February 6, 2019 The Divine Liturgy: The Facts that You Didn’t Know The Divine Liturgy is the most important divine office. There are countless articles and books describing it. In the same way that the Liturgy…
January 25, 2019 Divine Liturgy as a Work of Love The Consumer It’s easy to view church as just another “commercial service.” After all, we’re used to all sorts of services in our society….
January 3, 2019 The Sense and Role of the Great (Royal) Hours Canonical hours are a type of special, fairly brief divine offices that mark certain times of day, at which a certain important event of…
November 15, 2018 Where Do Liturgical Colors Come From? Today, the Church uses priest and temple vestments of various colors. There is even a full-fledged system of liturgical colors where each holiday has…
November 9, 2018 Do We Really Need So Many Services? “Fr. Dustin, aren’t all those extra services (feast days, Vespers, Matins) just for monks and retired people?” Here’s my brief response. Before explaining the…
October 25, 2018 The Sacrament of Sacraments: 10 Incredible Facts About Holy Eucharist The Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and the Communion of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ is the foundation and the culmination of…
October 21, 2018 What Is the ‘Fervor’ Used during the Liturgy? Fervor is boiling water, which is poured into the Chalice after the transmutation of the Holy Gifts. The boiling water is poured into the…
October 5, 2018 The Importance of Visiting Church on Saturday Night “Let us lay aside all earthly cares” (the Hymn of the Great Entrance). Three decades ago, a film came out that codified the…
September 8, 2018 Anaphora: the Meaning of the Central Prayer of the Liturgy Next in this commentary series we examine the Anaphora, which is a Greek word meaning “offering” (the verb form is used in Leviticus 17:5,…
August 10, 2018 Three Rhetorical Questions about Divine Liturgy I sometimes cannot help asking myself three liturgical questions whenever I visit churches which serve the Liturgy in the “classic” pattern I learned in…
