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February
2 - Meeting of Our Lord with Simeon & Anna
5 - Sunday of the Prodigal Son
11 - All Souls Saturday
12 - Meatfare Sunday
19 - Cheesefare Sunday
20 - Beginning of the Holy Forty Days Fast
26 - Sunday of Orthodoxy
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Documents Concerning the Eastern Christian Churches (with a focus on the Eastern Catholic Churches)
Documents from Rome
- 1996: Apostolic Lettter of Pope John Paul II on the 350th Anniversary of the Union of Uzhorod
1995: Orientale Lumen (Light from the East) - Pope John Paul II
1996: Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches
- 1963: Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium) - Vatican II
Eastern Catholic Canon Law
- Code of canons of Oriental Churchs (English) - Link will open to external site
- Codex canonum ecclesiarum orientalium (Latin) - Link will open to external site
Ecumenical Documents
Documents of the Byzantine Catholic (Greek Catholic) Churches
- 1999 - Particular Law of the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church in the USA
- 1646 - Union of Uzhorod
- 1595 - Treaty of Brest
Other Documents
Prayer for Life
O Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, enlighten the minds and hearts of those blinded to the truth that life begins at conception so that they may see that the pre-born in the womb is already adorned with Your image and likeness. Enable us to guard, cherish and protect the lives of all those who are unable to care for themselves. For You are the Bestower of Life, bringing each man from non-being into being, sealing each with your divine and infinite love and we glorify you together with Your Father, Who is without beginning, and your all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Wisdom from the Church Fathers
| I pray Thee, compassionate Lord, do not allow me to be condemned because of the unworthy and ungrateful manner in which I contemplate the great mysteries that Thou hast revealed to Thy saints and through them to me, a sinner and Thy unworthy servant. For see, Lord, Thy servant stands before Thee, idle in everything, speechless, as one who is dead; and I do not dare to say anything more or to presumptuously contemplate further. But as always I fall down before Thee, crying from the depths of my soul. . . . St. Peter of Damascus |