Orientale Lumen XII
East, West and North
Washington, DC - June, 2008
San Diego, CA - June, 2008
Detroit, MI - July, 2008

Group at Orientale Lumen XII East at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, DC

Group at Orientale Lumen XII West at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA

Group at Orientale Lumen XII North at the St. John’s Retreat Center in Detroit, MI

OL XII East, West and North, 2008
"Feast Days of the Eastern Churches"

Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia - "Your topic is "time"; time taken up into God; time transfigured; time intersecting with eternity; sacred time. You might take as your motto some words from the book of Ecclesiastes where the preacher says, "For everything there is a time, and an appointed moment for every matter under heaven. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity into our heart.""

Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ - "Just what are we doing when we celebrate a Christian feast? Most would answer that we are commemorating an event in Salvation History like the Nativity of Jesus in Bethlehem on Christmas, the visit of the Magi to the newborn babe on Western Epiphany, January 6, or Jesus' Baptism in the Jordan on Eastern Theophany on the same date. A closer look at feast-days in the earliest centuries, however, when the Church Year was in formation, shows that originally feasts did not commemorate a saving event of Salvation History, but a cluster of distinct events all at once."