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.

Light of the East 1075R Divine Mercy Sunday -Thomas Sunday

2025-04-23
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.
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Light of the East 1074R Christ is Risen!

2025-04-23
As we have died with Christ, we now rise with Him in his bodily resurrection making all things new not just 2,000 years ago, but even at this very moment and forever.
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Light of the East 1073R The Week of the Bridegroom

2025-04-06
In many Eastern Catholic Churches Lent has ended. But a separate and more ancient period of fasting has begun, the Week of the Bridegroom.
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Light of the East 1072R St. Mary of Egypt

2025-04-06
On this Sunday of Lent in many Eastern Catholic Churches a woman is put before our eyes who is a model of repentance, reverence for the Eucharist and hope for women experiencing shame.
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Light of the East 1071R The Ladder of Divine Ascent

2025-03-26
The Great Spiritual Master, St. John Climacus will take us higher and higher on his Ladder of Divine Ascent. The first two rungs of this ladder will be renunciation and obedience.
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Light of the East 1070R Lent Bring Us Back to the Norm

2025-03-26
Does abstaining from meat, dairy, sweets, wine, oil, iPhones and entertainment and adding more prayer seem unreasonable? It is actually the norm that Lent seeks to bring us back to.
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Light of the East 1069 The Prayer of St Ephrem

2025-03-26
Short but mighty, brief but powerful, the Prayer of St. Ephrem is the official prayer of the Great Fast in the Byzantine Catholic Church exposing our demons yet pointing to virtues.
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Light of the East 1068 Holy Images Connect Heaven and Earth

2025-03-07
If one picture is worth a thousand words, then the worth of a holy icon is priceless. Through the ages those who defended holy images against detractors are heroes of the True Faith.
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Light of the East 1067 Lent Begins in the Eastern Catholic Churches

2025-03-04
'Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress.' The words of Adam and Eve as Lent, the season of the Great fast, now begins in the Eastern Catholic Churches.
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Light of the East 1066 The Eastern Catholic Churches Respond

2025-02-19
A loving God would not really send someone to hell forever, would he? Why do Catholics pray do dead people? Learn what the Eastern Catholic Churches say about these and other related questions.
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