Symbolism

Explaining the symbolism that we see throughout the Church with emphasis that everything is an expression of our worship to God. Include in the lessons explanations of the sacred artifacts used in Liturgy, iconography, Church architecture, numbers, Sacramental ornaments (e.g., minh), Liturgical rubrics (e.g., memorial prayers), & gestures during Liturgy.

Teacher Training and Resources

Reference Materials

A reference is a referral to another's text or information and can refer to written sources (books, reports, articles), videos, Internet sites, images, etc. It can also refer to personal communication in the form of letters, e-mails or interviews. A reference is synonymous with a literary citation or citing a source.

The following materials are offered as sources for information and ideas but please remember to properly give credit if material is used in your writing! If you forget to use references, or your references are incomplete, your work can seem like an empty postulation or create suspicions of plagiarism.

Articles

Videos

Podcasts

Scripture

In order to help our children grow in the Orthodox Faith in North America, a decision was made to standardize all materials to the Orthodox Study Bible (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/016/2010, October 28, 2010). Please continue to pray and support the development of a fully approved translation based on the Peshitta, and our textbooks will educate on the various translations and historic development of Scripture.

Liturgical Resources

The Ministry of Liturgical Resource Development (LRD) was created in July of 2015 (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/10/2015, July 24,2015) to promote the translation, versification, and publication of vital English liturgical resources. Today most of our Sacramental offices are available and the "Service Book of the Holy Qurbono" and "Shehimo: Book of Common Prayer" are available in print. Wherever possible references will be made using LRD resources given the easy access to these materials to the faithful in North America.

Holy Qurbono


Other Hymns


Other Prayers


Promion and Sedro


Quotes

Patristic Quotes

Other Quotes

  • "For it is the very nature of symbol that it reveals and communicates the ‘other’ as precisely the ‘other,’ the visibility of the invisible as invisible, the knowledge of the unknowable as unknowable, the presence of the future as future. The symbol is means of knowledge of that which cannot be known otherwise, for knowledge here depends on participation—the living encounter with and entrance into that ‘epiphany’ of reality which the symbol is. But then theology is not only related to the ‘mysterion’ but has in it its source the condition of its very possibility…The ‘original sin’ of post-patristic theology consists…in the reduction of the concept of knowledge to rational or discursive knowledge or, in other terms, in the separation of knowledge from ‘mysterion.’" - Fr. Alexander Schmemann
  • "Symbolism is not metaphor. It's not just a saying 'this means that.' It's how meaning appears in the world; how the invisible is joined to the visible." - Jonathan Pageau

Syriac and Greek Words

Icons

These icons are either approved for publication or the Curriculum Committee is in the process of gaining approval. If you do not see the icon you'd like to use for your writing, please submit the image to the Committee so that we can do the necessary follow-up.

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