Yearly Archives: 2011

Who is Man

Again Magazine Volume 20 Number 4 - Winter 1997/1998 Page 27-31 Who is Man? - By Bishop Kallistos Ware What kind of an animal is man? What is it that, without separating us from the other animals, yet serves to distinguish us from them? I say “without separating,” because several of the characteristics that we [...]

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WHY DO ICONS WEEP

The Word Magazine, September 1994, Page 13-15 WHY DO ICONS WEEP? By Archpriest Paul O’Callaghan IT CERTAINLY SEEMS THAT there has been an explosion recently in the frequency of icons “weeping” in North America. Several years ago, an icon began weeping in an Albanian Orthodox Church in Chicago, and the phenomenon received national attention. Pilgrims [...]

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WHY I BECAME AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN

Word Magazine June 1960 Page 8/18 WHY I BECAME AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN By Athanasius Yoo, M.D., B.D. My long pilgrimage to the Mother Church has been completed. As I think back over the long road of this pilgrimage, I become filled with deep emotion. For by the grace of God, I, a stray sheep, have [...]

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WHY I STAYED IN THE MINISTRY

Word Magazine June 1963 Page 8,9/11 WHY I STAYED IN THE MINISTRY Don’t enter the ministry if you can possibly do anything else and be happy.” Young men often hear this kind of advice from working preach­ers. I myself have tried to quit a hundred times! During the sleepless gray hours after many a Sunday [...]

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WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD AN EPISCOPALIAN BECOME ORTHODOX?

Word Magazine May 1993 Page 7-9 WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD AN EPISCOPALIAN BECOME ORTHODOX? by Father Patrick McCauley When I first became an Episcopalian years ago, a friend facetiously told me that I had joined the best church that money could buy.” In fact, another wag observed that the Episcopal Church is the Cadillac [...]

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WOMANLY COURAGE

Word Magazine April 1968 Page 6 “WOMANLY COURAGE” Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church. Parma, Ohio “Now on the first day of the week at early dawn, they came to the sepul­chre bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they [...]

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WOMEN IN CREATION

Word Magazine March 1994 Page 6 - 8 WOMEN IN CREATION AND NEW CREATION As all of you know, it is not possible to watch ten minutes of news on T.V. these days (or for that matter anything on TV.), without being reminded of how the role and status of women is being questioned throughout [...]

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WORKING FOR THE GOSPEL

Word Magazine March 1998 Page 16 WORKING FOR THE GOSPEL: BEYOND MEDIOCRITY By Father Joseph Allen One of my favorite modern day characters is Winston Churchill. He was already considered “old” when he was called out of retirement to become a heroic leader during World War II. Of the many great orations which he delivered [...]

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YOUTH, VALUES AND INQUIRY

Word Magazine January/February 1972 Page 7-10 YOUTH, VALUES AND INQUIRY By FR. J. ALLEN The first requirement, almost a pre-requisite, for teaching teens or youth at any age, is a knowledge of their situation. One must know how a young person thinks and reacts in his world. What is his situation? We must remember that [...]

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Unity of the Church

This article appeared in the Adbook for the 1996 Midwest Region Parish Life Conference hosted by St. Elias Orthodox Church in Sylvania, OH Unity of the Church: Clergy & Laity by Fr. Alexander Schmemann THE MEANING OF LAITY The words lay, laity, layman come from the Greek word laos, which means people. The layman is [...]

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