THE EASTERN ORTHODOX FAITH By Louis Cassels United Press International Feature Writer Reprinted by permission The Goyan It comes natural to most people to speak of “the three great religious faiths,” meaning Protestants, Catholics and Jews. This national habit is a source of considerable irritation to some 5,000,000 Americans who are members of the Eastern [...]
Father Michael Azkoul There is a great deal of talk nowadays about the importance of religion, any religion. Any religion, whether Christian or not, is considered good and necessary so long as it brings men to realize their duty to mankind and God. It is generally believed that such is the purpose of religion and [...]
Word Magazine January 1986 Page 7 THE ANTIOCHIAN SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL EXEGESIS By Father Paul Tarazi Beloved brothers and sisters in the Christ and Lord Jesus: Besides the great names you already know about and you will hear in the Church from time to time, Antioch became known in the fourth and fifth centuries for [...]
Word Magazine January 1986 Page 7 THE ANTIOCHIAN SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL EXEGESIS By Father Paul Tarazi Beloved brothers and sisters in the Christ and Lord Jesus: Besides the great names you already know about and you will hear in the Church from time to time, Antioch became known in the fourth and fifth centuries for [...]
St. Gregory The Theologian (329-389) In Defense Of His Flight to Pontus De Fuga The Second Oration Introduction In 325 AD, the year of the First Ecumenical Council, a Christian woman in Cappadocia managed to convert her husband to the Orthodox Christian faith. Her name was Nonna. Her husband’s name was Gregory. Gregory had belonged [...]
SHARE YOUR FAITH WITH CONFIDENCE By Archpriest Joseph Sakkab Dean The Prairie Deanery “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, [...]
Pope Gregory The Great (Gregory ho Dialogus) 540-604 (Gregory: The Man of Balance) The Pastoral Rule Introduction The fourth of our patristic commentaries on the pastoral life, that of Pope Gregory I of Rome was written in the sixth century, some two centuries later than those of Gregory The Theologian and John Chrysostom. This commentary [...]
Word Magazine April 1984 Page 5 - 7 ORTHODOXY IN AMERICA: SUCCESS AND FAILURE by Metropolitan PHILIP Once every year, on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Orthodox people in North America emerge from their ethnic islands to celebrate the triumph of the Orthodox Faith over the iconoclastic heresy. This victory happened in the year 787 [...]
Word Magazine October 1961 Page 11 ORTHODOXY AND THE CHURCH FATHERS (From the special Easter 1961 issue of the Zoë” Brotherhood. Athens Greece, dedicated to ORTHODOXY.) The Fathers of our Church derived all of their teachings from Orthodoxy. However, they gave everything they possessed for the triumph of the Orthodox Faith, which is the priceless [...]
ORTHODOXY & CATHOLICISM By Father Theodore Pulcini, PhD Every so often we hear someone say, “Orthodox Christianity — let’s see, isn’t that sort of like the Eastern branch of the Roman Catholic Church?” No, not really. Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism are distinct bodies with significant differences. In discussing these differences, my approach will be primarily [...]