Useful Byzantine-Catholic Links

New Links

• Whispers of an Immortalst--- An online gallery of icons and other spiritual Eastern Christian art.
• Catholic Education Resource Center (CERC) has been compiling an Internet resource library and publishing a weekly E-Letter made up of the most compelling and convincing articles we can find on the big issues in the faith and culture category. CERC is educating a broad range of Catholics and enquiring non-Catholics about the positive role the Catholic Church has played and continues to play in the world.
• From East to West , Introducing the West to Eastern Catholicism. The purpose of the site is to educate the Western world about Eastern Catholicism. The aim is to foster greater respect and understanding.

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• List of explanations of terms and greetings unique to the Eastern Churches
• Totus Tuus Ministries is a resourceful website exploring the Catechism of the Catholic Church and essays defending the faith.
• Monastery Icons knowledge base Discover more about the lives of the saints, the meaning and history of icons, and unique articles on the role of Christianity in shaping history and our culture
• Eastern Catholic Churches This Wikipedia article is about Eastern churches in full communion with the Catholic Church.
• Eastern Christian Publications Online Catalog of Eastern Christian Publications
• Oriental Lumen Conferences a forum for Christians to learn about the "light from the east."
• Society of Saint John Chrysostom
• Theotokos Institute for Catholic Studies is an academic institute dedicated to the study and teaching of theology, especially as it proceeds from the centuries prior to the formal division of the Church into Greek East and Latin West, but equally as it applies to our contemporary world.
• Royal Doors - English language resources for Ukrainian Greek Catholics
• East to West - A website dedicated to highlighting the similarities that are found in the western and the eastern churches.

General

• The Byzantine Catholic Church in America
• The Eparchy of Pasasaic
• The ArchEparchy of Pittsburgh
• The Ukrainian Catholic ArchEparchy of Philadelphia
• 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



• The Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius
• Benedictine Sisters Sacred Heart Monastery
• The Sisters of St. Basil the Great
• Christ The Bridegroom Monastery- A Byzantine Catholic women’s monastery

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

• How Did the Various Rites Originate
• The Liturgy in the Early Church
• The Origin of Rites

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
• An interview with Archbishop Stefan Soroka about Eastern Catholicism, Orthodoxy and traditions
  

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
  
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - From Wikipedia
• 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

• Beauty of Orthodox Iconography - Categorical Listings of Icons
• Orthodox Iconography - 2000 year old tradition in Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic Churches
• 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
• The Icon, History, Symbolism and Meaning -Article first published in "A Monastic Journal”, Winter, 2003 Vol. 16 #2
• Icons and Iconoclasm in Byzantium - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• 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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