Word Magazine September 1983 Page 14 – 17 ORTHODOX MONASTICISM: A BRIEF STUDY FOR THE LAYMAN by Father Isaiah Chronopoulos We are living at a time in which the monastic life is not only considered abnormal, but is even ridiculed and condemned. Even they who profess to teach the word of God, especially within Protestant [...]
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN JOURNEY SERIES PRAYERS FOR TODAY TRADITIONAL MORNING AND EVENING PRAYERS OF THE ANCIENT CHRISTIAN FAITH From a pamphlet produced and distributed by: ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PRISON MINISTRY HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA copyright, 1999 FORMING A DAILY PRAYER RULE Prayer is “talking with God.” In His mercy, God hears our cries, for He is our Heavenly Father [...]
Word Magazine March 2001 Page 16/21 PRAYING FOR THE SAKE OF THE OTHER By Very Rev. Jason Delvitto Some time ago I was involved in a discussion group whose members were contemplating the power of prayer and how intercessory prayer has helped change the lives of so many people. Most of us agreed that prayers [...]
Word Magazine November 1980 Page 29 “SAY THANKS” Homily by Father James C. Meena “Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” (Ephesians, 5:20-21) Thanksgiving is so deeply embedded in the spirit of the [...]
Word Magazine June 1960 Page 11 SET TIME ASIDE Rev. Fr. Theodore E. Ziton, Pastor Pastor, St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Church, Montreal, Quebec, Canada TIME, that precious gift of God . . . how wisely do we use it? How well do we apportion it? How much do we appreciate it? Time is so precious [...]
Word Magazine November 1970 Page 11 THANKING GOD FOR HIS BLESSINGS “Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” (TENTH COMMANDMENT, Ex. 20:17) Why is it that we are [...]
Word Magazine September 1982 Page 23 GETTING CONNECTED WITH GOD “THE JESUS PRAYER” By Father James C. Meena When we feel cut off from the source of our inner strength and power as though that bond between us and God has somehow been short-circuited, it is necessary for us to find a way to get [...]
Prayer in the Orthodox Church "He who is able to pray correctly, even if he is the poorest of all people, is essentially the richest. And he who does not have proper prayer, is the poorest of all, even if he sits on a royal throne" (St John Chrysostom, PG 48, 767). In the Orthodox [...]
Why Do We Have Our Homes Blessed? by Phyllis Meshel Onest Begin Everything with Prayer Since we are reminded in Scripture to begin whatever we do with prayer, it has been the practice of Orthodox Christians for centuries to have new dwellings blessed either before or just after settling in. This has been extended to [...]
by St. Cyril of JerusalemOur father among the saints Cyril of Jerusalem (315-3as a distinguished theologian and archbishop of Jerusalem in the early Church. His famous 23 catechetical lectures, which he delivered while still a presbyter in 347 or 348, contain instructions on the principal topics of Christian faith and practise, in a popular rather [...]