Daily program

XXII International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox Spirituality

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS

Bose, Wednesday 3 - Saturday 6 September 2014

in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches

Wednesday 3 September

h 9:30 am 

Introductory Remarks
Fr ENZO BIANCHI, Prior of Bose

Towards a Christian Anthropology of Peace
ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU, New York

The Psalms: Violence, Reconciliation, and Peace
MICHAIL G. SELEZNEV, Moscow

h 3:30 pm 

Peace in the Divine Liturgy 
✜ ANDREJ OF AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, AND MALTA, Belgrad

Peace, Gift of the Risen Christ (Jn 20,19-21)
CHRISTOS KARAKOLIS, Athens

Peace and Peacemakers in Patristic Thought
PORPHYRIOS GEORGI, Balamand 

 

Thursday 4 September

h 9:00 am 

Reconciliation in the Church: Clement of Rome
DARIJA MOROZOVA, Kiev

Peace among the Churches: Irenaeus of Lyon
JOHN BEHR, Washington

Conflict and Reconciliation: the Desert Fathers
SYMEON PASCHALIDIS, Thessaloniki

h 3:30 pm 

Christian Peace and Human Reconciliation
CYRIL HOVORUN, Yale

 

TESTIMONIES OF PEACE I

St Francis of Assisi
PANAGIOTIS YFANTIS, Athens

Nerses of Lambron
ADAM MAKARYAN, Etchmiadzin

Inner Peace and Love for the Enemy: 
Saint Silouan of Mount Athos
Sr MAGDALENE, Maldon, Essex

 

Friday 5 September

TESTIMONIES OF PEACE II

"Let us be peacemakers and we shall be your children”. 
Nikolaj Nepluev’s Work-Brotherhood (1851-1908)
NATALIJA IGNAT’OVIČ, Moscow

Patriarch Athenagoras and the Dialogue of Love
✜ ATHENAGORAS OF BELGIUM, Bruxelles

Father Stephan Zankov, a Pioneer of Christian Reconciliation
VIKTOR MUTAFOV, Sofia

Christian Peace as Dialogue: Father André Scrima
ANDREI PLEŞU, Bucarest

h 3:30 pm 

PANEL DISCUSSION

Chair: JIM FOREST, Alkmaar
AMAL DIBO, Beirut
KONSTANTIN SIGOV, Kiev
PANTELIS KALAITZIDIS, Thessaloniki
ALEKSANDR OGORODNIKOV, Moscow

 

Saturday 6 September

For the Peace of the Whole World: 
Peacemaking and Creation Care
JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS, Boston

The Beatitude of Becoming Peacemakers
✜ KALLISTOS OF DIOKLEIA, Oxford

Conclusions
MICHEL VAN PARYS, Grottaferrata