Word Magazine December 1968 Page 14-15 THE MATURE CHRISTIAN By The Late Father Michael Baroudy, Vicksburg, Mississippi A person who wishes to attain and achieve success in life must consider that life is a struggle, a race, a competition every day. And if one hopes to attain any appreciable height financially, socially or religiously, he [...]
Word Magazine September 1963 Page 8-9 THE TOWER OF BABEL “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name. GENESIS XI: 4 (The following script was delivered by Rev. Fr. Theodore E. Ziton, Pastor of the St. [...]
Word Magazine April 1990 Page 20/21 THE MISSION OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA By Jacqueline Walker Midwest Oratorical Winner All of us and every human endeavor must have a sense of purpose or mission in order to be successful in life. I work at a children’s museum, and my work consists of taking [...]
Word Magazine September 1966 Page 10 THE TRUNK OF THE TREE Commencement Address Delivered by Dr. Zekin Shakhashiri Friday, June 3, 1966 — Saint Vladimir Seminary Between the priest and the physician is an old friendship and a long association. Both are professional in the sense that they apply general principles to specific situations, in [...]
Word Magazine June 1968 Page 16-17 “THE MODERN PREDICAMENT” By John L. Boojamra All of us, as twentieth-century men, live in an era when science is our continual companion, champion, and benefactor. This is our age — we are the so-called modern men about whom the sociologists and scientists speak and write. We cannot deny [...]
Word Magazine December 1991 Page 14-15 THE WEATHER AND ORTHODOX TRADITION IN LEBANESE FOLKLORE By Dolly Choueiry Crow In agricultural Societies the weather plays an important role in the every day life of the people. Such communities have devised and developed traditional methods of forecasting the weather. Some of these folk methods have survived to [...]
This article first appeared in the Adbook for the 1996 Midwest Region Parish Life Conference hosted by St. Elias Orthodox Church in Sylvania, OH The Monastic Influence as part of the Body of Christ by Hieromonk Denis Lajoie Monasticism is not inimical to the Body of Christ, contrary to what many would have us believe. [...]
Word Magazine January 1959 Page 5 THE WHYS OF CHRISTIANITY By Father Elias G. Dacy Why are we called Christians? What makes Christianity tic? Why is it truly the greatest of all religions? First of all, Christianity came to being by the adaptation of the name and the following of the teachings of Jesus “Christ” [...]
Word Magazine February 1968 Page 10 “THE MOST DANGEROUS WORD OF ALL” By Rev. Vladimir Berzonsky ‘But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘if you can! ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM WHO BELIEVES.’” (ST. MARK 9:23) Different from all the other of God’s [...]
Again Magazine, September, 1994, Page 8-10 TO MEN (About Women in the Church) “It is a grave error to imagine the clergy are the only members with gifts and callings from God. Gifts and callings are not meted out according to official position, or according to gender.” BY FATHER JON E. BRAUN Because men have [...]