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Becoming Byzantine

Akathists and Molebens, Catechism Resources, Christian Life, Christology, Church, Communion with the Catholic Church, Communities, Divine Liturgy, Divine Praises, Domestic Church, Ecumenism, Faith, Fasting, Featured Articles, Great Lent, History, Holy Mysteries, Holy Tradition, Liturgical Year, Liturgy, Pascha, Personal Prayer, Podcasts, Prayer of the Heart, Relations with other Churches, Salvation History, Scripture, Teaching, Theosis, Trinity, UGCC Catechism July 18, 2022 Fr. Michael Winn

The series, Becoming Byzantine, is intended to be an online introduction to Byzantine Catholic Faith, Worship, and Life, based on the teachings of the catechism, Christ Our Pascha. Each month, the series sponsors a 90-minute webinar which will serve as a conversation introducing the topics and themes from the Catechism (which can be read afterwards), […]

Ever Changing Liturgy

Both Lungs, Divine Liturgy, Featured Articles, Liturgical Year, Liturgy May 6, 2021 Brent Kostyniuk

by Brent Kostyniuk A youngish man gets woken up by his wife on Sunday morning. “Time to get ready for church.” “No! I’m not going today.” “Give me three good reasons why,” his wife replied. “It’s always the same. The sermons are boring. Besides, I went last week. Give me three good reasons why I […]

Icons in the Bible

Divine Liturgy, Featured Articles, Iconography October 14, 2017 Fr. Roman Planchak

FROM TIME TO TIME Eastern Christians are reproached for venerating icons because “icons are not in the Bible.” St John of Damascus, whose treatises on icons were instrumental in defeating iconoclasm, taught that the Church’s icons are “in the Bible” because they stand in the context of God’s own self-revelation to us through images. We […]

Hierarchical Divine Liturgy – Feast of the Transfiguration 2015 – Patriarchal Sobor of the Resurrection of Christ

Church, Divine Liturgy, Featured Articles August 28, 2015 Fr. Michael Winn

The Advantage of Having No Pews

Divine Liturgy, Featured Articles, Liturgy May 3, 2015 Fr. Michael Winn

by Fr. Deacon Kevin Bezner When visitors arrive at St. Basil the Great Ukrainian Catholic Mission in Charlotte, North Carolina, they often seem perplexed to see that we have no pews. They stop for a moment, look around, and then immediately make their way to one of the chairs that line the two long walls […]

Introduction to Epistle Readings Help Card

Divine Liturgy, Featured Articles, Scripture July 14, 2013 Fr. Michael Winn

The following was created by Fr. Michael Winn for the Eparchy of Edmonton in order to help those who read the Epistle at the Sunday Divine Liturgy. It is a list of the “introductions” to the Epistle readings, in both English and Ukrainian, that also acts as a book marker. It was created on standard […]

Why Go To Church When I Can Pray At Home?

Christian Life, Church, Communities, Divine Liturgy, Domestic Church, Faith, Featured Articles, Holy Tradition, Liturgy, Parishes, Patristics, Personal Prayer April 30, 2013 Fr. Roman Planchak

St. John Chrysostom answers this question briefly when he writes: They say: ‘We can pray at home.’ You are deceiving yourself, O man! Of course, one can pray at home. But it is impossible to pray there as in church, where such a multitude of hearts are uplifted to God, merging into one unanimous cry. […]