Word Magazine January 1959 Page 5 THE WHYS OF CHRISTIANITY By Father Elias G. Dacy Why are we called Christians? What makes Christianity tic? Why is it truly the greatest of all religions? First of all, Christianity came to being by the adaptation of the name and the following of the teachings of Jesus “Christ” [...]
Word Magazine December 1991 Page 14-15 THE WEATHER AND ORTHODOX TRADITION IN LEBANESE FOLKLORE By Dolly Choueiry Crow In agricultural Societies the weather plays an important role in the every day life of the people. Such communities have devised and developed traditional methods of forecasting the weather. Some of these folk methods have survived to [...]
Word Magazine September 1966 Page 10 THE TRUNK OF THE TREE Commencement Address Delivered by Dr. Zekin Shakhashiri Friday, June 3, 1966 — Saint Vladimir Seminary Between the priest and the physician is an old friendship and a long association. Both are professional in the sense that they apply general principles to specific situations, in [...]
Word Magazine September 1963 Page 8-9 THE TOWER OF BABEL “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name. GENESIS XI: 4 (The following script was delivered by Rev. Fr. Theodore E. Ziton, Pastor of the St. [...]
Word Magazine December 1957 Page 280 THE STORY OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL By Rev. Fr. Theodore E. Ziton Montreal, Quebec, Canada A delightful, instructional tale for young and old At one time, all the angels in Heaven were good. God had made them so because He loved them. He had given them beautiful houses in [...]
Word Magazine June 1967 Page 22 THE SEED GROWING IN NEW SOIL Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest [...]
Word Magazine April 1978 Page 16 THE SCRIPT WRITERS Homily By Father James C. Meena I want to start an argument. However, if we are going to argue we must do so on my terms only. I must write both sides of the script. Not only must I know what I want to say but [...]
Word Magazine December 1968 Page 11 THE ROAD TO UNITY By the Very Rev. Father Vasile Hategan, Pastor St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, Cleveland, Ohio Editor of SOLIA, Official Publication of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America. There seem to be two extremes in the Orthodox Church here in America. One is “conservative” and the [...]
Word Magazine September 1970 Page 9 THE RIGHT TO LIVE ‘‘The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and the serpent shall eat only dust. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.”(ISAIAH 65: 25) At a conference of priests in [...]
Word Magazine June 1960 Page 3 THE RIDDLE OF LIFE AND HOW TO SOLVE IT By Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy Vicksburg, Mississippi Life to all of us is something of a riddle, a mystery. We came into the world as infants, mere babies. Our bodies are subject to physical laws. Biologically speaking, we develop [...]