Where?: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/onthedivineliturgy

Meets: Thursday evenings, 9 PM EST (2100), 6 PM (PST) (1800), 11 AM (Fri.) (AEDT) (1100).

Text: St. Nicholas Cabasilas, A Commentary on the Divine Liturgy

Description: This lecture series aims to guide participants through a spiritual and ecclesiological review of the Divine Liturgy. The subjects covered will be the same, and in the same order, as laid out in the course text, but with additional supporting texts and observations from other Fathers, saints and ecclesiastical writers.

Lesson 1: October 8th: Introduction, the Holy Temple

Lesson 2: October 15th: Perichoresis; the Ecclesial and Cosmic Liturgy

Lesson 3: October 22nd: Preparation for the Liturgy: O Kairos

Lesson 4: October 29th: Preparation for the Liturgy: the Prothesis

Lesson 5: November 5th: The Liturgy of the Catechumens

Lesson 6: November 12th: The Entrance with the Gospel and Readings

Lesson 7: November 19th: The Liturgy of the Faithful

Lesson 8: November 25th**: The Holy Anaphora

Lesson 9: December 3rd: Diptychs and Prayers

Lesson 11: December 17th: Dismissal and Thanksgiving

Lesson 12: December 23rd**: Theological Parenthesis

* The text for the course will be shared with the participants each week.

**These lessons are held on Wednesday evening.

Also, please submit your questions ahead of time, either as comments to the post announcing the next lesson (here on Patreon) or directly on the Crowdcast page: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/

Course 003: On the Divine Liturgy