Light Of The East

An invocation to the Holy Spirit, the Heavenly King and Comforter, begins all prayer all prayer services in the naturally charismatic Byzantine Catholic Church.

We revisit a question often asked and often not well understood. What exactly is meant by the different rites of the Catholic Church? How and why are they different?

The Nicene Creed as proclaimed that every Byzantine Divine Liturgy has its significance and relevancy today as it did during its beginnings in the Church Fathers gathered in Nicaea in 325 AD.

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.

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

Have you been to so many doctors, taken so many treatments and medication and nothing seems to work? The resurrected body of Jesus Christ and Liturgy of the Church can actually offer real healing.

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 very providential.

On the Sunday after Pasca, both lungs of the Church converge at the theme of God's mercy. For the Latin rite, it is Divine Mercy Sunday. For many Eastern churches it is the Sunday of Doubting Thomas.

Christ is Risen! Indeed, He is Risen! As we mystically suffered and went to the Cross with our Lord, so to must our Lord's Resurrection now be our own resurrection, our own victory over sin and death.

St John Paul II said that monasticism is the reference point for all of the baptized. Lent is our monastic experience. An example of two desert monastics are put before our eyes as our guides.

Words like Perichorresis, Kenosis, Theoria Theologica sound unfamiliar but together with the liturgical monastic tradition they make up the potpourri of Eastern spirituality.

Three great ascetics are put before our eyes as our guides at this point of Lent. As Pope Saint John Paul II said, 'Monasticism is the reference point for all of the baptized.'

There's a humanitarian disaster on the southern border in the United States of America. For a simple solution look no further than the Liturgy of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

On the Second Sunday of Lent, we focus on contemplative prayer which enables us to see the crises in Ukraine, the mystery of the Cross put before the eyes of the world.

We revisit a fundamental question that is often asked and often not well understood. What exactly is meant by the different Rites of the Catholic Church? How and why are they different?

The Season of the Great Fast, Lent, emphasizes almsgiving for which the Eastern Catholic Churches are a worthy focus as they are at the epicenter of much global strife.

In the temple, the elder Simeon holds Christ in his hands and then asks to be dismissed from this world. What do we say with God entering our entire being?

The next runner to receive the baton in the relay race has to start running before the actually receive the baton from the previous runner. So it is now in the liturgical calendar of many Eastern Churches.

Within only a few weeks of each other two giants have been lost to the Church in these modern times. How does this concern or impact the Eastern Catholic Churches?

Almighty God raises up in each age, certain persons who turn the Church and the world on its axis. Pope Benedict XVI in our age and the desert monastics in an early age are some examples.