Light Of The East

In the details of His Bodily Resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ reaches back to the beginning to retrieve and redeem his original plan for creation, as The Myrrh-bearing women, Joseph and Nicodemus will explain.

In the details of His Bodily Resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ reaches back to the beginning to retrieve and redeem his original plan for creation, as The Myrrh-bearing women, Joseph and Nicodemus will explain.

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.