Word Magazine September 2001 Page 16 SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD By Very Rev. Stephen Rogers St. Cornelius the Centurion On the thirteenth day of September, we commemorate St. Cornelius the Centurion, the first Gentile to believe in Christ. In the tenth chapter of Acts, we learn that Cornelius was centurion of the Italian Regiment [...]
Saint Seraphim of Sarov was born on the 19th of July, 1759. His birthplace was Kursk, Russia, a town famous for its miracle-working icon of the Mother of God. At birth he was named Prokhor, after the disciple of Saint John the Theologian. While still a small child, Prokhor’s father died and his mother, Agatha, [...]
Word Magazine June 1963 Page 3-4 SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Author of Our Divine Liturgy By Father Elias Dacy John Chrysostom was a most devout and much persecuted Archbishop. Being a writer of extraordinary talents, he is mainly responsible for the shaping of the Divine Liturgy as it is used in our churches today. Chrysostom, a [...]
Again Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, December, 1992 Pages 28-31 Saint Innocent of Alaska By Father Joseph Fester On March 31, 1878, Great and Holy Saturday, Metropolitan Innocent, Apostle to America and Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, entered his eternal rest at the age of eighty-two. Although blind and crippled from the effects of [...]
Again Magazine Volume 18, Number 1 – March 1995 Page 13-15 SAINT HERMAN of ALASKA A PILGRIMAGE TO SPRUCE ISLAND By Patricia Haley It was a chilly August morning as my husband, Keith,and I boarded a plane in Anchorage, bound for the island of Kodiak. Alaska had been our home for many years, but it [...]
Word Magazine January 1967 Page 19-20 SAINT BASIL THE GREAT By Adma Shakhashiri Basil the Great was born in Caesarea of Cappadocia in eastern Asia Minor towards the end of the year 329. He was born into a wealthy and distinguished Christian family. His father, who was also called Basil, was a well-educated man, a [...]
Again Magazine June 1994 Page 28/30 MOSES THE BLACK From Sinner To Ascetic A.D. 330 to 405 One of the most remarkable stories recorded about the Fathers of the Desert is that of Saint Moses. Moses was by race an Ethiopian and his skin was black. He was the slave of an Egyptian official in [...]
JOSEPH THE DAMASCENE, +1860 HIEROMARTYR PROCLAMATION FOR THE CANONIZATION OF THE NEW ST. JOSEPH OF DAMASCUS & HIS COMPANIONS TROPARION OF SAINT JOSEPH THE DAMASCENE IN THE FIFTH TONE O faithful, let us honor the martyr of Christ, the priest of the Church of Antioch, who baptized the land, the churches, and the people of [...]
The Word Magazine March 1986 Page 12-14 John Chrysostom: His Message For Us By Father Joseph Allen Vicar- General of the Archdiocese Our father among the saints, John Chrysostom, is a name which most of us know because that name is attached to the Eucharistic Liturgy which we most often celebrate in our Church. Beyond [...]
Word Magazine May 1986 Page 7 ISAAC OF NINEVEH, “SAINT OF SILENCE” by Father Theodore Pulcini The air in the room was heavy — not only because of the heat but also because of the barrage of words reverberating between the walls, words exchanged between two arguing men. One of them was a creditor, loudly [...]