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Chapter Paid Dues 2014 “GLORY BE TO GOD FOR ALL THINGS.” NEWSLETTER OF THE SOCIETY OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, YOUNGSTOWN-WARREN OHIO CHAPTER VOLUME 13, NUMBER 4, JULY-AUGUST, 2014 VITO R. CARCHEDI, EDITOR, 35 SCHENLEY AVE. STRUTHERS, OH 44471 PHONE: 330-755-5635 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.byzcath.org/stjohnchrysostom/ WHO ARE WE? FROM THE EDITOR... The Society of St John Chrysostom Dear Members and Friends, promotes greater appreciation of the The next regular meeting of spiritual, theological and liturgical our chapter will be traditions of Eastern Christendom, Tuesday, September 9, works and prays for the unity of the 7pm at St. Anne Churches of East and West, and Ukrainian Byzantine encourages support for the Eastern Catholic Church, 3055 Churches : South Raccoon Road, - the Byzantine and Oriental Austintown, OH 44515. Catholic Churches Our speaker will be - the Orthodox Church Father Deacon Alexander - the Oriental Orthodox Churches C.Wroblicky, S.T.B., M.Th. Director, Office for and Campus Ministry Diocese of Pittsburgh. He - the Church of the East. serves as deacon at St. John the Baptist In the United Kingdom and Europe the Ukrainian Catholic Church on Pittsburgh's South Society was founded in 1926 Side. He and his wife Jessica, have three In 1998 the Society was also founded in children. Father Deacon will speak on "The the United States, where it runs the annual North New Evangelization and the Eastern Catholic American and international Orientale Lumen Churches." conferences Following some exploratory and preparatory Chapter Paid dues 2014 meetings in 1998 and early 1999, the first These have paid: Gilbert, Billcheck, Democko, regular meeting of the Youngstown-Warren Limbert, Sarantopoulos, Jim & Esther Dershaw, Chapter took place May 4, 1999. Fr. Witmer, Beri & Christoper Berardi, Carchedi, Fr. Gage, Fr. Manning, Fr. Rick, ***PLEASE NOTE THAT IN THE Msgr. Siffrin, Chiu, Mattiussi, Tavolario, INTEREST OF INQUIRY, OUR Nakley & Katz, Fr. Schmidt, Chorbishop Kail, NEWSLETTER SOMETIMES PRESENTS Msgr. Spinosa, Benedictine Sisters, Hudak, Rev. ARTICLES WITH POINTS OF VIEW Mr. Ettinger, Fr. Bonnot, Joan & Jenna Binsley, WITH WHICH WE DON’T NECESSARILY Fr. Hilinski, Mike & Terri Aquilina, Peter & AGREE.*** Norma Kopko, Vasilchek, Deckant, Stanislaw, Kolitsos, Very Rev. Canon Kury, Barkett. *Fifteenth Chapter Anniversary Dinner is If you aren’t on list send check for $20 (25 Friday, September 12, 6pm. If you haven't family 15 student) made out to the Society in reserved yet call 330-755-5635. care of the name and address at top of this page. Thank you! Pope Francis ‘is plotting a Reform would involve a new balance between collegiality and primacy, Bianchi explained. path to unity’ and could “The Orthodox have synodality, but not invite Orthodox to help run primacy. We Catholics have primacy but a lack of synodality.” the Church, says new aide “It is conceivable that we could have an Enzo Bianchi episcopal body that helps the Pope in governing 01 August 2014 13:10 by Hannah the Church without calling into question his primacy,” Bianchi said. “This would help to Roberts in Rome create a new style of papal primacy and the government of bishops.” Pope Paul VI’s Nota Praevia, attached to the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, ensured that none of the document’s teaching on collegiality or the Synod of Bishops should impact on the rights and privileges of the Pope. The Synod of Bishops therefore remains a solely consultative body and relies on papal endorsement. Last year Pope Francis suggested strengthening the Synod saying it was a “half-baked” development of the Second Vatican Council. Above: The central focus of Pope Francis' trip to the Holy Land in May was a prayer service with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholemew at Pope Francis wants to reform the Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. papacy to allow greater unity between the Photo: CNS/EPA Catholic and Orthodox Churches, a newly appointed senior adviser has claimed. A Daily Prayer for Christian Unity Enzo Bianchi, appointed on 22 July as consultor By your power Lord, of the Pontifical Council for Promoting gather together your scattered flock Christian Unity, said the Pope could allow a under the one authority of your Son: council of bishops including Orthodox bishops to assist in governing the Church. that the design of your love may be accomplished Reform of the Synod of Bishops and the growth and that the world may know, the one true of synodality within the Catholic Church would God, greatly enhance the opportunity for union between Rome and the Orthodox Churches, by and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. Amen. Prayer by Fr Paul Couturier making the papacy less “monarchical” and the Catholic Church less centralised. Bianchi, Prior of the Bose monastery in north- PRAYER OF SOUFANIEH east Italy, said: “I believe that the Pope wants to achieve unity by reforming the papacy.” Pope Unity of Hearts! Unity of Christians! Francis feels that union with the Orthodox Churches in particular is “an urgent goal”, he Unity of the Feast of Easter! emphasised. “I believe that the Pope has one particular concern, that unity should not be achieved in the spirituality of unity but rather it BRING A FRIEND TO OUR MEETING! is a command by Christ which we must carry out,” he told the Italian daily La Stampa. 2 Sunday, 29 June 2014 servants and agents of reconciliation and unity. Fr Deacon Richard Downer, a Melkite Greek Antiochian Unity - Catholic in England, writes: Ex Oriente Lux! Dimensions and It is the first Antiochian Conference at the Demands for a united University of Balamand, Lebanon, organised by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and Patriarchate of Antioch presided over by Patriarch John X, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East, on the theme of “Antiochian unity: its dimensions and exigencies.” Church tradition maintains that the Apostolic See of Antioch was founded by Saint Peter the Apostle in A.D. 34. St Peter was either followed or joined by the Apostles Paul and Barnabas who preached there to both Gentiles and to Jews, who seem to have been numerous in the city. Also, St Peter is regarded as the first Bishop of Antioch. (Acts 11.26 etc. refers). “With pride and humility, reverential fear and responsibility, I bear this ancient, apostolic title of Patriarch of Antioch and All the East,” says Gregorios III. The Patriarchs of Antioch (l-r): Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan of the His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch Syriac Catholics, Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem of and All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem the Syriac Orthodox, took part in the opening day (26 June, 2014) of Patriarch John X Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox, the first Antiochian Conference at the University Patriarch Bechara Boutros of Balamand, Lebanon, organised by the Greek al Rahi of the Syro-Maronite Catholics, and Patriarch Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and presided Gregorios III Laham over by Patriarch John X, primate of the Greek of the Melkite Greek Catholics, with Patriarch Nerses Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East, Petros XIX Tarmouni, on the theme of “Antiochian unity: its Catholicos of the Holy House of Cilicia for Armenian dimensions and exigencies.” Catholics “With pride and humility, reverential fear and Below is the account of the speech of His responsibility, I bear this ancient, apostolic title Beatitude, Patriarch Gregorios III for the of Patriarch of Antioch and All the East … “ In Melkite-Greek Catholics, just issued following these emotionally charged terms Gregorios III the Conference for Antiochian Unity, currently began his talk in which he went on to mention underway in Balamand, together with two all the factors that ensured that the culture of the photographs of the six patriarchs who attended see of Antioch was “multifaceted and varied. the opening day - Greek Orthodox, Greek First Greek, then Syriac and Arabic, it is at once Catholic, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox, Syriac more than Greek, Syriac and Arabic, or even Catholic - all Patriarchs of Antioch and All the than Latin and Roman … The Patriarchate of East, and the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch is the only see to have successively Cilicia. composed its services in those three languages.” It is extremely important to bear in mind what “…The Antiochians loved Greek civilization Patriarch Gregorios says: after the split between and culture so much that they assimilated it to Constantinople and Rome, the Patriarchate of the point of baptizing and Christianizing it Antioch did not take side, and sought to preserve before making it Arab and passing it on to the unity for many centuries. The members of the Muslim Arab world, turning it into the basis of a Antiochian Church see themselves, therefore, as multicultural society and (Continue next page) 3 laying the foundations for knowing how to live Primate of the Coptic Orthodox Church, (on the together … From the Arab world, Greek culture right in photo) Pope & Patriarch Theodros II of went on to conquer Europe.” Alexandria and All Africa – Primate of the “Thy Nativity O Christ, our God, has shone Alexandrian Patriarchate (on left in photo) and upon the world the light of knowledge. For by it Archbishop Leo of Karelia and All Finland who those who worshipped the stars were taught by a is the Primate of the Finnish Orthodox Church star to worship thee, the Sun of Righteousness, met in the capital city of Finland on 23rd June and know thee, the Dayspring from on high. O 2014. Lord, glory to thee!” Citing this troparion of the Helsinki: In his speech during the reception Nativity of Our Lord, Gregorios III, recalled provided to the Patriarchs of Alexandria on 23rd how, though Jesus Christ was born in Palestine, June 2014, Archbishop Leo of Karelia and All Christianity itself was born in Antioch, and that Finland stated that Eastern and Oriental light came from the East, as Pope Saint John Orthodox Churches form the fullness of Paul II splendidly explained in his Apostolic Orthodoxy.
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