If you are in Naples, FL tomorrow (Dec. 14, 2010) …

…I’ll be speaking at the Ave Maria University Founders Club.

Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010

The Birth of Christ and The Rebirth of Culture

The season of Advent is a time to prepare our hearts to receive the gift we share in the birth of Christ. Fr. Johannes (Hans) Jacobse, a priest of the Orthodox Church, will explore the miracle of Christmas and its impact on culture, past and present. Fr. Hans will offer background and reflection on the Akathist Hymn in praise of the Mother of God, a liturgical and literary masterpiece of the Church that has been in continual use since the seventh century. Through this hymn Christians praise the transformation of culture by Christ’s birth, which overturned the illusions of paganism and proved the secular logicians illogical.

Fr. Hans is founder of the American Orthodox Institute, editor of Orthodoxy Today, and a past fellow of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He served as pastor of St. Katherine Orthodox Church in Naples and now conducts St. Peter Orthodox Mission in Estero.

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