Light of the East

The Samaritan woman who met Jesus at the well was an evangelizer and ecumenist. This week we peak into the well of a modern evangelizer and ecumenist of the Eastern lung of the Church.

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

It was Providential that women were the first to hear of Christ's Resurrection. In their example, together with Joseph of Arimathea, we learn much about our own relationship to the Body of Christ

The prayer of Eastern Liturgy takes us on a pilgrimage where through the doubt and proclamation of the Apostle Thomas we too will cry out, "My Lord and my God!"

This is the Resurrection day! During the Byzantine Matins service, the Church becomes the empty tomb and we become the women at the tomb who proclaim... Christ is risen!

The rich Liturgical experience of Holy Week, also known as the "Week of the Bridegroom" immerses us into the days of Christ's earthly life. Through the Liturgy, Christ's events become our events.

On the Fifth Sunday of Lent in the Byzantine Liturgical Calendar, it takes the story of desert woman and the priest that found her to to tell us about our deepest desires.

The Feast of the Annunciation of the Mother of God is never overshadowed even during the Great Fast. One parish named for this feast is a witness to the relevancy of Eastern Christian Spirituality.

St. John Paul II said that the Church breathes with both lungs East and West. But why did this come to be? Are the tiny Easter rite churches relevant in a modern western world?

St. Gregory Palamas, a 14th century Byzantine saint introduced the spirituality of inward stillness know as hesychism. To explain this word will require the introduction of other uncommon words from Eastern Christian spirituality.

If a photo can help draw us into the memory and reality of a loved one, then how much more so can a holy image draw us to God and all of the saints.

The Season of the Great Fast is upon us, It is the flowering of repentance. Prayer, fasting and charity well be our guides as we journey from exile back to our Father's house.

The Lenten disciplines of fasting along with the wisdom of spiritmasters and the art, prayer and liturgy of the Church can help move us beyond the passions of lust and addiction to pornography.

Are you having anger issues? The wisdom of the Eastern Christian spiritual masters and the best of modern psychology can help with this and other fallen passions.

Our guest, Jeff Gardner of the Picture Christians Project, will give us an unique and seldom seen vision of the deep human level of suffering of our fellow Christians of the Middle East

Passion and desires are commonly defined by their disordered condition. It is the rhythm and inner dynamism ot the Liturgical life that provides a more positive view of our passions.

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.

In the Eastern Churches, Liturgy and asceticism have their own respective evangelical power which must be continually rediscovered and unleashed as the way for the Eastern Churches to Evangelize and make a difference.

It's not enough to say that we attended Mass or celebrated the Divine Liturgy. The vision that litrugy gives ws must move beyond the walls of the church and affect all of life.

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.

During the Birth of Christ, the Eastern Lung of the Church puts emphasis upon the Old Testament prophecies fulfilled. the mystery of the Incarnation and the continuity between the birth of Christ and His Resurrection.

During the two Sundays before Chistmas, we look back to the people and events that came before Christ becasue there are lessons that are good for all times, especially our own times.

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is known in the Eastern Churches as the Conception of the Mother of God in the womb of St. Ann. This has important implications for all issues of life.

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