Light Of The East

With only a few weeks of each other, two giants have been lost to the Church in these modern times. How does this concern or impact the Eastern Catholic Churches?

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.

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.

In America, it is difficult for Catholics to vote with a complete sense of peace and confidence due to life issues, In this regard, Eastern Liturgy and the Catholic Catechism can bring some perspective.

When an evil force seeks to destroy a culture, it destroys the imagery of that culture. Imagery makes present the soul of a culture, just as it does in the Catholic Church

'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.

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.

Our children have gone back to school and so are we. We begin our school year with the question: What is the THE difference between the Eastern Rites and the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church?

An often aske question is "What is THE difference between an Eastern Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church?" We will attempt to offer a simple answer for this not so simple question.

As the horizontal bar and the vertical bar converge to form the Cross, ancient Byzantine liturgical texts converge with a modern era prophet to explain the mystery of the Cross.

The Eucharistic Congress has passed. So where are we now in terms of a... Eucharistic revival? And... what might the Eastern Catholic Churches contribute to this question?

The spirituality of the Eastern Christian Churches although ancient influenced the writing of the contemporary science fiction book. Author Mary Jessica Woods will be with us to talk about her new book and the influence behind it.

'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 WITH the Eastern Catholic Churches.

So which are you...? A 'Rad Trad,' a Pro-Popolo Novus Ordo or maybe Ad Orientum Novus Ordo, or just plain confused and fed up? The Eastern Catholic Churches are here to help.

The raging of the sea, the raging of nations, fire in the sky just some of the warnings of the End Times. Are the End Times really near? The answer is both yes and we don’t know

We are not PC here at 'Light of the East Radio.' We are BC, Byzantine Catholic. But there are some questions from RCs that are not very PC to pose to a BC. Is this making sense?

There is in our times a big round painful hole in the very soul of Western civilization. It could very well be that is the Eastern Catholic Churches that can help fill that hole.

We can have full confidence that a Church whose dogma's came about from Councils and not from a mere person is indeed the fullness of the Body of Christ on Earth.

The once common in the understanding and devotion to the Eucharist in both the Eastern and Western lungs of the Church are today vividly retained in the Eastern Catholic Churches.

'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.