Word Magazine March 1960 Page 3 ST. SIMEON OF THE PRAYER A Story From Holy Orthodox Tradition By Fr. Michael J. Buben According to the witness of Holy Scripture, the old Simeon was a man “just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Ghost was upon him.” (LUKE 2, 25). From [...]
Again Magazine June 1994 Page 28/30 MOSES THE BLACK From Sinner To Ascetic A.D. 330 to 405 One of the most remarkable stories recorded about the Fathers of the Desert is that of Saint Moses. Moses was by race an Ethiopian and his skin was black. He was the slave of an Egyptian official in [...]
Word Magazine April 2001 Page 12-15 THE DISPUTE BETWEEN ST. PAUL AND ST. BARNABUS OVER THE YOUNG MAN JOHN MARK: ACTS 15:36-40 By Stephen Holley In Acts 15:36 FF, we read that St. Paul and his former mentor, Barnabas, decided to return to the mission field from which they had just come. They had gone [...]
Word Magazine January 1967 Page 19-20 SAINT BASIL THE GREAT By Adma Shakhashiri Basil the Great was born in Caesarea of Cappadocia in eastern Asia Minor towards the end of the year 329. He was born into a wealthy and distinguished Christian family. His father, who was also called Basil, was a well-educated man, a [...]
Word Magazine April 1961 Page 7/27 THE SPIRIT OF ST. VLADIMIR By His Eminence, The Most Reverend Metropolitan Anastossy St. Vladimir (who introduced Christianity into Russia during his reign as Prince of Kiev and therefore is deemed the equal of the Apostles) is a phenomenal milestone in Russian history. His great achievement is of eternally [...]
Again Magazine Volume 18, Number 1 – March 1995 Page 13-15 SAINT HERMAN of ALASKA A PILGRIMAGE TO SPRUCE ISLAND By Patricia Haley It was a chilly August morning as my husband, Keith,and I boarded a plane in Anchorage, bound for the island of Kodiak. Alaska had been our home for many years, but it [...]
Word Magazine April 1999 Page 16/21 THE TROPHY-BEARER GEORGE By Seminarian Bassam Nassif The Saints are ordinary people who love God and live in communion with Him. As the cave of Bethlehem, the center of the world, accepted the baby Jesus to rule the earth, the hearts of the saints humbly accept the living Lord [...]
Again Magazine, Volume 15, No. 4, December, 1992 Pages 28-31 Saint Innocent of Alaska By Father Joseph Fester On March 31, 1878, Great and Holy Saturday, Metropolitan Innocent, Apostle to America and Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, entered his eternal rest at the age of eighty-two. Although blind and crippled from the effects of [...]
THEKLA EQUAL-TO-THE-APOSTLES AND FIRST-MARTYR Celebrated on September 14, Thekla is no ordinary saint. Hers is a very ancient Christian story, rooted in the earliest years of the church. From generation to generation, winged words transmitted her story until the second century. At that time, an Asia Minor priest, whose name we do not know, wrote [...]
Word Magazine June 1963 Page 3-4 SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Author of Our Divine Liturgy By Father Elias Dacy John Chrysostom was a most devout and much persecuted Archbishop. Being a writer of extraordinary talents, he is mainly responsible for the shaping of the Divine Liturgy as it is used in our churches today. Chrysostom, a [...]