Word Magazine March 1963 Page 7-8 VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF VICTORY By Rev. Father Michael Baroudy Vicksburg, Mississippi One of the most difficult things about a priest’s life is to choose a subject and discuss a theme relevant to the time in which we live. The pastor’s vocation is not an easy one. Only [...]
Word Magazine October 1962 Page 13 UNITY REVISED By Brother Sergius It is the dubious genius of Western society, via a gradual evolution, to be able to separate knowledge from fact, and the Church from truth. The establishment of Roman Catholicism, after its tragic defection from true Christianity, gave to the West a surface authenticity, [...]
Word Magazine May 1964 Page 9-10 “TWENTIETH CENTURY MARTYRS” A sermon preached on Orthodoxy Sunday, March 22nd, 1964, at St. Nicholas’ Cathedral, State and Bond Streets, Brooklyn, New York By Metropolitan Antony Bashir Indeed the hour is corning when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” (John 16:2) Persecution has been [...]
Word Magazine January 1983 Page 18 TURN ON THE STOVE Homily By Father James C. Meena One of the things that housewives experience, to their utter frustration, is to make preparations for the biggest meal of the day, take the food out of the freezer and refrigerator, clean the vegetables, get everything ready and put [...]
Word Magazine October 1968 Page 13-14 TO THE CHRISTIANS OF MY COUNTRY By The Very Rev. Father George Khodre, Tripoli, Lebanon You are called to a great mission, you are a force of salvation, because of the One who gave you His name and in whose name you have been baptized. But you are wrong [...]
TIME TO LIVE OUR ORTHODOX FAITH By His Grace Bishop Demetri. (Khoury) September, the first month of the new ecclesiastical year, offers us the opportunity to reorganize our lives spiritually after the summer holiday. This yearly beginning is an occasion for us to change, to see the need for change, to take the opportunity God [...]
Word Magazine September 1981 Page 11-12 TIME AND THE LITURGY Another season has gone by, the summer is slowly leaving its hot, sweltering trail behind and autumn will soon fill its void with the crispness of the October air. Another autumn and school begins, the outdoors are clear and trees display their bright colored plumage. [...]
Word Magazine December 1996 Page 9-10 THINE OWN OF THINE OWN BY DR. MICHAEL MASSOUH Dad,” The five year old son asked, “can I have a dollar?” “A dollar? What are you going to do with a dollar?” “Buy something.” “What kind of something?” “A present.” “For whom?” “Dad, can’t I have a dollar?” “Well, [...]
Word Magazine September 1971 Page 9-10 THEOLOGY, WORSHIP, PEACE… An address of His Beatitude, Patriarch Pimen while Metropolitan of Kroutitsy and Guardian of the Patriarchal Throne. At the opening of the academic year at the Moscow Theological Academy, on the feast of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, October 14th, 1970. I salute all the [...]
Word Magazine November 1957 Page 252 THEOLOGY FOR EVERYBODY by REV. FR. THEODORE E. ZITON At some period in the Church’s history the idea took root that theology is only for priests. Frank Sheed, an author and publisher who has done much to promote a greater knowledge of theology among laymen, recalls that when he [...]