St. Porphyrios, Bishop of Gaza The land was parched, and the crops were dying everywhere. Day after day and week after week, the rains would not fall from the burning sky. At last the people of Gaza sent a deputation to the local Christian bishop, an elderly, white-bearded man named Porphyrios. “Holy One,” they begged [...]
Word Magazine September 2001 Page 16 SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD By Very Rev. Stephen Rogers St. Cornelius the Centurion On the thirteenth day of September, we commemorate St. Cornelius the Centurion, the first Gentile to believe in Christ. In the tenth chapter of Acts, we learn that Cornelius was centurion of the Italian Regiment [...]
Word Magazine December 1998 Page 5-10 WOMEN SAINTS AND THE NEED FOR APPROPRIATE ROLE MODELS FOR GIRLS TODAY By Elaine Gounaris Hanna IS THERE A PROBLEM? What images do our daughters see today that are being presented to them as normal or appropriate models for life? Are they attracted to the figures of the entertainment [...]
Again Magazine, September, 1994, Page 3 A Fourth-Century Saint for Our Times In the Orthodox Church there are countless women saints, who have lived very different kinds of lives and exhibited a wide variety of gifts. One saint in particular demonstrates by her life what a far-reaching influence just one woman can have on the [...]
The Passion of the Holy, Glorious Great-martyr of Christ, Demetrius The holy great-martyr Demetrius was born in the city of Salonika and was the son of noble and pious parents. His father was the Military Governor of Salonika and secretly believed in our Lord Jesus Christ and labored for Him. He did not dare, however, [...]
Again Magazine December 1993 Page 27-31 BLESSED JOHN THE WONDER- WORKER OF SAN FRANCISCO And His Vision for Orthodoxy in the West By Fr. Damascene Of all the Orthodox luminaries who have shone in America in the twentieth century, one of the most striking in his holiness was Blessed Archbishop John Maximovitch (1896-1966). Manifesting many [...]
ST. AHMET THE CALLIGRAPHER “The greatest of all things is the Faith ofJesus.” Crying this, 0 A,)met:. thou didst receive a great crown. ~ AHMET, the holy New Martyr, was from Constantinople, havihg been reared in the ungodliness of the Moslems ~ by his parents. By trade he was a scribe of the Great Archives. [...]
Word Magazine October 1961 Page 28 EVER PRESENT . . . By Rev. Fr. Theodore E. Ziton Pastor, St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Church Montreal, Quebec, Canada St. Anthony of Egypt, the great hermit of the desert, who formed a monastic institution which brought much value to the Church, coined a thought that I believe most [...]
Word Magazine June 1983 Page 41 ST. ELIAS - OPEN TO GOD’S VOICE Homily By Father James C. Meena On July 20th, in the calendar of the Church, we celebrate the Feast of St. Elias the Tishbite, the Great Prophet. For us of the Orthodox Faith and particularly those of us who are from the [...]
Word Magazine January 1968 Page 11-15 HEROES OF THE FOURTH CENTURY I. St. Athanasius of Alexandria The World Of The Fourth Century January and February are months in which the Church celebrates the feast days of a number of saints who lived in the fourth century. These men—St. Basil the Great (January 1), St. Gregory [...]