Word Magazine March 2000 Page 6-7 KEEPING THE FAITH IN THE HOLY DAYS By Father Joseph Allen The key to “keeping the Faith in the Holidays (holy days)” is in the understanding of “time.” In the Orthodox East, where we call such days “Feasts” or “Feastdays,” this especially means both the place of time in [...]
Word Magazine February 1994 Page 19-20 KEEPING LENT AT HOME By Nadia Koblosh A Parent’s Reflection “MY CHIEF RESPONSIBILITY WITH MY CHILDREN IS TO CULTIVATE IN THEM A DISCRIMINATING ATTITUDE ABOUT WHAT THEY HEAR SO THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DISCERN — FOR THEMSELVES — WHAT IS GOOD, AND WHAT IS EVIL, AND TO [...]
Word Magazine April 1983 Page 23 IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE Homily By Father James C. Meena On the Fifth Sunday of the Great Fast, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of Our Righteous Mother, Saint Mary of Egypt, the prototype of St. Mary Magdalena who repented of her sins and became a deeply dedicated ascetic, [...]
From The Word Magazine,February 1980, Page 31 LIFESTYLES X Homily By Father James C. Meena "Is It Lent Again?" As Great Lent begins, I wonder how many Orthodox Christians have been significantly impressed by the Grand Design of the Church Fathers to prepare us for this Holy Season. Anyone who has devoted himself to the [...]
rd Magazine March 1990 Page 15-16 I BEG YOUR PARDON Forgiveness - A Step Toward God By Archpriest Elias Bitar David Augsbereger said: “Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by [...]
Word Magazine March 1992 Page 14 GREAT LENT IS HERE - WHAT WILL YOU DO? by Father David Barr Once again we find ourselves in the ecclesiastical season of Great Lent. The coming of Great Lent (March 9) brings a number of different responses from each of us: ‘‘Oh no — don’t tell me that [...]
From The Word Magazine,February 1991 - page 11-12 GREAT LENT IS COMING! by Father David Barr Once again we will enter into Great Lent, the season of fasting and preparation for the Feast of Feasts, our Lord's Resurrection from the dead. As Orthodox Christians, Great Lent is an important time of the year, for this [...]
From The Word Magazine, April 1983, Page 12-13 GREAT LENT by Father Matthew George Great Lent approaches and we are faced again with the queshion - as Orthodox Christians, "What can I do during the Lenten Season to make this Easter, the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to take on [...]
Word Magazine March 1985 Page 8-9 FORGIVENESS A Homily by Father Alexander Schmemann + 1983 As once more we are about to enter the Great Lent, I would like to remind us —myself first of all, and all of you my fathers, brothers, and sisters of the verse that we just sang, one of the [...]