Author: John Figel

Interview about Orientale Lumen Conferences

The online magazine of Paulist Press, The Catholic World, has just published this past week an extensive interview with Archbishop Vsevolod of Scopelos and myself concerning the Orientale Lumen Conferences.  The questions we were asked caused me to think about some of our significant accomplishments and highlights of our ten-year history.  It was actually fun answering […]

Announcing Orientale Lumen TeleVision

Do you love your eastern Christian tradition so much that you wish you could share it with the whole world?  Soon, you might be able to do that. With God’s help, at some point in the future, there will be a television network where the splendors of the Eastern Church will be available for all […]

Announcing Reprint of a Greek-English Divine Liturgy Book

I’m happy to announce a new book from Eastern Christian Publications.  Here are further details from the Introduction by the editors, Archimandrite Serge Keleher and myself: “Eastern Christian Publications takes pride in presenting a long-overdue reprint of J. N. W. Robertson’s 1894 Greek-English service book.  The book is actually a Greek Ieratikon with a parallel English translation – […]

Orientale Lumen TV is Launched

Orientale Lumen has launched an internet-based TV website. The initial programming will include video presentation recordings from OL Conferences. Future programming planned include commentary, other conferences and messages of interest to the Orientale Lumen, Eastern Christian Publications and Bulletin services and Catholics in general. The mission of OLTV is to help Eastern Christians in America […]

EuroEast II Conference — Lubomyr Cardinal Husar

Regarding the Orientale Lumen Conference in Istanbul held in May 2007, “the presentations were non-confessional; at least, I did not feel the need to classify the speakers by their church membership. This impression was strengthened even further by my meeting on Thursday night with Archbishop Kallistos. To my mind, the whole relationship of the participants […]

New Books from Eastern Christian Publications

In our continuing effort to make interesting and valuable texts available through digital publication methods, Eastern Christian Publications is proud to announce three new monographs on three very different topics. 1. Suzane Mary Aboueid has just completed her Master’s Degree from the Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. We […]