Word Magazine March 2001 Page 7-8 MEDITATION 0N MARY AND MARTHA By Natalie Ashanin There is one account in the Bible which has always intrigued me and that is the story recounted in the 10th chapter St. Luke, v. 38-42. Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain [...]
Word Magazine September 1998 Page 21 LIFTING UP THE CROSS By Archpriest Steven Rogers As the church begins its journey through the liturgical year in September, she presents us with the starting point of our salvation — the Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On September 14, we celebrate the great feast of [...]
Word Magazine March 1984 Page 4 -7 LETTER FROM GETHSEMANE The time was 1939, the 6th week of the Great lent. Mother Abbess Mary received a telegram from a pious Arab friend in Beirut requesting her to come to Beirut in order to accept an ikon from Metropolitan Ilya (Karam). We left shortly thereafter so [...]
Word Magazine March 2000 Page 10 JUDGE NOT LEST YOU BE JUDGED By Very Rev. Stephen Rogers In the Prologue from Ochrid, that wonderful collection of the lives of the saints compiled by St. Nicholai Velimirovich, we hear a marvelous account on the thirtieth day of this month. On this day, an unnamed monk is [...]
Word Magazine February 1959 Page 7 HOLY EPIPHANY OBEDIENT TO GOD’S DEMANDS by VERY REV. ARCHPRIEST MICHAEL BAROUDY VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI The Orthodox Church celebrates the Baptism of our Lord on the sixth day of January every year. It is an important festival in our church because by His baptism, Jesus set the pace for us, [...]
Word Magazine May 1999 Page 13 GREAT IS THY LOVE, O MASTER By Fr. Steven Rogers Forty days after the celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we come to that great feast day of the Church when, according to the hymnography of the Church, Christ “didst fulfill the mystery of [...]
The Word Magazine, March 1999, Page 13 GOD'S FREE GIFT BY FR. STEVEN ROGERS I N THE MIDST OF OUR Lenten journey, in this time of contrition and repentance, a proclamation of great hope and expectation is heard throughout the Church. Even as our struggles in Lent confront our sin and our powerlessness to overcome [...]
Word Magazine December 1973 Page 3-4 METROPOLITAN PHILIP’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE “God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form. You might say landed in disquise." C. S. LEWIS Beloved Clergy, Archdiocesan Trustees, Parish Councils and Faithful of our Archdiocese: Blessings and peace to you and your children in the spirit of this Holy Christmas [...]
FEASTDAYS AND SERVICES TO THE THEOTOKOS Presentation Given by His Grace Bishop Demetri At the First Biennial Antiochian Archdiocese Clergy Symposium Chicago, Illinois July 1978 Ever since the Archangel Gabriel first said, "you are blessed among women," to the Virgin Mary, these words of praise have inspired the faithful of the Christian Church. Their love [...]
Word Magazine June 1979 Page 22 F-A-T-H-E-R Homily by Father James C. Meena On Pentecost Sunday, we sometimes experience the coincidence of celebrating a secular holiday, Father’s Day, which seems to have taken on a greater degree of significance than this Feast, which is probably the second most important day in the life of the [...]