What if play, beauty, and ritual could help you navigate life’s chaos?

In this session, the internet’s most famous Orthodox nun, Sister Vassa Larin, invites us into the wisdom of Eastern Orthodox tradition.

A professor of liturgy, Sister Vassa shows how ritual can shape our days, anchor our hearts–and keep us sane! Learn how both personal and communal rituals can act as containers for grace–and how creativity and play intertwine to make spiritual practices meaningful to your life today.

Join Sister Vassa to explore how the body helps the soul remember, and how a rhythm of beauty and order can transform your ordinary life into something extraordinary.

Speaker bio: 

Sister Vassa (born December 11, 1970 in Nyack, New York, United States) is an Orthodox Christian ryassofor nun, liturgiologist and Professor of Practical Theology of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy. She is author of many scholarly articles, a monograph on Byzantine Hierarchichal Liturgy (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 286, 2008), Reflections with Morning Coffee (Xenophon Press 2022), Lent with Sister Vassa (Xenophon Press 2022), HealthyFast Lenten Guidebook, and, most recently, Praying in Time. The Hours & Days in Step with Orthodox Christian Tradition (Wipf & Stock 2023), a book now published also in Italian, Greek and German.

Sister Vassa’s online-mission includes an email Newsletter with a brief daily reflection on Scripture (now available at this website’s Gift Shop also in audio form, for each month of the year), weekly audio-podcasts called “Monday Morning Coffee” (on the practical applications of the liturgical calendar and Scripture), video-courses on diverse topics such as Divine Liturgy (available on YouTube) and Divorce & Healing in the Church, and hundreds of YouTube videos on Orthodox Theology, Tradition, and contemporary church-canonical issues.