Visit with Metropolitan Kallistos in Oxford

On my return from Constantinople and the celebration of Prokrov (Protection of the Mother of God) in the Blacherna Church and my audience/lunch with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, I spent several days with Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia at his residence in Oxford.  He has an enormous study/sitting room lined on three walls by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves built […]

Adult Enrichment Programs for Parish Groups

Orientale Lumen TeleVision (OLTV) has packaged several programs of adult enrichment video and audio recordings to provide exciting opportunities for a parish to conduct a series of lectures and group discussions. Each package consists of 6-10 lectures by noted theologians in 30-40 minute sessions.  They would be perfect for a weekly series during the preparation […]

New Website Up and Running

As announced a few weeks ago, and based on input from over 100 responses to our online survey, I am pleased to announce that OLTV has a new home with improved technology and more than double the content of our previous site. The new site has a new address and is:  www.oltv.tv.  It’s available FREE […]

New Website Coming

Watch this space for new announcements about our new OLTV website, coming soon (hopefully by September 1 or sooner!).  The new site will be easier to navigate, provide true video streaming technology (including fast forward, rewind, etc.), and more, new programs. Our video programs currently include the various plenaries and liturgical services of past OL […]

OL Foundation Tax Status

I’m pleased to inform everyone that the Orientale Lumen Foundation, created for the purpose of providing financial support for the various activities of the OL Conferences and OLTV, has been approved as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization by the IRS.  This means that contributions in the future will be tax deductible on Federal tax returns by […]

Video Broadcasting for OLTV

As many know, we started Orientale Lumen TeleVision with the following goals in mind:   *   Present the tradition of the Byzantine Churches to our faithful coming from the homelands in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.   *   Help the faithful of the Byzantine Churches to be more aware of their tradition, to know […]