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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

The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation

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

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

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