Byzantine Catholic Seminary Library
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– Produced by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America; provides audio and video programming including live stream, podcasts and downloadable video content.
– Free video lectures from the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge.
– Live stream as well as prepared videos on the Orthodox faith
Patristics
(texts of Divine Services spoken either by priests or deacons)
– Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church, Los Angeles, CA
Eparchies
– Information on Byzantine faith & worship including directories, news, links to other Orthodox and Catholic Churches and message boards.
– Directory of related parishes and diocese in America.
(includes prayers as well as audio and visual links)
(Fr. Hal Stockert, Catholic Information Network)
(Canada)
(Canton, OH)
(Warren, OH)
(Uniontown, PA)
(Burton, OH)
(Sybertsville, PA)
(St. Nazianz, WI)
(Olympia, WA)
(El Cajon, CA)
FAQsin response to many of the most common questions that Roman Catholics ask of their Eastern Catholic sister churches.
– YouTube video explaining particular elements of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom to non-Eastern Catholics.
– Plenary session “The Eastern Catholic Churches: An Orthodox Perspective” by John H. Erickson. Introduction by Andriy Chirovsky at the conference “The Vatican II Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum – Fifty Years Later”, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 17 October 2014.
– Plenary session “Eastern Catholicism in the Middle East Fifty Years after Orientalium ecclesiarum” by Melkite Catholic Bishop Nicholas Samra. Introduction by Prof. Brian Butcher at the conference “The Vatican II Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum – Fifty Years Later”, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 18 October 2014.
(publication of Eastern Catholic Pastoral Association of Southern California, 2002)
Video“Light of the East” (2 part video series):
“Who Are Eastern Catholics?” with Fr. Maximos of Holy Resurrection Romanian Catholic Monastery (Newberry Springs, CA):
(Our Lady of Wisdom Italo-Greek Catholic Church, Las Vegas, NV)
“Eastern Catholic Churches” with Fr. Valerian Michlik (St. Gregory Byzantine Catholic Church, Upper St. Clair, PA):
European Church HistoryAmerican Church History
Languages: Dictionary
– Located in Johnstown, PA.
– Links to more than 25 Orthodox-related web resources
(Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America)
(Rússkaya Pravoslávnaya Tsérkov), also known as the Moscow Patriarchate (site in Russian but can use Google Translator to get the gist of the page)
The Office of External Church Relations does maintain
– Biographical entries of the 16th to the 21st century cardinals and of the events and documents concerning the origin of the Roman cardinalate and its historical evolution
– The Second Edition English Translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church includes the corrections promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 8 September 1997.
– Full-text (Pre-Vatican II) edition.
– A resource project of Fr. Felix Just, S.J., PhD
– Includes searchable text, glossary, concordance as well as statistics and graphs.
– Canons that solely affect the Eastern Catholic Churches (unless expressly stated otherwise).
– Includes information on apostolic nuncios (past and present), titular sees, bishops, geographical and historical information.
– Access to one of the largest international centers of study, research and teaching on the Mother of Jesus.
– Hosted by the University of Dayton, includes statistical data, FAQs, bibliographies and ecclesiastical information.
– Guide to online papal and official documents of the Catholic Church (not Vatican-affiliated).
– Information on topics with patron saints, and profiles of those saints. Profiles have portraits, biographical information, areas of patronage, prayers, links to related sites, readings, etc.
– Contact information by diocese and state.
– Statistics and religious geography citations for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
– Statistical data on American religion and religious practices hosted and supported by the Lilly Endowment and the John Templeton Foundation.
– Provides searchable full text of several hundred classic Christian works in the public domain for theological study.
– DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries.
– English translations of material not included in Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Father (also known as Migne).
– Full-text access to classic works in 15 languages covering prose, poetry, religion, philosophy and history.
– Index of Articles in Jewish Studies. Coverage from 1966- with articles in Hebrew, Yiddish and English covering Jewish Studies and Eretz Israel.
– Directory of Jewish web resources organized by subject.
– Provides free, searchable access to electronic resources in medieval studies with connections to databases, services, texts, and images.
(Notre Dame University) – The Medieval Institute Library contains a large collection of facsimiles of late-antique and medieval manuscripts and texts, and of an occasional early printed book.
– Full-text scholarly journals searchable by title or subject, including 66 philosophy journals, 56 religion journals, 123 history journals and 26 music journals.
– Provides searchable bibliographic descriptions of periodicals published 1700s-mid 1900s in Britain by missionary societies and commercial publishers on foreign missions.
– A specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics.
– Theology Resources, A useful collection of links to general theology information.
– A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources in religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies and reference resources, software.
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– Background and links to the various liturgies and divine services from St. Elias the Prophet (Brampton, Ontario)
– The Menaion is to the Byzantine tradition what the Missal is to the Latin/Western tradition. It provides the propers for the Byzantine Rite and serves as the daily liturgical worship book for fixed calendar dates. General Menaion; translated by Archmandrite Ephrem (Ecumenical Patriarch, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain)
: St. Sergius of Radonezh Cathedral Parish (Parma, OH)
along with daily Bible readings (St. John the Wonder Worker Orthodox Church, Atlanta, GA)
– Provides English translations for Liturgy of St. Basil, Liturgy of St. James, Liturgy of St. Mark, Chaldean Mass, Presanctified Gifts and Qorbono
Transliterated into English characters
– Side-by-side translation of Church Slavonic and English of Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
(transliterated from Church Slavonic)
(includes audio and visual as well as print resources)
– Includes English translations of Menaion, Ressurectional Oktoechos, Lenten Triodion, and Pentecostarion as well as Slavonic resources.
– Full service site for all manner of Byzantine cantorial music, musical history and continuing education. MCI videos about .
– The Anaphora from the Divine Liturgy & Installation of the Most Rev. Metropolitan Archbishop Stephen Kocisko (1969). Singing of the Carpatho-Rusyn Prostopinije liturgical chant in the Ruthenian church.
– A project of St. Anthony’s Monastery in provides 6000+ pages of Byzantine music in both Western as well as Byzantine notation, according to the style of monastic chanting used in their order. Each element offers both the printed music as well as an audio example of the music:
, Sung at St. Mary Magdalene Byzantine Catholic Church in Fairview Park, Ohio. The celebrants are the the Mitred Archpriest Dennis Hrubiak and Deacon Daniel Surniak. (Recorded Dec. 12, 2012)
(printed sheet music)
, Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese
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(Allendale, NJ)
(Pittsburgh, PA) — Byzantine
(Fairfax, VA) – Eastern Catholic as well as Orthodox.
(Newton, MA) – Melkite Catholic
(New York, NY) – Russian Orthodox
(Melkite Catholic Typikon)
(in English)
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