Sister Dr. Vassa Larin will be speaking in Washington, DC this coming weekend! For those of you who might be interested, she will speak at 7:30pm on Friday evening, Jan. 24 at the ROCOR Cathedral of St John the Baptist, and the next day, Saturday the 25th, at the OCA St Nicholas Cathedral at 6pm, and the next day, Sunday, also at St Nicholas after Liturgy. She is a Russian-American author of many scholarly articles and a monograph on Byzantine Liturgy and Theology, and respected public intellectual on current issues of the ROCOR. She teaches Liturgical Studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna in Austria. In 2006-2008 she worked as the Graduate Assistant of the renowned expert on Byzantine Liturgy, Professor Robert F. Taft, S.J., at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. Taft directed Sr. Vassa’s doctoral dissertation on the Byzantine hierarchal liturgy, which she defended summa cum laude at the Orthodox Institute of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in December 2008.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:21:48 +0000
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