Light of the East

The Church East and West, will be celebrating the Feast of the Holy Cross. Celebrating Feast days makes that event relevant to the present moment. This is certainly true for the Mystery of the Cross.

Happy New Year everybody! It IS the new year at least in the Liturgical cycle of the Byzantine Catholic Church. And the very first Feast Day is the Birth of the Mother of God.

The story of those parts of the Eastern Orthodox Churches that reunited with Rome after the Great Schism of 1054 AD is a story filled with understanding and misunderstanding, but nonetheless essential.

So which are you...? A 'Rad Trad', a Pro-Popolo Novus Ordo or maybe Ad Orientum Novus Ordo, or just plain confused and fed up? The Eastern Catholic Churches are here to help.

News Flash... Passions and divisions are flaring high in one of the most ancient and venerable Eastern Catholic Churches. Pope Francis has had to intervene but with the help of another Eastern Catholic Church.

Are you joyful, apprehensive or just plain confused about the Synodal process that you have been hearing about? The Eastern Churches can be of great help and clarity to you on this subject.

Devotional practices between the Eastern and Western lungs of the Church are often different from each other, yet they arrive at the same point. These differences are not deficits but rather, complements.

The raging of the sea, the raging of nations, fire in the sky, just some of the warnings of the end times. Are the end times really near? The answer is both yes and we don't know.

There is saint spelled with a small 's' and Saint spelled with a capital 'S' The life of a baptized Christian is a journey toward turning a small 's' into a capital 'S'

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?

'God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.' Learn how you can help the author of these words to be declared a saint.

So ancient yet so new. How late have I found Thee." The words of St. Augustine to Our Lord might also be the words of those who have found a place within the Eastern Catholic Churches.

Every Eastern Christian church has its own ancient and indigenous chant which is sung by the faithful during liturgical services. This gives cantors a special place in Eastern Christian Liturgy.

AH Yes those hazy lazy days of summer. But not so fast with the ribs, burgers and brats. We have some preparing to do that will be good for our soul and our body.

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.