Light of the East

Why does a good and loving God allow so much evil to happen, especially to good people? The answer comes from an unlikely person on week after the Resurrection of Our Lord."

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.

Behold the Bridegroom comes in this middle of the night. Blessed is the servant He shall find awake. It is time to light our lamps and keep vigil during this Great and Holy Week.

On this last 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 the pains of shame.

The Fourth Sunday, and the Fifth week of Lent in the Byzantine liturgical calendar features a powerhouse of spirituality and culminates in a special service to the Mother of God.

We have come to the Mid-Point of Lent. As the Cross with Christ upon it was planted in the middle of the world, it is planted again in the middle of the Church.

The Eastern Catholic Churches are known for the richness, depth and sometimes length of their liturgical prayers. However, two favorite Lenten prayers are actually short but poignant.

Anathema be upon you! Anathema I say! These words were pronounced for centuries on the First Sunday of Lent in many Eastern Christian Churches for those who ascribed to the heresy of iconoclasm - the prohibition and destruction of Holy Images.

“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.

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.

This is a week of Encounter in Many Eastern Catholic churches. We encounter another pre-Lenten Sunday. Our Lord encounters Simeon. And we, encounter liturgically our deceased family members.

This Sunday is the first of the official four preparatory Sundays leading up to Lent in the Byzantine Catholic calendar. It is the story of the Publican and the Pharisee.

Runners in a baton race must run together until the baton is successfully passed to the next runner. Many Eastern Catholic Churches at this time are in a, Liturgical baton race.

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.

The great act of love and humiliation that Our Lord took on by being born in a cave in Bethlehem will continue with his submission to circumcision on the eighth day.

The great act of love and humiliation that Our Lord took on by being born in a cave in Bethlehem will continue with his submission to circumcision on the eighth day.

(Music) “It came upon a midnight clear”… Hello Elves, hello Father Tom! Welcome Elves to Light of the East. Thank you, Father Tom, we’re so happy to be here. We’ll be hearing more from our Elves, in fact they have a special gift for us.

The high Holydays are of course times when family, friends and even affianced come together. Just as with our own own families, the Family of Jesus Christ has its own varied personalities and history.

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.

St. Pope John Paul II described monasticism as the "reference point for all the baptized." During this season, we return to our baptism through monasticism. Our special guest will explain.

As we draw near to the Nativity of Our Lord we look back on the ancestry of Christ and the many foretellings and prefigurements of Christ in the Old Testament.

Do not celebrate Christmas. That's Right. Do not celebrate Christmas. Rather, rely on the Church's preparation for Christmas to help you enter the mystery of the Incarnation

Do you want to remain hopeful, faithful and negotiate the strife, division and confusion of our times? Look into the timeless wisdom of the Church’s Liturgy and saints.

Christmas Season I hear the echoes of the coming Christmas Season. And it presents us with not only a spirit of gift but also of saints and angels to focus upon in our preparation.

Just as men need women and women need men, the Western Churches need the Eastern Churches and vice versa. What gifts do the western Churches need from the East?

"So ancient yet so new. How late have I found Thee.” The words of St. Augustine to Our Lord might also be the words of those who have found a place within the Eastern Catholic Churches.

Do you want to remain hopeful, faithful and negotiate through the strife, division and confusion of our times? Look into the timeless wisdom of the Church’s liturgy and saints.

On thousand seven hundred years ago, 318 bishops gathered in a town in what today is the nation of Turkey to make a statement that is as relevant today as it was one thousand seven hundred years ago.

This Jubilee Year in the Church is dedicated to the virtue of Hope. Our guest, Kevin Matthews, will share how he found hope for his own brokenness through a broken statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

It should be obvious to anyone that the problems besetting America and the whole world will need Divine intervention. It is to the intercession of the Mother of God, that the Church and civilization has often turned.

Have you noticed that more young men are showing up in Church these days are becoming more active? A number of these men are looking to the Eastern lung of the Church. What is attracting them?"

It is Providential that the Feast of the Exultation of the Cross in both lungs of the Church, lands on the day of Our Lord's Resurrection. Paradox is the very essence of the mystery of the Cross.

Pope St. John Paul II reminds us that the Catholic "breathes with both lungs east and west." There are actually 21 different, ancient and venerable ways to be Catholic

Tomorrow is the new year: 7,534. Yes, it really is and it is the Church's New Year's Eve. Strange as this sounds we will see why it all really matters.

Pope St. John Paul II reminds us that the Catholic Church breathes with both lungs East and West. There are actually 21 different ancient and venerable ways to be Catholic.

Liturgy is more than an obligation. It is a blueprint for all of life, the sanctification of time, space and matter, the revelation of the true nature of things.

What does it really mean to be human? This week in many Eastern Catholic Churches, we stand between the nature of our origins and our glorious destiny as human beings.

"What is the significance of a personal encounter between a lay Eastern Catholic and Pope Leo XIV? Back from his pilgrimage to Rome, we will hear from the most influential lay ecumenist in the Eastern Catholic Churches today. "

Charity begins at home. As the Church is charitable throughout the world, let charity also begin at home with: Things that a Latin Rite Catholic should never ask and Eastern Catholic.

Pope St. John Paul II reminds us that the Catholic "breathes with both lungs east and west." There are actually 21 different, ancient and venerable ways to be Catholic

Pope St. John Paul II reminds us that the Catholic "breathes with both lungs east and west." There are actually 21 different, ancient and venerable ways to be Catholic

The question of "what is the difference between a Latin Rite Catholic and an Eastern Rite Catholic?" cannot be answered in one word or a single book. We can, nonetheless, provide some answers to the question.