Welcome
to The Light Of
The East with Father Thomas Loya. 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. .
Welcome
to The Light Of The
East #310: This Week - The Feast of the Mother of God
August 31, 2010
- This
week, Father Loya and Katie Goulas immerse us in the Feast
Days of the Mother of God, along with the prayers and chants of the
Byzantine Catholic Church.
Welcome
to The Light Of The
East #309: Last Week - The Beheading of
John The
Baptist
August 24, 2010
- This
week, Father Loya and Katie Goulas discuss the Feast
of the
Beheading of John the Baptist and invite you to vist an Eastern Rite
Catholic Church.
August 17, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya and Katie Goulas discuss two great
feasts:
The Feast of Our Lord's Transfiguration and the Feast of the Dormition
of the Mother of God.
The
Light Of The
East #307: Jeff
Gardner, CEO of CRI
August 10, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya sits down with Jeff Gardner of CRI
to talk
about Istanbul and the possibility of a ecumenical jihad.
So Jack, how did it go?
The
Light Of The
East #306: Orientale
Lumen
Conferences - How did it go?
August 3, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya and Katie Goulas sit down with
Jack Fugel
to
discuss the Orientale Lumen Conferences of 2010.
So Jack, how did it go?
July 27, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya and Katie Goulas discuss
the meaning
of marriage vows in the Byzantine Catholic rite
as our series
on Marriage
continues.
The
Light Of The
East #304: It's time for Ephesians 5:22 again.
July 20, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya and Katie Goulas discuss the real
meaning
of the scripture passage, "Wives should be submissive to their
husbands, as if to the Lord..." as our series
on Marriage
continues.
The
Light Of The
East #303: You Got Questions, We got Answers!
July 13, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya, Katie Goulas, and a Byzantine Catholic
Seminarian answer frequently asked questions about the
Byzantine
Catholic Church.
The
Light Of The
East #301: Marriage: Now and Forever
June 29, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya discusses the National Pastoral Initiative
for
Marriage and Marriage in the Byzantine Catholic Rite.
Also, Katie Goulas points the up a stealth Catholic film, The Blues
Brothers.
The
Light Of The
East #299:Peter and Paul, West and East
June 15, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya prepares us for the feast of St. Peter and
St.
Paul with an explanation of the fast and some good old house cleaning.
The
Light Of The
East #295: Orientale Lumen Conferences
May 18, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya talks with an exciting guest, Jack
Figel,
who invites us to the Orientale Lumen Conferences whose goal is to pave
the way for uniting the Church - East and West.
April 6, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya describes how a lack of faith gave
birth to
a certainty of faith when St. Thomas uttered the most important words
in all of the Scriptures.
March 30, 2010 - This
week, Father Loya Father Loya talks about sacred chant and ordination
to the minor orders in the Eastern lung of the Catholic Church. Special
guest, Timothy Woods.
The
Light Of The
East #285: Our Brothers and Sisters in Iraq
March 15, 2010 - Welcome to the fourth week of Lent.
This
week, Father Loya sits down with Juliana Taimoorazy of the Iraqi
Christian Relief Council to talk about Christians in Iraq.
The
Light Of The
East #283: The Bright Sadness of Lent
March 2, 2010 - This week, Father Loya continues our journey
into
the bright sadness of Lent, immersing ourselves
in the
mystery of repentance. Also, we hear from special
guest, Katie Goulas, who is blogging about the ascetical and
spiritual disciplines of the Lenten season.
February
16, 2010 - This week, Father Loya looks at the issue of
married
priesthood in the Eastern Catholic Churches: how it works, its origins
and history and where it will be in the future.
The
Light Of The
East #280: A Focus On "The Voice."
February
12, 2010 - This week, Father Loya talks about the Archbishop
Fulton Sheen
Exhibit at the Eparchy of Parma near Cleveland, and
discusses Eastern Catholic Lent
January 12, 2010 - This week,
Father Loya explores the unity between East and West with a look at
various feast days. Special guests: Katie and
Stephanie
Goulas.
January 5, 2010 - This week, Father Loya acknowledges two
great Orthodox leaders: the late Archbishop Job and His All Holiness
Patriarch Bartholomew and discusses the Orientals Lumen Conference.
Special guest, Katie Goulas.
The
Light Of The
East #270: Can't We All Just Get Along?
December 1, 2009 - This week, the Eastern Catholic Churchs
look at
the reunification of the Anglican Churches with Rome. Plus a
special tribute to Art Clifton, LOE first engineer and producer.