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 [...]
Word Magazine January 1986 Page 7 THE ANTIOCHIAN SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL EXEGESIS By Father Paul Tarazi Beloved brothers and sisters in the Christ and Lord Jesus: Besides the great names you already know about and you will hear in the Church from time to time, Antioch became known in the fourth and fifth centuries for [...]
Father Michael Azkoul There is a great deal of talk nowadays about the importance of religion, any religion. Any religion, whether Christian or not, is considered good and necessary so long as it brings men to realize their duty to mankind and God. It is generally believed that such is the purpose of religion and [...]
THE PASTORAL LIFE IN THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH (Four Talks Given at the Spring Delegates Meeting, March 6 and 7, 2003 at St. Mary’s Basilica, Livonia, Michigan) St. Gregory The Theologian (329-389) In Defense Of His Flight to Pontus De Fuga The Second Oration Aphrahat, The Persian Sage +345 Select Demonstrations Number 10 “Of [...]
Word Magazine January 1961 Page 10/28 IN UNAM SANCTUM By Archimandrite Elias Mastrogiannopoulos, Nostalgia for Orthodoxy Friedierich Heiler, Professor of the University of Marbur, is one of the most prominent contemporary theologians of the West. He has devoted his life to an objective and impartial study of the Orthodox Church. He has particularly dealt with [...]
Moses Established the Written Tradition of the Pentateuch by Richard A. Michaels In the sacred tradition of the Church, the understanding that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch is indisputable. Most obviously, one need only to review what Our Lord Himself says about Moses; the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor confirms Moses as [...]