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Light of the East Part 2 will debut on EWTN on Tuesday, September 2nd, at 5PM on the East Coast, 8PM on the West coast, and on Friday, September 5th at 5:30AM on the East Coast, and 8:30AM on the West Coast. It will be another 15 episodes. Fr. Michael Sopoliga and Fr.Joseph Bertha, PhD, will co host. Fr. Ronald G Roberson, CSP, Associate Director for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will be a guest. The show will also focus on our Byzantine Chant and Liturgy.

Thank you for posting that info and thanks to the Good Fathers for taking the time to do the show.


Nicky's Baba

Glory to Jesus Christ!

The following additional EWTN programs may be of interest to this Forum.
For those �early morning� viewings, I simply set my VCR to tape them

Deacon El

The Eastern Doctors

Join Church Historian Fr. Charles Connor as he examines the spiritual legacy of the Eastern Doctors of the Church. Among the Eastern Doctors discussed in this episode is St. John Chrysostom.

Saturday, September 13, 5:30 AM

UKRAINE: EMERGING FROM THE CATACOMBS (ENGLISH VERSION) (60:00) NEW!

This video tells the history of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine. It makes use of film footage from both the present and the past (especially the Communist treatment) to tell how this part of the Catholic Church survived, even though it was officially abolished by being merged into the Russian Orthodox Church. This video tells a truly spell-binding story that holds the viewer�s attention throughout.

Sunday, August 31, 7:00 PM
Tuesday, September 2, 1:00 PM
Friday, September 5, 3:00 AM

So a Catholic network that has 24 hour programing 7 days a week is going to have a very, very small percentage of their recources used for some attention on the east.They should stick to those cartoons they show and not even bother.Please excuse my negativity,I just do not believe the network does anything for this supposed church that breathes with two lungs.
Michael

Slava Jesu Kristu,

I have to agree with Michael somewhat. I enjoy EWTN but there totally Roman philisophical approach is somewhat annoying. This is, however, partly our fault. For so many years, we hid behind Westernisms. Now, as we re-embrace our Orthodoxy, perhaps even they will see our different albeit communional approaches to life and theology and bring them to light. I admire, however, their willingness to try.

Dmitri

I do, too. EWTN is not an Eastern Catholic network. It is a Roman Catholic network. Considering the small percentage of Eastern Catholics in this country it is astounding how much publicity we get there.

What really helps are positive letters of support. Drop them a line and tell them thanks for what they have done. Perhaps suggest some new programming. How about a recording of the Akathist to the Theotokos? They could play that periodically. Or, major Byzantine feasts that are minor in the West...such as Theophany or Transfiguration? How about broadcasting these on occasion? Do we have choirs and parishes willing to lend their voices and facilities?

David Ignatius DTBrown@aol.com

EWTN has its stong points and its weak ones.

No doubt that EWTN is a Latin Catholic network. I am disappointed (as a Latin Catholic) that EWTN does not regularly televise a Divine Liturgy. Nor does it cover the Uniontown Pilgrammage.

This is quite disappointing.

Fr. John Trigilio, in his Web of Faith program, almost always mentions the Easter Catholic Church - and favorably at that! He is highly respectful of the Eastern Church.

The one way the folks in Irondale will get the message is if Eastern Catholics make themselves known and heard.

AMDG

Whoa!! I think we should lay off EWTN. Dmitri, why do you find the Roman philosophical approach "annoying"? EWTN is a western, Roman, Latin network. They may be expected to have a "Roman philosophical approach." If Holy Transfiguration Skete (Byz. Cath.) had a network, I'm SURE they'd have an "Eastern" philosophical approach.

In order for the One Church to breathe well with both lungs, each lung has to be functioning properly. EWTN is attempting (primarily) to help the western "lung" breathe healthy air. There is nothing wrong with that.

I think the Light of the East programs are admirable, for they assist in the cross-pollination between East and West called for by the Holy Father.

Humbly,
LatinTrad

Glory to Jesus Christ

Please don't misunderstand me, LT. There is absolutley nothing wrong with the approach EWTN takes. It's just mostly philosophically Roman. This is fine for its Latin oriented viewers.
I enjoy the time they devote to us and our ways. But what about our deeper philosophies? What about our "approach" to original sin, purgatory, and the like? Again, they do more than any other network has ever done (in my memory) to promote awareness of our existance. I just feel that as our only really "Global" Catholic Network, they should devote at least a little more prgramming to the other mutiple "ritual" Churches that make up our Faith.

Dmitri

Dear Eastern Friends:

I thought we have placated you with our own Anthony Dragani's manning EWTN's Q&A on the Eastern Churches? (Bravo! ! !)

And then EWTN added the 2 good priests, Fr. Sopoliga and Fr. Bertha, as twin hosts of the "Light of East" series. (Bravo! ! !)

What more do you want? Dr. Alex Roman as host on "How to be a Proper Eastern?"

You have to ask Administrator or Diak on that!

At any rate, EWTN celebrates its 22nd Anniversary tomorrow, August the 15th:

http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=38312

More power to Mother Angelica and her devoted Nuns and Sisters!

Amado

Blessed is our Lord!

the programs that focuses in the Eastern Christian traditions in EWTN is very enriching especially to those who do not have access to a Eastern Catholic center or parish like here in the Philippines.

at least the resourses that they present are more than the books and websites that i can get information. somehow the network gives a glipes of what is to be Eastern Catholic... just a glipes... but it is very much more to me than anything...

until that day when i am in a situation to practice and participate in a Eastern Catholic parish.

Glory to Him forever.
Eumir

HEAVEN FORBID THAT! Cross pollination? NO way! We can't be mixing rites. Western to stay western and eastern to stay eastern. We can't be mixing east and west into one thing. That is NOT what the Holy Father called for. Read his letter "Orientale Lumen" supporting the Eastern Churches to restore it's true heritage.

The Latinzation of the Eastern Church is like cross-pollination. It can't happen and would NEVER happen.

SPDundas
Deaf Byzantine

Everybody on the forum is telling me to read OL, but Guess What!! I'VE ALREADY READ IT !

In all seriousness, I am sorry, SPDundas. What I meant to say was--and I think it is in OL that JP2 says this--that the West can be enriched by becoming more familiar with the spiritual heritage of the East. That is what I meant by cross-pollination.

The latinization of the East is something else entirely . . .

I wouldn't mind a little byzantification of the West though . . . maybe some sung anathemas . . . or some ikonostases . . . or some Eastern chant . . . or some Ukies

LT, do you REALLY want some Ukies around?... We can get rowdy, you know.

Not only that Diak - the ones I know have very short fuses too