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 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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LIGHTEAST 591- Icons -Painted or Written

2016-01-18
With the growing awareness and appreciation of Byzantine iconography has come certain questions tha we will begin to answer such as, "Are icons 'painted' or are they 'written'"? And, can ANYONE paint an icon?
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LIGHTEAST590 - Challenges for Catholic and Orthodox Churches

2016-01-15
The Eastern Christian Churches, Catholic and Orthodox face similar challenges of both growth and survival. These challenges are best met by taking an honest look at the gifts of these Churches.
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LIGHTEAST589 - Illumination-Manifestation-Renewal

2016-01-04
A new year in both the civil calendar and the liturgical calendar has us looking back in gratitude yet forward in the spirit of manifestation, illumination and renewal.
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LIGHTEAST 588- Ecumenism East and West

2015-12-28
With the help of our special guest, we will look back on what has been accomplished in the area of ecumenism between the two lunges of the Church, East and West and where this new year might take us.
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