Word Magazine January 1968 Page 11-15 HEROES OF THE FOURTH CENTURY I. St. Athanasius of Alexandria The World Of The Fourth Century January and February are months in which the Church celebrates the feast days of a number of saints who lived in the fourth century. These men—St. Basil the Great (January 1), St. Gregory [...]
Word Magazine October 1961 Page 28 EVER PRESENT . . . By Rev. Fr. Theodore E. Ziton Pastor, St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Church Montreal, Quebec, Canada St. Anthony of Egypt, the great hermit of the desert, who formed a monastic institution which brought much value to the Church, coined a thought that I believe most [...]
Again Magazine December 1993 Page 27-31 BLESSED JOHN THE WONDER- WORKER OF SAN FRANCISCO And His Vision for Orthodoxy in the West By Fr. Damascene Of all the Orthodox luminaries who have shone in America in the twentieth century, one of the most striking in his holiness was Blessed Archbishop John Maximovitch (1896-1966). Manifesting many [...]
Again Magazine, September, 1994, Page 3 A Fourth-Century Saint for Our Times In the Orthodox Church there are countless women saints, who have lived very different kinds of lives and exhibited a wide variety of gifts. One saint in particular demonstrates by her life what a far-reaching influence just one woman can have on the [...]
St. Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza The land was parched, and the crops were dying everywhere. Day after day and week after week, the rains would not fall from the burning sky. At last the people of Gaza sent a deputation to the local Christian bishop, an elderly, white-bearded man named Porphyrios. “Holy One,” they begged [...]
Word Magazine September 1964 Page 5-6 WHAT ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY IS by Photios Kontoglu The religion of Christ is the revelation, by Him, of the truth. And this truth is the knowledge of the true God and of the spiritual world. But the spiritual world is not what men used to—and still do—call “spiritual.” Christ calls [...]
Word Magazine December 2000 Page 22-23 WHAT DO ICONS MEAN? By Michael Goltz The iconography of our Orthodox Church, with all of its symbolism and spiritual meaning, is central to the Church’s teaching. People are greatly influenced by what they contemplate, and so the Church, in its love for its faithful, has given us iconography [...]
Word Magazine March 1987 Page 8 THEOLOGY IN COLOR by Father Nicholas Ozolin Why do we Orthodox like to speak about “theology in color” and what does this expression stand for? Concerning “theology,” things seem to be rather clear. For an Orthodox Christian this word means the knowledge and teaching of the Church about God, [...]
Word Magazine April 1987 Page 6-8 THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST AND THE BASIS FOR ITS ICONOGRAPHY To understand the nature of the icon and to be able to read the contents of it, one has to understand the basis for a particular icon. In this article, examining representations of our Lord’s Resurrection, we will explore [...]
Word Magazine March 1978 Page 5-7 THE IMAGE OF THE CHURCH She presides both from gleaming apsides and from “beautiful corners” in humblest homes — this icon of divine maternity in cobalt, vermilion, and gold. How many have sought solace in those brooding, knowing yet loving eyes? Innumerable tapers of supplication, of love, and of [...]