From the Word Magazine, March 1967, Page 6-7 Life's Greatest Gain or Loss A Lenten Meditation for the Third Sunday in Lent By VERY REV. FATHER MICHAEL BAROUDY, Pastor Emeritus St George's Orthodox Church, Vicksburg, Mississippi WHOSOEVER WILL COME AFTER ME,.let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will [...]
Word Magazine March 1970 Page 6 FORGIVE US “One of the criminals hanging there abused him, ‘Are you not the Christ?’ he said. Save yourself and us as well.’ “But the other spoke up and rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God at all?’ he said. ‘You got the same sentence as he did, [...]
From The Word Magazine, April 1986, Page 5 Making Good Use of Great Lent by Father Peter G. Rizos One of the first things we consider when planning a trip is where we are going — our destination. Great Lent is a very special trip. It is a holy pilgrimage which, if understood and planned [...]
Word Magazine March 1985 Page 8-9 FORGIVENESS A Homily by Father Alexander Schmemann + 1983 As once more we are about to enter the Great Lent, I would like to remind us —myself first of all, and all of you my fathers, brothers, and sisters of the verse that we just sang, one of the [...]
Word Magazine March 1969 Page 8 “MANY ARE CALLED...” “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment: and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to [...]
From The Word Magazine, April 1983, Page 12-13 GREAT LENT by Father Matthew George Great Lent approaches and we are faced again with the queshion - as Orthodox Christians, "What can I do during the Lenten Season to make this Easter, the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to take on [...]
Word Magazine January 1990 Page 16 MEETING GOD AND SHARING THE FAITH by Rick Michaels The genesis of living faith is found in one’s personal experience of encountering God and the nourishing memories left in the wake of that encounter. That living faith is what the Apostles passed on to us. Therefore, when we rest [...]
From The Word Magazine,February 1991 - page 11-12 GREAT LENT IS COMING! by Father David Barr Once again we will enter into Great Lent, the season of fasting and preparation for the Feast of Feasts, our Lord's Resurrection from the dead. As Orthodox Christians, Great Lent is an important time of the year, for this [...]
Word Magazine March 1992 Page 14 GREAT LENT IS HERE - WHAT WILL YOU DO? by Father David Barr Once again we find ourselves in the ecclesiastical season of Great Lent. The coming of Great Lent (March 9) brings a number of different responses from each of us: ‘‘Oh no — don’t tell me that [...]