In this third meditation on the Dormition, the poet Geometres celebrates the coming of Christ to enthrone the Virgin as our heavenly mother.

Watch the second meditation in this seven-part series leading up to the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God (August 15).

Over the course of the fast, the Pappas Patristic Institute presents a series of short videos on the Dormition of the Mother of God

A select overview of some of the most interesting and important editions, translations, and books that have appeared in the last few years.

A new translation of the only authentic homily by St John Chrysostom on the feast of the Ascension, translated by Dragoljub Garic.

Video: Dr Tikhon Pino recently spoke at an event for the St Photios National Shrine on the legacy of St Augustine in the Orthodox Church.

Saturday, May 28, the Pappas Patristic Institute is sponsoring a panel at NAPS entitled 'Maximos the Confessor and Greek Philosophy'

Christopher McLaughlin explores the theology of Marius Victorinus, an important North African Latin writer of the fourth century.

Paschal greetings from the Pappas Patristic Institute.

Wednesday of Holy Week is dedicated to the Sinful Woman. In his new book, Fr Kevin Kalish explores the rich hymnography of this story.

For Maximos, the Church itself is an image of the division of creation into visible (material) and invisible (intelligible) realities.

For those planning their visit to Boston, and for all those joining us online, you can now see a detailed program of the Colloquium here.

A guest contribution from Viacheslav Lytvynenko, specialist in the reception of the Church Fathers in the medieval Slavonic world.

The third in a series of essays by Fr Maximos Constas introducing the Mystagogy of St Maximos the Confessor.

In Part 2 of this intro, Fr Maximos looks at the 'the Wise Elder,' the use of Proverbs, Dionysios, and Apophaticism in the Mystagogy.

The legacy of St Gregory Palamas cast a long shadow in Late Byzantium, as seen in these stichera by St Mark Eugenikos

In anticipation of our upcoming Colloquium, Fr Maximos Constas offers an introduction to the Mystagogy of St Maximos the Confessor.

Fr Maximos Constas leads a seminar entitled 'Solomon's Trilogy,' on purification, illumination, and union with God in patristic theology.

Dimitrios Vasilakis discusses his recent book, Eros in Neoplatonism and its Reception in Christian Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Sister Nonna Verna Harrison, a noted patristics scholar, died on February 7 at the age of 68. May here memory be eternal.

Sources chrétiennes released Vol. 4 of the 'Contra Julianum' by St Cyril of Alexandria in January 2022.

Please join us for a lecture by Fr Maximos Constas, The Body as Ritual Space: Maximos and the Architecture of Deification (Thursday, 4/28)

The annual BSANA conference was held this past December in Cleveland, and the Pappas Patristic Institute was there.

Learn about the life of St Photios and read two of his extraordinary homilies, on the themes of repentance and the theology of the icon.