According to the Creed, the Church is “one” and “catholic,” meaning universal. This universality is witnessed through the diversity of apostolic worship across the 24 Catholic churches that comprise the Catholic communion of churches. Of these, 23 are of Eastern rite. In the places around the world that are hurting most — the Holy Land and the Middle East, Ukraine, Ethiopia and Eritrea, to name a few — we find these Eastern Catholic churches on the frontlines, witnessing to the Body of Christ in faith and works. This lecture series will present the rich diversity of worship in the universal Church, including in the Byzantine, Alexandrian, Syriac, Armenian, and Chaldean rites of the East, and the Latin rite of the West. Learn about the Eucharistic liturgies of these various traditions that preserve, promote and proclaim the unity and catholicity of the faith.