Word Magazine October 1980 Page 5- A FREEDOM CALLED MONASTICISM by George Benjamin Gapen Holy Trinity Monastery Jordanville, New York Holy Trinity Monastery Jordanville, New York Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3.2-3 Christ’s death [...]
Word Magazine April 1999 Page 22 A JOURNEY OF SPIRIT AND LOVE By Nanette Haddad her. David, myself, Alyssa, four, and Matthew, two, woke up, dressed and went to church. The kids are getting older and more independent. It’s easier to just “pick up and go”, so we do. We were blessed with two healthy, [...]
A JOURNEY TO REMEMBER In the July of 1997, my mother had asked our priest, Fr. André Issa, who was traveling to Lebanon to bring my husband Jerry and me home a baby! This is the beginning of our journey with the Lord in bringing us together with our sons. When Jerry and I were [...]
Word Magazine November, 1970 Page 15 A MEAL OF UNITY Christian Reflections on Thanksgiving Dinner by The Rev. Father Mark Beshara St. Michael’s Church, Von Nuys, California Families like to meet together for a meal. When the family is large and particularly close to one another, it usually develops this family meal into a kind [...]
Word Magazine December 1992 Page 8-10 A MESSAGE TO PARISH COUNCILS by Metropolitan PHILIP Esteemed Members of our Parish Councils: On behalf of the entire Archdiocese, I would like first and foremost, to welcome you to the Antiochian Village and especially to the Heritage and Learning Center. While here, I am sure that you will [...]
A New Season By Father Antony Gabriel I feel that God is traveling so much in me, with the dark and the sea. With him we go along together. It is getting dark. With him we get dark. All orphans... But I feel God. And it even seems that he sets aside some good color [...]
Word Magazine September 1969 Page 18 A PRIORITY OF VALUES By Rev. Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he [...]
Again Magazine, Volume 17, Number 1 March, 1994 - Page 8-11 When I heard that some British Anglicans had formed a group called Pilgrimage to Orthodoxy, and that I had been invited to participate in an upcoming conference, I was excited. As a recent convert, I was eager to go to England and give them [...]
Again Magazine Volume 21 No. 1 Page 4 - 8 AFTER THE CHRISM DRIES Some Pitfalls Awaiting Converts to the Orthodox Church by Father David Tillman Our merciful Lord says, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go [...]
Word Magazine September 1990 Page 22 AGAINST BIGOTRY By The Very Rev. Father James C. Meena “It is you, Oh Lord, who laid earth’s foundations in the beginning. The heavens are the work of your hands; all will vanish though you remain, all wear out like a garment; you will roll them up like a [...]