Light of the East

This unique program reveals how the riches of the Eastern Catholic Churches - their liturgies, spirituality and relevancy - are a gift to the whole Church and to today's world.

LIGHTEAST601 - Thomas-Divine Mercy Sunday

2016-03-29
The remarkable events that we have witnessed in the life of Christ are not just history lessons. They are events of our own lives as the Church immerses us into the reality of the Scripture.
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LIGHTEAST600 - Christ is Risen

2016-03-23
Before Christ resurrects from the dead, He first descends into Hell to defeat the power of death. Through the Jerusalem Matins service, we descend and ascend with Christ.
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LIGHTEAST599 - Great Week, the Week of the Bridegroom

2016-03-16
The Week of the Bridegroom has arrived and being further enhanced as this year the Feast of the Annunciation falls on the same day as the Death of Christ on the Cross.
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LIGHTEAST598 Desolation in Prayer in the Spiritual Life

2016-03-09
The words of a young nun who was recently declared blessed provide insight and consolation for us during the times when we might experience dryness or desolation in our prayer.
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Light of the East 597 - The 4th Sunday of Lent & Climbing the Ladder of Divine Ascent

2016-03-03
The Byzantine Church will give equal time to men and women ascetics. Today we climb the Ladder of Divine Ascent with St. John Climacus and next Sunday we encounter a mysterious woman in the desert named Mary.
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LIGHTEAST596 - The Third Sunday of Lent

2016-02-23
There Pope and the Patriarch came together in their historic meeting in Cuba for an entire constellation of reasons. Most importantly they came together out of concern for Christians everywhere.
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LIGHTEAST595 - The Second Sunday of Lent

2016-02-15
On what is the second Sunday of Lent in many Eastern Churches, St. Gregory Palamas teaches us about God's utter incomprehensibility and his knowability through his uncreated energies.
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LIGHTEAST594 - The 1st Sunday of Lent

2016-02-10
The 1st Sunday of Lent in the Byzantine Liturgical Calendar is a day of triumph for sacred art, the true faith itself and for those martyrs and monks who gave it courageous witness.
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LIGHTEAST593 - The Bright Sadness

2016-02-02
Many Eastern Catholic Churches will begin Lent this coming Sunday evening. Lent is also known as the bright sadness marked by intense fasting, deep prayer and increased charity.
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LIGHTEAST592 - Byzantine Mardi Gras

2016-01-27
It is Byzantine Mardi Gras, the Sunday of Meat Faire and we look forward to the feast of the encounter of Our Lord in the temple with Simeon.
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