Lights From the East

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Lights From the East

Pray for Us

Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church Christianity

Author: J. Michael Thompson

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Language: English

Published by: Liguori

Published on: 1st October 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 5 Mb

ISBN: 9780764868726


Holy

expresses the impossibility of attaining or grasping the Light that none can approach. In other words, it expresses the impossibility of comprehending or knowing that Light as fully as it is comprehended by God's Word and Spirit alone, but which all the same is so close and attainable that all of our blessedness lies in seeing God face to face.

Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky

Read Sheptytsky's words again. And this time, replace holy with saint. How illuminating!....English is among the few languages that distinguish saint and holy. In Greek, Latin, Slavonic and a host of modern tongues the two are the same word.  

From the Foreword by Fr. Peter Galadza, PhD 

Catholics worldwide are increasingly heeding the call of the late Pope John Paul II to breathe spiritually with both lungs to be inspired by both Western and Eastern Christianity. Yet many Catholics are unaware that the Roman Catholic Church is in communion with twenty-two other Churches, which together comprise the Eastern Catholic Churches. Focused on Eastern holy ones Lights From the East presents incredible riches to English speakers worldwide, including icons, biographies, Scripture, reflections, translated quotations from the service that honors the saint, prayers, and original hymns set to Rusyn or Galician melodies.

Each entry in Lights from the East features:

  • An icon of the saint(s)
  • A brief biography or biographies
  • A Scripture passage
  • A spiritual reflection
  • A quotation from the service that honors the saint
  • A prayer
  • A hymn to the saint, set to a Rusyn or Galician melody

Saints included:

Saints of the Old and New Testaments

The Holy Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths

The Holy First-Martyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla

Period of the Fathers and Martyrs

The Holy Great-Martyr Barbara

Our Venerable Mother Macrina the Younger

Our Venerable Father Sabbas the Sanctified

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