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 1012R Three Children

2024-02-05
The season of Lent emphasizes almsgiving for which the Eastern Catholic Churches are a worthy focus as they are at the epicenter of much global strife.
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LIGHTEAST 1011R The Elder Simeon

2024-01-29
In a temple the Elder Simeon holds Christ in his hands and then asks to be dismissed from this world. What do we say with God entering our entire being.
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LIGHTEAST 1010 One Same Faith

2024-01-26
St. John Paul II reminded us that the Church breathes with two lungs, two complementary expressions of the one same Faith. But what is it that the two lungs have in common?
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LIGHTEAST 1009 The Art of Living in the Both-And

2024-01-16
Perhaps the single greatest genius of the Eastern Christian spirituality is the art of living in the both/and – where something can be this and that at the same time. This first Sunday of pre-Lent will make this clear.
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LIGHTEAST 1008 The Baton Race

2024-01-13
In a baton race, two runners overlap for a moment as the baton is being passed. So it is with the past and upcoming seasons in the Church's Liturgical "passing of the baton."
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LIGHTEAST 1007R The Baptism of Christ

2024-01-13
As though being born and laid in a manger in Bethlehem was not humbling enough, Our Lord chose to lower himself in the lowest spot in the Earth’s surface, the river Jordan. There he would be baptized for our sake and God as Trinity would be revealed.
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LIGHTEAST 1006 His Divine Condescension

2024-01-13
Providentially in the civil calendar as we cut away from the previous year and open to a New year, Our New Born Savior likewise undergoes a cutting away and an openness to the new.
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LIGHTEAST 1005 The Miracle of the Incarnation

2023-12-18
All families have their story from sinners to saints. So, it is with the family of Jesus Christ. But God still works out His divine plan which is the miracle of this season.
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LIGHTEAST 1004 Become a Gift

2023-12-13
Do NOT 'celebrate the Holidays.' Rather, contemplate and be transformed by the Great Mystery of the Incarnation. Don't just buy gifts. Become a gift now and in every moment after December 25th.
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LIGHTEAST 1003 Our Need for Imagery

2023-12-13
So much decorating! So many lights to put up. It is the ancient iconography of the Church, even one painted by our Blessed Mother herself, that will explain our need for imagery.
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