Word Magazine October 1966 Page 19 MY RESPONSIBILITY AS A TEENAGER TO MY FAITH By Edward Razook A Student in the Church School, St. John of Damascus, Boston, Massachusetts The true key to my existence is my Faith. To know my Faith, to understand my Faith, to love my Faith, and to sanction my Faith, [...]
Homily for Archdiocese Clergy Symposium Y2K by Nabil L. Hanna, presbyter 14-July-1998 Beloved and Holy Fathers and brethren, "Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the Church of God" (Acts 20.28). These were among St. Paul’s parting words—his final admonition—to the [...]
Word Magazine June 1969 Page 18/21 NATIONALISM, MAN, AND ORTHODOXY By FR. GIBRAN RAMLAOUI St. George’s Church, Cleveland, Ohio Ancient problem, yet still fresh and relevant, stands as an unsurmountable wall in the face of the process of Orthodoxy in America. This problem is ethnic nationalism. Nationalism is not an empty word. It is as [...]
Word Magazine June 1989 Page 10 HOW TO CONQUER THE WORLD by Guthrie E. Janssen Have you ever thought you would like to conquer the world? Alexander the Great did, but he didn’t quite bring it off. Neither did Napoleon. You and I can, however, because we live in Jesus Christ and he in us, [...]
Word Magazine January 1986 Page 16 NO ONE KNOWS EVERYTHING Homily By Father James C. Meena I am frequently asked, “Why?” Why does the Church believe in the intercession of Saints? Why does the Church have confession? Why this and why that. Of course, while we always try to provide reasonable and intelligent answers, I [...]
Word Magazine March 1965 Page 14-15 HUMANITY AT THE CROSSROADS By Very Rev. Father Michael Baroudy, Vicksburg, Mississippi Three thousand years ago there lived in Palestine a young man called Jeremiah, whose father was a priest. The time in which this priest’s son lived was most critical—fear was on every hand. The Holy City of [...]
Word Magazine June 1969 Page 17 NONE BEYOND REDEEMING Rev. Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “All the city was aroused, and the people ran together; they seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple ,... And as they were trying to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that [...]
Again Magazine Volume 20 Number 2 Page 8 – 11 Summer 1997 “I Love God!” The Legacy of Deacon Philip Gilbert By Father Gregory Rogers I cannot remember a time in my ministry when Deacon Philip Gilbert (also known as Frank Delano Gilbert, or affectionately as “Lane”) wasn’t somewhere around, helping, strengthening, and encouraging me. [...]
Word Magazine February 1990 Page 8-9 NOT IN VAIN by Father Andrew L.J. James, Ph.D. Some Orthodox Christians, including me, have wondered if all the changes in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe are not, somehow, connected to the fact that Mikail S. Gorbachev, the president of the USSR, was baptized, chrismated, and given [...]
Word Magazine December 1966 Page 9 ISOLATED PEBBLES Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the Vine, you are the branches.” (St. John15:4) [...]