Word Magazine September 1994 Page 18/25 TALKING TO CHILDREN ABOUT GOD By Albert Rossi, PH.D. Last year at 5 AM. On Pascha morning our seven-year-old, Beth, said with a thrill ‘This is the first time I’ve ever seen the sun come up. And, just think, it happened on Pascha.” Although she didn’t really understand what [...]
Word Magazine October 1983 Page 28-29 SOME REFLECTIONS ON PARENTHOOD by Matushka Valerie Zahirsky Before the Baby Comes For most first-time parents, the months preceding a baby’s birth are a time for learning about everything from infant nutrition to the relative merits of cloth versus disposable diapers. During these months the everyday things that relate [...]
Word Magazine June 1992 Page 14 RECRUITING CHURCH-SCHOOL TEACHERS by Department of Christian Education Recruiting volunteer church-school teachers is a problem that many priests and/or church-school superintendents face each year. Although the problem seems to be getting new teachers, part of the problem is also keeping the teachers that have already been recruited. If there [...]
Word Magazine March 1990 Page 17-18 READING AND CHRISTIAN FORMATION IN CHILDREN: PART III By Archpriest Jack Norman Sparks The Department of Christian Education is pleased to bring this series of articles on reading and Christian nurture to our Archdiocese. Father Jack Sparks is a specialist in this field and makes for delightful reading himself [...]
Word Magazine January 1989 Page 16-17 READING AND CHILDREN IN CHRISTIAN FORMATION by Father Jack Norman Sparks, Ph.D. The Department of Christian Education is pleased to bring this series of articles on reading and Christian nurture to our Archdiocese. Father Jack Sparks is a specialist in this field and makes for delightful reading himself. For [...]
Word Magazine February 1978 Page 23 PARISH RENEWAL: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE HOME By the late Donna Bobin of blessed memory It seems so obvious that the home is one of the most important influences in the religious development of children that I won’t try to persuade you that encouraging religious education in the home [...]
Word Magazine October 1989 Page 15 OUR CHURCH SCHOOL CHILDREN - AGES ELEVEN TO TWELVE By Father Peter Rizos From nine or ten years of age there begins to appear in the child a dualistic view of life. This tendency becomes more pronounced in pre-adolescents. They consciously separate their knowledge into two different realms the [...]
Word Magazine September 1966 Page 13/28 ORTHODOXY AND AMERICA By Very Rev. Alexander Schmemann Dean, Saint Vladimir Theological Seminary We may now return to Orthodoxy in America. All that I tried to say, ultimately, amounts to this: we should stop thinking of Orthodoxy in terms of America and begin to think of America in terms [...]
Word Magazine May 1978 Page 5-7/15 MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION By John L. Boojamra The family, regardless of its quality, is what we all have in common. The difficulty is compounded when we consider that in the rearing of children no one likes to be advised or told how to proceed. Added to the [...]
Word Magazine January 1984 Page 22-23 “LOOK AT HOW MUCH THEY LOVE EACH OTHER!” by Rick A. Michaels When the Church was very young, when the death and resurrection and ascension of Jesus was fresh in the memory of His friends, and when the classical world was at the zenith of its power and influence, [...]