President’s Message: Our Prayerful Thanks to God for All Who Uphold Christian Moral Principles
In past President's messages I have not focused on the non-Apostolic Churches and their ecumenical situation, as that might seem irrelevant to our SSJC-WR concerns. However, in my past President's messages I have talked about moral alliances that both Catholics and Orthodox can form. Such alliances have been proposed by Pope Benedict XVI and … More...
Orientale Lumen XV Conference Audio
From June 20-23, 2011, the Society of St. John Chrysostom, Eastern Churches Journal, Eastern Christian Publications, and the Orientale Lumen Foundation held a popular and scholarly conference for lay men, lay women, and clergy entitled Orientale Lumen XV. The theme for the conference, held at the Washington Retreat House in Washington, D.C., was … More...
Zeal: Among the First of Virtues of our Missionary Apostolate
Message from Fr. George Morelli, President of the Society of St. John Chrystostom - Western Region. Taken from "Light of the East" spring edition newsletter. It may not have occurred to some SSJC members and supporters that our association is actually a missionary society. Our apostolate is to convert the Christians who make up the Apostolic … More...
About the Society of St. John Chrysostom
The Society of St John Chrysostom promotes greater appreciation of the spiritual, theological and liturgical traditions of Eastern Christendom, works and prays for the unity of the Churches of East and West, and encourages support for the Eastern Churches:
- the Byzantine and Oriental Catholic Churches in communion with the Apostolic See of Rome (especially in their contemporary calling to promote reconciliation and the recovery of union between Catholics and Orthodox)
- the Orthodox Church
- the Oriental Orthodox Churches and
- the Apostolic Church of the East.
In the United Kingdom and Europe the Society, founded in 1926, is a group of Catholics of the Latin and Eastern Churches, along with our friends in other traditions, promoting awareness and friendship in the Christian West for our fellow Christians of the East – through prayer and liturgy, conferences and lectures, pilgrimage and ecumenical encounters.
In 1998 the Society was also founded in the United States, where it runs the annual North American and international Orientale Lumen conferences.
And in 2000, a new chapter of the Society was established for Australasia, based at the Center for Early Christian Studies at the Catholic University of Australia.