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2026 Great Fast planner

Each year the onset of the Great Fast raises questions about how one should be fasting and what the Church requires. And, while we should never approach fasting pharisaïcally, it is spiritually…

Nicæa at 1,700: Calendar & Christology

The Society of Saint John Chrysostom invites you to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family of London on Tuesday 25th November for an evening of liturgy, discussion, and conviviality. The…

Orientale Lumen Television archive moves to YouTube

The Orientale Lumen Foundation, affiliated to our sister society in the United States, has announced it is moving its extensive video archive to YouTube in order to make it freely available to…

New Church year calendar

Calendar-AM-7534   Blessed Indiction! Today marks the beginning of the new Byzantine liturgical year, Anno Mundi 7534, and our liturgical calendar is now available to download here. It includes the commemorations and…

The Society in The Catholic Herald

Our communications director, Paul Nizinskyj, is featured in this month's Catholic Herald, arguing that rumoured plans for Rome to return to the Orthodox calculation for Easter would be ill-advised. A PDF can…

All Kinds of Catholic: the Society featured on podcast

The Society has been featured on a Catholic podcast. Our communications director, Paul Nizinskyj, was interviewed by Theresa Alessandro of the podcast All Kinds of Catholic on his experiences as a Ukrainian…

Holy Week & Pascha 2025

The liturgical schedule for Great & Holy Week and Holy Pascha 2025 at Saint Theodore Greek Catholic Mission has been confirmed. Full details are in the image below:

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…

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)…