I watched the movie  The Shoes of the Fisherman around twelve years ago, and from what I remember, I thoroughly enjoyed it. After learning more about the Eastern Churches and, in particular, the person whom the lead character of this movie is based on, I decided I would have a better appreciation for the story, so I bought the book. It was a well written book, but now that I’ve finished it, I feel that my time would have been better spent reading something more inspirational.

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Fr. Thomas J. Loya’s  interview with Right Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky on the November 12, 2006 broadcast of Light of the East has really captured my imagination. So much so, that I bought the books Pray for God’s Wisdom: The Mystical Sophiology of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptystky by Fr. Chirovsky and Christian social Ethics in Ukraine: The Legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky by Andrii Krawchuk from the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at Saint Paul University.

I particularly enjoy the little story about Fr. Chirovsky and his grandmother praying for Archbishop Slipyj.

Fr. Thomas J. Loya answered a letter of mine on the May 17, 2009 broadcast of Light of the East. I asked him what the Byzantine Church’s position is on the debate of the predestination of the Incarnation.

Listen to the answer here:
http://grigaitis.net/blog/files/predestinationOfTheIncarnation.mp3

Listen to the entire show here:
http://www.byzantinecatholic.com/radio.htm

I knew they had there own Code of Canon Law, but I didn’t know these specifics:

Q: Many Catholics don’t know that Eastern Churches have their own Code of Canon Law. What sort of differences are there between the two codes?

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