Word Magazine November 2000 Page 10-12 ORTHODOXY IN THE HOLY LAND AND JORDAN: PROSPECTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY By Dr. Issa J. Boullata We are Orthodox Christians and we love our Orthodox faith. Over the years, there have been many forces that have tried to weaken our faith, to make us abandon it, to tear [...]
SUMMER THOUGHTS by Fr. Antony Gabriel Were I not possessed with a purpose beyond my own.. I had better be a ploughman than a philosopher, for the ploughman lives as long as the philosopher, eats more, sleeps better and rejoices in the wife of his bosom with less misgiving. This is because the philosopher is [...]
Word Magazine October 1962 Page 10 OUR PAST AND FUTURE TENDENCY By Father Elias G. Dacy Speaking of the present and contrasting it with the immediate and not too distant past — of religious knowledge and the innumerable changes of aspects, thoughts, activities, etc. in the past ten years or so. There have been no [...]
Word Magazine April 1976 Page 16 PASTORAL CONSIDERATIONS ON CURRENT PROBLEMS SEX, NATURAL LAW AND ORTHODOXY By Fr. George Morelli Problem: While on Christmas vacation from college, my daughter told me that one of her professors said that sex outside marriage was not against the “natural law.” In fact, there was no “natural law” — [...]
Word Magazine February 1964 Page 6-7 POVERTY By Fr. Theodore Ziton Wichita, Kansas When a certain Persian King was sad, his advisors told him that he would find happiness if he were to wear the shirt of a perfectly happy man. The King then sent out his secret police to find such a happy man [...]
Word Magazine December 1962 Page 7 PRIDE Rev. Robert E. Lucas In Arabic folklore, there is a tale that as the tares and the wheat grow, they show which God has blessed. The ears that have been blessed bow their heads and acknowledge every grain, and the more fruitful they are, the lower their heads [...]
Word Magazine June 1981 Page 24 PROCRASTINATION By Father James C. Meena A T.V. commercial for a well known piece of photographic equipment starts off by showing a young married man with a child in the background saying, “Someday I’m going to get a . . . movie camera for my child.” The next scene [...]
Again Magazine, September, 1994, Page 11-12. Reconciling Mary & Martha by Jan Bear When Saint Luke recorded Christ’s words to hard-working Martha that “Mary has chosen that good part” (see Luke 10:38-42), he captured in that brief scene one of the fundamental tensions of Christian life. Martha and Mary: work and prayer, community and solitude, [...]
Word Magazine April 1964 Page 13 OBEDIENCE By Rev. Robert E. Lucas Obedience is the keystone of civilization, for it is the mother of order and without order nothing can exist. In tracing the history of civilization from the earliest times, we see shining like threads of gold in the fabric of character development the [...]
Word Magazine November 1970 Page 7 REFLECTIONS ON AN ERA PAST THE RT. REV. ELLIS KHOURI Protosynkellos of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of New York and all North America Sermonette delivered at the 25th Antiochian Archdiocesan Convention in Chicago, August 22, by the Rt. Rev. Ellis Khouri, Protosynkellos. My brothers and sisters in Christ: [...]