Word Magazine October 1976 Page 16 TODAY IS MINE - TOMORROW IS YOURS Homily by Father James C. Meena “Be firm in your faith, don’t get involved in foolish contentions about the law”. Don’t get involved in foolish arguments, because there is a great deal more depth to your faith than you are even aware [...]
YOU ARE MADE FOR HOPE: ENCOURAGEMENT FOR FAMILY TODAY Sermon Delivered by Father George Shalhoub Pastor of St. Mary Orthodox Church at the 4th Sunday of Great Lent Sts. Constantine and Helen Sunday Vesper Service Dearly beloved in the Lord Jesus, We are in the fourth Sunday of Lent in which the church calls us [...]
Word Magazine January 1974 Page 5-6 THE WORLD AS FAMILY By Father Joseph Allen My task is to speak about the world as our family. How is it that we, as the Church, can call the world a family? Where is it that these words —World and Family — connect and cross? They make their [...]
Word Magazine January 1959 Page 10 YOUTH IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH By Father Alexander Curry — New Castle, Pa. No one will deny the importance of the youth in the church, for as we look at our youth, we look at the future membership of our church, and just as the destiny of a Nation [...]
Word Magazine May 1964 Page 7 THE TREND OF OUR TIME By Archpriest Michael Baroudy The Twentieth Century, the time through which we are passing, will probably go down in history as the most critical period of all, a period of tension, fear and bewilderment. The newspaper headlines, as well as the radio and television, [...]
Word Magazine September 1970 Page 12-13 YOUTH, VIOLENCE AND DRUGS A Sermon preached by the VERY REV. GREGORY OFIESH Pastor of St. Nicholas’ Church, San Francisco, California, on August 20, 1970 at the Chicago Archdiocesan Convention. Fr. Gregory is Chairman of the Department of SOYO and Inter-Orthodox Youth Relations, and Spiritual Advisor for the North [...]
Women Saints and the Need for Appropriate Role Models for Girls Today By Elaine Gounaris Hanna The following was a talk given for the opening of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese, Midwest Region, Fall 1998 Delegates Meeting 25 September 1998 Indianapolis, Indiana Sayidna Demetri, Reverend Fathers, beloved brothers and sisters in Christ: Greetings in the Name [...]
Word Magazine May 1981 Page 10-14 WOMEN IN ORTHODOXY: THEIR ROLE AND PARTICIPATION By Laurice B. Maloley The foundation of the spiritual life of the Orthodox Church lies in the Gospel of Christ, in the ‘Good News’ preached by Jesus Christ and the Apostles He chose and sent into the world. ‘The Good News’ is [...]
Word Magazine August 1958 Page 7 WHY THEY LEAVE THE CHURCH By Archimandrite Basil Kazan St. Elias Church, Toledo, Ohio During my visits to my parishioners these past weeks, I met many people whose faces I have never seen in Church since my arrival in Toledo. I asked them why they do not come to [...]
Word Magazine May 1975 Page 20 THE ORTHODOX WOMEN Rt. Rev. Athanasius E. Saliba Archbishop PHILIP proclaimed the month of March as the Antiochian Orthodox Women Month throughout our Archdiocese. This of course is an honor well deserved by the women of our archdiocese in the United States and Canada who have worked hand in [...]