will speak at Holy Resurrection on
The Revelation to St. John
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
February 14-16, 7 p.m.
Fr. Thomas Hopko
Father Thomas is one of the most popular Orthodox speakers in America. He is Dean Emeritus of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York and was Professor of Dogmatic Theology there for many years. He studied with such renowned Orthodox theologians as Father Alexander Schmemann, Father John Meyendorff, Nicholas Arseniev and Serge Verkhovskoy. He received his Ph.D. in Theology from Fordham University. He now lives at Ellwood City, PA, and serves at the Holy Transfiguration Monastery there.
For many Christians the last book of the Bible is either hopelessly unintelligible or the playground of sensationalist speculation. Fr. Thomas will show us its timeless message in the perspective of the Church fathers.
Concerning the Revelation, Father Hopko says
What the Christian shares with Jesus is the Kingdom and the Tribulation. …After Jesus is crucified, raised in glory and the Holy Spirit is given, the content of life in this world is the Tribulation. We are in the Tribulation, the End Time, until He comes again. And in the time of the Tribulation we are also in the Kingdom because we belong to Christ.
So we are in two worlds. Spiritually …we are in the Kingdom. But we are also still in this history, in the time of Tribulation … the time when the children of the Kingdom get nailed by the children of this world. That’s what the End Time is all about. And the children of the Kingdom have to stand fast in the Tribulation.
Father Thomas speaks frequently in the South, to which he feels drawn because of his fondness for the writer Flannery O’Connor and Mississippian Elvis Presley.
The public is invited to the talks and to Vespers, which will be served each evening at 6 p.m. in the Church. Fr. Thomas’ talks will begin at 7 p.m. in the Mount Salus Christian School Gymnasium behind the Church. For more information call 601 924-2441.
