Word Magazine October 1980 Page 5- A FREEDOM CALLED MONASTICISM by George Benjamin Gapen Holy Trinity Monastery Jordanville, New York Holy Trinity Monastery Jordanville, New York Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3.2-3 Christ’s death [...]
Word Magazine April 1989 Page 11-12 A Christian View Of The Body And Health by Father Paul 0 ‘Callaghan Obsession with the body and health are undoubtedly outstanding characteristics of modern American life. Commercials sing to us, “You work hard for your body, so you better treat it right.” Health spa chains tell us, “I [...]
Word Magazine December 1998 Page 5-10 WOMEN SAINTS AND THE NEED FOR APPROPRIATE ROLE MODELS FOR GIRLS TODAY By Elaine Gounaris Hanna IS THERE A PROBLEM? What images do our daughters see today that are being presented to them as normal or appropriate models for life? Are they attracted to the figures of the entertainment [...]
Word Magazine June 1999 Page 38 WHO WE ARE TO BECOME WHO WE CAN BE By Archpriest Steven Rogers There are perhaps no two men more greatly revered yet so seemingly different than Saints Peter and Paul. Commemorated by the Orthodox Church on June 29, Saints Peter and Paul, “the heads of the Apostles” as [...]
Word Magazine January 2001 Page 15 THREE GUIDING LIGHTS OF TRUE FAITH By Very Rev. Stephen Rogers As the month of January draws to a close, the Church calls us on the 30th to celebrate the Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom. In [...]
THEKLA EQUAL-TO-THE-APOSTLES AND FIRST-MARTYR Celebrated on September 14, Thekla is no ordinary saint. Hers is a very ancient Christian story, rooted in the earliest years of the church. From generation to generation, winged words transmitted her story until the second century. At that time, an Asia Minor priest, whose name we do not know, wrote [...]
Word Magazine April 1999 Page 16/21 THE TROPHY-BEARER GEORGE By Seminarian Bassam Nassif The Saints are ordinary people who love God and live in communion with Him. As the cave of Bethlehem, the center of the world, accepted the baby Jesus to rule the earth, the hearts of the saints humbly accept the living Lord [...]
Word Magazine April 1961 Page 7/27 THE SPIRIT OF ST. VLADIMIR By His Eminence, The Most Reverend Metropolitan Anastossy St. Vladimir (who introduced Christianity into Russia during his reign as Prince of Kiev and therefore is deemed the equal of the Apostles) is a phenomenal milestone in Russian history. His great achievement is of eternally [...]
Word Magazine April 2001 Page 12-15 THE DISPUTE BETWEEN ST. PAUL AND ST. BARNABUS OVER THE YOUNG MAN JOHN MARK: ACTS 15:36-40 By Stephen Holley In Acts 15:36 FF, we read that St. Paul and his former mentor, Barnabas, decided to return to the mission field from which they had just come. They had gone [...]
Word Magazine March 1960 Page 3 ST. SIMEON OF THE PRAYER A Story From Holy Orthodox Tradition By Fr. Michael J. Buben According to the witness of Holy Scripture, the old Simeon was a man “just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Ghost was upon him.” (LUKE 2, 25). From [...]