Word Magazine April/May 1966 Page 6-8 The Sacrament of Baptism By Fr. Theodore Ziton, Wichita, Kansas PART I. The Sacraments, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, of which there are seven, are the source of Her life and essence. The Church is not a society to which one can apply to, but rather entrance into this [...]
Word Magazine October 1958 Page 7 THE RE-INTEGRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS By Father Michael Azkool St. George’s, Spring Volley, Illinois It is important, whenever we speak of the Sacraments, to first discover what is mere “custom” and what is the true character and nature of them. (It is true that the Church recognizes the value [...]
Antiochian Clergy Seminar and Fall Delegates Meeting Midwest Region North Royalton, Ohio - October 19, 2001 PRESENTATION BY Father Richard Peters THE PRIEST AS A CONFESSOR You will only worthily celebrate the sacrament of repentance when you are a lover of souls and not a lover of gain, when you have learned to be patient [...]
Word Magazine May 1960 Page 6-7 THE HOLY EUCHARIST By Father Michael Azkoul, Spring Valley, III. PART III The last article was concerned with the Holy Eucharist, as the Body and Blood of the Son of God. We said that it was His real Body and Blood under the forms of bread and wine. The [...]
Word Magazine April 1960 Page 4-5 THE HOLY EUCHARIST by Father Michael Azkoul Spring Valley, III. PART II Last month we considered the figures of Melchisedech, the heavenly Manna and the Rock of Horeb, and the Banquet in the Old Testament. These figures are not artificially put together, but are supposed to be interpreted as [...]
الصفحة الرئيسية المطران إيماننا وعقيدتنا جديد في الموقع Word Magazine March 1960 Page 4-5 THE HOLY EUCHARIST By Father Michael Azkoul Spring Valley, Ill. PART I We are going to study the Holy Eucharist. We are not concerned with the rite or administration of it, but with the essential nature of the Sacrament. We will [...]
Word Magazine September 1969 Page 16 THE GREATEST MIRACLE OF ALL By Fr. Theodore E. Ziton, New Kensington, Pennsylvania. All the acts of God are wonderful and mysterious. Each one of His Works, being a divine manifestation, bears the stamp of the mysterious and the incomprehensible. But the Blessed Sacrament of Holy Communion is the [...]
Word Magazine January 2000 Page 7-8 THE EUCHARIST: THE HEART OF OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH By Fred Mark Shaheen As Orthodox Christians, we may be confronted from time to time by inquiries from the curious regarding the nature of our faith: What exactly do the Orthodox believe? How is your faith different from that of Roman [...]
Word Magazine September 1957 Page 174 SPONSORS AT BAPTISM by Father David F. Abramtsov The church has made use of sponsors (godparents) at Holy Baptism from the earliest days of its history. The practice is mentioned by such early Christian writers as Tertullian, St. Dionysius the Areopagite and others. According to the “Priest’s Guide” published [...]
Word Magazine January 1975 Page 3,4/14 SACRAMENTAL LIFE —AND THE LIFE STYLE OF ORTHODOXY The Keynote Address of the 21st Annual Conference of the Eastern Orthodox Catechetical Association delivered on July 22, 1974, by the Very Rev. Fr. John Badeen, President of the Association In his piercing insights into the nature of Christianity, St. Paul [...]