Word Magazine November 1994 Page 6 ORTHODOX MUSIC TODAY: INTEGRATING OUR TRADITIONS By Archpriest Vladimir Soroka As we celebrate the Bicentennial of Orthodoxy in North America this year, we face the 21st century with challenges that are unique to our land. We would be less than honest if we didn’t confess that we are a [...]
Word Magazine February 1979 Page 19 “SINGING THE BLUES?” Homily by Father James C. Meena When we are feeling depressed, as though our contacts with God have been disrupted, or when we question the wisdom of God or wonder if God is even there, it’s time for us to look into the Scriptures which are [...]
Word Magazine March 1967 Page 21 MAN, THE RESPONSIBLE CREATURE Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish in the sea and the birds of the air, and over the cattle and over all [...]
Word Magazine February 1964 Page 12 HAPPINESS As we read the headlines day by day in a troubled world, as we observe the tides of discontent inside and outside our own country, we wonder, fancifully, if perhaps a trip to the moon might be worthwhile. The alluring thought crosses our minds that maybe on some [...]
From the Again Magazine - Volume 18, Number 3 September, 1995 Page 13-15 It started out as a normal school day. The children and their adopted “Baba” (Russian for “grandmother”) and I had gathered for third hour prayers before beginning our daily lessons. The children and Baba (Angelina) were standing in the nave and I [...]
Word Magazine February 1986 Page 15 HEAVEN CAN WAIT - HELL IS IN A HURRY! Homily By Father James C. Meena If I greeted you with a common statement of our times, “Go to hell”, would you be surprised? Shocked? Caught off guard? Resentful? But really, why should you be? This is an expression you [...]
Word Magazine October 1962 Page 9-10 MONASTICISM by Fr. Michael Azkoul, Spring Valley, Ill. People nowadays are more and more inclined to look down on the vocation of the monk. Some will go so far as to admit the monk is full of noble ideals, but most will say that any young man who chooses [...]
Again Magazine, June/July, 1996, Page 16-19 “HERE AM I” After years of wandering, a young man returns to follow God’s call by Gregory P. Yova, Executive Director of Project Mexico I grew up in a close-knit Romanian Orthodox immigrant community. I learned a lot, because the Orthodox Faith is so entrenched in the culture. We [...]
Word Magazine March 1983 Page 19 “MY LONG WHITE PLUME” Homily By Father James C. Meena I have preserved my integrity intact, O Lord, and I have not submitted to the temptations that have been placed before me. This statement is a paraphrasing of the content and purpose of the teachings of most of the [...]
Word Magazine January 1961 Page 11 HERESY…. By Fr. Michael Azkoul, Spring Valley, Illinois This important term in the world of religion needs complete and clear definition Heresy is a word too many people are afraid to use. Some believe they are sophisticated and need not use a term which belongs to the “Dark Ages”. [...]