Word Magazine January 2000 Page 9-10 FINDING OUR TRUE SELF IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION By Very Rev. Joseph Allen Two of the ancient Fathers in the Christian East issued the call to all Christians to find one’s true self through the ministry called spiritual direction. St. Gregory of Nazianzus wrote: Now is the time, O my [...]
Word Magazine December 1962 Page 6-7 FAITH PLUS PATIENCE EQUAL VICTORY by Father Michael J. Buben The Russian Orthodox Journal, June 1953 An old Russian maxim states — BEZ TERRPENIE NET SPACENIE, without patience no salvation. From the life of Jesus we learn the great patience of our Saviour; a patience backed by faith that [...]
Faith is “inclusive” not “exclusive” By Archpriest Antony Gabriel Taken from the Latin root “religio”, religion implies the notion of one who is “bound to something. Of course, the sense of the supernatural is also associated with someone who is typically religious. Anyone who is cognizant of “religious follies” in the 20th Century also knows [...]
Word Magazine January 1965 Page 3-4 EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES OF OUR FAITH A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE By METROPOLITAN ANTONY The knowledge of what our faith has to offer to the individual is a matter that each may seek after with his might and main, for it is the most prized possession in the world. Nothing arrives [...]
Word Magazine June 1978 Page 12/43 EVANGELISM AND THE HOLY SPIRIT By Bryan Beal The Orthodox Church today is beginning to concern itself once again, with evangelism. There are, I believe, many ingredients to evangelism. The first ingredient for evangelism (sharing Jesus on a one-to-one basis) is growth in spiritual life. In Acts, Luke quotes [...]
METHODS OF CATECHESIS Presentation by Father William Caldaroni I. INTRODUCTION I have been assigned the topic of “Methods of Catechesis”. After the historical overview of the catechumate and of catechism throughout the life of the Holy Church which we have already been given, I do not wish to deal with the question of how catechesis [...]
Word Magazine February 1987 Page 14 DOUBLE STANDARDS – DOUBLE TROUBLE Homily By Father James C. Meena Double standards have plagued society from the dawn of history, but it is this generation and those to follow which will pay the Piper. Adults set one group of standards for their own conduct while prescribing another for [...]
Word Magazine September 1960 Page 4 DOES IT REALLY MATTER AT ALL? By Father Michael J. Buben St. Michael’s, Geneva, N.Y. Our Lord, and God, and Savior, Jesus Christ, “the Way, the Truth and the Life,” commands us to have faith and believe in Him. Believing in Him, it naturally follows, that we openly use [...]
Word Magazine December 1957 Page 260-261 DOCTRINE IN ORTHODOX CATECHESIS By Eusebius A. Stephanou There can be no doubt that Orthodox religious instruction, traditionally called “catechesis”, should have a twofold aim: To teach our children, firstly, the content of the faith, namely what to believe and, secondly, how to live in conformity with this faith. [...]
“DO NOT JUDGE” By Father Andrew Harmon Once upon a time, in a flower garden a new little plant poked itself up out of the dirt. The new plant didn’t know what kind of a plant it was. So it decided to look around at all the other plants in the flower garden and then [...]