... us how to celebrate Your holy Name in joy, movement and holy noise. Thank You, O Lord, for everyone and everything. Great are You, O Lord, and marvelous are Your deeds, and no word is sufficient to celebrate Your miracles. Lord, it is good to be here! Amen. Note: This was Fr. Schmemann’s last homily given at St. Vladimir’s Seminary before his repose in 1983. Blessed Feast to all!

... ; and religious sanction of natural love, but is radically distinguished from it and even contraposed to it. It is really a new love, of which our fallen nature and fallen world are incapable and which is therefore impossible in it. Fr. Alexander Schmemann, The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom (New York: St. Vladimir’s Press, 2003), 135-136. & ...

The Eucharist Sacrament of the Kingdom: Sacrament of the Kingdom by Alexander Schmemann My rating: 5 of 5 stars Although ... his works, it is still a major contribution to liturgical theology. Schmemann writes with his usual piety, knowledge, and practical insight ... work is devotional and pastoral, rather than academic and polemical. Schmemann points out many areas in which Eastern Orthodox practice ...

... Thanksgiving,and besides the poem cycle from the camps which I put up yesterday, there is Fr Schmemann's wonderful last sermon of Thanksgiving 1983: It is at: but I have posted this over the years. This year here is Fr Alexander Schmemann's Thanksgiving day entry in his Journal for 1974: Yesterday--Thanksgiving--at Father Tom and Anya's in ...

... for as we approach the end of 2009. Belatedly, I’d like to share a Thanksgiving prayer by Fr. Alexander Schmemann: Thank You, O Lord! (by Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann) Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy. Thank You, O Lord, for having accepted this Eucharist, which we offered to the Holy Trinity, ...

... . Glory to God for all things! +++ Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation. Fr. Alexander Schmemann +++ I do not believe it is possible to exhaust this topic. I have set forth a few suggestions of how we might build and maintain a life of thanksgiving. Particular thought is given to those times when giving thanks is difficult. 1. We ...

... , for He is good;For His mercy endureth for ever.- Psalm 135:1 Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy. - Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann Schedule for this WeekendThe 25th Sunday after Pentecost-Tone 8Martyr Paramon and 370 Martyrs in Bithynia Saturday, November 28Great Vespers 5:00 PMConfessions may ...

... Books of the Started Variety Solomon Among the Postmoderns - Peter Leithart Giles uncle and a well-regarded theologian. I'm just getting into this one. For the Life of the World - Alexander Schmemann A staple in orthodox Christian theology. Slaves, Women & Homosexuals Some hardcore hermeneutics like I ...