Useful Byzantine-Catholic Links
General
- The Byzantine Catholic Church in America
- The Eparchy of Pasasaic
- Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches - issued on January 6, 1996, by the Congregation for the Eastern Churches.
- The CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA - One of the biggest Catholic resources on the Internet, containing more than 10000 articles.
- EWTN - The Eternal Word Television Network's site
Papal and Episcopal Documents
- Orientale Lumen The Light of the East- John Paul II
- Church Venerates Fathers of East and West - John Paul II
- Decree on the Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite - Orientalium Ecclesiarum Promulgated by His Holiness, Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964
- Eastern theology has enriched the whole Church -Pope John Paul II
- Joint Patriarchal Statement - Assyrian Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic Church
- Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II on the 350th Anniversary of the Union of Uzhorod
- Unity in Diversity Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick - From The Catholic Advocate, 17 August 1988
History
Liturgy, Prayer & Spirituality
- Divine Worship in the Byzantine Rite - 1 -- 2
- Eastern Worship - 1 -- 2
- Liturgical Texts- Incomplete -under development
- Text of the DIVINE LITURGY of St. John Chrysostom - (According to the Byzantine Rite of the Catholic Church) From approved ecclesiastical sources.
- St. John Chrysostom Paschal Homily- The Paschal sermon of St John Chrysostom is read aloud on Easter morning.
- Metropolitan Cantor Institute - website of the Metropolitan Cantor Institute of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh providing resources and background on the liturgy and chant of our church, and of the Byzantine Christian Rite.
Traditions & Beliefs
- Eastern Laws and Customs
- The Sunday of Orthodoxy- An anonymous sermon on the Meaning of Icons
- The Eastern Cross - Fr. William Saunders
The Eastern Rites
- Introduction to the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
- What Are the Eastern Rites? - Fr. William Saunders
- The
Eastern Rite Church - Fr. William Saunders
- Eastern Rite Catholic Churches - A listing by Patriarchate
- Eastern Churches - Catholic Encyclopedia
- East Syrian Rite - Catholic Encyclopedia
- Greek Rites- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Melkites - Catholic Encyclopedia
- Rites - Catholic Encyclopedia
- The Armenians
- The Byzantine Rite - 1 -- 2
- The Maronites
- The Rite of Constantinople(Byzantine Rite) - Catholic Encyclopedia
Iconography
- Byzantine Icons - A Guide to Byzantine Icons on the Internet, from Constantinople to Macedonia to Russia and Around the World
- Orthodox Iconography - 2000 year old tradition
- Eastern Orthodox and Catholic teaching about Icons
- Eikonosgraphos - Greek Site - Good graphic resource with over 6000 files in over 90 galleries
- Damascene Gallery - Database of Orthodox Icons - Public Domain Gallery of Orthodox Icons
- Discourse in Iconology - by St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
- Orthodox Images - A large-format icon reproduction source.
- The Sunday of Orthodoxy- An anonymous sermon on the Meaning of Icons
- Father Luke Dingman is the Iconographer who wrote the main icons in the church of Ascension of Our Lord.
- The Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton MA. The collection includes more than 400 Russian icons, the largest collection of its kind in North America, and one of the largest private collections outside Russia. The collection spans six centuries, and includes important historical paintings dating from the earliest periods of icon “writing” to the present.
- Send an ICON e-card (Iconogram) -Select an icon from a database made up of hundreds of holy images. Each Iconogram functions as both an e-card and a teaching tool.
- Prosopon School of Iconology - The Prosopon School of Iconology introduces students to the practice and theory of the ancient Christian art of icon-writing in the Byzantine-Russian tradition.
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