Eastern Catholic Church

According to the Eastern Catholic Major Archiepiscopal Church, yoga goes against Christian beliefs, according to The Christian Post. The Syro Malabar Church, located in Kerala at the Malabar Coast, Southern India shared its reasons in a newly released document. “The theology of yoga does not go along ...

... Peter Gregory Abdalahad was ordained to the priesthood in 1954 and to the episcopate in 1996. As a bishop, he ministered to Syriac Catholics in Jerusalem until his election as patriarch. Following his resignation in 2008, he retired to Bethlehem. The Syriac Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic church ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The story of the Christian family includes tales of how its Eastern and Western branches separated, grew apart, attempted reconciliation, hurt each other and now are trying to work together for the sake of the children today and for generations to come. But it is also a story of heroic ...

We are Eastern Catholic, one of the 23 Eastern Catholic churches,” he said. Founded in 1913 by a heavily Slovak community in Lyndora, Simko said today its nearly 300 members are “a real mix.” “Many of the parishioners have married into the church. They are not from Eastern Europe. Our services are all ...

Your Stories: A Wisconsin Video Series is a weekly video storytelling project from USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. Today's video from Sarah Kloepping introduces you to the monks of St. Nazianz. Behind the walls of Holy Resurrection Monastery in rural Manitowoc County, the 10 Eastern Catholic ...

As per the course instructions, excluded were other Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris with whom my Church shares full communion. Also excluded was any Eastern Orthodox Church since Eastern Orthodoxy shares the same Byzantine liturgical and spiritual patrimony as the Church to which I belong.

PASCHA [New Calendar]: Richmond Eastern Catholic Church, 31 March, 10:30 pm. March 31, 2018 by Justin Tse · 0 Comments. {COUNT}. in the wake of the Holy Sabbath service on Great and Holy Saturday, 2016 – photo by me. Arise, O G-d, and judge the earth, for to you belong all the nations! In the hiatus of Holy ...

Also of interest, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches originated the Easter tradition of coloring hard boiled eggs. This tradition represents eggs that are dyed red to represent the blood of Christ, shed on the Cross and the hard shell of the egg symbolized the sealed Tomb of Christ. The cracking of the ...

There are 23 self-governing Eastern Catholic Church that are also united with Rome and I have yet to see the Pope asserting any authority over them. Perhaps it is time for the Ukrainian Catholic Church (by far the largest of the eastern catholic churches united with Rome) to have Archbishop Shevchuk ...

Baldisseri also said other contributions will be provided by the Episcopal Conferences, by the Synods of the Eastern Catholic Churches and by synthesis documents resulting from listening sessions conducted in dioceses across the world. He added that the results of the online questionnaire proposed to ...

Baldisseri also said other contributions will be provided by the Episcopal Conferences, by the Synods of the Eastern Catholic Churches and by synthesis documents resulting from listening sessions conducted in dioceses across the world. He added that the results of the online questionnaire proposed to ...

Here, by “Eastern Christianity” I mean mostly “Byzantine Christianity,” what most people know through Eastern Orthodoxy, or, if they've had the joy of finding them, the various Byzantine-Rite Catholic Churches. There is, after all, a set of Churches known by the common tag “Oriental Orthodox.” It might make ...

The Mass, which begins at 2:30 p.m., will feature participation from groups representing approximately 28 different national, ethnic and/or Eastern Catholic Church traditions. Scripture readings and prayers will be proclaimed in eight languages including French, Malayalam, Swahili, Korean, Polish, Mendeh ...

In a speech last month, its leader, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, requested that Rome raise the church to a patriarchy, like several other Eastern Catholic denominations. Patriarchate status would allow the Ukrainian church to select its own leader, or patriarch, without prior papal approval, the Catholic ...

But the two Eastern Catholic churches in India start Lent on a Monday, two days earlier to Ash Wednesday, making Lent a 50-day season. For many people this could be confusing. They may wonder how all Catholics can observe Easter on the same day when there is a difference of 10 days in Lent for the ...

Appointments: Eastern Catholic Churches (2/19). February 20, 2018. » Continue to this story on Vatican Press Office. CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis assented to the appointment of a bishop of the Syriac Catholic Church. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above).

The 300 young people invited to the pre-synod meeting in March were chosen to represent national bishops' conferences, the Eastern Catholic churches, men and women in consecrated life and seminarians preparing for the priesthood. The gathering also will include representatives from other Christian ...

CWN Editor's Note: Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako of Baghdad told the French daily La Croix that the Eastern Catholic churches need support from the Vatican. The Iraqi prelate also suggested that more Eastern Catholic prelates should be appointed to the Roman Curia, and that the ...

At the Monastery of St Francis of Assisi in Bayada, north of Beirut, faithful gathered for Ash Monday Mass in the chapel on February 12. In the Maronite Catholic Church, ashes are distributed on Monday, two days ahead of the Latin rite's traditional Ash Wednesday distribution. This allows Catholics to ...

Pope Francis accepts gifts from Melkite Patriarch Joseph Absi during a meeting with the Melkite synod of bishops at the Vatican Feb. 12. The Melkite Church is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with Rome. (CNS /Vatican Media). Vatican City — Formalizing their unity in the intimate setting of the ...

The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onward. Medical conditions, such as diabetes, can be exceptions to the fasting rules. Members of the Eastern Catholic Churches are to observe the particular law of their own sui iuris (“of one's ...

The Pope also accepted the resignation a Philippine bishop for reasons of age and appointed his successor. Finally, the Pope appointed an apostolic nuncio in Azerbaijan and an Eastern Catholic bishop in Hungary. The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link ...

Easter is just days away, and for many families, decorating eggs and staging a spirited egg hunt is a key part of the observance of the Resurrection. But first, the big question: Why do we celebrate Easter with eggs? It's all about symbolism. In ancient times, pagan rituals celebrating spring incorporated eggs ...

Since attending a local temple here during my catechumenate, I've made some Eastern Catholic friends here. This weekend, I've been going to Orthodox and Eastern Catholic liturgies in addition to seeing my grandma. There is something beautiful in this, a long process of transforming my encounter with ...