Light Of The East

The Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven unites our earthly nature with Heaven. During this same week the Feasts of Ss. Cyril and Methodius unites both lungs of the Church, east and west.

The sanctity of marriage and the whole order of man and woman finds its context in the Liturgy and iconography of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. His Resurrection is also our Resurrection.

Story telling is the essential way that Our Lord and the Liturgy of the Church immerse us into the drama and message of the scriptures. Our special guest, Eric Groth tells stories through the medium of film.

This week through the Liturgy of the Church we become the Myrrh-Bearing women who are the first to hear of Christ's Resurrection. The fact that it was women is Providential.

In the Byzantine calendar the Divine Mercy of God comes through the reality of Christ's Resurrected body appearing to St. Thomas. In this same Resurrected body we find our own true health of body and soul.

Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! Together with you and Luke the Regular Guy we will share and proclaim the joy of this Day of Days, the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from the Dead.

Hosanna in the Highest! Flowers, palm branches and joy - a moment of Triumph is provided by our Lord to sustain our hope and faithfulness in the days of despair and betrayal lie ahead.

LIGHTEAST703 - St. Mary of Egypt and Fr. Zozimus

On Friday March 23rd, a fitting movie, Paul, Apostle of Christ will hit theaters across America and Eric Groth of ODB Films will be here to tell us all about it.

Why do we adorn, wear and venerate Crosses, once an instrument of suffering and capital punishment? It is because through this instrument God gives us salvation and assures victory over evil.

At one time an oppressed Church that had to go underground. Our special guest will tell us how this same Church is now vibrant and growing.

Silence, God's uncreated energies, the Divine Light and coming to know God by Unknowing were taught by a 14th century saint and which are relevant for our own time, especially during Lent.

By the Waters of Babylon we weep as did the Israelites of the Bible. For the Byzantine Church the season of Lent has begun, our immersion into the Biblical experience.

We pass the liturgical baton with the help of our friend Nepsis. He is not a person but something that can help us become a person that partakes in the Divine nature.

God Himself took on flesh and submitted Himself to His own laws. What other response can we have except that of the Elder Simeon: "Now you may dismiss your servant, O Lord."

LIGHTEAST695 - Christs Incarnation Death and Resurrection

St. Anthony of the Desert said, "The great work of man is to always take the blame for his own sins before God and to expect temptation to his last breath." A fitting meditation as we look toward Lent.

Although the event of the Nativity of Christ has past, the Incarnational reality continues to unfold and it is through the Church that we do not just celebrate but actually experience this reality.

The great act of love and humiliation that our Lord took on by being born in a cave in Bethlehem will continue with submission to circumcision on the eighth day.

All families have their story from sinners to saints. So it is with the family of Jesus Christ. But God still works out His divine plan which is the miracle of this season.