Word Magazine March 1985 Page 8-9 FORGIVENESS A Homily by Father Alexander Schmemann + 1983 As once more we are about to enter the Great Lent, I would like to remind us —myself first of all, and all of you my fathers, brothers, and sisters of the verse that we just sang, one of the [...]
Word Magazine March 1970 Page 6 FORGIVE US “One of the criminals hanging there abused him, ‘Are you not the Christ?’ he said. Save yourself and us as well.’ “But the other spoke up and rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God at all?’ he said. ‘You got the same sentence as he did, [...]
Word Magazine March 1993 Page 12 FASTING — A MEANS TO AN END! by Judy Yentzen I would like to quote from THE SPIRITUAL COUNSELS OF FATHER JOHN OF KRONSTADT, Select Passages from MY LIFE IN CHRIST, edited and introduced by W. Jardine Grisbrooke. “The Christian has great, spiritual, divine enjoyments. Carnal delights must always [...]
Word Magazine March 1982 Page 17-18 Homily By Father James C. Meena ENCOURAGEMENT SUNDAY FOCUS ON THE CROSS The third Sunday of the Great Fast is the Sunday that has been marked by the Fathers of the Church to be called the “Veneration” or “Adoration” of the Holy Cross. Every year at this time the [...]
From THE WORD MAGAZINE, March 1977, Page 15 LIFESTYLES X Homily By Father James C. Meena Forgiveness - Doorway To Great Lent "I'm sorry"... - "I Beg your pardon"... "Excuse me". Expressions we use almost daily yet which we take so much for granted often have no real depth of meaning. Such expressions have a [...]
Word Magazine February 1959 Page 12 CONFESSION AND COMMUNION FR. MICHAEL J. BUBEN Pastor, ST. MICHAEL’S CHURCH, Geneva, N.Y. The Great Lenten season prepares us for a renewal of our spiritual life. We learn that self-denial is not a purpose in itself, but only a means for positive and determined action. In preparation for, and [...]
Word Magazine March 1965 Page 15 CONCERNING FASTING By Sub-Deacon Robert C. Zbeeb The head or chief of the virtues is prayer, their foundation is fasting. Fasting is constant moderation in food with prudent discernment in its use. The law of fasting, though outwardly a law for the stomach, is essentially for the mind. The [...]
Word Magazine April 1983 Page 5-8 CHRIST IS CALLING YOU! LENTEN MEDITATIONS Sermons to young people by Father George Calciu-Dumitreasa. Given at the Chapel of the Romanian Orthodox Church Seminary, Bucharest Translation by Keston College, Kent, England FIRST MEDITATION The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do [...]
From The Word Magazine, April, 1984, Page 25 LIFESTYLES X By Father James C. Meena Are You A King, Then? In the prophesies of Isaiah, we find the following statement: "For there is a Child born for us, a Son given to us — and dominion is laid on his shoulders and this is the [...]
The Word Magazine, February 1990, Page 3-4 ALMSGIVING IS CHRISTIAN! by Father Andrew Harmon Bloomington, Indiana My state (Indiana) unfortunately kept up with the Jones’ this year and instituted a state lottery like our neighboring states and many states throughout the U.S.A. and Canada. The whole lottery craze is unfortunate for several reasons. Even this [...]