Word Magazine February 1964 Page 9-10 THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGES By Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy, Pastor Emeritus, Vicksburg, Miss. The twentieth century will probably go down in history as a period of progress, scientific discoveries and drastic changes in every phase of our lives. The tenure and complexion of our world is being transformed [...]
Word Magazine April 1971 Page 13/14 THE CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST By The Late Fr. Michael Baroudy Vicksburg, Miss. The high calling of God and its implication to humanity is the theme of this article. No one has ever been satisfied with life without giving thought and meditation to the supreme purpose of living. [...]
Word Magazine September 1978 Page 17 THE BUILDERS Homily by Father James C. Meena A few years ago, one of our modern buildings was not being built in accordance with proper specifications so one of the floors collapsed. That incident filled the newspapers around here for days. How fortunate it was that this happened before [...]
Word Magazine November 1957 Page 227/250 THE BIBLE IN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN EDUCATION by REV. PAUL W. S. SCHNEIRLA The source of Orthodox dogma is divine revelation. The Reformation in the west focused attention on the channels and depositories of revelation, and both the Papal apologists and the exponents of the new Protestantism tended thereafter to [...]
Word Magazine April 1965 Page 10-12 THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH By C. G. Pallas “But there are also many other. .things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” (St. John 21:25). There are today some [...]
Word Magazine November 1957 Page 240 THE BEATITUDES MATTHEW 5:3-12 by ARCHIMANDRITE ATHANASIUS SALIBA St. George’s, Detroit The twelve Apostles being chosen, the Lord wanted to initiate them in the teaching of the New Kingdom. He took them to the mountain of Koroun-Hattin near Capernaum. A great crowd followed Jesus to the top of the [...]
Word Magazine September 1965 Page 3-4 THE ARCH OF TRIUMPHAL CHRISTIAN LIVING By Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy Vicksburg, Mississippi Of all the disciples of our Lord, Simon Peter was a man whose life was colorful, picturesque. Some might think that this description is rather fanciful of a man whose early manhood was spent as [...]
Word Magazine October 1965 Page 13 THE ALMIGHTY AND HIS EARTHLY CREATURE By Father James J. Laliberte Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Augusta, Georgia In one of the Psalms of David, we find the saying that “the fool says in his heart, ‘there is no God.’” But the writer, in his wisdom and precise sense [...]
Word Magazine June 2001 Page 18 THE AFTERLIFE AND THIS LIFE By Very Rev. Joseph Allen When I first thought about writing a brief article on the “afterlife.” I declined on the basis that any such article cannot be “brief”! But I thought about this challenge, and began to wonder about an approach which could [...]
Word Magazine December 2000 Page 6-7 THE ACQUISITION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT By Rev. Fr. Josiah Trenham In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, One God. Amen. The goal of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit. All of our Orthodox life is animated [...]