Word Magazine January 1961 Page 11 HERESY…. By Fr. Michael Azkoul, Spring Valley, Illinois This important term in the world of religion needs complete and clear definition Heresy is a word too many people are afraid to use. Some believe they are sophisticated and need not use a term which belongs to the “Dark Ages”. [...]
Again Magazine, June/July, 1996, Page 16-19 “HERE AM I” After years of wandering, a young man returns to follow God’s call by Gregory P. Yova, Executive Director of Project Mexico I grew up in a close-knit Romanian Orthodox immigrant community. I learned a lot, because the Orthodox Faith is so entrenched in the culture. We [...]
Word Magazine February 1986 Page 15 HEAVEN CAN WAIT - HELL IS IN A HURRY! Homily By Father James C. Meena If I greeted you with a common statement of our times, “Go to hell”, would you be surprised? Shocked? Caught off guard? Resentful? But really, why should you be? This is an expression you [...]
Word Magazine February 1964 Page 12 HAPPINESS As we read the headlines day by day in a troubled world, as we observe the tides of discontent inside and outside our own country, we wonder, fancifully, if perhaps a trip to the moon might be worthwhile. The alluring thought crosses our minds that maybe on some [...]
Again Magazine Vol. 21 No. 1 Winter 1999 Page 13-15 GROWING PAINS by Fr. Gregory Rogers Life, whether it is that of an individual person or of a corporate body of people, is a process. It consists of sequences of events that lead into and shape those which follow. No life is ever the same [...]
Word Magazine October 1984 Page 21 “GOOD LEADERS ARE GOOD FOLLOWERS” Homily By Father James C. Meena Leadership is an elusive quality and like so many characteristics of the outstanding human being, very difficult to describe. I think each of us has his own definition of leadership and what makes a good leader. In my [...]
Word Magazine May 1992 Page 16 FUNDAMENTALISM By Archpriest James C. Meena Everybody at one time or another is a fundamentalist. We run into a controversy in our modern society, not between non-believers and believers, but among believers themselves; those who contend that fundamentalism is the only way to fly and those of us who [...]
Again Magazine, Volume 19, No, 2 - June/July, 1996 FULL CIRCLE An Orthodox Christian Returns to the Faith The Story of Elias Issa I was born to an Orthodox Christian family in a small town in the Phoenician mountains in Syria. Being the firstborn to my father, who was the only son in his family, [...]
Again Magazine March 1993 Page 20-21 FINDING A HOME IN THE WESTERN RITE From Denver to Antioch, a 117-Year Journey by Fr. John Charles Connely Those of us who are of mature years remember that a “new world order” came to the Liturgical Churches of the West in 1969. In that year the historic Gregorian [...]
Again Magazine Number 1 March 1993 Page 22-24 FINDING A HOME IN THE EASTERN RITE By Father David Mustian To be honest, I am not the kind of person one would expect to be “at home” in Eastern Rite Orthodoxy. I was an Episcopal priest for ten years. Like many Anglicans, I joined the Episcopal [...]