Society of St John Chrysostom: April 2019

Every second Saturday of the month, Divine Liturgy in English of Sunday - Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family, Duke Street, London W1K 5BQ.
4pm Divine Liturgy. Next: 13th November 2021

Very sadly, the Divine Liturgy in English at 9-30 am on Sundays at the Holy Family Cathedral, Lower Church, have had to be put on hold. Until the practicalities we cannot use the Lower Church space. Hopefully this will be resolved very soon. Please keep checking in here for details.

Owing to public health guidance, masks should still be worn indoors and distance maintained. Sanitisers are available. Holy Communion is distributed in both kinds from the mixed and common chalice, by means of a separate Communion spoon for each individual communicant.

To purchase The Divine Liturgy: an Anthology for Worship (in English), order from the Sheptytsky Institute here, or the St Basil's Bookstore here.

To purchase the Divine Praises, the Divine Office of the Byzantine-Slav rite (in English), order from the Eparchy of Parma here.

The new catechism in English, Christ our Pascha, is available from the Eparchy of the Holy Family and the Society. Please email johnchrysostom@btinternet.com for details.

Friday, 19 April 2019

Today, we venerate Your Passion, O Christ: now give us Your glorious Resurrection

Today the Lord Who raised the dry land from the waters is raised upon the Cross. A crown of thorns is placed upon the head of the King of angels. He cloth the sky with clouds; now today He is clothed with a purple robe. In the Jordan He freed Adam; now today He is slapped in the face. The Bridegroom of the Church is fastened with nails; the Son of the Virgin is pierced with a spear. We worship Your Passion, O Christ; we worship Your Passion, O Christ; we worship Your Passion, O Christ. Now let us behold Your glorious Resurrection.

Antiphon 15, sung by Fr Shafiq Abouzayd, Melkite parish of St John Chrysostom, London, at Procession of Cross, 18 April 2019

Recommended Reading

An Orthodox Prayer Book, ed. Archimandrite Ephrem Lash, 2009. Available from the Fellowship of St Alban & St Sergius
Athanasius of Alexandria, David M. Gwynn, Oxford University Press, 2012
Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity, ed. Ken Parry, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007 & 2010
Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology, eds. Mary Cunningham & Elizabeth Theokritoff, Cambridge, 2008
Christianity & Jerusalem, Anthony O'Mahoney (ed.), Gracewing, Leominster 2010
Christianity in Iraq, Suha Rassam, second edition, Gracewing, Leominster, 2010
Christians & the Struggle for Religious Freedom - with Persecuted & Forgotten - 2012 Update from Aid to the Church in Need UK
Eastern Catholic Churches, Edward Faulk, Paulist Press, 2007
Eastern Christianity, ed. Anthony O'Mahoney, Melisende, London, 2004
For the Life of the World, Alexander Schmemann, SVS Press, 1973
I am with you always, Pastoral Letters of Patriarch Gregorios III of Antioch, Eastern Christian Publications, Fairfax VA, 2008
International Dialogue Commision & Joint Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East: Documentation
International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches: Documentation
Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology, Andrew Louth, SPCK, London, 2013
Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church: Documentation
Joint Statements Between the Catholic and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Catholic Bishops Conference of England & Wales, 2011
Light from the East, ed. Bishop Henry Hill, Anglican Book Centre, Toronto, 1988
Orthodox Lent, Holy Week & Easter, Hugh Wybrew, SPCK, 1995
Orthodox Readings of Aquinas, Oxford University Press, 2012
Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy, Adam A. J. DeVille, University of Notre Dame Press, 2011
Popular Patristic Series: St Vladimir Seminary Press
Rome & the Eastern Churches, Aidan Nichols OP, Second Edition, Ignatius Press, 2010
The Catholic Church in the Contemporary Middle East, eds. Anthony O'Mahony and John Flannery, Melisende Press, London 2010
The Christian Communities in Jerusalem, Anthony O'Mahoney (ed.), University of Wales Press, 2003
The Eastern Churches, Robin Gibbons, Catholic Truth Society, London, 2006
The Fathers, Volume 1: St Clement to St Paulinus of Nola, Pope Benedict XVI, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, Huntington, 2009
The Fathers, Volume II: St Augustine to St Maximus the Confessor, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, Huntington, 2009
The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy, Edward Siecienski, Oxford University Press, 2010
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity, Robert Louis Wilken, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012
The Inner Kingdom, Kallistos Ware, SVS Press, 2004
The Lost History of Christianity - the Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa and Asia - and How it Died, Philiip Jenkins, Harper One, 2009
The Orthodox Church, Timothy (Kallistos) Ware, Penguin, 1993
The Orthodox Liturgy, Hugh Wybrew, SVS Press, 2003
The Primacy of Peter, ed. John Meyendorff, SVS Press, 1992
Theology in the Russian Diaspora, Aidan Nichols OP, Cambridge, 1989
You are Peter, Olivier Clement, New City Press, 2003

Fill in your e-mail address to receive our occasional newsletter, Light of the East.
E-mail address:
Select your interests:
SSJC Members:
SSJC Contacts:
Subscribe Unsubscribe

Pages

Friday, 19 April 2019

Today, we venerate Your Passion, O Christ: now give us Your glorious Resurrection