Word Magazine March 1967 Page 21 MAN, THE RESPONSIBLE CREATURE Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish in the sea and the birds of the air, and over the cattle and over all [...]
Word Magazine September 1967 Page 12-14 MAN BETWEEN GOD and NEIGHBOR By Dr. Zekin A. Shakhashiri Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Health The climate of our time, as of any time, makes the demands of our body more pressing and real than those of our spirit. The most real thing in life, nevertheless, is death. [...]
Word Magazine March 1988 Page 14 LORD, CROWN ME! The Very Rev. James C. Meena In his Epistle to Timothy, his beloved spiritual son, St. Paul admonishes him and us as well, that we watch, that we be diligent in all things, that we endure afflictions, that we do the work of an evangelist, the [...]
Word Magazine December 2001 Page 14 LIVING IN THE PRESENT TENSE By Very Rev. Stephen Rogers There are probably no two things that rob people of the joy of living and the experience of God’s blessings more easily than remembrance of the past and worry about the future. Some live unhappy lives wrapped in anger [...]
Word Magazine April 1999 Page 14 LIVING IN BETWEEN By Fr. Steven Rogers As human beings we all experience events in our life which bring great joy or great sorrow. There are times of great excitement — marriage, the birth of a child, success at work . . . . and there are times of [...]
The Word, November 1992, Page 8-9 JUST WHO ARE WE ORTHODOX? by Father David Hester Every year from Pascha to Pentecost, we Orthodox read from the Book of the Acts of the Apostles at all our Divine Liturgies. This annual reading is meant to fill us, as Orthodox Christians, with a deep sense of joy [...]
The Word Magazine March 1994 Page 9 - 10 JESUS AND WOMEN THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY By Kyriaki Karidoyanes Fitzgerald, PH.D. Early in the morning he [Jesus] came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who [...]
Word Magazine December 1966 Page 9 ISOLATED PEBBLES Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the Vine, you are the branches.” (St. John15:4) [...]
Again Magazine Volume 20 Number 2 Page 8 – 11 Summer 1997 “I Love God!” The Legacy of Deacon Philip Gilbert By Father Gregory Rogers I cannot remember a time in my ministry when Deacon Philip Gilbert (also known as Frank Delano Gilbert, or affectionately as “Lane”) wasn’t somewhere around, helping, strengthening, and encouraging me. [...]
Word Magazine March 1965 Page 14-15 HUMANITY AT THE CROSSROADS By Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy, Vicksburg, Mississippi Three thousand years ago there lived in Palestine a young man called Jeremiah, whose father was a priest. The time in which this priest’s son lived was most critical—fear was on every hand. The Holy City of [...]