Fasts & Feasts
The Holy and Great Fast
February21 - 1st Sunday of the Great Fast (Sunday of Orthodoxy)
27 - All Souls Saturday
28 - 2nd Sunday of the Great Fast (Palamas)
6 - All Souls Saturday
7 - 3rd Sunday of the Great Fast (Veneration of the Cross)
13 - All Souls Saturday
14 - 4th Sunday of the Great Fast (Climacus)
18 - Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
20 - Akathistos Saturday
21 - 5th Sunday of the Great Lent (Mary of Egypt)
25 - Annunciation to the Mother of God
Great and Holy Week
28 - Palm Sunday
April4 - Pascha
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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
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Matins of the Fourth Sunday of the Fast
Wisdom from the Church Fathers
| According to the text, `We are the body of Christ and each of us is one of its members' (cf. 1 Cor. 12:27), we are said to be the body of Christ. We do not become this body through the loss of our own bodies; nor again because Christ's Body passes into us hypostatically or is divided into members; but rather because we conform to the likeness of the Lord's flesh by shaking off the corruption of sin. For just as Christ in His manhood was sinless by nature both in flesh and in soul, so we too who believe in Him, and have clothed ourselves in Him through the Spirit, can be without sin to Him if we so choose. St. Maximus the Confessor, Second Century on Theology, Philokalia, V. 2 |