This article first appeared in the Adbook for the 1996 Midwest Region Parish Life Conference hosted by St. Elias Orthodox Church in Sylvania, OH Unity of the Faith of the Church Throughout the Whole World by Saint Irenaeus The Church, though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received [...]
Word Magazine June 1960 Page 8/18 WHY I BECAME AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN By Athanasius Yoo, M.D., B.D. My long pilgrimage to the Mother Church has been completed. As I think back over the long road of this pilgrimage, I become filled with deep emotion. For by the grace of God, I, a stray sheep, have [...]
The Word Magazine, September 1994, Page 13-15 WHY DO ICONS WEEP? By Archpriest Paul O’Callaghan IT CERTAINLY SEEMS THAT there has been an explosion recently in the frequency of icons “weeping” in North America. Several years ago, an icon began weeping in an Albanian Orthodox Church in Chicago, and the phenomenon received national attention. Pilgrims [...]
Word Magazine March 1998 Page 16 WORKING FOR THE GOSPEL: BEYOND MEDIOCRITY By Father Joseph Allen One of my favorite modern day characters is Winston Churchill. He was already considered “old” when he was called out of retirement to become a heroic leader during World War II. Of the many great orations which he delivered [...]
Word Magazine March 1994 Page 6 - 8 WOMEN IN CREATION AND NEW CREATION As all of you know, it is not possible to watch ten minutes of news on T.V. these days (or for that matter anything on TV.), without being reminded of how the role and status of women is being questioned throughout [...]
Word Magazine April 1968 Page 6 “WOMANLY COURAGE” Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church. Parma, Ohio “Now on the first day of the week at early dawn, they came to the sepulchre bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they [...]
Word Magazine May 1993 Page 7-9 WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD AN EPISCOPALIAN BECOME ORTHODOX? by Father Patrick McCauley When I first became an Episcopalian years ago, a friend facetiously told me that I had joined the best church that money could buy.” In fact, another wag observed that the Episcopal Church is the Cadillac [...]
Word Magazine June 1963 Page 8,9/11 WHY I STAYED IN THE MINISTRY Don’t enter the ministry if you can possibly do anything else and be happy.” Young men often hear this kind of advice from working preachers. I myself have tried to quit a hundred times! During the sleepless gray hours after many a Sunday [...]
Word Magazine December 1978 Page 5-8/28 THE INCARNATION AND VOCATIONAL HUMANITY By George Benjamin Gapen Life exists by right only within that Perfect Society of perfect and mutual love which is the Holy Consubstantial Trinity. Through His Will and act, all that is, became. Man is the culmination of material creation being endowed not only [...]
Word Magazine December 1957 Page 280 THE STORY OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL By Rev. Fr. Theodore E. Ziton Montreal, Quebec, Canada A delightful, instructional tale for young and old At one time, all the angels in Heaven were good. God had made them so because He loved them. He had given them beautiful houses in [...]