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Firmly I believe
At their best, hymns not only draw Christians together in one song of praise and thanksgiving: they also catechize. John Henry Newman’s Firmly I Believe lifts the heart. It also sharpens the mind to a...
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Renowned Scholar, Composer and Bishop to Speak at Nashotah House Seminary
The renowned Russian scholar, composer, and bishop Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, will speak at Nashotah House during the Seminary’s 2012 Academic Convocation at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, October 26th in...
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Autumn and Nashotah’s Annual Retreat
I’m procrastinating. Which isn’t unusual. But today it’s not the normal seminarian distractions dragging out the process of studying Greek declensions. It’s the musk smell, the angle of the light....
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What’s Cooking At Nashotah House?
Or perhaps the better question is “Who’s cooking?” If you’ve stopped by the James Lloyd Breck refectory sometime this Fall, you have probably had a chance to try some of the amazing food students,...
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The Lost Nashotah House Poems!
My good friend Nathaniel Kidd, a son of the House with a rich, fuzzy beard and a pounding heart for God, was quarrying the archives of the stone Nashotah House library, and stumbled upon an old...
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The Lost Nashotah House Poems (Part 2)
Snow clings to the low-hung branches that crowd the wooded campus. It’s sunny this Saturday morning, and a few families and students trekked it through the snow to morning Mass, their breath making...
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An Explosion in Reverse
“Ever since the coming of John the Baptist the kingdom of Heaven has been subjected to violence and violent men are seizing it.” Remember that one scene in that one movie (it doesn’t matter which)...
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The Nicene Creed
It never gets old, even though we recite it at all major liturgies here at Nashotah House—that and the Apostle’s Creed during the offices. Before seminarians can enroll in classes about pastoral care...
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The Lost Nashotah House Poems (Part 3)
This is the last of a three-part series celebrating the recently rediscovered “Nashotah House Poems” by the Rev. L.V. Klose. His verse invites readers into the devotional life of the seminary in days...
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Women of Nashotah House Hosts Annual Lenten Retreat
photo courtesy Margaret Danielson The Women of Nashotah House (WoNH) recently attended their annual Lenten retreat. This year’s retreat hosted by WoNH at Christ Church in Sheboygin, Wisconsin, focused...
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The un-Wisdom of Yoking Oxen with Donkeys
By Rebecca Terhune ’15 Deuteronomy 22:10, “Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.” Upon reading this verse, my sixteen-year-old son said to me, “You know Israel has its issues when God...
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Wild Game and Beer Dinner
Last Wednesday, Nashotah House hosted a Wild Game and Beer dinner. Sprecher Brewing Company (Milwaukee, WI) provided beer to accompany our food courses. Don Wambach, Sprecher’s sales representative,...
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Looking at Nashotah House from the Orthodox Side
Recently, Anna Kolesnikova, a translator at the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, visited with several students at Nashotah House on her role in visiting the House...
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A Brought-Forth Harvest in These Last Days of Pentecost
By Rebecca Terhune ’15 Wendell Berry in A Place on Earth describes the character Jayber Crow as one who was “vastly more inclined to learn than to be to be taught.” “Wheat” Little Rock, AR/writer’s...
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Prayers of the People
“The answer to our prayer for others may be that our compassion is enlarged, that God carves out in us the place that others need if they are to find a home, a safe place where they can experience...
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From Blessing to Community
Father Holtzen reminded us in his Thanksgiving homily that feasting is a gift from God. In fact, a refusal to delight in blessing is characteristic of the wicked (Ps. 109.17). Throughout the entire...
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Happy New Year, Advent is Here
Advent Wreath, Germany, courtesy Mark Cardaronella G.K. Chesterton wrote that the momentous medieval conversion of the old pagan tribes — from Celts to Jutes — meant not only the conversion of...
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St. Nicholas Day Modeling the Compassionate Life
Children of Nashotah House listening to ‘Saint Nicholas.’Photo courtesy Christian Wood, ’16 In Against Heresies, Irenaeus wrote that God does not need us, but he longs to shower us with gifts. God...
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Advent: What to do while you’re waiting
Advent is not only about waiting and expectation, but about how we should live during the period between Christ’s first and second comings. We’ve been hearing readings from Amos this past week, many...
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Lessons and Carols
Thursday evening Nashotah House celebrated “Lessons and Carols” – a night of Advent music, readings, and prayers. Our bishop and dean, the Rt. Rev. Edward Salmon, officiated and led the packed-out...
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