731 episodes
Light of the East Father Thomas Loya
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.7 • 80 Ratings
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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.
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LIGHTEAST 1025 The Eastern Catholic Churches
In most areas of the world, the Eastern Catholic Churches are small and sparse. What does a small and sparse Church have to offer in confronting the big and powerful issues of our day?
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LIGHTEAST 1024 Sts Cyril and Methodius
We are coming up on 40 days after the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ where we will see Christ’s Ascension into heaven and the ascension Saints Cyril and Methodius as co-patrons of Europe.
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LIGHTEAST 1023 An Encounter of the Newness of Life
Pope St. John Paul II said that every encounter in the Bible between God and womanhood was an encounter of the newness of life. It was so at the Annunciation, the empty tomb and now at Jacob's well.
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LIGHTEAST 1022 A Week Filled with Apostles, Martyrs and Miracles
We are half-way between the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the sending down of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. It is a week filled with miracles, martyrs and Apostles.
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LIGHTEAST 1021 The Myrrh Bearing Women
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.
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LIGHTEAST 1020R Divine Mercy Sunday - Thomas Sunday
On the Sunday after Pascha both lungs of the Church converge at the theme of God’s mercy. For the Latin rite, it is Divine Mercy Sunday. For many Eastern churches, it is the Sunday of doubting Thomas.
Customer Reviews
Amazing Catechism
As someone new to the Byzantine tradition, I learn a lot from Fr. Loya. I appreciate his pastoral tone and his appropriate engagement with American and global culture through a lens of faith, as I have learned liturgy, spirituality, theology, and praxis from him.
Truly Light Shedding
Father,
Would you be able to help me find the episode or create one that goes into depth on how certain Eastern Churches have a Latin tradition in devotions such as the Ukrainian Greek Catholic (though the argument those are really universal, such as the Rosary)?
May God bless you!
More political than spiritual
Very shocked and disappointed to hear Fr Loya describe immigrants at the border as disease carriers and criminals. This was not what I was expecting from a podcast on Eastern Catholic Spirituality. Not one mention that many at the border are fellow Catholics who are escaping extreme and horrific violence. I am surprised at the lack of love and empathy. To compare the US to something holy like a physical church or temple, when the US border is on stolen land is mind boggling to me. You can’t hide the xenophobia even with a nice and pleasant sounding tone.