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 [...]
Word Magazine January 1968 Page 8 THE NEW YEAR HOPE OR DESPAIR? REV. FR. THEODORE E. ZITON Montreal, Quebec, Canada The world we live in has been defined in many ways and terms such as the Age or the 0-Rama of this, that and other thing. Most of the definitions more or less describe the [...]
Again Magazine Volume 18, Number 3 – September, 1995 Page 19 “To You, Our Queen”: A Vision of the Virgin Mary Translated and adapted by Katherine Hyde The following story took place in Russia in the late 1930s. It is recounted at greater length in the book, Father Arseny, published in Moscow (in Russian) in [...]
Word Magazine October 1965 Page 11-12/26 THE ORTHODOX IN ECUMENICAL RELATIONS By: Father George Timko “I do not pray for these only, but also for all those who are to believe in me through their word, that they all may be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they [...]
This article appeared in the Adbook for the 1996 Midwest Region Parish Life Conference hosted by St. Elias Orthodox Church in Sylvania, OH Unity of the Church: Clergy & Laity by Fr. Alexander Schmemann THE MEANING OF LAITY The words lay, laity, layman come from the Greek word laos, which means people. The layman is [...]
Word Magazine July 1972 Page 11-12 THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF MAN The following is the text of the sermonette given by Fr. Stephen Fraser at the 26th Archdiocese Convention in 1971 in Boston, Mass. Fr. Stephen has just completed his theological studies at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and is the pastor of St. [...]
Word Magazine January/February 1972 Page 7-10 YOUTH, VALUES AND INQUIRY By FR. J. ALLEN The first requirement, almost a pre-requisite, for teaching teens or youth at any age, is a knowledge of their situation. One must know how a young person thinks and reacts in his world. What is his situation? We must remember that [...]
Word Magazine December 1979 Page 7-8 THE DREAM OF PEACE by athanasios bitar “~ Hope for peace is the dream of every person. be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). Today, more than ever before this yearning is Jesus praised those who make peace, not those mounting in the hearts and minds of [...]
Word Magazine January 1967 Page 13 THE PRIDE OF LIFE By Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “Do not love the world or the things in the world . . . For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes and the PRIDE OF LIFE [...]