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.

LIGHTEAST 810 The Week of the Bridegroom

2020-03-31
In Eastern Churches it is the Week of the Bridegroom begins this Sunday and includes the story of the wise Virgins who were ready for the coming of the Bridegroom, a relevant theme for a time of pandemic.
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LIGHTEAST 809 The Corona Pandemic and Good Monastics

2020-03-25
Empty shelves at the grocery stores, social distancing, bars and restaurants and all places of communal gathering closed, sporting events cancelled. The Corona Pandemic has essentially turned us into good monastics.
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LIGHTEAST 808 The Ladder of Divine Ascent

2020-03-18
The great spiritual master who lived on Mt. Sinai, St John Climacus, will take us higher and higher on his Ladder of Divine Ascent. The first two rungs of the ladder will be renunciation and obedience.
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LIGHTEAST 807R Cantors in Eastern Christian Liturgy

2020-03-10
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
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LIGHTEAST 806 The Great Fast

2020-03-03
The Season of Lent, the Great Fast, is a return to our living experience of the Scriptures and to our real selves
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LIGHTEAST 805R Silence and Know by Unknowing

2020-02-21
Silence, God's Uncreated Energies, the Divine Light and coming to know God by Unknowing were taught by a 14th century saint and which are relevant for our own time, especially during Lent
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LIGHTEAST 804 Learn When Lent Begins for Many Eastern Churches

2020-02-19
The Sunday evening before Ash Wednesday begins the Lenten Season for many Eastern Catholic Churches. Worshipers take on the posture of Adam exiled from Paradise and also share in a gesture of mutual forgiveness.
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LIGHTEAST 803 Are Celibacy and the Priesthood Inseparately Linked

2020-02-11
There is a lot of discussion today in the Latin Rite about priestly celibacy. A monk from an Eastern Catholic monastery will share a perspective on this that the discussion to baptism and the episcopacy.
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LIGHTEAST 802 The Prodigal Son

2020-02-04
The Scripture parable of the Prodigal Son is our story - a choice for the delusion of ideology or a choice for reality, right reason and our ultimate glorious destiny.
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LIGHTEAST 801 The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

2020-01-29
On this glorious Feast day, as the Christ child and the Elder Simeon encounter each other through the Temple and the Law we will encounter Christ in our suffering, persecuted Christians of the Middle East
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