Word Magazine February 1967 Page 10-11 THE HISTORICAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF OUR HOLY FAITH By Rev. Father Michael Baroudy Pastor Emeritus of St. Georges Orthodox Church, Vicksburg, Mississippi The history of the Christian Church as a whole is just as fascinating as it is informative and inspiring, for it contains the record at the [...]
Word Magazine December 2000 Page 4-5 THE ISRAEL OF GOD By Rev. Fr. Alban West For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. (Galatians 6:16-17) With the recent [...]
Word Magazine November 1966 Page 15 THE MIRACULOUS CLOUD OF DECISION By Rev. Father Theodore Ziton St. George's Church, New Kensington, Pa. The king, prophet, and psalmist David taught through his writings that “the Heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.” (Ps. 19:1.) As rich and as great and as [...]
Word Magazine February 1968 Page 20-21 THE RELEVANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH TO ALL TIMES AND PLACES By The Late Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy, Pastor Emeritus St. George’s Orthodox Church, Vicksburg, Mississippi No one actually knows how long religion has been in existence. We know that our own, the Christian religion, has been in [...]
Word Magazine April 1960 Page 6-7 THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD By Father Michael Buben The Seventh-Day Adventists teach that at the time of our Lord’s second coming, all the righteous living and dead will go with Him to heaven where together they will reign for a thousand years. After a thousand years all [...]
Word Magazine October 1960 Page 3-4 TRADITION AND THE BIBLE By Father Michael Azkoul Spring Valley, Ill. The Church is “the Body of Christ” and is therefore essentially an organism. Orthodoxy is a growing thing, a living Body. She is the “extension of the Incarnation,” as the Fathers used to say. There is “one” Christ, [...]
Word Magazine September 1999 Page 21-22 Mount Athos: a reminder of WHO WE ARE AND WHY WE LIVE By Seminarian Joshua Makoul In a world so consumed and fixated with worldly pleasures and riddled with secularism, it has become dangerously easy for the Christian to lose touch with his identity as a child of God [...]
SHARE YOUR FAITH WITH CONFIDENCE By Archpriest Joseph Sakkab Dean The Prairie Deanery “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, [...]
The Holy Angels An Orthodox Perspective NOVEMBER 8 Angels: Our Elder Brethren Written by St. Nicholai Velimirovic, Bishop of Zica Compiled by Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes Boise, Idaho, USA August 13th 2004 "Whom Christ loves, His angels love too." St. Nicholai of Zica (1880-+1956) Our Holy Bible starts with this sentence: In the beginning God created [...]
St. Gregory The Theologian (329-389) In Defense Of His Flight to Pontus De Fuga The Second Oration Introduction In 325 AD, the year of the First Ecumenical Council, a Christian woman in Cappadocia managed to convert her husband to the Orthodox Christian faith. Her name was Nonna. Her husband’s name was Gregory. Gregory had belonged [...]