalm 111
I will give thanks to Thee, O Lord, with my whole…
June 5, 2014
Postfeast of the Ascension
Psalm 110
The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand…
A Cold Age
One of the benefits of reading history is that it enables one to compare one’s own era with other eras, and so identify the blind spots of former times and as well as the blind spots of one’s…
June 4, 2014
Postfeast of the Ascension
Psalm 109
This difficult Psalm is read on Holy Friday at the Third Hour…
June 3, 2014
Postfeast of the Ascension
Psalm 108
My heart is ready, O God, my heart is…
June 2, 2014
Arvo Pärt
I don’t normally write for the Chancellor’s Diary on Mondays, but Arvo Pärt’s presence at Saint Vladimir’s Seminary this past Saturday, and the concert of his music at Carnegie Hall that night left a deep impression. I can’t simply fold it into a listing of other events.
The Army of Abraham
On the eve of the commemoration of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicea on Sunday, June 1, 2014, there are three Old Testament lessons read at Great Vespers. Two…
May 30, 2014
Postfeast of Ascension
Psalm 107
Then they cried to the Lord in…
May 28, 2014
Leave-taking of Pascha
Psalm 106: a confession of Israel’s sins
Both we and our fathers have sinned…