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Cyril and Methodius Bridges of Faith for Europe “GLORY BE TO GOD FOR ALL THINGS.” NEWSLETTER OF THE SOCIETY OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, YOUNGSTOWN-WARREN OHIO CHAPTER VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2, MARCH-APRIL, 2013 VITO R. CARCHEDI, EDITOR, 35 SCHENLEY AVE. STRUTHERS, OH 44471 TELEPHONE: 330-755-5635 E-MAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.byzcath.org/stjohnchrysostom/ FROM THE EDITOR… and the current state of our culture. He also Dear Members and Friends, writes about his experiences in the Eastern Our next regular chapter Orthodox Church, and on how to improve meeting will be mutual understanding between the Eastern and WEDNESDAY, May 15, at 7 Western Churches. He is married to his high school sweetheart, pm. The meeting will be held Mercedes, and is father to Christian and at Christ the Good Shepherd Jonathan; father-in-law to Natasha; and Parish, Saint Rosa of Lima grandfather to Victor, Liam, and Tristan. He’s Church, 394 Tenney Ave also a human slave to basset hounds Lily and Campbell, OH 44405. Phone: Sadie. 330-755-4141 330-755-3633 Mr. Vega will speak on the topic “Icons 'not Spanish Rev. Shawn Conoboy, made by hands' in East and West: Associate Exploring the Connections" be Pedro O. Vega Our speaker will who was born and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico almost 50 years ago. He attended a Catholic Cyril and Methodius bridges parochial school in Ponce from K to 12, and after of Faith for Europe graduating in the early 1980’s, attended briefly the rint University of Puerto Rico. He left his studies 2013-02-27 L’Osservatore Romano temporarily and enlisted in the US Air Force, and then was stationed in South Dakota and Texas. He left the Cyril and Methodius were “authentic precursors of U.S. Air Force in 1994 to work as analyst in the US ecumenism, for they laboured in service of unity and of Department of Justice. In 1999, he received an officer the multiform fullness of the Church, as they made commission in the US Navy, Reserve and was called to incarnate the spirit of active duty to support Operation Noble Eagle in 2001 the originally and Operation Enduring Freedom in 2011. He recently undivided retired from the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Church”. Cardinal Commander. He continues to work for the US Leonardo Sandri, Department of Justice. Prefect of the Pedro has an Associate’s Degree in Communications Congregation for the Applications Technology from the US Air Force Eastern Churches, Community College, a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in highlighted this in an Catholic Theology from St. Mary’s University in San interview with our newspaper. The occasion was a Antonio, TX and a postgraduate certification (Master’s conference of studies held in Rome at the Pontifical in Science) from a Washington, DC area military Oriental Institute and the Pontifical Gregorian University college. He calls himself an “alumnus” of the Catholic on Monday and Tuesday for the 1150th anniversary of Charismatic Renewal Movement and of the Schoenstatt the beginning of their mission among the Slavs. Apostolic Movement, and is currently a lay oblate of St. It was clear from the different presentations, including Benedict attached to St. Vincent’s Archabbey in Latrobe, those of Dimitrios Salachas, Apostolic Exarch for PA. He writes under his oblate name, Teófilo de Jesús, Byzantine Rite Catholics resident in Greece, and of at the Vivificat Blog (http://www.vivificat.org). He Bishop Viliam Judák of Nitra, how the work of writes about many things affecting the Catholic Church spreading the faith – carried forth by the two brothers whom John Paul II (Continue next page) \proclaimed co-patrons of Europe – notably marked the will be held July 8-11, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel construction of the Christian identity of the continent by means of the creation of the Glagolitic alphabet. in Bratislava, Slovakia in the heart of the former Great Cardinal Sandri said: “The great intuition of Cyril and Moravia. Come and hear the brothers’ story and learn Methodius aided the Slavic peoples, whom they had how their work has lasted through the centuries from: evangelized, to praise God in their own tongue and in Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia Ecumenical respect for the their proper cultural characteristics, at the same time insisting on the unity between all Christians, Patriarchate of Constantinople, Oxford, Archbishop of the East and of the West, in the sole and universal Cyril Vasil’ (invited) Congregation for the Eastern Church of Christ. Their invitation remains today, for a Churches, The Vatican, Metropolitan Krystof (invited) dynamic vision of Catholicity as the symphony of the diverse liturgies in all the languages of the world, as a Orthodox Church of the Czech and Slovak Lands, harmonious chorus of different voices and pitches. The Prague, Sr. Dr. Vassa Larin University of Vienna, profoundly human and universal spirit of their mission is Austria, Dr. Daniel Galadza Pontifical Oriental open to a revival, a spirit fruitful for more profound examination”. +++ Institute, Rome, Prof. Illya Bey Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Academy, Kyiv, Msgr. George Dobes OL CONFERENCES FOR 2013 AND (Moderator) Military Chaplains Association, THEOSISOrientale Lumen XVII Conference on a Washington, DC More Vision of a Reunited Church details about both conferences and online registration The Orientale Lumen XVII Conference will be held can be found at the Future Conferences page June 17-20, 2013 at the Washington Retreat House in http://www.olconference.com/OL_FutCon.html. Pass Washington, DC on the theme of “Vision of a Reunited the word to your friends and associates. The topics for Church.” We will be honored with the presence of this year’s OL Conferences promise to be both several outstanding speakers, some of whom are educational and exciting! I look forward to seeing many members of the North American Catholic-Orthodox old and new friends this summer. Note: If we don’t Theological Consultation, including: Metropolitan have at least 50 paid registrations by April 1st, we may Tikhon of Washington Orthodox Church in America, have to cancel one or both conferences – please hurry Washington, DC, Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ and sign up and tell your friends! Professor Emeritus of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Theosis – New Monthly Magazine/Booklet Eastern Boston, MA, Father Thomas FitzGerald Holy Christian Publications in Fairfax, Virginia recently Cross/Hellenic College, Boston, MA, Father Sidney announced a new popular monthly magazine Griffith The Catholic University of America, called Theosis: Spiritual Reflections from the Christian Washington, DC, Father Nicholas Apostola St. East. It is a small-format, full-color magazine which is Nicholas Romanian Orthodox Church, Worcester, MA, published in both a print and eZine version. Each month Sr. Susan Wood, SCLMarquette University, contains several short essays on Prayer, Eucharist, Milwaukee, WI, Father Ron Roberson, OP, Moderator Sacraments, Scripture, Holy Icons, Sacramental Living, Orientale Lumen EuroEast IV Conference on Saints Spirituality, and a Feast of the Month. Contributors are Cyril and Methodius authors and theologians from a wide variety of Orthodox This year is the 1150th anniversary of the mission of and Catholic Churches including Metropolitan Kallistos Saints Cyril and Methodius from Constantinople to (Ware) and Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ. We have Great Moravia to bring Christianity to the Slavic people. received many positive reactions to it, including the Their inspiring story balances evangelization and following More information is available ecumenism that inspired Blessed John Paul II to name at www.ecpubs.com/theosis.html. Or call 703-691- them “Apostles to the Slavs” and “Co-Patrons of 8862. +++ Europe.” The Orientale Lumen EuroEast IV Conference 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 "Patriarch of the West" from the Annuario Pontificio, a From http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/ surprise that was rather considerable and rather shocking On Papal Surprises by Dr. Adam DeVille in fact to many. But as I tried to argue in my Orthodoxy I just finished two TV interviews about the papal and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects resignation in which I tried to suggest that this was not a of East-West Unity, total surprise to those who have read Joseph Ratzinger the decision to delete the title was in fact in line with his closely and known him to be a man who, very quietly, previous thinking, and was not a retrenchment or a re- nonetheless insists on doing things his way where centralization of a re-assertion of papal power. It was, I possible. He has never been one to go with the crowd; he thought hopefully, part of a long-term plan to begin that has long been a man who refutes expectations; he has decentralization he had written and spoken of, and to been a man of surprises who has often done things in a begin the creation of regional patriarchates. We could unique fashion. He was, e.g., the first prefect of the yet see both developments--the Church, after all, moves Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) to slowly ("we think in centuries here"). Whether we need continue to publish under his own name and to those developments is a matter for fair argument. I think contribute unofficially to debate and dialogue quite we do if unity with Orthodoxy is to be taken seriously-- outside his official role as prefect. He was the first hence my book. And since I also think that there is no prefect to give multiple book-length interviews (e.g., greater priority than unity with Orthodoxy, for the health Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the of both, then we need to find ways to make that happen. Millennium- An Interview With Peter Seewald; or, And in fact the papacy is far more flexible than is often more famously, and the book that started this unique imagined, so we could achieve unity if we had the will to "genre," The Ratzinger Report).
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