Melkite Patriarch celebrates the Divine Liturgy in Rome

On Sunday, 20 September, His Beatitude took the opportunity to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in Santa Maria in Cosmedin. Taking part were Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, resident in Rome, Archimandrite Mtanios Haddad, Rector…

ANNUAL CHRISTOPHER MORRIS LECTURE

This will be held on 1st October 2009 at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile, Duke Street, Mayfair, London, W1. The entrance to Duke Street is opposite Selfridges…

Symeon the New Theologian: Divine Love opens us to others

The Vatican Information Service reports, 16 September 2009: In today’s general audience, which was held in the Paul VI Hall, the Pope focused his attention on Symeon the New Theologian, “an Eastern…

First Visit to Rome of Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk

The Vatican Information Service reports, 15 September 2009: Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, president of the Department for External Church Affairs of the Patriarchate of Moscow, is due to visit Rome from 15…

Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue Kraków, September 6–8, 2009

Valerie Chamberlain write: More than five hundred leaders of the world’s great religions, together with political leaders and scholars gathered in Kraków from September 6 to 8 at the invitation of the…

Chrysostom: Assumptiontide Newsletter

Chrysostom, the Society’s newsletter, New Series Volume Nine, is now available. To subscribe and receive your copy, please contact the Chairman, Fr John Salter at 1 St James Close, Bishop Street, London…

The Greek Deacon of the Papal Rite of Mass

Father Athanasius McVay, our Rome correspondent and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has recently published an essay on the Eastern rite deacon at the Papal rite of Mass in…