Word Magazine April 1959 Page 7-10/27 THE PLACE OF LITURGICS IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION By The Very Rev. Alexander Schmemann In the early days of the Church, when “Christians were made and not born” (Tertullian), a postulant before joining the Church had to go through a fairly long period of catechesis, i.e., preparation for the sacrament [...]
Word Magazine September 1984 Page10 THE TEACHING GROUP By John Boojamra Church-school teachers are one of the links in the teaching community which is composed of the church school, the home and the church. The child learns through relationships with his friends, his parents, and his teacher. Every person in the child’s world contributes either [...]
Word Magazine June 1992 Page 14 RECRUITING CHURCH-SCHOOL TEACHERS by Department of Christian Education Recruiting volunteer church-school teachers is a problem that many priests and/or church-school superintendents face each year. Although the problem seems to be getting new teachers, part of the problem is also keeping the teachers that have already been recruited. If there [...]
Word Magazine October 1983 Page 28-29 SOME REFLECTIONS ON PARENTHOOD by Matushka Valerie Zahirsky Before the Baby Comes For most first-time parents, the months preceding a baby’s birth are a time for learning about everything from infant nutrition to the relative merits of cloth versus disposable diapers. During these months the everyday things that relate [...]
Word Magazine September 1994 Page 18/25 TALKING TO CHILDREN ABOUT GOD By Albert Rossi, PH.D. Last year at 5 AM. On Pascha morning our seven-year-old, Beth, said with a thrill ‘This is the first time I’ve ever seen the sun come up. And, just think, it happened on Pascha.” Although she didn’t really understand what [...]
Word Magazine May 1980 Page 16 TEACHERS ARE THE KEY By John L. Boojamra It has been the policy of this department to encourage teacher training for Orthodox Church school teachers in North America. The single most significant variable in an effective church school program is not material or even the family of the students, [...]
Word Magazine September 1998 Page 20 TEACHING THE TRUTH By Father Ted Bobosh One great challenge for us Orthodox in doing Christian education is coming to terms with our concept of truth. Christianity claims to offer truth to the world. In Christian education, we strive to instruct all disciples in the truth. The real question [...]
Word Magazine November 1965 Page 24-25 THANKSGIVING By Adma Shakhashiri Commission on THE WORD, Deportment of Religious Education To Children A long time ago in the year 1620, the pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean from England and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Before reaching the shores of the New World, however, they lived in Holland for [...]
Word Magazine October 1989 Page 15 OUR CHURCH SCHOOL CHILDREN - AGES ELEVEN TO TWELVE By Father Peter Rizos From nine or ten years of age there begins to appear in the child a dualistic view of life. This tendency becomes more pronounced in pre-adolescents. They consciously separate their knowledge into two different realms the [...]
Word Magazine December 1974 Page 9-11 APPROACH TO MORAL EDUCATION II By John Boojamra The discussion of Christian morality has been forcibly raised in recent years by the many public national moral crises in American life. Both Watergate and Vietnam, apart from their political significance, have been debated vigorously on a moral level, as have [...]