TIME TO LIVE OUR ORTHODOX FAITH By His Grace Bishop Demetri. (Khoury) September, the first month of the new ecclesiastical year, offers us the opportunity to reorganize our lives spiritually after the summer holiday. This yearly beginning is an occasion for us to change, to see the need for change, to take the opportunity God [...]
Word Magazine September 1959 Page 5-8/10 THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH By Father Michael Azkoul Spring Valley, Illinois The Church is very difficult to understand. It is not entirely due to the logic involved, but rather the ideas necessary to the explanation may rub us the wrong way. The modern mind with its beliefs about [...]
Word Magazine October 1968 Page 13-14 TO THE CHRISTIANS OF MY COUNTRY By The Very Rev. Father George Khodre, Tripoli, Lebanon You are called to a great mission, you are a force of salvation, because of the One who gave you His name and in whose name you have been baptized. But you are wrong [...]
Word Magazine November 1958 Page 3/12 THE PARAGON OF A CHRISTIAN LIFE By Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy Archpriest, St. George Orthodox Church Vicksburg, Mississippi In Matthews Gospel, chapter 7, verses 21-23. “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doeth the will of my [...]
Word Magazine January 1983 Page 18 TURN ON THE STOVE Homily By Father James C. Meena One of the things that housewives experience, to their utter frustration, is to make preparations for the biggest meal of the day, take the food out of the freezer and refrigerator, clean the vegetables, get everything ready and put [...]
Word Magazine January 1989 Page 15 THE REALITY OF THE INCARNATION IN OUR LIFE by Archpriest Theodore E. Ziton Our Primate, Metropolitan PHILIP, wrote once, and I quote, “As we review the account of the creation in Genesis, we cannot help but see the dynamic relationship between man and his Creator. God created man like [...]
Word Magazine May 1964 Page 9-10 “TWENTIETH CENTURY MARTYRS” A sermon preached on Orthodoxy Sunday, March 22nd, 1964, at St. Nicholas’ Cathedral, State and Bond Streets, Brooklyn, New York By Metropolitan Antony Bashir Indeed the hour is corning when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” (John 16:2) Persecution has been [...]
Word Magazine June 1967 Page 19 THE SEVEN SINS OF HUMAN SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS By Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy, Pastor Emeritus St. George Orthodox Church, Vicksburg, Mississippi There are sixty-six books in the Holy Bible. 39 in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New, that cover at least seven [...]
Word Magazine March 1992 Page 8-9 THE SPIRIT OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY. by Archpriest Paul 0 ‘Callaghan In any form of religious belief, one of the most common questions is, “What does God (or the gods) require of us?” And of course, the different religions all answer that differently. In Judaism, for instance, keeping the 613 [...]
The Spirit of Orthodoxy By Deacon R. Thomas Zell Recently, my wife and I boarded a plane in San Jose, California, located our window seat accommodations, and settled back to enjoy a spectacular journey catapulting us over the dusty brown foothills of northern California and into a world of ice-blue glaciers, green forests, deep bays [...]