The Society of Saint John Chrysostom is a group of Catholics of the Latin and Eastern Churches, along with our friends in other traditions, which 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 Church of the East. We do this through prayer and liturgy, conferences and lectures, pilgrimage and ecumenical encounters. Join us here.
Plan your Great Fast
Each year the onset of the Great Fast elicits questions about how one should be fasting and what the Church requires. As mentioned above, we should never approach fasting pharisaïcally, but it is spiritually profitable to be aware of traditional practice and the minimum required by the Church in order to chart one’s own course…
2025 liturgical calendar available
16 January 2025: An error in the Eothinon numbers for January through April has been corrected. A parish priest recently requested a 2025 version of our Anno Mundi 7533 (Anno Domini 2024/25) Byzantine liturgical calendar, which we are pleased to make available to all. The menologion, as it is known in Greek, follows the Gregorian…
Happy New Year! Our 2024/25 Byzantine calendar
The Society has published its Byzantine liturgical calendar for the year 2024/25 (Anno Mundi 7533). The menologion, as it is known in Greek, follows the Gregorian calendar for both the solar and lunar year and features feasts and rankings as used by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as well as those of Britain & Ireland,…