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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
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Oussani2018-0059
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Young Isabel Oussani on Pony
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Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
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A photograph of Isabel Oussani riding a pony in front of a house in Pocantico Hills, NY.
Date
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1910s
Language
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English
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Image
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Image/pdf
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Oussani Fuleihan family
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1910s
Animals
New York
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THE DAILY GAZETTE
Friday, June 4, 1993
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Dorian Records piece used in 'Sliver' bathtub scene
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• The current Paramount Pic'tures film "Sliver" contains a controversial bathtub scene featuring
Sharon Stone.
Adding to the atmosphere is a
rarely heard piece
of piano music
sni p ped from a
Dorian Reco.rdings
CD.
The evocatively
romantic work
heard during
Stone's sensual dip
is the Idyl in F Stone
minor, Op . 7 by
Czech composer Josef Suk, who lived
from 1874-1935.
The three-minute, 35-second piece
is featured on the Dorian Recordings
CD "Czech Miniature Masterpieces"
(DOR-90121) performed by the
Czech-Canadian pianist Antonin Kubalek.
"I was horrified," said the Charlton
resident.
So horrified that she and songwriter Wes Caswell wrote a song
Paramount contacted Dorian to about it which aired nationally on
obtain permission to use the music.
Rush Limbaugh's radio show. But
Whether or not Suk's short piece Hunt and Caswell were not entirely
will become to Stone what Ravel's pleased by the attention: Limbaugh
"Bolero" was to Bo Derek (in "10") played the song, titled "I'm Just a
remains to be seeit, but Dorian Rec- Little Kid," soon after he told his lisordings is so far happy about it any- teners about his parents whipping
way.
him with a branch.
"Needless to say, we're delighted
"We felt be had been careless, proby this unexpected film use," said viding an excuse for irresponsible beCraig Dory, president of the Troy- havior," Hunt said.
based company.
The song, sung by Jessica Layton, a
"Dorian's version is the only one 12-year-old from Burnt Hills, is
we're aware of .and Kubalek's per- aimed at raising awareness and stimformance really captures the deeply ulating discussion about corporeal
Slavic romanticism of the work."
punishment and child abuse, Hunt
Since the soundtrack album does said.
not include Suk's "Idyl," Dorian is .
"Our purpose for writing the song
stickering its CD to identify it as the was not to condemn people for their
tub music from "Sliver."
actions," Hunt said. "We are asking
-B.R. the audience to listen to the voice of
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the child, and then ask themselves, 'Is
Serious lyrics
hitting this child what I really want to
• While driving in her car one do? Is there another course of action
day, songwriter Ciel Hunt looked in for me?'"
her rear-view mirror and saw a man
Hunt and Caswell are now pushing
beating a child in the car behind for more air time for "I'm Just a
her.
Little Kid" - not just on radio but in
,___ _ _ _ _ _ _ ______ class rooms and support groups nationally. They would also like the
song to be adopted as the official
theme song for national child-abuse
prevention organizations.
-W.L.
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Director George G. Moross with orchestra accompaniment
Tickets at the Troy Savings Bank Music Han B01 Oflice
or from members. Adults $11.00 and seniors/students $9.00.
Call 346-8081 or 381-9444 for information
This concert season has been supported by the General Electric
Company, Inc., Stewarts Shops, AT & T, and RJR Nabisco.
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gone from wherever pop
music is headed. They've
been called "the best bar
band in the world." Totally
unpredictable and never
believeing in a set list,
they're likely to slip from
Sun Ra jazz into Teresa
Brewer pop via Johnny
Cash rockabilly. Whatever
they do, they will rock you.
(Rhino)
Special Guests : David
Malachowski and Matt
Smith.
Underwritten by
Russian delegation
DAVE HALL
• Capital Repertory artistic director Bruce Bouchard is one of six The Yallah Dance Ensemble will perform a benefit concert for eba
American theater artists in the Center for Dance and Movement on Saturday.
United States delegation to the second annual U.S .Krasnoyarsk and several small com- of dance performers," said Susan
Russian Theatre
munities inside Siberia where, Bou- Polhemus, artistic director of Yallab
Conference.
chard said, they will travel by river Dance Ensemble. "It's their 20th anThe conference
boat.
niversary. I greatly admire them and •
is organized by the
Discussions are expected to re- the work they do. This is my way of
Milwaukee Repervolve around how the former state helping out."
tory Theater and
theaters are adapting to existence in
Prior to the 8:30 p.m. show, ensemthe Omsk State
a free economy and how they can ble guest Zayda will lead a workshop
Dra ma Theatre
integrate the large body of formerly in Pharaonic-style dance, a technique
through the Interforbidden Western dramatic litera- fashioned after the dance poses renational Theater
ture into their repertories.
corded in hieroglyphics.
Ins titute of New Bouchard-E.K.
Zayda will also teach the Raks el ,.
York and will be
Assay, or cane dance, which was done ,,
held in locations throughout Russia Fresh Paint
in ancient Egyptian to extend
from July 5-21.
• Paint Chip Records has issued dancers' limbs.
Members of the delegation will
The workshop will take place from
meet with their Russian counterparts its first three releases, and they look
10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a one-hour
from the Moscow Art Theatre, the as good as they sound.
The fledgling Albany-based com- break for lunch at the eba Center, 351
Omsk State Drama Theatre and the
Pushkin Drama Theatre, along with pany, making a strong bid to replace Hudson Ave., Albany. Registration
the managing director of the Tokyo Blue Lunch Records as the area's begins at 9:30 a.m. The fee is $25 in
premier local music label, released advance or $30 at the door.
Institute of Dramatic Arts.
Concert tickets, available at the
The 17-day conference will include two vinyl 45-rpm singles by area
visits to theaters in Moscow, Omsk, rockers Bloom and The Dugans last door, are $8.
month.
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also re-released Dirty Face's "Big Regional records
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• Local music will get more
radio play on WE X-FM.
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From the green vinyl and four-co· Starting Tuesday the Manchester,
lor glossy jacket used on Bloom's sin- Vt.-based station will air "In Your
lots are here. gle "Crush" backed with "Rail" to the Back Yard," a weekly program of
liner- note insert and appealing local recordings.
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gone from wherever pop
music is headed. They've
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band in the world." Totally
unpredictable and never
believeing in a set list,
they're likely to slip from
Sun Ra jazz into Teresa
Brewer pop via Johnny
Cash rockabilly. Whatever
they do, they will rock you.
(Rhin )
Special Guests: D avid
Malachowski and Matt
Smith.
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Russian Theatre
Conference.
The conference
is organized by the
Milwaukee Repertory Theater and
the Omsk State
Drama Theatre
through the International Theater
Institute of New Bouchard,
York and will be
held in locations throughout Russia
from July 5-21.
Members of the delegation will
meet with their Russian counterparts
from the Moscow Art Theatre, the
Omsk State Drama Theatre and the
Pushkin Drama Theatre, along with
the managing director of the Tokyo
Institute of Dramatic Arts.
The 17-day conference will include
visits to theaters in Moscow, Omsk,
Krasnoyarsk and several small communities inside Siberia where, Bouchard said, they will travel by river
boat.
Discussions are expected to revolve around how the former state
theaters are adapting to existence in
a free economy and how they can
integrate the large body of formerly
forbidden Western dramatic literature into their repertories.
-E.K.
Fresh Paint
• Paint Chip Records has issued
its first three releases, and they look
as good as they sound.
The fledgling Albany-based company, making a strong bid to replace
Blue Lunch Records as the area's
premier local music label, released
two vinyl 45-rpm singles by area
rockers Bloom and The Dugans last
month.
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vinyl sin~le in July, Campana said.
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pact disc featuring Paint Chip acts is
set to be released on Sept. 8, said
MOVIE RENTALS - VCR
Campana.
REPAIRS - FILM
-M.L.
TRANSFER
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Dance for dollars
Burnt Hills
Cobleskill
• Yallah Dance Ensemble hopes
to raise $1,000 for eba Center for
772 Saratoga Rd. Shoppers Mart
Dance and Movement in a benefit
Niskayuna
concert there on Saturday.
1721 Union St.
The Albany-based troupe will present "Caravans and Desert Sands," a
Rotterdam
program of Near Eastern dance that
1822 Altamont Avenue
includes belly dancing, bejeweled
costumes and a uthentic instruments.
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All concerts are free
to the public
Bleachers will be provided
Lawn chairs are welcome
Special thanks to Schenectady's
Dept. of Parks and Recreation and
the Daily Gazette.
For further infonnation, call
(518) 463-5222
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Polhemus, artistic director of Yallah
Dance Ensemble. "It's their 20th anniversary. I greatly admire them and
the work they do. This is my way of
helping out."
Prior to the 8:30 p.m. show, ensemble guest Zayda will lead a workshop
in Pharaonic-style dance, a technique
fashioned after the dance poses recorded in hieroglyphics.
Zayda will also teach the Raks el
Assay, or cane dance, which was done
in ancient Egyptian to extend
dancers' limbs.
The workshop will take place from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a one-hour
break for lunch at the eba Center, 351
Hudson Ave., Albany. Registration
begins at 9:30 a.m. The fee is $25 in
advance or $30 at the door.
Concert tickets, available at the
door, are $8.
-W.L.
Regional records
• Local music will get more
radio play on WEQX-FM.
· Starting Tuesday the Manchester,
Vt.-based station will air "In Your
Back Yard," a weekly program of
local recordings.
The show will spotlight music from
acts in the Capital Region, southern
Vermont and parts of western Massachusetts, said WEQX disc jockey
Gary Shoenwetter, the show's host.
Station officials decided to create
the show in response to a slew of
impressive recordings recently sent
in. by local bands, Shoenwetter said.
The station was sandwiching some
local music during its "New Music
Show," but not enough to satisfy the
WEQX on-air staff, said Shoen wetter.
The half-hour show will start at
midnight, Shoenwetter said. The program will eventually feature interviews and in-studio performances by
local musicians, he said.
Musicians submitting material for
the show should send compact discs,
vinyl singles, records or cassette
tapes (with biographical information
and a phone number) to In Your
Back Yard, WEQX, Box 1027, Manchester, Vt. 05254.
-M.L.
Contributors: Bill Rice, Eleanor
Koblenz, Wendy Liberatore, Michael Lisi.
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Joseph Family Papers
Subject
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Belly dance
Lebanese Americans
Marines
Photographs
World War II
Creator
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
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1931-2015
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Inventoried by Amanda Forbes and Celine Shay, 2022 May. Processed by Allison Hall and Rachel Beth Acker, 2023 April-August. Collection Guide created by Allison Hall, 2023 September.
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English
Arabic
French
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KC 0062
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<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve R. Joseph, also referred to in the collection as Genny, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on February 6th, 1963. Genevieve R. Joseph has three siblings, including an older sister Beatrice Ann Joseph (1947-2008) and two older brothers, one of which is Michael James Joseph (born October 16th, 1954). She earned an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts Honors and Communications and Media Arts in 1983, a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from SUNY Albany in 1985, and a Master’s degree in Sociology with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity, also from SUNY Albany, in 1988. She then <span>worked as a social science researcher for the State of New York. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph took up Middle Eastern belly dancing as a hobby and was a member of the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yallah Dance Ensemble based in Albany, New York in the early 1990s. In 1996 she moved to North Carolina and became involved with the Triangle Lebanese Association; she coordinated the first Lebanese Festival at the North Carolina state fairgrounds in 1999. In North Carolina, she <span>worked as a nonprofit program manager for global education and cultural exchange, and fundraiser for visual arts and conservation of nature. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph married Philip White in 200</span><span style="font-weight:400;">6.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve Norman Joseph (1924-2011), Genevieve R. Joseph’s mother, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to Sam Norman (1883-1972) and Rose Nader Norman (1889-1955). Rose Nader Norman ran a neighborhood grocery store and the couple managed their home as a boarding house. Genevieve Norman Joseph, also known as Gen, married Charles Michael Joseph (1918-2002) of Wendell, North Carolina on March 2, 1946. Genevieve Norman Joseph was a member of the Lebanese American Daughters, an organization closely related to the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Lebanon-American Club of Poughkeepsie. She also </span><span style="font-weight:400;">worked as a Nursing Aide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Charles “Charlie” Michael Joseph, Genevieve R. Joseph’s father, was born in Connecticut to parents Namy </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yusef Becharra</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> and Julia Asmer in 1918 and was raised in Wendell, North Carolina from the age of eight months. He had nine siblings: Lucy, Eddie (Naim), Mamie (Thmam), Charlie (Khalil), George (A'Eid, Geryus), Evelyn (Jamila), Helen (Thatla), Abe (Ibrahim), Joe (Yusef), and Dolores (Julia).</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> His father, Namy Joseph, ran a store on Main Street and another one beside the family home. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Charlie Joseph served in the US Marines during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945 as a corporal. He was stationed in Recife, Brazil and Guam during the war. In Poughkeepsie, Charlie Joseph ran a luncheonette and was active in the Lebanon-American Club, serving as its president from 1962 to 1966. Upon their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph’s graduation from SUNY Albany in 1985, Genevieve and Charlie moved from Poughkeepsie to Wendell, North Carolina, Charlie’s hometown.</span></p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Joseph Family papers contain materials related to three generations of the Joseph family as well as families related to them. The collection focuses on the lives of Genevieve Norman Joseph, her husband Charles Joseph, and their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph. The collection also includes materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s grandparents and their extended family, both in Lebanon and in the United States. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Much of the collection consists of photographs from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century. The photographs primarily include family photographs and portraits, as well as photographs from Charles Joseph’s deployment during World War II in Brazil and Guam. Also included in the collection are materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s dance career, newspaper clippings, articles from the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, materials related to Charles Joseph’s time in the Marines, event pamphlets and flyers, prayer cards, obituaries, academic materials, correspondence, and some physical objects.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
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Yallah Dance Ensemble Newspaper Article
Subject
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Lebanese Americans
Belly dance
Description
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Newspaper article in the Daily Gazette newspaper of Schenectady, New York, about the Yallah Dance Company's performance in a benefit concert for the eba Center for Dance and Movement in Albany. The article also features a photograph of the ensemble.
Creator
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The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
Source
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
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1993 Jun 4
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Text/pdf
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English
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Text
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kc0062_1_8_014
1990s
Dance
Events
New York
Newspapers
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 1: Documents
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains correspondence, legal documents, and newspaper clippings related to the Oussani and Fuleihan families.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1893-1996
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Oussani2018-1046
Title
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Yak Oussani Egyptian King Cigarettes Ad
Subject
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Drawing
Description
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A cigarette ad for Yak Oussani's Egyptian King Cigarettes.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1901
Creator
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Yak Oussani
Language
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English
Type
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Image
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Image/pdf
Source
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Advertisements
Business
Egypt
New York
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880s-2000
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Oussani2018-0683
Title
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World's Fair Parade, 1939
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
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A photograph of a parade at the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
Date
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1939
Language
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English
Type
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Image
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Image/pdf
Source
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1930s
Events
New York
Parades
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880s-2000
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Identifier
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Oussani2018-0006
Title
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Wedding Portrait of Joseph Oussani and Margaret Shea, 1896
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
An account of the resource
Wedding portrait of Joseph Oussani and Margaret Shea, who were married on May 23rd 1896, in New York City. The photograph is labeled, "DeYoungs' Broadway COR, 12th Street, N.Y."
Date
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1896 May 23
Language
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English
Type
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Image
Format
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Image/pdf
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Rights
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The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
1890s
New York
portrait
Weddings
-
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Title
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Joseph Family Papers
Subject
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Belly dance
Lebanese Americans
Marines
Photographs
World War II
Creator
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Source
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
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1931-2015
Contributor
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Inventoried by Amanda Forbes and Celine Shay, 2022 May. Processed by Allison Hall and Rachel Beth Acker, 2023 April-August. Collection Guide created by Allison Hall, 2023 September.
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Language
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English
Arabic
French
Identifier
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KC 0062
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Description
An account of the resource
<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve R. Joseph, also referred to in the collection as Genny, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on February 6th, 1963. Genevieve R. Joseph has three siblings, including an older sister Beatrice Ann Joseph (1947-2008) and two older brothers, one of which is Michael James Joseph (born October 16th, 1954). She earned an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts Honors and Communications and Media Arts in 1983, a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from SUNY Albany in 1985, and a Master’s degree in Sociology with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity, also from SUNY Albany, in 1988. She then <span>worked as a social science researcher for the State of New York. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph took up Middle Eastern belly dancing as a hobby and was a member of the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yallah Dance Ensemble based in Albany, New York in the early 1990s. In 1996 she moved to North Carolina and became involved with the Triangle Lebanese Association; she coordinated the first Lebanese Festival at the North Carolina state fairgrounds in 1999. In North Carolina, she <span>worked as a nonprofit program manager for global education and cultural exchange, and fundraiser for visual arts and conservation of nature. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph married Philip White in 200</span><span style="font-weight:400;">6.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve Norman Joseph (1924-2011), Genevieve R. Joseph’s mother, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to Sam Norman (1883-1972) and Rose Nader Norman (1889-1955). Rose Nader Norman ran a neighborhood grocery store and the couple managed their home as a boarding house. Genevieve Norman Joseph, also known as Gen, married Charles Michael Joseph (1918-2002) of Wendell, North Carolina on March 2, 1946. Genevieve Norman Joseph was a member of the Lebanese American Daughters, an organization closely related to the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Lebanon-American Club of Poughkeepsie. She also </span><span style="font-weight:400;">worked as a Nursing Aide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Charles “Charlie” Michael Joseph, Genevieve R. Joseph’s father, was born in Connecticut to parents Namy </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yusef Becharra</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> and Julia Asmer in 1918 and was raised in Wendell, North Carolina from the age of eight months. He had nine siblings: Lucy, Eddie (Naim), Mamie (Thmam), Charlie (Khalil), George (A'Eid, Geryus), Evelyn (Jamila), Helen (Thatla), Abe (Ibrahim), Joe (Yusef), and Dolores (Julia).</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> His father, Namy Joseph, ran a store on Main Street and another one beside the family home. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Charlie Joseph served in the US Marines during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945 as a corporal. He was stationed in Recife, Brazil and Guam during the war. In Poughkeepsie, Charlie Joseph ran a luncheonette and was active in the Lebanon-American Club, serving as its president from 1962 to 1966. Upon their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph’s graduation from SUNY Albany in 1985, Genevieve and Charlie moved from Poughkeepsie to Wendell, North Carolina, Charlie’s hometown.</span></p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Joseph Family papers contain materials related to three generations of the Joseph family as well as families related to them. The collection focuses on the lives of Genevieve Norman Joseph, her husband Charles Joseph, and their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph. The collection also includes materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s grandparents and their extended family, both in Lebanon and in the United States. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Much of the collection consists of photographs from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century. The photographs primarily include family photographs and portraits, as well as photographs from Charles Joseph’s deployment during World War II in Brazil and Guam. Also included in the collection are materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s dance career, newspaper clippings, articles from the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, materials related to Charles Joseph’s time in the Marines, event pamphlets and flyers, prayer cards, obituaries, academic materials, correspondence, and some physical objects.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
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Title
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Wedding Crowd
Subject
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Lebanese Americans
Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of a group of people outside near a road. The people crowd around a bride, groom, bridesmaids, and groomsmen. The photograph is from the wedding of Beatrice Joseph and Frank Duda.
Source
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
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1968 May 19
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Image/pdf
Language
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English
Type
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Image
Identifier
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kc0062_2_17_040
1960s
Events
New York
Weddings
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Title
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880s-2000
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Identifier
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Oussani2018-0520
Title
A name given to the resource
Wedding Altar in the Oussani Home, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
An account of the resource
Flowers in an arch over a wedding altar inside the Joseph Oussani home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Date
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1925
Type
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Image
Format
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Image/pdf
Source
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Rights
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The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
1920s
New York
Weddings
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/449d8e03a2bc3e56cfd2790493d9ed71.pdf
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Title
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880s-2000
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Oussani2018-0525
Title
A name given to the resource
Wedding Altar in the Oussani Home, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
An account of the resource
Flowers in an arch over a wedding altar inside Joseph Oussani's home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. This photo is a duplicate.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1925
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
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Image/pdf
Source
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Rights
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The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
1920s
New York
Weddings
-
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Title
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Joseph Family Papers
Subject
The topic of the resource
Belly dance
Lebanese Americans
Marines
Photographs
World War II
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Genevieve Rose Joseph
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
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1931-2015
Contributor
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Inventoried by Amanda Forbes and Celine Shay, 2022 May. Processed by Allison Hall and Rachel Beth Acker, 2023 April-August. Collection Guide created by Allison Hall, 2023 September.
Rights
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The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Language
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English
Arabic
French
Identifier
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KC 0062
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
Digital material in this collection is provided here for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law.
Physical material in this collection is also available to researchers. For questions or to access a collection, please contact us at kcldsarchive@ncsu.edu. Please give at least 48 hours for responses to any inquiries regarding the materials.
Description
An account of the resource
<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve R. Joseph, also referred to in the collection as Genny, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on February 6th, 1963. Genevieve R. Joseph has three siblings, including an older sister Beatrice Ann Joseph (1947-2008) and two older brothers, one of which is Michael James Joseph (born October 16th, 1954). She earned an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts Honors and Communications and Media Arts in 1983, a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from SUNY Albany in 1985, and a Master’s degree in Sociology with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity, also from SUNY Albany, in 1988. She then <span>worked as a social science researcher for the State of New York. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph took up Middle Eastern belly dancing as a hobby and was a member of the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yallah Dance Ensemble based in Albany, New York in the early 1990s. In 1996 she moved to North Carolina and became involved with the Triangle Lebanese Association; she coordinated the first Lebanese Festival at the North Carolina state fairgrounds in 1999. In North Carolina, she <span>worked as a nonprofit program manager for global education and cultural exchange, and fundraiser for visual arts and conservation of nature. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph married Philip White in 200</span><span style="font-weight:400;">6.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve Norman Joseph (1924-2011), Genevieve R. Joseph’s mother, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to Sam Norman (1883-1972) and Rose Nader Norman (1889-1955). Rose Nader Norman ran a neighborhood grocery store and the couple managed their home as a boarding house. Genevieve Norman Joseph, also known as Gen, married Charles Michael Joseph (1918-2002) of Wendell, North Carolina on March 2, 1946. Genevieve Norman Joseph was a member of the Lebanese American Daughters, an organization closely related to the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Lebanon-American Club of Poughkeepsie. She also </span><span style="font-weight:400;">worked as a Nursing Aide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Charles “Charlie” Michael Joseph, Genevieve R. Joseph’s father, was born in Connecticut to parents Namy </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yusef Becharra</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> and Julia Asmer in 1918 and was raised in Wendell, North Carolina from the age of eight months. He had nine siblings: Lucy, Eddie (Naim), Mamie (Thmam), Charlie (Khalil), George (A'Eid, Geryus), Evelyn (Jamila), Helen (Thatla), Abe (Ibrahim), Joe (Yusef), and Dolores (Julia).</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> His father, Namy Joseph, ran a store on Main Street and another one beside the family home. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Charlie Joseph served in the US Marines during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945 as a corporal. He was stationed in Recife, Brazil and Guam during the war. In Poughkeepsie, Charlie Joseph ran a luncheonette and was active in the Lebanon-American Club, serving as its president from 1962 to 1966. Upon their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph’s graduation from SUNY Albany in 1985, Genevieve and Charlie moved from Poughkeepsie to Wendell, North Carolina, Charlie’s hometown.</span></p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Joseph Family papers contain materials related to three generations of the Joseph family as well as families related to them. The collection focuses on the lives of Genevieve Norman Joseph, her husband Charles Joseph, and their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph. The collection also includes materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s grandparents and their extended family, both in Lebanon and in the United States. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Much of the collection consists of photographs from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century. The photographs primarily include family photographs and portraits, as well as photographs from Charles Joseph’s deployment during World War II in Brazil and Guam. Also included in the collection are materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s dance career, newspaper clippings, articles from the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, materials related to Charles Joseph’s time in the Marines, event pamphlets and flyers, prayer cards, obituaries, academic materials, correspondence, and some physical objects.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
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Title
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Vince Kelly with Snowblower
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese Americans
Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of the Josephs' next door neighbor, Vince Kelly, using a snowblower outside their house during a winter storm in Poughkeepsie.
Source
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
circa 1963 Jan
Rights
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Format
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Image/pdf
Language
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English
Type
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Image
Identifier
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kc0062_2_17_018
1960s
New York
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/eb680fdc9699da3d6e586c24f11f7e5b.pdf
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Text
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Title
A name given to the resource
Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 1: Documents
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains correspondence, legal documents, and newspaper clippings related to the Oussani and Fuleihan families.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1893-1996
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Oussani2018-1059
Title
A name given to the resource
Vault Receipt, 1908 June 25
Subject
The topic of the resource
Cemeteries
Description
An account of the resource
A receipt for the erection of a vault, costing $4325, built by J. McKenna, Granite and Marble Works, dated 25 June 1908, and addressed to Joseph Oussani.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1908
Creator
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J. McKenna, Granite and Marble Works
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Format
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Text/pdf
Source
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
1900s
Cemeteries
Finance
New York
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/30e32916bddac3835d6e63d7119c28f5.pdf
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Title
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Joseph Family Papers
Subject
The topic of the resource
Belly dance
Lebanese Americans
Marines
Photographs
World War II
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Genevieve Rose Joseph
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1931-2015
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Inventoried by Amanda Forbes and Celine Shay, 2022 May. Processed by Allison Hall and Rachel Beth Acker, 2023 April-August. Collection Guide created by Allison Hall, 2023 September.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Language
A language of the resource
English
Arabic
French
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
KC 0062
Access Rights
Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.
Digital material in this collection is provided here for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law.
Physical material in this collection is also available to researchers. For questions or to access a collection, please contact us at kcldsarchive@ncsu.edu. Please give at least 48 hours for responses to any inquiries regarding the materials.
Description
An account of the resource
<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve R. Joseph, also referred to in the collection as Genny, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on February 6th, 1963. Genevieve R. Joseph has three siblings, including an older sister Beatrice Ann Joseph (1947-2008) and two older brothers, one of which is Michael James Joseph (born October 16th, 1954). She earned an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts Honors and Communications and Media Arts in 1983, a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from SUNY Albany in 1985, and a Master’s degree in Sociology with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity, also from SUNY Albany, in 1988. She then <span>worked as a social science researcher for the State of New York. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph took up Middle Eastern belly dancing as a hobby and was a member of the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yallah Dance Ensemble based in Albany, New York in the early 1990s. In 1996 she moved to North Carolina and became involved with the Triangle Lebanese Association; she coordinated the first Lebanese Festival at the North Carolina state fairgrounds in 1999. In North Carolina, she <span>worked as a nonprofit program manager for global education and cultural exchange, and fundraiser for visual arts and conservation of nature. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph married Philip White in 200</span><span style="font-weight:400;">6.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve Norman Joseph (1924-2011), Genevieve R. Joseph’s mother, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to Sam Norman (1883-1972) and Rose Nader Norman (1889-1955). Rose Nader Norman ran a neighborhood grocery store and the couple managed their home as a boarding house. Genevieve Norman Joseph, also known as Gen, married Charles Michael Joseph (1918-2002) of Wendell, North Carolina on March 2, 1946. Genevieve Norman Joseph was a member of the Lebanese American Daughters, an organization closely related to the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Lebanon-American Club of Poughkeepsie. She also </span><span style="font-weight:400;">worked as a Nursing Aide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Charles “Charlie” Michael Joseph, Genevieve R. Joseph’s father, was born in Connecticut to parents Namy </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yusef Becharra</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> and Julia Asmer in 1918 and was raised in Wendell, North Carolina from the age of eight months. He had nine siblings: Lucy, Eddie (Naim), Mamie (Thmam), Charlie (Khalil), George (A'Eid, Geryus), Evelyn (Jamila), Helen (Thatla), Abe (Ibrahim), Joe (Yusef), and Dolores (Julia).</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> His father, Namy Joseph, ran a store on Main Street and another one beside the family home. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Charlie Joseph served in the US Marines during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945 as a corporal. He was stationed in Recife, Brazil and Guam during the war. In Poughkeepsie, Charlie Joseph ran a luncheonette and was active in the Lebanon-American Club, serving as its president from 1962 to 1966. Upon their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph’s graduation from SUNY Albany in 1985, Genevieve and Charlie moved from Poughkeepsie to Wendell, North Carolina, Charlie’s hometown.</span></p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Joseph Family papers contain materials related to three generations of the Joseph family as well as families related to them. The collection focuses on the lives of Genevieve Norman Joseph, her husband Charles Joseph, and their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph. The collection also includes materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s grandparents and their extended family, both in Lebanon and in the United States. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Much of the collection consists of photographs from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century. The photographs primarily include family photographs and portraits, as well as photographs from Charles Joseph’s deployment during World War II in Brazil and Guam. Also included in the collection are materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s dance career, newspaper clippings, articles from the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, materials related to Charles Joseph’s time in the Marines, event pamphlets and flyers, prayer cards, obituaries, academic materials, correspondence, and some physical objects.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
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U.S. Military Academy Postcard
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Lebanese Americans
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Color postcard with illustration of a dress parade at the U.S. Military Academy.
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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undated
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English
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Image
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kc0062_2_14_071
Military
New York
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
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1880s-2000
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Oussani2018-0028
Title
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Two Women in Swimming Clothes
Subject
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Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
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Two women standing in swimming clothes with a large home behind them.
Date
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circa 1905
Type
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Image
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Image/pdf
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Oussani Fuleihan family
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1900s
New York
Recreation
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
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An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
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1880s-2000
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Oussani2018-0032
Title
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Two Women a Man and Child in Horse Drawn Carriages
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Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
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Two women, a man, and a child in two horse drawn carriages in front of Joseph Oussani's home in Pocantico Hills, New York. The man may be Joseph.
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circa 1905
Type
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Image
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Image/pdf
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Oussani Fuleihan family
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1900s
Animals
New York
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Title
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Joseph Family Papers
Subject
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Belly dance
Lebanese Americans
Marines
Photographs
World War II
Creator
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Source
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
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1931-2015
Contributor
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Inventoried by Amanda Forbes and Celine Shay, 2022 May. Processed by Allison Hall and Rachel Beth Acker, 2023 April-August. Collection Guide created by Allison Hall, 2023 September.
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Language
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English
Arabic
French
Identifier
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KC 0062
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Description
An account of the resource
<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve R. Joseph, also referred to in the collection as Genny, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on February 6th, 1963. Genevieve R. Joseph has three siblings, including an older sister Beatrice Ann Joseph (1947-2008) and two older brothers, one of which is Michael James Joseph (born October 16th, 1954). She earned an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts Honors and Communications and Media Arts in 1983, a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from SUNY Albany in 1985, and a Master’s degree in Sociology with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity, also from SUNY Albany, in 1988. She then <span>worked as a social science researcher for the State of New York. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph took up Middle Eastern belly dancing as a hobby and was a member of the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yallah Dance Ensemble based in Albany, New York in the early 1990s. In 1996 she moved to North Carolina and became involved with the Triangle Lebanese Association; she coordinated the first Lebanese Festival at the North Carolina state fairgrounds in 1999. In North Carolina, she <span>worked as a nonprofit program manager for global education and cultural exchange, and fundraiser for visual arts and conservation of nature. </span>Genevieve R. Joseph married Philip White in 200</span><span style="font-weight:400;">6.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Genevieve Norman Joseph (1924-2011), Genevieve R. Joseph’s mother, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to Sam Norman (1883-1972) and Rose Nader Norman (1889-1955). Rose Nader Norman ran a neighborhood grocery store and the couple managed their home as a boarding house. Genevieve Norman Joseph, also known as Gen, married Charles Michael Joseph (1918-2002) of Wendell, North Carolina on March 2, 1946. Genevieve Norman Joseph was a member of the Lebanese American Daughters, an organization closely related to the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Lebanon-American Club of Poughkeepsie. She also </span><span style="font-weight:400;">worked as a Nursing Aide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Charles “Charlie” Michael Joseph, Genevieve R. Joseph’s father, was born in Connecticut to parents Namy </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Yusef Becharra</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> and Julia Asmer in 1918 and was raised in Wendell, North Carolina from the age of eight months. He had nine siblings: Lucy, Eddie (Naim), Mamie (Thmam), Charlie (Khalil), George (A'Eid, Geryus), Evelyn (Jamila), Helen (Thatla), Abe (Ibrahim), Joe (Yusef), and Dolores (Julia).</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> His father, Namy Joseph, ran a store on Main Street and another one beside the family home. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Charlie Joseph served in the US Marines during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1945 as a corporal. He was stationed in Recife, Brazil and Guam during the war. In Poughkeepsie, Charlie Joseph ran a luncheonette and was active in the Lebanon-American Club, serving as its president from 1962 to 1966. Upon their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph’s graduation from SUNY Albany in 1985, Genevieve and Charlie moved from Poughkeepsie to Wendell, North Carolina, Charlie’s hometown.</span></p>
<h4>Scope/Content Note</h4>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Joseph Family papers contain materials related to three generations of the Joseph family as well as families related to them. The collection focuses on the lives of Genevieve Norman Joseph, her husband Charles Joseph, and their daughter Genevieve R. Joseph. The collection also includes materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s grandparents and their extended family, both in Lebanon and in the United States. </span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Much of the collection consists of photographs from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century. The photographs primarily include family photographs and portraits, as well as photographs from Charles Joseph’s deployment during World War II in Brazil and Guam. Also included in the collection are materials related to Genevieve R. Joseph’s dance career, newspaper clippings, articles from the </span><span style="font-weight:400;">American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, materials related to Charles Joseph’s time in the Marines, event pamphlets and flyers, prayer cards, obituaries, academic materials, correspondence, and some physical objects.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
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Title
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Two Men Hold Beatrice Ann
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Lebanese Americans
Photographs
Description
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Photograph of two men, Charlie Joseph and Genevieve Norman's uncle, holding young Beatrice Ann.
Source
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Genevieve Rose Joseph
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
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1948 Apr
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Image/pdf
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English
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Image
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kc0062_2_15_040
1940s
Families
New York
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880s-2000
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Oussani2018-0865
Title
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Twirlers and Band Members Outside, 1942
Subject
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Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
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A photograph of a group of "W.I. Twirlers," taken in Ossining, New York.
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1942
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Image
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Image/pdf
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Oussani Fuleihan family
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1940s
Music
New York
Parades
-
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
Description
An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880s-2000
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Oussani2018-0685
Title
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Trylon and Perisphere World's Fair, 1940
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Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
Description
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A photograph of people walking in front of the trylon and perisphere at the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
Date
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1939
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English
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Image
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Image/pdf
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1930s
Events
New York
-
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Oussani and Fuleihan Family Papers Series 2: Photographs
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An account of the resource
This series contains family portraits and photographs. Included are photos from family events, trips, weddings, and funerals.
Materials in this series are arranged chronologically.
Date
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1880s-2000
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Oussani2018-0684
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Trylon and Perisphere World's Fair, 1939
Subject
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Lebanese--United States
Photographs
Families
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A photograph of people walking in front of the trylon and perisphere at the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
Date
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1939
Language
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English
Type
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Image
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Image/pdf
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Oussani Fuleihan family
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1930s
Events
New York
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Title
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Collection of Lawrence Public Library Materials
Subject
The topic of the resource
Emigration and immigration
Correspondence
Education
Legal Documents
Description
An account of the resource
<h4>Biographical/Historical Note</h4>
<p>In the first decades of the 20th century, Lawrence, Massachusetts was home to one of the largest populations of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants in the United States. These individuals were drawn to the industrial town to find work in its textile mills. The community in Lawrence created several charitable societies and was involved in the establishment of the St. Joseph's Melkite Church and St. Anthony's Maronite church. Additionally, the <span>Zahley Association published the Arabic-language newspaper <a href="https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/62" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>al-Wafa</em></a> in Lawrence.<br /></span></p>
<p>The birth, school, and immigration records included in this collection were provided by children and their families in order to verify the ages of young immigrants. This was necessary in order for teenagers and young adults to prove they were old enough to work. Though nationwide laws regulating and restricting work for children 16 and under were not ratified in the United States until 1938, Massachusetts was the first state to create child labor laws in 1836. By the early 1900s, when many families settled in the booming mill town of Lawrence, various state legislation governed the ability of minors to work. Not only were children under 16 prohibited from working in factories, the state also issued fines to people who employed minors who were illiterate in English. This led to the growth of night schools and schools dedicated specifically to teaching immigrant children to speak, read, and write English. Thus, work permits were typically issued by schools. Once age and literacy were verified, teenagers would be issued a work permit. Whie it is unknown how many youth and factory owners circumvented these laws, these records indicate that many attempted to conform.</p>
<h4>Scope/Contents Note</h4>
<p>This collection contains materials housed at the <a href="https://queencityma.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lawrence Public Library Special Collections</a> that were originally kept by the Oliver School. They were digitized and provided to the KCLDS Archive by archivist Louise Sandberg in fall 2017 as part of a research project into the substantial Syrian/Lebanese population that lived in Lawrence, Massachussetts. To view the project visit <a href="https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/explore/projects/lawrence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Legacies of Labor"</a> on the Khayrallah Center's website. </p>
<p>The Collection of Lawrence Public Library Materials contains documents relating to the civic and religious activities of Syrio-Lebanese immigrants in Lawrence. It also includes birth, school, and immigration records for children and young adults who immigrated from Greater Syria (particularly the areas encompassing modern-day Lebanon and Syria) and lived in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the early 20th century.</p>
<p>This collection displays the variety of records that Syrian and Lebanese immigrants used to prove their age. Because many did not have birth certificates, a large number of the proof of birth records consist of correspondences with clergy in Greater Syria, who consulted baptismal records to confirm age. Other records are from the process of immigration, and include documents from both Marseilles, France, and Ellis Island, New York. Some records were requested from officials or individuals in America, and consist both of missives from immigration officials and from private individuals.</p>
<p>The collection also includes records issued by schools, which verify age through years of schooling. Included among some of these school records are short documents handwritten by young immigrants to prove their literacy in English. In addition to records proving age, some individuals have additional documents including work permits and physician's certificates of health.</p>
Source
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<a href="https://queencityma.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lawrence Public Library Special Collections</a>
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Rights
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The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
These materials are digital copies of an original resource held by another institution. The KCLDS Archive often works with other institutions to make digital materials available online to the public. KCLDS is not able to grant permission to use or reproduce these materials. The KCLDS Archive strongly encourages users to contact the holding institution for permission to use or reproduce materials from their holdings.
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<a href="http://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/62">Al-Wafa</a>
Creator
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�VOL. 37, NO.10
The Most Reverend
Metropolitan PHILIP, D.H.L., D.D.
Primate
The Right Reverend
Bishop Antoun, Auxiliary
The Right Reverend
Bi hop Basil, Auxiliary
Founded in Arabic as
Al Kalimat in 1905
by Bishop Raphael Hawaweeny
Founded in English as
The Word in 1957
by Metropolitan Antony Bashir
Editor-in-Chief
Archpriest George S. Corey, D.Min.
Worldwide Antiochian Orthodox Holy Synod
IN THIS ISSUE:
Eclitorial .............. •••••••· ··· · ·· · ·· · ·· · ·· · ·· · · •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••··· ·· ·· 3
Renaissance in Antioch ...... •••••••· · · · ·· · ·· · ·· · · · · · · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ···· ··· 5
by Father George M. Rados
It's That Time of Year.. ........................................................
14
by Dr. Michael Massouh
Department
of Christian Education ......... •••••••••••••••••••........ 17
Orthodox History in the Holy Land ...................................
22
by Dr. George M. Madanat
Did You Know? .................. ••••••••· · · ·· ·· · · · ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·· ·· · · · · · · ···· ·· 24
Editorial Board
Joanne Abdalah, M.L.S.
The V. Rev. Joseph J. Allen, Th.D.
Anthony Bashir, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Elias Bitar, M.Div.
John L. Boojamra, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Antony Gabriel, Th.M.
The V. Rev. Peter Gillquist
Elaine G. Hanna, M.Div.
Linda Hopkins
The V. Rev. James C. Meena
The Rev. John W. Morris, Ph.D.
Ronald Nicola
ajib E. Saliba, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Paul Schneirla, M.Div.
The Rt. Rev. Stephen Upson, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
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•••••••••••••· ·· ·· · · · ·· · ·· · ·· · · ·· · · · ·· ·· · 28
by Father James C. Meena
Fellowship Footnotes ..........................................................
29
Department
31
of Gifts, Trusts & Legacies ..............................
RE/VIEW ..............................................................................
31
The Order of St. Ignatius .....................................................
32
by Father Joseph Antypas
Antiochian Women of North America ................................
33
Daily Devotions ...................................................................
34
by Father George Alberts
Introducing ...........................................................................
35
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Detail of the Shepherds from an Icon of the
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Father Luke Dingman of California. See INTRODUCING ... on p. 35 of this issue of THE
WORD.
THE WORD/DECEMBER 199-'
Earlier this year, His Eminence Metro l"t PHILIP
· d
· · ·
f th H 1 S
d f
•
. '
poi an
receive an m itation to a :pecial m ·eting
o. e ~ Y yno rom His Beatitude, Patriarch IG ATIUS IV, of Antioch and II the I:a.t. Thi~ . ._
cial meeting would be held from October 4 to 12 1993 at tl B 1
dM
p
School in Lebanon. What made this meetino "unique" V.:asth~~ ·ta :man t I" ~naJt f)/nd Th ·olo~i al
of the Patriarchate as have been past meetings of the Holy ,:SyinowdasTnl
~- imit~ to t l "'llvll
l"'tropolttan
l
1·
. 1is m etmg wou c ) op ·n to
tie Me:~po itans, the Diocesan Bishops, the Heads of the Monasteries Con ents and Institution,,
Theolo"ians and Lay delegates from every Archdiocese and Diocese within the Patriarchate J Ii
Beatitude was callmg all the family home!
· ·
The purpose of th~s extraordinary gathering was to hear from the children of ntioch both in
the mother lands and m the "diaspora" the state of their existence. We were to hear about our
strengths and wea~nesses, and to hopefully build on the foundations et by our forefathers and
mo~hers. And mo~t important, we were to learn from each other so that the Gospel of our Lord Je~u~
~hnst would con~mue to be proclaimed in our various lands, and the legacy of ntioch perpet~iated
m the Church Universal.
Our . orth American delegation was headed by His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP,and included A:chpne~t Geoi~ge S. Corey, Vicar of the Archdiocese and Editor of THE WORD; rchprie t
Gabriel Ash1e, Chai.rman of the Department of Convention and Conference Planning; rchpriest
George Rados, Chairman of the Department of Charities and the Children's Relief Fund; and Ir.
Robert H. Laham, Treasurer of the Archdiocese and Member of the Board of Trustees. ccompanying
the delegation to study for one year at the Balamand Seminary were Thomas Zain, John , alem and
Shane Roberts. They will do post-graduate studies in Arabic, Byzantine Music and Antiochian Hi~ton.
The feature article in this issue, written by Father George Rados, gives a detailed account of tl{i
trip to Syria and Lebanon. Father Gabriel Ashie will give his impressions in the Janua1 issue, od
willing. Allow me, in a few words, to give mine.
Aside from the Holy Synod meetings, let me say that Syria is just as beautiful as I remember it, if
not more. The state of the nation seems to be in good hands. President Hafiz 1 Assad and hi"
Parliament have seen to it that the citizens are relatively well cared for. The economy is good, the
city and countryside are well kept, construction is everywhere, and the treets ar clean. Lebanon i'->
still recovering from 16+ years of a devastating Civil War. However morale is exceptionally good, the
countiy is being rebuilt, the streets are safe and food and commodities are plentiful, but expensi\C.~.I
took a solo walk through a section of Beirut that is considered to be inhabited by fundamentali.~b.
and never once feared for my existence. In fact, they were exceptionally friendly. The President of
Lebanon Elias Hrawi and his Parliament have made tremendous sacrifices for th good of the country, man; of them of~ personal nature. We were very much impressed with the caliber of people \\'e
met who are active in government circles. The country is definitely recovering, except in th . outh,
where Israeli troops and their "friends" occupy the lower portion of the countiy. The nited 'tate~ of
America would do well to lift the ban on Americans traveling to Lebanon, so that American bu'-line'->.'..people can take part in the recovery process. This can be our best "gift" to Lebanon.
It was a blessing to participate in the Holy Synod meetings. According to I Iis Beatitude, th ,
"special" meetings will be held every three years or so. In the interim the _Patriar.·h ,1_nd
Metropolitans will have their meetings twice each year as required. This Worldwide nt1och1~~1.1
Orthodox Holy Synod Meeting, the first of its kind since the early 1960s, ~as well atte?d~d. "a~. p11.itually refreshing, allowed our delegations to have al) exchange of ideas with other~ w1thi~ our .!~11111ly", and permitted the North American contingent to be~,ter,,unde~stand,,~ow 0~1 . hurch function
abroad. There is definitely a cultural difference between us and them m regards to hur h m,ltters. When "we" meet in session, we make a motion, get a second, discuss the matter and then \ ote.
None of this was present at the Synod meetings. W~ heard reports, di ct~,,e~ the:11so~11e~,
hat. an~
then referred them to the Patriarch and the Metropolitans. The next morning ~t the hegmnmg o,f tl.1<.'.
meetings for the day, His Beatitude, in his opening remarks, would refer possibly to . 0~1,eof ~l~cd1,• tl1e d ay b e1ore.
c
Otherwise we did not hear about the reports anymore.
cussion
f h l Buth thesc· -procedure
, , I th,
did not at all distract from the importance of the meetings, the beauty o t e c 1urc serncc~. anc c
TBEWORD/DECEMBER 1993
�I was asked to serve in that can0
first canonization of an Antiochi~n saint dlt~g t~~d~~\. ~~at yt::· forever grateful a1:d blessed .. The
. • ,,.espers
and Liturgy with
other
omzation
v,
.
•
h c e1gy, s of St Josep h of Damascus and his Companions.
· f
h
Orthodox Church has new saints in t _e person
WORD. The groundbreaking c~remomes. or t e
• h·story will be written in a future issue of THE. 11 .
Tl1.eir
i
d
.
·cy partia y given by our North American Archdiocese,
. f
Antiochian Village at Balaman Umve~si. ' . .
..
eech at the Ceremony, quoting rom
:ea: an historic event. As Saidna PHILIP s~id in _h~ ~s;~;;nio:d on Mount Tabor, "it is w)od th~t we
the occasion of the Transfiguratio
.
North American Archdiocese m all
th e Apos tles On
b h
d representing our
ld
d
,,,
Indeed
we
were
glad
to
e
t
ere
an
h
.
1·
and.
well
in all parts of the wor ' an
are here •
• h.
Churc is a ive
k G d f
h
the events and proceedings. Th~ Antioc ian
thened by our contributions. We than
o or t e
the Orthodox Church Universal is fu~her/~~ngBeatitude
Patriarch IGNATIUS IV, and our own
ministry of love and the leadership o
is
RS"' '
·tan
PHILIP.
May
God
grant
them
MANY
YEA
•••
George S. Corey
Metropo li
Editor
The Worldwide Antiochian Orthodox Holy Synod Meeting
October 4-12, 1993, Balamand Abbey, Lebanon
4
RENAISSANCE IN ANTIOCH:
A TRANSFIGURATIONAL EXPERIE CE
by Archpriest George M. Rados
The Church
on earth is often
referred to as the "Militant Church"
because of its struggle to overcome the
world in which it survives. If the
church ever diverts from this course, it
will forfeit its inheritance and be consigned to oblivion. We, the children of
Antiochian Christianity, can find, however, a certain confidence in the fact
that our contemporary Church, in spite
of its many stumbling blocks, remains
tralia - ascended daily the azur
ing hou ing th,, : mi nary \\ ~1 finan ed
Mediterranean seacoast to the higher through the orth
meri 'an rchmountainous elevations of boldfaced
dioce e.
rocks, cushioned with dusted shrubs
mong this atmo. ph r • gath ·red
patiently awaiting a few raindrops. Th
our holy hierar h , pri . b, and Ia m "'n
narrow road to Balamand terraced the amid a flurr of pap "'r , ., _.acing ·1rmountainside with a few intermittent
rangements, and microphon.. . tr _.r
eroding boulders signaling the edge of an opening pra r b . _."Ching th ,
the precipice. Every sharp turn was guidance of the Hol 'pirit, -,e\ ·ral
accompanied with a tooting horn, a
eminarians chanted \·ariou-, B},amine
nauseous stomach, and an arrhythmic troparions and ers s. Hi-, B --'~llitud..
heart to say the then proceed d to instruct ch • a.., ·mleast. Then atop
bly a to his agenda, follcm ed h an
what seemed to be extemporaneou
inspirational monothe highest hill of all logu of what it means to belong to
the surrounding ele- the ancient ee of ntioch. He re ·ired
vations, stands a spi- an anthology of great and holy p -'Opie
ral combination of of blessed memory who had di..,tinancient and modern guished themsel es in their s f\ ice to
architecture blendthe Church. Among them \\'a th·
ing the Old World name of our fir. t merican ntiochi~rn
with the new as a Episcopal leader, RAPH EL (Ha\, aUpon arrival at the Damascus International Airport, we met His testimony of timeless
weeny) (1860-1915), who in only 11
Beatitude, Patriarch Zakka of the Syrian Orthodox Church of parenting. The new
years (1904-1915) as bic.;hop of the
Antioch and one of his Archimandrites.
Balamand University Antiochians, brought self-a\\ arene .....
steadfast on its course of renewal and seems to rise out of the womb of the cohesion, and a certain nostalgic ..,piriascension. As our Lord drew all to old Abbey to present itself as a new- tuality. He was the fir:t bishop con . .,_
Himself by His being lifted up in cruci- born babe - fresh, beautiful, and anx- crated in 01th America among all the
fixion, so too ~hould His Body, the ious. Among the collage of edifices on juri dictions and b cau. e of hi'> leadChurch, rise in catharsis to freedom
a lower level stands the seminary to ership, his holine.. and hi. fonitude.
and deification.
which access is achieved through a the 01th American delegation (h ·adHow do we know that this is still the large lobby where a dark bronze bust ed by Metropolitan PHILIP, \"icar
course of our endeavors
in the
Church? We can only judge this from
our own Antiochian perspective, and
the most recent example was the
meeting in October
1993 of the
Worldwide Antiochian Orthodox Holy
Synod Meetings held at the Balamand
Abbey in Lebanon. This conclave was
called into session from October 4-12
by our Most Reverend
Beatitude
IGNATIUSIV Patriarch of Antioch and
All the East. I~ his wisdom and anxiety
to preserve the mission of the Church
in the contemporary world, he summoned this council, shared by clergy We were officially met by His• Grace, B.is h op EUAS (Kfoury) , Patriarchal icar in Damas
and laymen alike, to communicate
and His Eminence, Metropolitan ELIA(Saliba) of Harna.
ideas and to share in the administraGeneral Fr. George orey. r hpne t
of our former beloved Metropolitan
tion of the Church's goals.
Gabriel Ashie
r hprie l
.,orge
ANTONY
(Bashir)
of
thrice
blessed
Delegates
from throughout
the
Rados
and
our
rchdio
e..,.,
Trea..,urer.
memory stands, gazing into _time: It
World - the Middle East, Europe,
Mr. Robert Laham) submitted a tudy
North and South America, and Aus- was through his efforts that this bmld-
THE WORD/DECEMBER 1993 TI-IEWORD/DECEMBER 1993
�receiving the "Gold
of Bi. hop RAPHMedal" of the PaAEL' life for contriarchate. They are
ideration of canProfessor
Walid
onization.
Cohlmia
for his
Another name of
exceptional
musiprominence
was
cal compositions,
that of a martyr,
Mr. Assad Rizk for
Father Joseph Moubeing an outstandhana El Haddad,
ing Christian govwho was killed
ernment
official,
during the uprisand Mr. George
ings on July l0,
Girdak
for his
1860, along with
unique poetry.
several other faithThe conclave of
ful Christians. By
Synodal meetings
acclamation,
the
was closed by the
Holy Synod, during
celebration of the
their deliberations,
Patriarchal Liturgy
proclaimed
th_em
on Sunday, Octoworthy of saintber 10, at the St.
hood. At the conGeorge Cathedral
cl u ion
of the
A visit to the PatriarchalCathedralof St. Maryin Damascus.
in Tripoli . When
meetings on SatOctober 9 Great Vespers were O wn Archdiocese through our Sh ep- tl1e Patriarch ascended the throne for
ur d ay'
'
bb
h h f herd Metropolitan
the duration of Orthros (Matins),1 an
PHILIP. I t was
celebrated in the old A ey _c urc o
old hunchbacked lady clad entire
f y in
Balamand where amid billows of hoped' that the North American Report
would
serve
as
a
model
for
future
black
wrapped
her
wrinkled
ingers
incense and melodious ec~oes, Paaround
the
elevated
front
legs
of the
h
reports
because
of
its
thoroug
ness
1
l
• h IG ATIUS, vested with a sky
tnarc
throne
as
thought
it
were
1er
on
y
and
comprehensiveness.
Other
reports,
l
d
l
f
blue mondea, ascended the th1?ne to
begin the service by first readmg the especially those regarc ling tl1~ _monas- hope and "crumb" of extenc e i e.
tic communities, fol- Upon entering the sanctuary to vest,
lowed. Other topics
His Beatitude,
the Patriarch, reapof concern during
peared, escorted by all the celebra~ing
the meetings
re- cleroy and deacons, priests, and b1shgarded the relationops°alike in full glittering regalia. The
ship between
the
splendor
of the entire Church of
Patriarchal ConstiAntioch was there to behold as the
tution and the Can- Divine Liturgy unfolded into aspiring
ons of the Church,
supplications and processions - all
and relationships
leading
to our "oneness"
in the
between
ArchdioEucharist. It was an all-time high from
cese and respective
which one regretted its conclusion,
parishes,
and the
which, of course, only triggered our
role of the clergy
re-entry into the mundane world_ of
vis-a-vis hierarchy
everyday, coping with life's gravitaand laymen alike.
tional struggles. Now that we were
brought back down to earth, so to
• the North American delegation to the Middle East The Patriarch also
Accomthrpanytng
. arians who will study one year at the Balamand announced
that
speak, everyone was escort~d to the
were
ee sem.tn
.
h
b
• al School·• Thomas Zain of Grand• Rapids, S ane Ro
blessing of the new Metropohtanate of
Theo1ogtc
1 derts
t worldwide meetings
of Denver, and Joh n Salem of New Kensington. We trave e o of this nature will
Tripoli,
which replaced the former
Lebanonin the Patriarchalcar.
take place eve1y 2 or headquarters
of Metropolitan ILYAS
proclamation of canonization redesig- 3 years, the next ?ne to be called in 3 (Kurban), Archbishop of Tripoli, that
nating Fr. Haddad and his faithful fol- years at the Balamand.
was destroyed during the recent ~ars.
lowers as t. Joseph the Damascene
Before ending the meetings, His The atrium-centered, four storied highand his Companions. They would from Beatitude honored several individuals
rise building was beautifully constructthi day forward be commemorated on for their outstanding contributions to ed of precast concrete and marble ~nd
July 10, the date of the_irmai:ryrdom.
society in general. First among them
uniquely located on a site overlooking
Returning to the deliberations of the was the longevity of service to the the seacoast and away from the downHoly ynod, it should be mentioned
Church by 97-year old Metropolitan
town thoroughfare.
A banquet f_olthat each Archdiocese gave a resume PAUL (Khoury), Archbishop of Tyre lowed to commemorate the dedication
of their respective progress and aspira- and Sidon. He was gifted with a beauat the new Miramar Hotel on the seations with the most deta.iled and com- tiful icon of the Theotokos. Three out- coast.
prehen ive report coming from our standing laymen were also honored by
At 4 PM that same afternoon, hun-
6
asc_e_n_d---■~~-,~-~~~~-~-,~E-,-f~;~-;;~~-g~~~-~-;~~-=-1:-ll_!!!_l~~---------------
clreds of people once again
ed Mount Balamand to attend the ~
groundbreaking ceremonies of the
new
Antiochian
Village
of
Balamand to be erected just next to
the new University. The Village
would house the faculty and student body in a conglomeration of
red-roofed buildings, bridged to the academic facilities by an athletic
field for outdoor sports. The ceremonies took place around a pilaster
containing two plaques,
one in
English anc l t l1e other in Arabic,
upon which was inscribed:
Antiochian Village at Balamand
Gift qfthe
Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese
o/ North America
10 October
This whole
endeavor1993
was becom-
or:k:r of lhe dar. ir i l'\'cry r, < n
m,c.lc.lll'namt:. And tht:r amid the
de pair ,inc.I hopt: of thl:' citv tand
itc.., hid hepherd,
Ictn;p ,1i1an
ELI
< \uc.li). a I eacon oft
twig ..
and tenacity. Through hb I •ntv >Jenee, all focilitre-.of tlw dth.::o~uin
while in Bdrul \\ t:rt: his c hicf
cern.
That e\ ening, after ...,·nling in a1
th e Bri..,lol llolt:I, \Jetropoli1an
PHILIP and the dclt:gation \\' ·rl:'
hosled for c.linnl'r at tht: Iovelv
.
home of \lr. (;'· i\.lr.s. Ravm<>r1~I
Cham mas. The hammas family
also maintain ...a home 111 alifornia
and Raymond pre-.enth· is a member of the '\Jorth Amt:ritan Arthdiocese Board of Tru-.1ees.
On Tuesday. Ouober
12, th•
activities
c.la) opened
at lht
ing a reality through the visionary The three priests who were part of the North palace
of of
thethe
President
of Lebanon.
effol
·ts <)f OL11· own Met1·opol1·tan American delegation: Archpriests Georges. Corey,
I
HILIP
I tl
,
h. wt:1•I
•
l Vicar General, from Brooklyn; Gabriel Ashie, no ess. We were graciou ....
p
anc 1e cons1c erat1on anc Ch airman of the Dept. of Convention Planning, from corned by Prr'sic.1,,nt
EJ,
'- '- ·,-1•, I I r:t\\'J·.
·
generosity of the faithful of our Garden Grove; George M. Rados, Chairman of the who not only gave uc..,an hour of
Archdiocese in Orth America who Dept. of Charities,from Bethesda.
his precious timl', he .il-.o wanted
pledged one million dollars to its
us to tour his privatl' Ji\ ing quan •r-.
creation. After opening prayers and old country to spend a year studying as well as the entire newl} recon'itrunremarks by His Beatitude Patriarch
Arabic and Byzantine Music at the eel palace. His graciouc.; "ife, \Jona
IG ATI S and Dr. Ghassan Tueni,
Balamand Seminary. The future of Hrawi, became our tour guide and
President of the University, our own such a program was now in their
proudly led us through the facilitit.s
Shepherd, Metropolitan PHILIP, took hands and our farewell embraces with that rightly deserve the title "palace:·
the podium and spoke eloquently
them heeded their vigilance.
A visit to , t. George Ho-.p1lal wa:-about the significance of th occasion,
On the following morning, Monday, next on the agenda that d,t). long
comparing it to the Transfiguration of October 11, the delegation depa1ted to with administrators, doctor-., .me.Inur.sthe Lord - a high mountain overshadBeirut where agony and ecstasy
es, we toured the unfinic.;hednew din, owed by the setting sun, a revelation
become neighbors. Adjectives in any ic of the hospital being con ....
tructt:d
of things to come, and the words of language fall short of describing this just across the street. Its progn!...,s...,1gPeter to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us once proud city now in shambles.
naled its imminent opening. To this
to be here.,. Indeed, it was.
Resilience, however, is not only the cause also, the Archdiocese ol onh
At this point a
America ha....nude
model of the Vilsignificant
tontrilage was unveiled
bution
....
Lund1
was
and we were all
hosted
hy
i\ktroable to gain
a
p o Iita n
l: LI \
glimpse
of
its
(Audi) at the re
ea11hlysplendor. A
n0\\ ned on vent
reception followed
of our Ltdy. A. hthe groundbreakrafiah, and :--t·nl?d
1
ing ceremonies and
by the endearing
the time had come
si..,ter...,
of the mdl:'r.
to bid farewell to
Dinner that ev all our acquainning \\ ,1..., hos1ed hy
tances at the Bala\fr. R.t\mond Audi
mand, especially
of
B:rnk Audi.
our own
three
long with C\ er:tl
Young American
celebrated gut. I .
seminarians, Shane
\\e were joined I y
Roberts, John SaHi-. Beatilllde Palem, and Thomas
triarth I ATil ..
Zain. All three had
i\I et r op o Ii tan
PHILIP spent th-.
accompanied
the
of th,.
delegation to the
A short stop in North Lebanonwhere the scenery was magnificent.
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We were treated to lunch by the Minister of the Interior, H.E. Beshara Merhij (center).
next day - Wednesday - with his
relatives in Shreen. The conversation
there was nostalgic for the most part
and culminated in a prodigal feast of
old time favorites. Dinner that evening
took place at a popular French restaurant and was hosted by Mr. & Mrs.
Adib Farha, a young and charming
couple from Wichita, Kansas, who had
returned to Lebanon, Adib's birthplace,
to take up residence.
Thursday,
His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP visited several governmental dignitaries such as the Speaker
of the Parliament, Mr. abih Berri, and
his Deputy Elie Forzley. He lunched
with a cousin, Mr. Beshara Merhij.
Minister of the Interior, who previously
hosted the whole delegation at a luncheon in Dhour Shwier on our way
from Damascus to the Balamand. That
evening we were invited to the home
of the Minister of the Environment, Mr.
Samir Mokbel, to dine with his lovely
family and several other prominent
dignitaries that included President Elias
Part of our delegation
Balamand.
paid a visit to the nuns at Mar Yacoub Didi, only minutes
Hrawi and Patriarch IGNATIUS.
On Friday, October 15, Metropolitan
A visit to His Eminence, M_etropolitan 11..YAS(Kurban) of Tripoli to see his new Archdiocesan
headquarters.
Shown with_ Their Eminences and two of our clergy is Robert Laham,
Treasurer of the North Amencan Archdiocese, from Boston.
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PHILIP attended a scheduled board
meeting of the Balamand University at
the Archdiocese of Beirut. Just following the meeting, he and Metropolitan
ELIAS (Audi) accompanied
Patriarch
IGNATIUS and the Maronite Patriarch
to the presidential palace to lunch with
Mr. Hrawi. That afternoon
we all
departed to Damascus to prepare our
return to North America. Our evening
meal in Damascus was graciously hosted by another North American Board
of Trustee member, Mr. Nicola Antakli
of Detroit, Michigan, who was also in
Syria at the same time.
Our last day in Syria was Saturday,
October 16. The day was spent on last
sance . is not
. a place in time , b u t a
trans f1gurat1on
over and above t·1me so
.
as to continually be in the proce
f
.
If
ss o
ascension.
anything, our spirits were
renewed and our faith rekindled.
Father Rados is pastor qf Sts. Peter &
Paul C~urch in _Bethesda, MD, as well
as Chaz~~an qf the Archdiocese Dept.
of Chantzes and the Children's Relief
Fund.
His Beatitude, Patriarch IGNATIUSIV of Anti
the Worldwide Antiochian
Orthodo
H ~hand All the East, opened th t""trst
m
Theological School in Lebano
hi h x . o y Synod, at the Balamand Mona t
n, w c received much publicity in the Arabi media.
The delegations
i?-cl~ded all Metropolitans,
Diocesan Bishops, Heads of Monasteries,
Convents, and I~shtuttons, Theologians, and Lay representatives. In this photo, they heard a
report on the Diocese of Damascus by His Grace, Bishop ELIAS(Kfoury).
from
minute shopping and packing and bidding farewell to a variety of visitors.
That evening a courtesy call was made
on the American Ambassador to Syria,
Mr. Christopher Ross (an Orthodox
Christian) by Metropolitan PHILIP and
Fr. George Rados. The visit was
arranged
through
Mr. Theodore
Kattouf, a former parishioner of Fr.
Rados, who is attached to the Embassy
there.
On Sunday morning we departed to
return to North America and began to
reflect on what we had heard and
•seen. All things considered, it should
be said that we were all encouraged to
witness the continuous
process of
renewal
by the great Church of
Antioch. She refuses to be devoured in
the ashes of her suffering and continues to be bathed in "the light that is
never overcome by night." Her renaisTHE WORD/DECEMBER 1993
All minutes
were recorded by a staff of people, headed by His
~~ace, Bishop JOSEPH (Zehlaoui) of Damascus, and His Grace,
tShop GEORGE (AbouZachem), Dean of Balamand Seminary. Also
:.this table was observer Gabriel Habib, Executive Secretary of the
tddle East Council of Churches, headquartered in Cyprus.
TiiEWORD/DECEMBER 1993
�Metropolitans
BASIIJOS of Hauran, PHILIP of North America, and
CONSTANTINE of Baghdad
(first row); Bishops GIBRAN of
Australia, GEORGE of Rio de Janeiro and ELIAS of Damascus.
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The Icon of St. Joseph was carried in procession around the church.
The Convents in Maaloula and Saidnaya were represented
wonderful Mothers.
by these
The Archimandrite Ephraim _(Kyriakos) represented his monastery
from North Lebanon. He is the brother of Dr. Raymond Kyriakos
of St. Nicholas Cathedral of Brooklyn.
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The oldest member of the Holy Synod was honored for his many
years of distinguished
service to the Church:
His Eminence,
Metropolitan BOULOS (Khoury) of Tyre and Sidon. The 97 year old
prelate is the senior member of the Synod. His Archdiocese is in
South Lebanon and has been almost destroyed
by the fighting
there, as well as the presence
of Israeli forces and those who
oppose them.
Father George S. Corey was invited to carry
the Chalice in the Great Entrance.
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In-between meetings, the hierarchs socialized informally, as did
the delegates. The North Americans met with other delegations to
discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their respective churches
and institutions, namely the Aleppo, Chile and Damascus delegates
and the Orthodox Youth Movement.
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Sunday's Patriarchal Liturgy at t.
Cathedral in Tripoli Lebanon.
oti
pious woman at the foot of th thron
but wanted to touch the h m of hi
ment"!
1'he Patriarch
Eucharist.
and bishops
concelebrate
the Liturgy in the unity of the Faith and the
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The laity were well represented and were quite vocal.
His Eminence,
Metropolitan
SPYRIDON
(Khoury) of Zahle gave his report on the
state of affairs in his Archdiocese.
His Eminence, Metropolitan CONSTANTINE
(Papastephanou)
of Baghdad and Kuwait
often reminded the delegations
that the
Church must never forget its spiritual
dimensions, while living in a very materialistic world.
Metropolitan PHILIP of North America gave
a detailed report on the spiritual and financial state of our Archdiocese.
Our lay representative was Robert Laham of Bo ton (far J ft).
Part of our delegation at the banquet.
Women were well represented
in these
Synod meetings, as evidenced by this speaker.
The North American delegation
had an
Army escort constantly with it during our
stay in Lebanon.
After the dedication of the Tripoli headquarters, a banquet was held in nearby Enfey
with the Patriarch as the honored guest.
Metropolitan
ILY AS (Kurban) heads that
Archdiocese.
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IGNATIUS presided
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Canonization of St. Joseph the Damascene and his Companions, at
the Abbey Church.
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�IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR
by Dr. Michael Massouh
thoughts in children and adults? Or,
pleted the readings. He then asked tl;e
Wonder! You can see it in the. eyes. children in tum what they thoug 1t what about the story of Santa Claus?
Now here is a 19th Century account
In the eyes of children in particula~·, about the readings and what they were
of a traveling St. Nick with flying reinbut also in the eyes of adults. W~a.t is lookino fo1ward to the next day.
deer. Before the Reverend Clement
• . onde1·1
Why , with the cynicism
t 1llS W
•
d
As e~ch child responded .there was
Moore wrote A Visit from St. Nicholas
and crassness of today's world,
o an anticipation, a youthful innocence,
a poem to entertain his daughter, St.
people suspend reason, _and hope that a olow that became contagious. Each
the myths and the fantasies com~ ~rue. ha;dened adult sensed it, and began to ~icholas was the beloved Bishop of
Wonder? Yes, wonder. The ab1ltty to smile, to engage in the won?er, yes Myra in t}:lird Century Chri.stendom. ~e
was beloved because of his generosity,
wish, to hope to realize childhood
the wonder of the Christ Chil?, and
of helping people unobt~·usively. His
fantasies, to want to make the world a the wish to believe that it was mdeed
feast day in the church is ce_lebra~ed
better place, to want people to tre~t true that He was born into the world
6th and he chd bnng
each other as people - as God's chil0 n December
just as the Scriptures said.
oifts
to
people
at night without their
dren.
b
. a connecknowing it. So, t h ere is
Wonder. It's a powerful phenomtion between Clement Moore's St.
ena. I saw it in the eyes of a gro~n
Nick filling each stocking and the
woman in the choir of a church m
third Century bishop St. Nicholas
Upstate
ew York. w.hen :he
leaving gifts unobtrusively in empty
marched in with the chem to take
her seat in the front of the church,
shoes.
Now, the St. Nick of Clement
there was a look on her hagga.rd
Moore has become the Santa Claus
face that this was just another obligatory Christmas Eve service to get
of commercial downtown, uptown,
and mall Noith America. He and his
through, and get back h?me to_
complete the final preparations for
many variants, both human and ~niher children the next day. It looked
mal are the subject of TV specials
like she was unhappy and tired,
in December.
His reindeer
are
having put in a full day of un.sati~fyimbued with all sorts of peculiar
in o work at the office· Smgmg
powers.
Even the movies have
to~ight was just one more chore
taken Santa to their hearts or at
she had to endure.
.
least to their pocketbooks. Wheth~r
She was attractive, blond half and
Hollywood continues the benefistriking features,
but he{ face
cence or introduces
malevolence
looked drained. Her life did not
into the legend,
Santa reigns.
look particularly easy nor plentifL.11.
Occasionally, he may not be menThe blond hair had not been coiftioned explicitly, but Hollyw_ood
fured into some beauty shop sensareleases movies for the Holiday
tion. She obviously had not time for
Season whose themes are wonder,
the beauty shop nor time to waste
fantasy, hope, or a return to childon herself. She sat through the early
hood innocence. WHY?
part of the service, sang th~
Is
it because we want to believe in
The hardened
blond lady in the
appointed hymns, and then waited
the
wonder
of miracles? Do we want
choir began to engage in the mood of
while the priest made introductory
to hold onto innocence? The grown-up
the
sermon
and
the
children's
resppnsremarks before his sermon.
world we inhabit is not a pleasa~t
There was, however, something spe- es. Her eyes became alert, and opened
place. People are uncaring. Econ?~ 1 JC
cial in the air that night. The rustling of with, yes wonder. As each child a~reality hurts. It is hard. The political
children anticipating Christmas, coughs swerec.l the priest's question, or said
system, whether in this coun~ry or anysomething
innocent
that
touched
a
and paper shuffling noises from the
where in the world, is tarnished and
nerve
in
the
adults,
it
brought
a
chuckadults. Candles glowing from every
corrupt. It does not help people; on
pew. And the priest was joy~ul. It w~s le or a heaity laugh to the congregathe contrary it demands a great deal his first Christmas Eve service at this tion, and a smile to the blond lady's
putting up with politicians, taxes, serface.
You
could
see
her
recall
her
own
church, so very few parishioners had
vice
and perhaps death in the arn:e~
childhood,
when
she
possessed
the
an idea of what he would say or do.
He began with a reading from Scrip- innocence of these children, when she forces , and other not so pleasino
duties.
tu res from Isaiah, and then Luke. But, believed, when times were better.
So it's that time of year when the
What
is
there
about
the
story
of
the
then he asked all the children to come
world
falls in love, when it tries to re·
forward and sit with him as he com- Christ child that awakens wonderful
NICl1
oms
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THE WORD/DECEMBER 1993
1
call a better way, a better time, a better
future. Houses,
stores
churches
schools, offices are deco1:ated. Peopl~
go out of their way to act like people
should to each other, to capture the
innocence of childhood and forget the
realities of the harsh world, and to
wonder. Families get together, special
arrangements are made to gather the
clan from as far and near as necessary.
It is also a time to take stock of one's
life and measure it against enduring
standards, to recall friends and good
times, and to hope that the world will
enjoy peace among all men.
Wonder. Did you ever wonder about
wonder? Why is it so captivating? I remember a lecture that an emeritus professor of mathematics gave. Dr. Elbeit
Clarke was reputed to be one of the
first mathematicians to understand the
theories and implications
of Albert
Einstein's work. He was a legend on
the small liberal arts campus, and as
juniors some of us decided to invite
him to speak to us at a student sponsored dinner. The dinner was a way to
repay the faculty who had been so
kind to us over the year, being available for endless questions about ourselves and the cosmos, inviting us to
their homes or apartments for tea or
for dinner, and just being supportive.
Each junior was to invite his or her
favorite professor and pay for themselves and their guest's dinner. At this
high affair it was felt that it should end
with "berry and a talk from one of the
faculty. What better choice than Dr.
Clarke.
Dr. Clarke was tall and lanky with fashionably long white hair. He stooped,
perhaps more from a lifetime of leaning over to hear students than from old
age. His eyes darted from one person
to another. No one, not even the organizers, knew what his topic was going
to be. We had asked him to make
appropriate remarks for such an occasion. He began by thanking us for the
dinner and for the conversations, and
then in more of a conversational tone
than in a formal lecture style he began
to speak of wonder.
Wonder, he said, was the thing that
kept him young. As much as he had
read and studied, and as much as he
had thouoht
about the world, the
<>
heavens, the theories of the universe,
and about people, he was struck by
the wonder of it all. He asked us to
maintain always a place for wonder in
our lives. There were matters that were
THEWORD/DECEMBER 1993
still unknown in science and mathetime of year can om: I • kind to an< Lhmatics and about the physical world.
er per..,on "iLhouL e, eryone \\'ond ring
As far as human beings , ere con'' hat\ up~ At \\'hat other Lime of , ar
cerned, not much was known at all. are mi..,take..,and ..,Jip-upsrn erlcx)k~·d~
And of the things that were known, it
Yes, there is; .1 se1bl' of wond r as
was amazing to discover the relation- Dr. larke '>aid. that requires •. crL'i ·.
ships and interrelationships that existe need \\ onder like w • nl: ·d fcx d
ed. The order of the universe the rela- and drink. Tr i-, .t pan of being hum:1n.
tionship of elements, the ways of the But, \\'here do we look for Lhe "onseasons, the biological adaptations de r? In man-made ..,rories and fonall of these were wonders, suggesting tasie"? re the) '>all...,f) ing? I am r ·the unknown, some mystery of life.
minded of , r. Paul ,1ddn:ssing ch·
Wonderful, being full of , onder. In Athenian-, about their monum ·m lO an
our day to day world there is very little unkno\\'n god. The \thenians I ·lie, ·d
time to be full of wonder. Being full of there was an unkno\\'n god in addition
wonder is no way to get the daily job to all the other one-, that the\' knew. IL
and chores done, or to get ahead. , o, , as :t. Paul \\ ho pointed o(n Lo them
we suspend our sense of wonder it's that this unkno\\'n god ,, a..,Lhe creator
not realistic, it's not grown-up. We of the uni,·er"e and Lhe \l.1ker of all
bury our sense of the unknown, of the things, including the \Lhenians. And,
mystery of life, to get through the day, further that I Ii" , on, Lhe hrist. was
the week, the month, and the year. born of a irgin, crucified, and ms·
But, at the end of the year when we from the dead. hri-,t i..,the re,1.....
on for
cannot bear to deny the sense of won- the ,'eason.
der any longer, we have an acceptable
, peak about wonder? One of I It
rationale to be young at heart, to be names is \ onderful! Another !'kids again, to be innocent, to engage Counselor. Think about it. j.., it not .1
in fantasy, in mystery. At the beginning wonder that Goel ga, e u-, 111011.tl.., I ft
of winter, during the shortest days of only begotten Son to teach u.., ,1houL
the year when the nights are the caring for each other and to kncm that
longest, when it is cold and dark,
Goe.I is Our Father? Ha\ e you ever
when the tax year ends, when we are wondered where \\'OU Id ,, e he -ts
at our wits end, we have a reason to modern people if that event lud nrn
celebrate, to unwind,
to forget our cares and
woes, to suspend the
rules of the daily game.
And so we watch the
Nutcracker, the Christmas stories, the Santa
shows, and listen to
Frosty the Snowman,
Rudolph
the
RedNosed Reindeer, Ahmal
and the ight Visitors,
and all other stories
that promise a sense of
adventure, of fantasy,
of disbelief, and of caring.
Adults say all this js
for the kids. But, I
wonder. It is as much
for the grown-ups as it
is for the kids. At what
other time of year can
one
decorate
the
house, or the office, or
have parties, and exchange gifts without
having to explain why
one is spending money
foolishly? At what other L-------------------~
�do we look to man-made stories for
inspiration and for indulging our need
for wonder? What repels us from looking to the Father as t~e sour~e of all
wonder not just at Chnstmas time, but
•
-?
•
throughout the entire year.
.
Why expect a Santa to fulfill all desires, and to hope that reindeer fly?
Why engage in thoughts about _a talking snowman or a red nosed reindeer,
when the wonders of God are as near
as our hearts? When guardian angels
and the seraphim and cherubim watch
over all of us? Why do we deny the
reality of the Christ child, but accept
taken place in Bethlehem 2000 years
ago? Still in a state of confusion wonde ring about which Greek god to
appease and attempting to satisfy all of
them? We would possess the Ten
Commandments to guide us, but no
Sermon on the Mount, no parables.
How discouraging and hopeless. So,
Christ coming into the world has made
a positive and hopeful difference.
The stories of Creation, of Christ's
incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection are real wonders and mysteries.
They are the basis for fantasies of the
Christmas season. They are true. Why
and hope that a Santa visits each
house once a year?
It's that time of year when the world
falls in love. Shall we think of falling in
love with God and having Christmas
throughout the year? Would it not be a
better world if we put into practice our
suspension of the rules at Christmas
time each day of the year? Think about
it. It's that time of year to wonder.
Dr. Massouh is a member of St.
George Cathedral in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Orthodox Theological
Society of America.
GLORY TO THE
NEW BORN KING!
The world in which we live
Full of misery and strife;
The multitudes cry out
Seeking purpose for their lives.
The eyes of hungry children
As they cling to barren breasts,
Bear the burden of a world
Full of anger and unrest.
A Child is born among us,
Born to save this world of pain;
And we turn away indifferent
As we float from day to day.
Don't we see what He can offer?
Aren't we able to conceive
The joy and revelation
If we only will believe?
The angels smile upon us
For the joy is theirs to share.
A babe is born in Bethlehem.
God reveals how much he cares.
Let us lift our hearts together,
Songs of praises let us sing.
For the world now seeks their Savior.
Glory to the newborn King!
by Judy Tsoukalas
St. Paul Church
Brier, Washington
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Father Anthony
Boake
1943-1993
William Douglas Boake, ordained Fr. Anthony, \Vas born July
20, 1943, in Miami, Florida, to William Elwood and Clara Louise
Domenchello Boake.
Fr. Anthony was received into the Orthodox Church at the
St. Irene's Cathedral of Khania, in Khania, Crete, Greece on
August 8, 1966. He was received into the Antiochian Archdiocese
on July 6, 1982.
'Fr. Anthony graduated
from St. John the Theologian
Seminary in Kuopio, Finland, where he studied under Archbishop Paul of Finland. He also attended The Spiritual Academy
of Leningrad, USSR, 1979-1980. He was fluent in the Finnish and
Russian languages.
Fr. Anthony Boake was ordained to the Diaconate in the
Jurisdiction of the Church of Finland, Patriarchate of Constantinople at ew Valamo Monastery in Valamo, Finland, by His
Eminence Paul, Archbishop-Primate, on June 4, 1979. He was
ordained to the Holy Priesthood by Metropolitan PHILIP at St.
George Antiochian Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July
8, 1986.
Fr. Boake served at Valamo Monastery, Finland, from his
ordination to January 9, 1981, St. Nicholas of Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, from August 1, 1982 to July 1, 1986, and Sts. Constanti~e
and Helen in Dallas, Texas, from July 1, 1986 until his tragic
death on ovember 7, 1993.
Fr. Anthony was greatly loved by his parishioners. He was
instrumental in the building of the new church and hall. The
population of Sts. Constantine and Helen grew under Fr. Anthony's leadership. Fr. Anthony was a leader in the community.
He was a member of the Dallas Council of Churches and the
Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex Orthodox Clergy Association. Under
his leadership, Sts. Constantine and Helen Church became a
thriving and active church within the Dallas community.
Fr. Anthony is survived by his mother, Louise, and siSters
Barbara and Leila.
THE WORD/DECEMBER l993
EDITORIAL:
Planning for Learning
by John L. Boojamra, Ph.D.
One of the striking features of organizations within the
nate will be evaluated.
Orthodox Church is th~ir apparent, and I emphasize
We in !he Church are in the business of perception.
appa~ent, lack of planning. Their nature is essentially
react1o~ary rather than proactionary. The absurdity of How do things appear to us? How do we appear to ourevalu~t1~g a report is e~ident when the report includes sel~es? How do we appear to others? A serious organidescnpt1o~s of accomplishment (publications, meetings, zat1~nal,_eve~ moral, problem arises when our self per~tc.) _but includes no. ref~rences to previously stated ception rs radically out of keeping with the perception of
intentions, goals, or obJect1ves.This lack is witness, with- t~e people around us. Clearly defined goals and objec?ut doubt, to _the absence of the most rudimentary skills tives enable us to maintain congruency between what we
in prowa~ming for r_esponsible change through goals have done and what we say we have done.
. People in leadersh!P positions often feel exempt from
and obJect1ves. Focusing our attention by means of goals
and objectives has become a fundamental skill of the this fund~m-~ntal re~urrement for productivity and thereteaching profession for generations now; even before fore cred1b1l1ty.This perception business can lead to
t~ey ":;ere formulated as "goals" and "behavioral objec- "smoke and mirrors" deception, "self-deception " and
tives, common sense told teachers that "if you don't "paper charades." In a public school setting, where '1have
know wher_eyou ar~ going, any road will get you there." worked for the ~ast two decades, many administrators,
The result 1sconfusion, no accountability, and irresponsi- thank~ to the arrival of desk-top publishing, can turn the
most inane and simply stupid episode into a memo that is
ble behavior.
On a large scale and outside of the classroom the a piece of art that says nothing. All of us have had this
experience! It is this experience that I referred to above
very same skills which teachers and their supervisors
as the "paper charade" or "productivity charade," in which
have so l~ng cherished are now being applied to guid~n ove~worked or burdened supervisor can get the
ance, business, and organizational management under
1mpress1onthat his subordinates have everything under
the categories of terms such as "reflective practice," "per- control because "it all looks great."
formance planning," and "negotiated growth contracts".
Let us be clear. I meant it when I said we in the
The best book available on the subject for teachers is the
Church are in the perception business. People behave
program learning format of Robert Mager, Preparing
out of how they perceive themselves. If they perceive
Instructional Objectives (Belmont, CA: Pitman Learning, themselves as Christians they tend to behave as
Inc., 2nd ed., 1962). It simply means that if you expect Christians; if they perceive themselves as shabby then
responsible performance of a task you must hold people they tend to behave shabbily; if they perceive themselves
accountable. There can be no responsible behavior from as productive, then they tend to produce. If people peran objective point of view without accountability; but you ceive you are trustworthy, interested, kind, attentive,
cannot hold people accountable, if they are not told or benevolent, then certain positive behaviors usually result.
have not formulated what they intend to happen in a
In light of the fact that much of Christian ministry is
teaching/learning or an administrative setting. There can rooted in trust and good will and, at the same time, often
be no accountability unless the person who is responsible deals with the intangible, it is imperative that priests, who
(department head, program director, church school
are locally and literally their own supervisors and evaluasuperintendent, or teacher) has been given or has deter- tors, learn how to formulate "growth contracts'. Church
mined for himself/herself criteria by which he/she may be school teachers and directors, who often know as much
evaluated by a superior, and, more important for self about education as their pastors, must develop the ability
development in educational and organizational systems, to evaluate themselves in terms of professional skills and
by himself/herself.
achievement. This is as simple as learning, like any conWe can expect no growth without some sort of temporary teacher must do, how to formulate goals and
accountability and standards for determining accountabili- objectives, a process which comes to most teachers as
ty, a subject we have all but ignored in the Orthodox "second nature." It must be the first objectives of any
Church in the favor of what is often simply a "paper" or department of Christian education to establish goals with"productivity charade." This holds true at any level of edu- in which to work. Without defining these goals and obJeccation in the church and with supervisor, be he pastor or tives, the responsible person would be unable to focus
bishop, who has an obligation to clearly define or have attention, time, finance, and energies. Similarly, withou
clearly defined for them, the criteria by which a subordi- these definitions, our supervisors cannot evaluate the
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�b. etc.
.
d . . t t· f
Goal B: To achieve effectiveness 1n a minis ra 1ve unctioning by
a. keeping an accurate attendance record for each
child and teacher;
b. etc.
.
.
f
Goal C: To initiate and strengthen staff interaction, e 1lowship, and activities by
.
a. hosting a biannual exchange of classroom ideas
and activities
b. etc.
.
.
Goal D: To improve my relationship with the staff, the
priest, and the parents by
.
.
a. meeting individually with each teacher twice during the school year
b. etc.
Goal E: Other
a. etc.
b. etc.
END OF YEAR SUMMARY (To be filled out by
Supervisor or teacher). Please include a summary of
strongest assets and areas for future concentration.
Indicate whether teacher's (your) performance exceeded
expectations, met expectations, or was below e~pe~tations within the framework of operations and taking into
account factors (or constraints) over which he (you) has
no control. (Additional pages may be added if needed).
The Department of Christian Education of the
Antiochian Archdiocese has offered a number of workshops on planning objectives, and self-evaluation, specifically for the church school teacher, it is one of the most
useful effective skills that a teacher can apply. All of the
workshops are listed in the annual "Emphasis" mailing
sent to each parish and priest listing all of the teacher
training programs the department offers. Take advantage
of these workshops.
Every church school teacher, department head, or
pastor must keep in mind the maxim: "If you don't know
where you are going, then any road will get you there."
Every organization, but especially an ecclesiastical organization, must have a system of accountability, even if
only
self-evaluation. It forces you to think in terms of what
EXAMPLE:
you
want
to do and then forces to enumerate methods to
I. INITIAL STATEMENT OF INTENTION
Goal A: To improve instructional and church school pro- bring them about. If you would like help in working on
developing skills in this area for a more effective educagrams by
a. having each class in a separate sound-proofed tional ministry for all age groups, contact the Department
of Christian Education.
space by
subordinates. For instance, in my own depar~ment of
Christian Education in the Antiochian Archd1oc~se I
determined that I could best and most efficiently fulfill my
educational ministry by working in three areas: 1) _coordination of parishes with each other and the Archdiocese,
2) the production of materials to su~p_lemen~o_urOCEC
curriculum, and, finally, 3) teacher training. Within each of
these areas I then would determine each year what specific objectives I wanted to accomplish _andlist them for
myself, the Metropolitan, or t~~ Archd1oces~n General
Assembly, assuring accountability. A person in a leadership position without stated goals and clearly formulated
objectives is a person who cannot be evaluated, held
accountable, and enabled to perform more effe~tivel1. A
person cannot be faulted, once he has state? his objectives and goals, for not accomplishing something that you
perceive to be his job, but which he has not accepted as
such. If you want a particular "this" or "that" done, the~
you as the supervisor, "boss," or parent must see that 1t
gets into the student's goals and objectives. We have no
way of holding people accountable as long as we have
no statement of intended outcomes!
The ultimate objective in formulating goals and obj~ctives is to enable evaluation by 1) yourself, 2) an outside
supervisor (i.e., master teacher, parish priest, bishop,
etc.), are clientele. At the very least, every teacher,
church school director, or department head should at the
beginning of each year or planning perio? (i.e., the beginning of a new project) formulate a ~enes of goal~ and
under those, both figuratively and literally, a senes of
objectives.
The specific position might be, for instance, "Church
School Supervisor," "Second Grade Teacher," or "You~h
Group Advisor." The following outline may be useful in
making clear what I mean. Each stated goal must be followed with the word "by" to make it effective. These goals
are those of a church school supervisor designed for an
educational setting. Yours may be different. (See chapter
12 in Gerard Egan's The Skilled Helper, Brooks/Cole
Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA, 1993.)
TEACHER TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
The Depaitment of Christian Education is attempting to encourage the development of teacher training programs and teacher certification programs. With this in mind, the Department announced, last year, the special teacher education section in the St. Stephen's Course
of Study in Orthodox Theology, offered by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese. The preferred program for teachers is a two
year program under the direction of Dr. John L. Boojamra and may be used by a parish or a group of parishes to certify its teachers. As all
of you who know about the St. Stephen's Program are aware, St. Stephen's is a first-rate, high quality correspondence course.
In addition to the St. Stephen's "education alternative," the Department of Christian Education would like to recommend the use of
our excellent teacher training series on audio cassette entitled "Teaching Dynamics" and "Youth Dynamics". The first program is a 12
session teacher training program with a workbook and training guide. The second program is a four session program also accompanied by
a listening guide and workbook. "Teaching Dynamics" sells for $50.00 and "Youth Dynamics" sells for $25.00. Each program comes in
an attractive vinyl binder for easy shelf storage. These are highly recommended for use among our teachers and are available through the
Antiochian Archdiocese, 358 Mountain Road, Englewood, NJ 07631.
For those people wishing to pursue a graduate degree in Christian Education, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological School is the only
Orthodox institution offering a Master's Degree in Religious Education.
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Get the Spirit
by Robert J. Snyder and Craig R. George
Corinthians I 12: 12 "Christ is like a single bod
h. h
has many pa~ts; it is still one body, even thoig: i;~s
made up of different parts." With this passage, St. Paul
o!fers his most fam~~s an? beautiful discourse on the
g1f!s o~ the Holy Spirit. Pnor to this passage St. Paul
wntes 1n Ch~pter 11 :1-31 "there are a variety of gifts, but
the same Spint, and there are varieties of service but th
same Lord; and ~her~ are varieties of working, but it is th!
s~me God who_1nsp1r~sthem all in everyone. To each is
given the man1festat1on of the Spirit for the common
good."
On the day of Pentecost it is significant that the Holy
Spirit manifested itself as separate tongues of fire. The
separate tongues of Pentecost emphasize the individuality an~ diversity of gifts which the Holy Spirit bestows.
It 1s unfortunate that modern day Christianity has
come to emphasize one gift above all others. The modern Christian church has come to reply almost entirely on
the gift of "words." Consequently, in western churches
we find a church stripped of symbols, art and sensual
expression; and filled with preaching, memorizing and
rote. The word that became flesh has, once again, been
transformed back into the word. Because of this, the
diversity of gifts which was the power of the early church
has been weakened and in some areas lost. Those members of the Body of Christ who find difficulty with words,
and memorizing them, are often made to feel lost or failures as Christians.
Without the growth and development of the diversity
of gifts bestowed on each of us, the Body of Christ is left
weakened and starved. St. Paul writes "for the body does
not consist of one member but of many."
Increasingly, because of the Church's reliance on
words, we find an American culture filled with great words
and preaching, but starved of meaning when it comes to
everyday life. Consequently, the most religious nation in
the world also leads in murders, violence, and teen pregnancy. American religious culture, which strongly influences our North American Orthodox culture, is obsessed
with producing "Christians" through reliance on preaching
and words. The Orthodox approach has always been the
"process" approach. That is - our faith develops and
grows in meaning throughout our lives, in our families
and in our church communities.
The Orthodox approach can only be fully realized
when the church recognizes the full diversity of gifts of
the Spirit and develops them so that a!I its members'
potential can be achieved.
Metropolitan PHILIP writes in the December, 1992,
issue of The Word "furthermore my dear friends you
must cultivate the talent of the parish. Through the sacrament of Chrismation, the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit.
All of us have received from God a variety of gifts for the
edification of the faithful."
Because of our singular recognition of the "word" and
"preaching" gifts, the wealth of Christianity in North
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America lies buried deep below a mountain of words
books, and reams of paper.
'
How can. we uncover these gifts, this buried wealth?
We can b~g~nby. recognizing that these gifts exist and
that one_gift 1sas important as another when it comes to
an offering to God. Secondly, gifts can only grow and
develop through use.
The gift~ of the Spirit are as numerous as the member~ belo~ging to the Church (each has received gifts at
Chnsmat1on) but are given to us to "contribute to the
common g?od." ~aul speaks of the gifts of faith, knowl~dg~, healing, miracles and discernment. "All these are
1nsp1redb~ o~e.and the same spirit, whose apportions to
e~ch one 1nd1v1dually
as He wills." Paul speaks also of
h1g~er_gifts_"f_aith, hope and love." From reading
Connthian_s_,1t 1s apparent that "gifts of the Spirit" are
those qualities we possess which build up the church, its
me~~~rs,,and are o~ered back to God. The tragedy is
that gifts are often interpreted as artistic or intellectual
tale~t when in ~ctuality "God's gifts" can be our capacity
to give love, drive a car, work with wood, offer encouragement and consolation, mediate disputes. In Romans
P_aulwrites, "having gifts that differ according to the grac~
given to us, let us use them: if prophecy in proportion to
our faith, if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his
teaching; he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who
does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness."Christ recognizes
charity, acts of mercy, service, teaching, cheerfulness,
etc. as gifts to be offered back to him.
Dr. Boojamra writes in Foundations of Christian
Education: "Each particular stage of life offers opportunities - for what the person is able to learn. One of the
first principles of Christian education is the realization,
common to monastic communities, that people are both
the same and different, and both aspects must be
explored in formulating programs, producing materials
and organizing learning situations. The learner's possibili1
ties for participating and responding are unbounded.' 2
As Christian educators, we must become skilled in
creating or discovering situations which bring "gifts of the
Spirit" to the surface and allow for their exercise and
growth. We develop the gift of encouragement by visiting
the sick and offering encouragement. We develop the gift
of charity by performing acts of charity, etc. In this way,
we move away from the informational or "word" approach
that dominates our Christian education process to a formational approach which offers a context or meaning to
the "words." When we move in this direction the church
and its members will be able to reach their potential in
serving and building by the Body of Christ.
The Word Magazine, December 12, 1992 pp. 8-10.
Boojamra, Foundations of Christian Education
Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press p. 18.
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Ephesians 3: 17
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�Synopsis of Orthodox Christian
History in Jordan and Palestine
The Orthodox Christian Church in Jordan and Palestine
is the oldest church in the world. In fact, it was the only
Christian congregation in that area until the reign of the
Crusaders. The Patriarchate in Jerusalem was an indigenous church; patriarchs, bishops, priests and monks were
all from the local people. Arabic was the formal language
in the church services even in the pre-Islamic period. The
Greek language was occasionally used along with it.
In the year 1543 AD, when the Arabic patriarch Atallah
died, an Arabic born, but Greek national, bishop called
Germanos was elected patriarch of Jerusalem. His election
resulted in a steep change in the hierarchy of the church.
Many Greek priests and monks were brought in from
Greece and Cyprus; they gradually controlled the brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher, the Holy Synod and finally
the entire operation of the Patriarchate. Arabic priests, in
spite of their celibacy and eligibility, were not consecrated
bishops. Arab nationals were not ordained priests unless
they got married first. The Greeks in Jerusalem, who were
less than one per cent of the Orthodox people, controlled
entirely the religious destiny of the other ninety-nine per
cent. Furthermore, Arabic priests were often ordained
from non-qualified individuals and were denied access to
proper theological education. People were also denied
participation or even access to the daily business of the
Patriarchate. Orthodox Christian education was ignored all
together and the number of Orthodox Christian schools in
Palestine and in Jordan was reduced to three, at a time
when Roman and Eastern Catholic schools were sprouting
all over the region. The physical condition of many church
buildings was neglected and some of them deteriorated so
badly that they became uninhabitable and their congregation switched to Roman or Eastern Catholicism. This grave
situation led to the aggressive intrusion of the nonOrthodox into the Holy Land and eventual occupation of
many monasteries and church buildings which were originally under the administration
or ownership
of the
Orthodox Church. The end result: A steady decline in the
number of Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, the cradle of Christianity. Their number now is but a fraction of
what it was only a few decades ago.
Since 1875 the Orthodox Christians in Palestine and
Jordan rose together to protect their Faith, the Church and
what was left from its holdings. After the uprising in 1875,
several well-attended conferences were held in Haifa in
1925, in Jaffa in 1931, in Jerusalem in 1944 and again in
1956 to resolve this serious matter with the Patriarchate in
Jerusalem. All petitions to it and to the civil authorities
were either vehemently rejected or serial empty promises
~ere given but none was fulfilled. Constructive suggestions from government assigned commissions such as The
Bertrand-Young commission under the British mandate in
1921 were completely ignored.
The Orthodox Christians in Palestine and Jordan have
kept the Faith during very difficult times. ot withstanding
frequent ~ersecution, they have contributed tremendously
to the social, cultural and economic development of their
home land. Their deman_ds were recently resubmitted to
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the Patriarchate in Jerusalem and to
the Jordanian civil authorities through
their elected representatives.
These
included consecration of Arabic bishops, improving the conditions of the
priests and the church buildings, the
restoration of Orthodox Christian education, including the school of theology in Jerusalem, the implementation of
just and more meaningful bylaws for
the churches and the proper administration of the Patriarchate's financial
affairs. These demands are just, necessary and in complete uniformity with
the teachings of our Church as well as
with the secular principles of civil
rights, freedom and democracy. They
deserve all our prayers and support.
EPILOGUE:
1. Did you know
that Patriarch
Sofronios who handed the keys of the
city to Jerusalem to the Khalifah Omar
in the year 636 was Arabic and was
born in Damascus?
2. Die.Iyou know that many of the
Arabic Patriarchs of Jerusalem were
some of the most renowned poets and
physicians of their time?
3. Die.I you know that Germanos,
the first Greek patriarch in Jerusalem,
reigned for over 30 years. Each time
an Arabic bishop died during his reign
he consecrated
a Greek bishop to
replace him. Before his death all bishops in Jerusalem were Greek. Germanos was also the author of the unChristian principle that no Arabic· bishop should be consecrated which is still
being followed.
4. Die.I you know that Prince Abdallah of Trans-Jordan, the grandfather
DID YOU KNOW
. . . that the major feast day in December is the
Feast of the
at1v1ty of Christ in the Flesh (25th),
commonly called Christmas. We say "in the Flesh"
because Jesus was incarnated (took on flesh). Jesus
Christ always existed with the Father and the Holy
Spirit. There never was a time when He was not.
... that the main saints' days in December include
the Great Martyr Barbara and St. John of Damascus
( 4th); St. Sabbas the Sanctified (5th); St. icholas the
Wonderworker (6th); St. Spyridon the Wonde1worker
(12th); St. Herman of Ala"ska (13th); St. Ignatius of
Antioch (20th); the Synaxis of the Theotokos (26th);
St. Ster,hen the Protomartyr (27th); the 14,000 Innocents slain by Herod (29th). Also we celebrate the
Conception of the Theotokos by the Righteous Anna
on December 9. There is no kneeling in our public
or private prayers from Christmas to the eve of Theophany (Epiphany), January 5, nor do we fast during
these joyful days.
... that the Church of Czechoslovakia is twelfth in
rank after the Churches of Constantinople,
Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Georgia, Serbia,
Romania Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Greece. Orthodox
Christianity was introduced there by Sts. Cyril and
M thodios from 867 to 886 A.D. In 1346, it was
under the jurisdiction of the church of Serbia. In
1766, it came under the control of the Church of
Constantinople. In 1923, it became Autonomous. It is
presently headed by His Beatitude DOROTHEUS
whose official title is "Metropolitan of Prague and All
Czechoslovakia." The seat of the Church is in Prague.
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of King Hussein, was so sympathetic
to the demands of the Orthodox people that in 1933 he wanted to name an
Arabic patriarch
and to move the
Patriarchate from Jerusalem to Amman?
5. Did you know that the holdings
of the Orthodox Church in the Holy
Land are under the authority of the
Patriarch personally. No one can question his decision to administrate any
property or to dispose of it as he wishes?
6. Did you know that the income
of the Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem and its distribution of funds is a
well kept secret. Nobody is allowed to
participate, let along audit this financial puzzle?
Submitted h)I
George M. Madanat, M.D.
From the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
?
.
The Church of Czechoslovakia has no jurisdiction in
other parts of the world. It is limited to its own country. (Some sources place this Church 14th in rank,
placing the Church of Albania 12th in rank.)
... That December is The Order of St. Ignatius of
Antioch Month in the Antiochian Archdiocese
of
North America. The Patron Saint's Day is December
20 on the liturgical calendar. During this month,
members of the ORDER on the parish level will read
the epistle, collect the offering, serve as "greeters",
possibly deliver the sermon, and host the coffee or
fellowship hour after liturgies. They will also try to
attract new members into the ORDER and encourage
present members to upgrade their membership.
Many thanks to the members of the ORDER for their
sacrificial love for the ministry of the Church here
and abroad.
. . . That in the early days of our Church in North
America, almost 100 years aoo
there were three
b
'
Father Yanneys: Father Nicola Yanney was the first
priest to serve St. George Church in Kearney,
ebraska 0902); Father Theodore Yanney was the
first priest to serve St. George Church in Allentown,
Pennsylvania
(1905) and St. George Church in
Paterson (now Little Falls), New Jersey (1919); Father
Michael Yanney was the second priest to serve St.
George Church in Kearney, NE. There are other families
in our Archdiocese who have had several boener.
ations of clergy in their family. May we hear from
them please?
THE WORD/DECEMBER 1993
ARCHDIOCESAN OFFICE
ORDAINED:
T~1e Deacon ROBERT GILLETTE to the Priesthood at Sts.
Peter
& Paul Chapel
•
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1n
Ligonier, p A, on September
12, 1993, and awaiting assignment. He has taken the name
ISAIAH.
The ~eacon GREGORY O'LEARY to
the Priesthood at St. Philip Church in
Soudert~m, PA, on. September 26, 1993,
and assigned to this parish as the assistant pastor.
DONALD J. PETERS to the Diaconate
at St. George Cathedral in Worcester
MA, ~m O~toher 3, 1993, and assi~necl
to this pansh. He has taken the name
EPHRAIM.
ROBERT
ALLE
BUSS to the
Oiaconate at St. George Church in El
Paso, TX, on October 10, 1993, and as.
signed to this parish. He has taken the
name GREGORY.
BER ARD WEST-DEL VAL to the
Diaconate at St. c;eorge Church in
Houston, TX. on Ottobcr
17, 1993,
and a~signed to St. Michael Church in
Beaumont, TX.
CARL WILLIA.'vI BELL to the Diaconate
at St. Elias Church in Toledo, OH, on
October ;10, 1995. and to the Priesthood at ~t. Gc:orge Cathedral
in
Toledo, OH, on October _')1. 1993, and
assignc:c.l to the pastorate of the new
church in Go~hen. I , as yet unnamed. I Tis name is A THONY.
ASSIGNED:
The Priest !JI IILIP TXO , formerly
attached to St-...Peter & Paul Church in
Ben Lomond, CA to the pastorate of
the new mission in Twin Falls, Idaho,
as yet unnamed.
The Priest J STI McFEETERS, formerly on loan to the Greek Orthodox
, Archdiocese, to the pastorate of St.
Anthony Church in Spring, TX .
ELEVATED:
The Priest VLADIMIR BELCHER, pastor
of St. George Church in Altoona PA
to the dignity
of Archpriest'.
o~
October 10, 1993.
ON LOAN:
The Priest STEPHE KWIECINSKI, formerly attached to St. James Church in
Williamston
MI to the Orthodox
Church in A'meri,ca, Diocese of the
Midwest.
RELEASED:
The Deacon MICHAEL CLANCY formert y of St. George
Churcl1 in
Charleston, WV, to the Russian Pa-
THEWORD/DECEMBER 1993
triarchal Church in the United States
Dr. & .i\lrs. Orlando ktff
1.
i\Iiami, FL
The Priest JOH LICKWAR , .
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George 1. bodeelv
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pastor o
. • _eo1ge ~hurch of Spring, TX, effec'\' orcester, \IA
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Dearborn Heights. MI
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t. At11anas1us Church of Sacramento
Helen Snage
CA, effective immediately.
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NEW CHURCH/MISSION:
Cecelia & Da, id Ericl-.-..on
The Orthodox Christian Church in
Portland, OR
Goshe~, Indiana (Western Rite), whose Julienne & Sam '\e,, l'\
pastor ts Father A THONY BELL.
Jacbon\'ille, FL
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Th~ Orthodox Christian Mission in Alex & Anne Corev
Twm Falls, IDAHO (Eastern Rite)
Brooks,·ille, FL •
whose pastor is Father PHILIP NIXO , Edward & Fah .'nage
AWARDED:
Plymouth, MI
20.( O
The Antonian Medal of Merit (Gold) to Mr. & 1rs. Philip Haddad
the Antiochian Orthodox Christian
Charleston, W\'
Women of North America (AOCWNA) Elizabeth Clark
on the occasion of their 20th anniverAshuclot, 1 H
sary, celebrated at the Archdiocesan
Shane Sauer
Convention in Pittsburgh, PA, from
Saskatoon, .'askatche,,-~111
18.00
July 18 to 25, 1993 .
George Lamone
DECEASED:
Salina, KS
100.0 l
Khoureeye LYDIA MOORE, wife of the The Corcoran Family
late Archpriest Makarios Moore in
Charleston, SC
50.00
Clearwater, FL, on October 17, 1993. Jeannette 1alluk
Memory Eternal!
Brooklyn,
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The Priest ANTONY BASSOLI E, for- James Rihbany
merly of the Antiochian Archdiocese
Boston, MA
:;o.ol
then of the OCA, in Philadelphia, PA: Ma1y Hamaty
on October 26, 1993. Memory Eternal!
W. Roxbury, MA
(in memory of her parent-..
The Khoureeye ED A KARIM, wife of
Matilda
& lichael Harnatv)
2~0.0 l
the late Archpriest Georoe
Karim
in
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Syracuse, NY, on October 30, 1993. Mr. & Mrs. Rudy George •
200.0)
Parma, OH
Memo1y Eternal!
George R. immer
The Priest ANTHONY BOAKE, pastor
100.00
Omaha, E
of Sts. Constantine & Helen Church in
Dallas, TX, on Nov. 7, 1993. MEMORY
ETERNAL!
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25.00
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100.00
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5.00
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Beaconsfield, Quebec
(in memory of George Deeb
50.00
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100.00
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Archdiocese: The
Antiochian Village
"Come, let us go up to the 11101111/{{ill
of the Lord, to the house (?{ the Goel <!I'
Jacob; that he ma)' /e{{c/J us hi. u ar.•
and Ll'e may zmlk ~-nhis j){{tbs f.\lic:;1h
4:2)
Since its formal dedication in 197 ,
the Antiochian
illage - a 280-acr,
Archdiocesan facilit) loc1ted in th"
Laurel highlanch of '>OUthwl' tl'rn
Pennsylvania - ha-.. L1ttracted thousands of Orthodo;\ believers from
throughout 01th meriu to it:-vari ·cl
and stimulating program-.. rrom ye urh
anc.l family camping program:-.. t
retreats, pilgrimage-.., work:hop and
conferences, all \\ ho have ever visitL'd
the illage ha\ e returned to thL'i1
parishes grateful that ,oc.l has hll' .., d
�u with this important spiritual oasis.
In addition to the summer camp and
conference center, the master development plan foresees the establishment
of a monastic community, cemetery
and a retirement
complex for our
senior citizens and clergy.
O.C.A.M.P.R. Ethics Board
Plans National Hotline
In keeping with the mission statement of the Ethics Board of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine,
Psychology and Religion (0.C.A.M.P.R.),
to gather and disseminate "expert scientific and theological information and
perspectives from Orthodox theologians and professionals in the fields of
the ciences and ethics," members of
the Board, Attorney Todd Bolus and
Dr. John Schilke are developing a proposal for a telephone
hotline that
would provide ethical answers to
questions from professionals and others from an Oithodox perspective.
Through the hotline, professionals
and laymen could call the Ethics Board
for information relative to ethical questions from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
The Board is also establishing guidelines and other goals for the coming
year. Acting Director of the Ethics
Board, Dr. Peter Bistolarides, surgeon
at the Scarborough General Hospital in
Ontario, Canada, said of the Board's
plans, "I believe the work the Institute
will do will be of great help to clergy,
health and mental health professionals
in their respective ministries."
Ethics Board members Reverend
Stanley Harakas and Dr. John Chirban
are conducting a national survey of
O.C.A.M.P.R. members and others
from the various jurisdictions to prioritize an agenda of pressing ethical
issues. This agenda will serve as a
guide for the Ethics Institute and the
services they offer to the Orthodox
community.
The nine members of the Ethics
Board and their respective terms are as
follow : Three Years: Rev. Dr. Stanley
Harakas (religion); Cynthia Yannias
(psychology); and Dr. Paul Kymissis
(medicine). Two years: Rev. Dr. John
Breck (religion); Dr. John T. Chirban
(psychology/religion),
and Dr. Peter
Bistolarides (medicine). One year: Rev.
Dr. George Morelli (psychology/religion)- Todd Bolus, Esq. (law), and Dr.
John chilke (medicine).
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1, 1993 in Tarrytown, NY, to discuss
globalization - the impact of these
events on theological
education in
North America - and the accompanying unprecedented
challenges which
In order to better
serve the
Orthodox Clergy and Laity, the Ethics now face the seminaries. The conference, sponsored
by St. Vladimir's
Institute of the Orthodox Christian
Orthodox Theological Seminary, was
Association
of Medicine, Psychology and Religion is inviting priests funded by a grant from the Indianto submit ethical problems they have apolis-based Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Since 1989, many of the North Amerencountered
in their ministry. Indischools
viduals should not be named, but rele- ican Orthodox theological
have experienced an influx of students
vant socio-demographic
data should
from the formerly communist-conbe included (e.g.: husband middle
age, 14 yr. old girl, etc.). The "case trolled states of Eastern Europe and
presentation" should be as detailed as the former Soviet Union. For example,
foreign student
enrollment
at St.
possible.
The Ethics Institute will look for Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, NY
common ethical trends and will initi- now comprises twenty percent of the
ate theological and other professional
student body.
study of such problems. Antiochian
The significant increase in foreign
clergy should send the "case study"
student enrollment has raised financial
(or "studies") to: Rev. Dr. George
challenges because the students from
Morelli, Ph.D., Holy Cross Center, 105 the former communist countries must
Summit Ct., Westfield, NJ. 07090-2834. receive full funding from the host
Clergy may or may not identify them- schools. Moreover, the assimilation of
selves.
large nurn.bers of East-European students has, at times, proved difficult beFocus on Globalization
cause the students are not accustomed
Recent events in the Balkans, East- to western ways of life and education.
Several North American theological
ern Europe, and the former Soviet
schools have received pleas for assisUnion have had a significant impact
tance from churches and seminaries in
on Orthodox educational institutions
in orth America. Sharing mutual con- eastern Europe and Russia. The semicern for this complex issue, represennaries and schools now being opened
tatives from eight North American
in these previously atheistic societies
Orthodox seminaries met on October
lack both trained teachers and educa-
Ethics Institute Invites
Clergy to Submit Pastoral
Ethical Problems
tional materials. .Until recent! Y, th ere
.
were no catechetical books O n O rt h o- increased number of these
tucl nt m
dox th eo 1ogy' and those now available their own schools.
o On~ res~dt of the conference v a the
are few, expensive and not wholl
ppo1tunity to examine e h - .
adequate.
Y
nary's
a
miboth . respon~es to globalization in
The
.
. conference focused on w ays m
its practical and theoretical a which
. l
. . . North . American theol ogica
pects.
_The_rewere calls for further coinstitutions might be of assistance in
opera_tton m this area among the 0 rth
the
development
of
faculty
and
d
.
e uca- Amencan o th O cl
.
r
ox seminarie and a
ttonal tools for Eastern Europe as well
as how to most effectively adapt to the comm_it~ent to hold future meetings
Participating Orthodox institution •in
.
.
RECENT EVENT AT THE AR
CHD IOCESE
Hzs Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP h
d
.
Bein:t, Lebanon, President of BANK AUD~~t~raAdz~~er at ~heArchd~ocesan headquarters, in honor 0>}.RA
Audi, New York.
• u 1 was in the United States for the 0 rr,·_. 1
.
>JI ,\D 1l DI 0/
~11c1aopenmg of the ··neu· Bank
Elias Abu-Shaheen, a Tru tee of Balamand
University in Lebanon.
Glodbaliz~tion Conference Participants: BACK ROW (left to right): Dr Roman Yereniuk (St.
A
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1 mginan
p n firew s)· 0hnn • Hratch Tc hT
(St. Nersess); Fr. John Kowalczyk
(St Tikhon's);
Cr~. essor H O
Erickson (St. Vladimir's); Fr. Thomas Hopko (St Vladimir's} F~ Alkiviadis
1 ~~ss);
V:a~~\)~
Fr. L?ke Mihaly (Christ the Saviour); Dr. Paul M~ye~dorff (St.
Synodal C~m~iss~o1:a~:-az1ch
(St: Sava). S~TED (left to right): Bishop Seraphim (OCA
Bishop Yurig (St. Andrew•sf heolog1cal Education); Metropolitan
Christopher
(St. Sava);
J
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~bas~ador
& Mrs. Khalil Makkawi, representative
e United Nations.
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of Lebanon to
George Audi and Consul General of Leban
Antoine Chedid.
�LIFESTYLES"X"by ArchpriestJames
the accident of birth we are Christians
Time has come when we must use ali
of the_ talents that Christ God has given
to us m order that we might glorify His
holy name. On this Feast of the
Nativity of Christ, as we acknowledae
and celebrate His birth, I call u pin
C. Meena
WINGS ARE FOR SOARING
hen you were a young person, did you ever have the
experience of lying on the
Summer grass on a balmy and bright
afternoon with a little breeze blowing
and looking up into the sky, watching
the white puffy clouds drift by and
admiring the birds of the air as they
soar and flew through the heavens?
Have you ever imagined yourself having the capacity to fly and to soar in
that same manner? If it were possible
for a man or woman to fly, that person
would need wings, and if one had but
one wing it would be impossible for
him to fly. It requires at least two
wings for flight to be achieved. It
requires balance, it requires an understanding of aerodynamics,
whether
instinctive or through knowledge, and
it requires a certain amount of confidence and courage on the part of the
thing or person who is going to fly.
In our modern age it's possible for
an individual to soar through the air
without the aid of mechanized technology. Sail planes have been in use
for a long time and I see young people soaring through the air all the time
with their kites and parachutes and
various types of paraphernalia striving
to imitate the birds. But it always takes
a balance; a person with one wing on
one side' of his body cannot fly.
So it is with our relationship with
Christ. Without wings we cannot fly.
With only one wing, it's impossible to
fly. If we say that we believe in God
and we have nothing else, then we
have only one wing and there is no
way that we can fly. If we say that we
believe that Jesus Christ is the only
begotten Son of God and do nothing
About that belief, we have only one
wing and we cannot fly. If we only
have faith and do not have love, we
cannot fly. If we have only love and
do not have hope, we cannot fly. For
no one with but one wing is able to
soar through the air in defiance with
the law of gravity. Our Christian Faith
tries to create the possibility of us
bt'coming like the angels of heaven.
We read in the book of ISAIAH and
we hear in the Liturgy of St. Basil the
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Great that awesome description
of
those heavenly beings who surround
the Throne of God, six winged, "with
two they cover their eyes and with
two they cover their ears and with two
they fly," (Isaiah 6:2). You and I can
have six wings as well, using them all
at the same time or using them in pairs
alternately. But it is God's intention
that we be spiritually winged and that
we soar through life and that we soar
over the problems and vicissitudes of
life; that we fly around the barriers that
life places before us; that we fly
through the obstacles that life would
ca use to hinder us.
The first wing is the wing of submission to the will of Goel. Total and complete.
This comes
after having
It is incumbent
upon us to grow
in knowledge of
God ...
acknowledged that God is and that
He is the Master of the Universe and
the wing that counterbalances
that
which is the wing of repentance. The
wing of offering up our sins to God
with the sure knowledge that He has
the capacity, the desire and the ability
to obliterate those sins. That's the first
pair of wings.
The second pair of wings is made
up of knowledge on the one side and
faith on the other. Knowledge that
takes us just far enough for us to
believe that God is. Just far enough for
us to understand the eternal truths of
Christ and the Church to the utmost of
our capacity and then faith on the
other side to take us the rest of the
way. Because it is one of the wonderful principles of God that He gives us
only enough information to justify our
having faith in Him. If He gave us sufficient information for us to prove His
existence, He wouldn't require faith of
us. If He gave us sufficient information
for us to demonstrate irrefutably that
Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah and
the only begotten Son of God, then we
wouldn't need faith. But God, through
His Witnesses gives us only enough
information to satisfy the requirements
of human intellect,
and then He
requires of us to go the rest of the way
on faith. $0 the second pair of wings is
knowledge and faith.
Finally the third pair of wings are
love and hope without which none of
the preceding
are of any merit or
value. Without love and hope, none of
the things that we read, none of the
things that we utter, none of the things
that we proclaim, has any meaning
because everything that Christ exemplified and preached are ultimately
crystallized in the promise of resurrection in the commandments
of love
which were the ultimate commandments that He gave to us, and that
gives us our hope.
It is for this reason that Christ came
into the world; that you and I might
know that we have the means of reconciling ourselves with God through
repentance; of joining ourselves with
God through commitment, by fulfilling
that commitment through our discipleship and through our daily style of living, through prayer and fasting and
good works. It is incumbent upon us
to grow in knowledge of God, to the
limits of our intellectual ability and
when our intellectual capacities are not
sufficient for us to understand all that
we feel, that we need to understand
about God, that we might then call
upon our faith to sustain us. Our faith
is not only in a merciful and loving
God but our faith is in those who
receive the revelations that He extended to us, the Patriarchs, the Prophets,
the Apostles, those who witness of the
existence of Goel and of His relationship to us. When faith and knowledge
sustain us to the degree that they can,
we develop
within ourselves
the
capacity of hope, because by hoping,
we justify our acts of love. Because it
is the act of love that Christ committed
for us that gave us hope in the first
place. We are no longer justified in
calling ourselves Christians because by
THE WORD/DECEMBER 1993
you as a spiritual father to offer all of
your talents to Him, to offer eve1ything
tl~at. you are to Him, to become truly
d1_sc1plesof Christ, to be reborn as you
are about to celebrate His Birth t
offer up your spirit as a sacrific~ t~
God, that you might be true ministers
of Hi holy \\'Ord in the ,·ear to come
th~tt >ou might oar throu,gh life on ch~
wmgs which He ha.., prm ided for you.
F_alberJame·
· .lleena is c, retired
l1l'iJ1l!, in
pnest of our Arcbdioce.·e.
Parma, Obio.
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FELLOWSHIP FOOTNOTES
Oratorical Festival Southeast Region
Winner: Caroline Razook
t
What comes to our mind first when
we hear the word "minister"? If we
thin_k of our parish priest or any minister m a Church, then we are probably
not alone. For when most everyone
hears the word "minister," they think
of the person - the one who preaches or gives advice. However, this is
only one way to understand
this word, focusing on the
person rather than what is
being done.
When we think more about
"ministry" in terms of what is
being done, we begin to
understand
it in a different
way. There is ministry to our
friends and family, supporting
them with love, care, and
understanding. There is ministry to those in our community to improve conditions for
them so that they might live a
better life. There is ministry to
our neighbors, after a disaster
has hurt them to help them
recover. Through such examples the true meaning of "minister" comes to light. From
this, we can see that "ministering", indeed "ministry", is something
broader and more far-reaching than
what is first thought. Thus, the real
meaning of "minist1y" is not found in
who the person is, but in what that
person does. When we help others,
we become a "minister."
I'd like to tell you a story of a man
named Robert who lived in England.
As a young boy, Robert was very
friendly, outgoing and considerate.
Although he had many friends who
lived in his middle-class
neighborhood, his best friend, Mary, was rich
and her parents were very powerful.
Everyday the two friends would meet
in the woods and play together.
One day, however, long after Mary's
THEWORD/DECEMBER 1993
parents died and Robert had moved
away, _Mary decided to find her long
lost fnend. She asked all over town
l~ut still_could not find him. Mary was
filled with despair. She could not find
her friend.
. Meanwhile, in the forest, Robert
lt~ed a life that one would normally
thmk of as crime-ridden. Every couple
of days, Robert would venture out into
the upper class sections of town, and
take their jewels and other valuables.
Caroline Razook, Southeast Region
The whole town was in an uproar
over the thefts, but no one knew who
was doing them or what could be
done to stop them from happening in
the future.
Now, as you know, Robert was the
one behind it all. What you may not
know was that Robert did not keep
the valuables he had taken for himself.
He gave them to very poor people
who had nothing. Robert was both
committing crimes and ironically, at
the same time, was doing a good deed
for those in need.
Mary decided to search for Robert
again. Only this time, she was going
out to look during the night. After failing to find Robert, Mary came home
only t~ discover Robert ..,ifringchrough
her things. stonished b) what sl1e
found, Iary screamed and demanded
an explanation. Robert. acting , en•
cool and collect, told her thac he wa~
not doing it for himself, but for the
whole tovm. He felt thar, if e, ervone
possessed something of ,·alue. c:~c:rvone would be much happier. \Li;v
was ~~ glad to see him. c.k·..,piteth~
condrt1ons, that she belie\·ed Robc:n
and found his cause worth\\'hile. he
forgave him, and the) Ii\ ed
happily ever aft.er.
This story, which \\'a'> patterned after ··Robin Hood.
Prince of Thien!._,,.. contain'> .1
strong message. In the '>torv.
Robert .sen·ed hrht by prc.>viding for the people \\'ho
were less fortunate than himself. !though hi.., action.., mav
be questioned, hh purpo..,··
was indeed prai..,e\\onhy. It i'>
true that, even though Roh -'11
and 1ary do not lead the
same lives in the '>torv a. \\'l'
do today they do Ii~ • h • a
basic rule, one that we all
should live by - trying to
help people when in need.
Some of us serve b , attending
church and participating in
church related activities, such a~ thi
oratorical festival, and others of u..,
serve by performing various \Olunt • ·r
services, for example, helping in a
hospital, working with migrant \\orkers, or giving aid to the elderly and
needy of our communit . JI ar \\ .1y..,
in which we can . erve hrist and fe<::
l
fulfilled because we kncm that \\ e
have done something po. itive to make
a difference.
Another example of mini'>t1) to others was that exhibited by million of
Americans after ,'ouch Dade. Florida
was devastated by Hurricane ndr '\\.
With the threat of a hurricane. peopl •
anxiously ran around tr ing to prote t
their families and their home
Because many \J ere in an "evacuation
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�zone", they , ere forced to abandon
their homes and leave their possessions behind, and to seek shelter elsewhere. People opened their doors and
graciously allowed others in to weather the storm with them. But, it was
after the hurricane that the real ministry became apparent. It was after
when neighbors met for the first time
as they tried to deliver comfort, and
especially some ice. It was after when
people from all across the country sent
money, supp lies and good wishes.
And finally, it was after when people
like my family and the Archdiocese
brought aid to the victims of Florida
City "door-to-door" or in most cases
person-to-person. It was only after the
largest natural disaster to ever strike
the United States happened, that people woke up and learned the true
meaning of the word "ministry''. I
guess you could say the one positive
thing that happened
as a result of
Hurricane Andrew was the way people
pulled together and learned the value
of a kind deed.
So, whatever the activity is, it should
be one that makes us feel proud
because we know that we have done
something to make others feel good.
Sometimes all it takes to warm another's heart may be a simple gesture,
such as delivering ice and food during
cl difficult time like the hurricane. It is
because everybody does something
different that our society prospers. We
are a church of individuals with private
thoughts, but public action, that pull
together to form one whole, under
Christ.
By ministering
to anyone in our
world that needs it, we are in fact,
ministering to Christ. ow is the time
for us to become involved and contribute to whatever cause we find in
need. There is not enough time to
help everybody in the world but, there
would be much more if we were to
end our disagreements and truthfully
call each other "friend". Any type of
ministering that we do, to and for each
other, will be ministry to Christ,
because Christ looks over us and tries
to protect us. By helping others, we
are helping Him.
Because the word "minist1y" has different meanings, and people have different ways of interpreting them, as
di played, we should remember "This
is our life. We've got to minister in our
own way." By following this advice,
we will be able to live a healthy and
30
farm animals, and land for cultivation,
rewarding life and will be acknowlOrphanage
is full of
edged by the term, "1:1inister". "
,, St. Innocent
potential
and
a
perfect
place
for boys
Caroline Razook zs .from. the new
Southeast Region. She is 16 years old to grow up! Desiring to be more than
and a member qf the Cathedral of St. just an institution, the orphanage will
provide a family atmosphere for twenGe01ge in Coral Gables, Florida.
ty to thirty boys along with Christian
training, a high school education, a
First Orthodox
vocational skill, and the possibility to
Orphanage Opens in
attend college if the boys so desire.
In addition, the ranch will serve
Tijuana!
as
a center of outreach into neighA YOUNG BOY'S QUESTION
boring communities.
Plans are
On his first day at St. Innocent
underway
for
monthly
outreach
Orphanage, little Roberto ran to the
through
Bihle
classes,
catechism,
and
director with an intent expression on
Vesper
services.
Renovations
on
the
his face. He was clearly concerned
chapel are nearly complete and cateabout something.
chism classes will soon begin with the
"Senor Ronald, will there be enough
food so we can have seconds at din- boys. While awaiting assignment of a
priest,
ner?" His eyes revealed the fearful an- permanent Spanish-speaking
ticipation of a child who has so often visiting clergy from the Southern
been denied proper attention. Could California area are caring for the spirihe dare to hope that at this place he tual needs of the orphanage.
For nearly five years, Project Mexico
might have enough food? That he
has been building homes among the
could go to bed without a growling
stomach? That he might really be poor of Tijuana. These projects will
now be enhanced by this permanent
loved??
Roberto's face exploded into a grin Otthoc.lox presence in the area.
as Ron replied, "Of course, there will HOW YOU CAN HELP
Project Mexico works in conjunction
be enough for seconds, mi hijo (my
son)." Roberto immediately darted off with the San Diego and the Southern
to share his good news with the other California Orthodox Clergy Councils.
The Standing Conference of Orthodox
boys.
Bishops in America (SCOBA) has
A MILESTONE
given its approval for all jurisdictions
On Monday, September 6th, seven
young boys arrived at the new St. In- to participate in this project. Over 800
nocent Orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. young people and adults and more
Ranging from nine to thitteen years of than twenty-five clergy have already
age, each has suffered tremendously in taken part in this exciting work.
You can personally be involved
his short life. Several have been abanin this endeavor in several ways.
doned or left alone when their parents
died. Most have been abused. Nearly Individuals and groups may participate
all have been compelled to work in in work trips ranging from one day to
the dusty streets of Tijuana selling
several weeks in length. A group of
gum, cleaning cars, or other odd jobs faithful regularly' pray for the staff and
- anything to earn a few pesos for a the work of Project Mexico. Financial
mouthful of food.
and material donations for the orphanFrom an early age, the lives of these age are needed on an ongoing basis.
boys have been filled with harsh reali- Short-term and long-term internships
ty. There has been no carefree child- are available.
hood for them. Forced to survive in a
For further information,
please
world of lies, neglect, evil, and unful- write to Project Mexico, 4949 Alton
filled promises, they quickly become
Parkway, Irvine, CA 92714 or call (714)
cynical and calloused. Without inter- 559-5838.
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DEPARTMENT OF GIFTS, TRUSTS & LEGACIE
Enhancing Your Charitable Contribution Ha
Never Been Easier or More Rewarding
The Antiochian
Archdiocese
has
developed a program that will enable
, you to promote your Orthodox Faith
without making a major commitment
of cash. The program is called the
Endow Orthodoxy for Tomorrow program. Through it, you can:
• provide for your parish in the
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your family.
• help your parish and the Archdiocese continue their effort to promote your Faith through religious,
educational
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programs.
• make a tax-deductible
contribution.
If you're between the ages of 18 and
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New Children's Book
Released on St. Nicholas
Perhaps al a time when the Christmas holiday is over commercialized
and much too materialistic, children
will benefit most from the recently
published hook The Storm and the Sea.
Released by the pan-Orthodox publishing company SI. ~({nalius q/Antioch
Press, the hook, sub-titled A Story
About 77.wLife CJ/SI. Nicholas, dispels
the myths about "jolly old St. Nicholas"
and restores a true Orthodox understanding of this humble saint.
Geared to six-to-eight-year-olds (but
readable to younger children) the book
brings St. icholas to life in a sto1y that
, makes the most of the details known
about him. St. Nicholas is first portrayed as a little boy who prefers
Church over playing "silly games", then
a bishop dedicated to helping others,
and finally as a saint whose generosity
and kindness teach a valuable lesson.
The rich illustrations
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The author,
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tion curriculum for pre-schoolers. Her
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understand Otthoc.loxy in its fullest.
The Storm and the Sea is an 81/2"xll" softbound book and 20 pages
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The office of bishop lus been .111
irnpo1tant and essential one throughout
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�THE ORDER OF
ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
ANTIOCHIAN WOMEN OF NORTH AMERICA
Holy Women of the Past, Holy Women of Today
Ibis month we are pleased to present an article by the Midwest Spiritual
Advisor, Father Joseph Antypas. Father Joseph is a~so t~e pastor of St. Geo~ge
of Detroit MI and his article is most timely, considering the fact that beginning this' ye~r, the month of December has been marked by 1:f
etr~p?litan
PHILIP to emphasize the works of the Order. Tbus, instead of_b~z_ng_lzm_zted
to
one day - the Sunday before Christmas - muc? more flexz~zlzty is gw~n to
local chapters and area fellowships in celebrating St. Ignatius of A ntzoch •
Please do remember, however, that the actual Feastday is December 20th·
Two Emphases from Ephesians
by Archpriestjoseph Antypas
n his way to Rome, in order to
receive martyrdom,
St_. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch,
wrote to the Ephesians one of his
longest letters.
The city of Ephesus was an important center of early Christendom.
Ephesus was the scene of Saint Paul's
missionary activities and travel. Lo·cated near modern Izmir, Turkey,
Ephesus was the capital of the Roman
province of Asia. It was also a major
departure point for trade routes which
joined the Aegean Sea with the East. In
antiquity Ephesus was known for its
sacred shrines, especially the famous
temple to the goddess A1temis, which
was regarded as one of the seven
wonders of the ancient world. Ephesus
was the site of the 3rd Ecumenical
Council in 431 AD, which condemned
the estorian Heresy, and affirmed the
proper title of "Theotokos" to the most
pure and most holy Virgin Mary,
St. Ignatius' letter to the Ephesians
reveals some spiritual themes that are
impo1tant at all times and in every age.
It expresses a personal disclosure of a
person who is approaching martyrdom, and yet never fails to thank the
Ephesians for their good conduct, their
living by the truth, their unity, and
their true faith, (Eph. 3:6). "I give a
godly welcome to your church," writes
St. Ignatius, "which has so endeared
itself to us by reason of your upright
nature, marked as it is by faith in Jesus
Christ, our Savior, and by love of him
You are imitators of God: and it
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was God's blood that stirred you up
once more to do the sort of thing you
do naturally and have now done to
perfection," (Eph. 1:1-2).
.
St. Ignatius' theology,
though 1t
belongs to the One, Holy, Catholic,
and Apostolic Church of Christ, can
give the members of the Order of St.
Ignatius some reflections and guidelines on how to relate to the faith and
practices of the Christian in his or her
local church community. Two emphases can be revealed: 1) Those who
belong to Christ will be recognized for
their actions. This is emphasis #l
which resonates the Universal Epistle
of St. James. For if we are Christlike,
then we have to imitate our Lord. "Let
them learn from you by your actions,"
(Eph. 10:1). That is to say, we should
return bad temper with gentleness,
boastfulness with humility, violence
with mildness, and abuse with prayer.
"Let us, then, do everything as if he
will be WITHIN US as our God - as
he actually is. This will be clear to us
just to the extent that we love him
rightly," (Eph. 15:3).
The exhortations
in St. Ignatius"
message are addressed more to the
community than to individuals. This
implies that Christian life is a communal matter and that Christian virtue has
to do with shaping a community, not a
simple guideline to some individualistic type of salvation. Hence, emphasis
:tt2 becomes necessary during the Eucharistic celebration
of the local
church community. Union with Jesus
Christ entails faith and love in Him.
"That is the beginning and end of life
... And when the two are reunited,
you have God, and everything else
that has to do with real goodness is
dependent
on them," (Eph. 14:1-2).
Therefore, the Ephesians, as well as all
communicants in every community at
all times and in every age, must rededicate themselves to the essence of the
Christian concept to celebrate God's
Eucharist and to praise Him. "For
when you meet with frequency,
Satan's powers are overthrown and his
destructiveness is undone by the unanimity of your faith," (Eph. 13:11).
In his letter to the Ephesians, well in
his life-style as a bishop, St. Ignatius
presents to us the central truth of the
Gospel of Christ as characterized in his
knowledge of the scriptural tradition of
the early church, and represented in
the books of the New Testament. He
incorporated
that knowledge
in his
writings and his very life, and in a
most genuine way, this can also pave
our way to Christ and His Body, the
holy Church.
The members of the Order of St. Ignatius are invited to gain their knowledge of their Patron's Letters. They can
become instrumental
in embracing
these two emphases from Ephesians,
and become vehicles of transforming
our Orthodox parishes into becoming
active and comm.itted worshipping
communities, using their full potential
into the proclamation of the Gospel of
Christ.
THE WORD/DECEMBER 1993
by Archpriest Paul O'Callaghan
As large as the role of men
seems to loom over the history of the Church, given that
Jesus Christ, the Apostles, the
Fathers, and every bishop and
priest have all been men the
Orthodox Church noneth~less
affirms and values the distinctive roles
and ministries of women within her
life. Together with other churches of
catholic heritage, Orthodoxy glorifies
and proclaims
the uniqueness
of
women by exalting the Birthgiver of
God, the holy Theotokos. It is significant that upon entering a traditional
Orthodox
temple, one's eyes are
drawn before all else to the icon of the
Platytera, the Theotokos and Child
high upon the east apse of the build~
ing. The first thing we see is a woman
with child. This, above all else, should
make clear to us the centrality of
woman in God's plan of salvation.
Today, however, perhaps as never
before, we are confronted with questions about women's place in the
Church. Feminism has raised many
issues with regard to the traditional
roles of women, and in fact has succeeded in radically transforming them.
Today it is common to see woman
lawyers, corporate executives, police,
and entrepreneurs in a way that would
have been unthinkable
only thirty
years ago. The condition of this newfound career mobility has been the
concomitant freedom from the reproductive process brought about by a1tificial birth control and unrestricted
, abortion. Many radical feminists have
strived mightily and successfully to
separate a woman's sexual life from
family life. Now many women see
themselves as being just as free as men
in pursuing pleasure without regard to
childbearing. In fact, for some radical
feminists, any attempt to ground woman's identity in childbearing is hateful.
So while Western society has greatly
changed, the Church has not. And will
not. The Platytera icon will continue to
Proclaim to all that childbearing is the
supreme glory of women, because by
TI-IEWORD/DECEMBER 1993
it God became incarnate, forever sanctifying the womb. But beyond thi
where are we to locate the gifts of
women in the Church? Goel became
incarnate once and for all, but now
how_ do women continue to play a
role m the plan of salvation?
First of all, women will continue to
play a pivotal role in the symbolism, of
th~ Church. But some will immediately
obJect: "Symbolism is not real,· we are
interested in the real roles real women
will play in the real Church today." But
wait a minute! In Orthodoxy, symbolism is not divorced from the real but
rather manifests it. Therefore, if w~ are
to locate the essential meaning of
women in the life of the Church then
we must first discover how the Church
essentially
envisions
the role of
woman. This is to be discovered in her
symbol structure.
When we look into such symbols,
we find that Church (and Israel) are
frequently symbolized as feminine,
and the figure of the Theotokos is
often seen as an image of the Church
herself. Thus we find Israel as the wife
and lover of Yahweh (Goel) in the Old
Testament, and the Church as the
Bride of Christ in the New. The figure
of the woman clothed with the sun
(Rev. 12), intertwines symbolism that
relates to all three: Israel, the Church,
and the Theotokos. What is the significance of all this? The image of woman
in the Church is essentially that of
receptivity.
As the bearer of new life, woman
receives the life of man into her own
life, and in doing so, conceives new
life that embodies the life of both.
Spiritually, the incarnation of Son by
the Virgin Mary follows the same pattern: By her "yes" to God the Father,
she receives the Divine Logos who
takes flesh from her, and the God-man
is conceived and born. Her willing
receptivity to Goel makes salvation
possible. It is thus easy to see why
woman, especially the Theotokos,
becomes the model for all believers
and the Church herself. C.S. Lewis
once wrote that b ·fore ocl. all of u--.
are feminine, because all of Lh .ire in J
r ceptive position to thi. offic • of
divine life. Receiving the Hol • . pint in
the womb of th baptismal font, '"'e
tl:e_n, li_ke the Theotoko~. ·arry the
d1vme ht within. hat is true of u--..1--.
believers i true of the hurch a--. .1
whole,
Thu we may e 'P ct to see ,,om •n
a the pure t model· of r cepti,·ity to
God in the realm of . piritualit . Th •y
have the gift of imaging chi. quality to
the re t of humanit . iven the fact
that the mo ·t perfect e amp!, of ob•dience to God' word in the fallen
state i th Theotokos ,ve will like" i e
find other outstanding
ample.., of the
same in other aintly worn •n. Thi
should give men pau ·e a we often
ar blind to the . uprem ly feminin
sanctity that is around u.. The re eptivity of women i a . piritual quality
that should be manif st in certain
Chri t-lo ing women in any pari..,h.
and such holy women can ..,erve a-,
quiet guide to those whose hea11...,are
open to receive th ir ,vitnes . Let no
one say that the rol of such -;anctity
in the Church is 1 .. than real.
A second and relat d ,vay women
will continue to play a pivotal role in
the life of the Church i. in the realm of
charismatic gift . I am using thi term
without ref rence to the so-called
charismatic movement, , hi h emphasizes speaking in tongue. propheci ·s.
and healing a being normal in th •
life of the Church. onetheless, in th·
ew Te tament, we find w m ·n \'\.ho
are gifted with proph ti abilit} and
other piritual endowm nt ( e • t--.
21:9, 1 Cor 11:5). , in
hri tiJn
women have the Hol pirit a well a
men, there i -110 reason to e;...p·c.t that
gift of the pirit will be man ii ·--.tany
less in them than in men.
It i a grave error to a sume that all
the· endowment of the , pirit are giH~n
only to the clergy, -,o that la 'peopl •
must depend on them to_tallyfor p1ritual life. Rather, th gift of the p1rit
ha e been given to the e11lire hur b.
�and we should expect to see women
manifesting good things from God as
well as men. Of course the hallmark
that such gifts are truly from God is
that they are exercised in humility and
obedience to legitimate authority. But
we should be open to seeing the gifts
of women in operation among us in
parish life. Beyond this, we can recognize the many holy women that the
Church has canonized as models for
us. In their lives we can see the Holy
Spirit in miracles, works of mercy, witness to the Gospel, martyrdom, and
every other good work. Women may
not be in the ranks of clergy in the
Orthodox Church, but are numerous in
the ranks of saints.
A final area where we may expect to
see the gifts of women shine in the life
of the Church is that of ministry and
service. It is not an accident that it was
women disciples who accompanied
Christ in His passion, and were the
ones who went first to the tomb. Why?
They were always there to minister to
Him. Likewise, we see women receiving praise from the Apostle Paul for
their works of ministry in the formative
years of the Church. The first person
he commends
to the Romans is a
woman, Phebe, for her devoted service (Rom. 16:1-2). One does not have
to examine the life of our parishes
very carefully before recognizing that
women devoted to service and min-
DAILY DEVOTIONS
is try often uphold more than their
share of parish work. Where would
most of our parishes be without their
Ladies Society or AOCWNA chapter?
Thus we can see that the gifts and
roles of women in the Church are rich
and varied. Keeping the supreme
honor given to the Theotokos in mind,
we must respect
and honor the
women who manifest feminine sanctity
around us on a daily basis. May God
open our eyes to the beauty of their
holiness!
Father Paul is the North American
Board AOCWNA Chaplain, and Dean
of St. George Cathedral in Wichita,
Kansas.
by Archpriest George Alberts
JANUARY 1994
1. COLOSSIANS 2:8-12; LUKE 2:20-21,
40-52
2. 2 TIMOTHY 4:5-8; MARK 1:1-8
3. HEBREWS 11:17-23, 27-31;
MARK 12:13-17
4. HEBREWS 12:25~26, 13:22-25;
MARK 3:1-18
5. 1 CORINTHIANS 9:19-27;
LUKE 3: 1-18 (STRICT FAST)
6. T~TUS 2:11-14, 3:4-7; MATTHEW
3:13-17
7. ACTS 19:1-8; JOHN 1:29-34 (FAST)
8. EPHESIANS 6:10-17; MATTHEW
4: 1-11
9. EPHESIANS 4:7-13; MATTHEW
4:12-1 i
10. JAMES 2:14-26; MARK 10:46-52
11. JAMES 3:1-10; MARK 11:11-23
12. JAMES 3:11-4:6; MARK 11:23-26
(FAST)
13. JAMES 4:7-5:9; MARK 11:27-33
14. HEBREWS 7:26-8:2; JOHN 10:9-16
(FAST)
15. 1 TIMOTHY 3:14-4:5; MARK 3:1-11
34
INTRODUCING ...
Orthodox Iconographer
Fr. Luke Dingman
othing ~n my career as a secular artist
compares :11th the joy and fulfillment that I
have expenenced in upplying Holy Icon , a~
ai ~ct of worship, to th Orthodo faithful and
t eir _churc?es. I had made my living as a
gr~ph1c~ artist, illustrator and wildlife paint 'r
fo1 over 15 years when I began to paint Hoh·
Icons at the urging of my , piritual Father. F1:.
Weldon Hardenbrook in 1980. Our hurch '"a"
on_ the long journ y to the historic nhodo. •
~a1th and we knew that Icon: 'v\'ere impoitant
m Orthodox worship, so I was a:ked to ~tudy,
research and begin to paint Icon: for OL~r
Church, St. Peter & t. Paul, Ben Lomond
California. I immediately joined the ,'t. Tohn 0 iDamascus Association of Orthodox iconographers, and attended several conference.., and
workshops while collecting all the Icon book
Tflem
60UNCJ
and prints I could find.
W6h1lhTO
With fear and trembling prayer and fa-,ring.
I began to apply paint to canvas and board a I
aLL'me
learned the wonderful Holy Tradition and theology of Byzantine Iconography . .'ince that
~
beginning I have had the pri,·ilege and honor
~·~ UhTO
Ttle
of painting Icons for many indi\'idual-, and for
15 different churches in the l'nited 'tare .
ij 6Nll6OP
Canada and Japan. I strive with my I ·onogTIie
UJORLO
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raphy to be well within the I Ioly Tradition of
true Byzantine Iconography and t<m ard the
essence of that tradition which -,rre-,-,e the
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beautiful, spiritual, p aceful look.
Smee my chnsmat1on and o~d_mation by Metropolitan PHILIP in 1987, I have been on pilgrimage to Ru..,..,i.1
and to Mt. Athos, Greece to v1s1t many great monasteries and churches where I studied and photoorai
1 hed
0
Icons.
God willing, I will be an Iconographer for the rest of my life, I believe I was born for and called to th1
work. There's nothing I would rather do.
My wife, Nancy, and I have been married for 23 years and we have three children, Joshua _1, aron 19.. tnd
Sarah 14. We live among the Redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains, where my studio o,,erlook-, the ,tn
Lorenzo River (P.O. Box 226, Brookdale, California, 95007.) (408) 336-2114; Fax (408) 336-8 82. The i on on
the cover of this issue is my prayerful work.
~~
16. COLOSSIANS 1:12-18; LUKE 17:12-19
17. GALATIANS 5:22-6:2; LUKE 6:17-23
18. HEBREWS 13:17-21; MARK 5:14-19
19. 1 PETER 4:1-11; LUKE 12:28-37
(FAST)
20. COLOSSIANS 3:4-11; LUKE 6:17-23
21. 2 PETER 1:1-10; MARK 13:1-8 (FAST)
22. 2 TIMOTHY 2:11-19; LUKE 18:2-8
23. 1 TIMOTHY 1:15-17; LUKE 18:35-end
24. HEBREWS 3:5-11, 17-19;
LUKE 20:27-44
25. 1 CORINTHIANS 12:7-11;
JOHN 10:9-16
26. HEBREWS 5:11-6:8; LUKE 21:5-7, 10,
11, 20-24 (FAST)
27. HEBREWS 7:1-6; LUKE 21:28-33
28. HEBREWS 7:18-25; LUKE 21:37-22:8
(FAST)
29. EPHESIANS 2:11-13; LUKE 13:18-29
30. HEBREWS 13:17-21; MATTHEW
5:14-19
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MINUTES Of THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
L.
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Of THE
FORTY-FIRSTGENERAL CONVENTION
Of THE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE
The Right Reverend
Bishop Antoun, Auxiliary
OF NORTH AMERICA
JULY 18-25, 1993
The Right Reverend
Bishop Basil, Auxiliary
Founded in Arabic as
Al Kalimat in 1905
by Bisho~ Raphael Hawaweeny
Founded m English as
The Word in 1957
by Metropolitan Antony Bashir
CREDENTIALS/STATISTICSFORMS SUBMITTED IN 1992;9 3
1. METROPOLITANPHILIPopened the General Assembly at
10:30 AM and led those in attendance in a brief service of prayer.
He read a list of new parishes in the Archdiocese since the
Washington General Convention in 1991. Thursday, July 22nd.
Metropolitan Philip led a memorial
Archbishop Michael (Shaheen).
service for the late
He recognized the current Trustees of the Archdiocese.
lr. Ernest Saykaly
Mr. Benny R. Homsey
Mr. Ralph Ahercia
Mr. Edward Kassab
Mr. Abe Abraham
Mr. Walid Khalife
Mr. Charles Ajalat
Rt. Rev. Bp. A TOU (Khouri)
Mr. Robert S. Andrews
Mr. Robert A. Koory
Mr. icola Antakli
Mr. Robert Laham
Mr. Theodore R. Mackoul
Mr. Gene Attal
Mrs. Laraine Mabshie
Dr. Anthony S. Bashir
Dr. Paul Massad
lr. Robert Bethoney
Dr. Alan E. Matook
Mr. David Bojrab
Mr. Hafez assar
lr. Raymond Cbammas
Mr. George Nassor
Mrs. ancy Cohlmia
Mr. Samuel E. Newey
V. Re\'. George S. Corey
Mr. Adeeh Sadd
Dr. John Dalack
Mr. aseeh Saliba
Mr. George Darany
Miss Jean Sam
Dr. George Dibs
Rt. Rv. Protosyngelos Paul Doyle Dr. Eugene Sayfie
V. Rev. Paul Schneirla
Rt. Rev. Bp. BASIL (Essey)
Mr. Carl Shaheen
Dr. George Farha
Mrs. Adele Soffa
Mr. William Farha
Mr. Rudy George
Mr. Anthony Thomas
Mr. Philip Haddad
Mr. Ernest A. Younes
Appointment of Convention Officers
Mr. Ernest Saykaly. Vice Chairman
lr. Robert Koory. Chancellor
Mr. Charles Ajalat, Chancellor
Ir. Charles Saikaley, Ottawa, Canada (Sergeant-at-Arms)
Ir. Walic.l Khalife Detroit. MI (Sergeant-at-Arms)
V. Re,·. Paul Schneirla, Secretary
Dr. John Dalack. Secretary
2. RepresentingFr. Antony Gabriel who was unable to be present
FR. MICHAEL ~V~NS presented the Report of the Depart~
ment of Statistics and Credentials as follows:
Chairman: Archpriest Antony Gabriel
Members:
Rev. Michael Evans
Rev. Peter Shportun
Mr. Peter S. Dacales, Assistant Comptroller
Present were the following:
Protosyngellos Paul Doyle The Very Rev. Anthony Sola
The Rev.Joseph Abud
Kathy Abraham
Gene Attal
Emily Day
Jackie Fadel
Robert Laham
Susanne Nahass
Robin Nicholas
Charlotte Rotche
Jean Sam
Mark Samra
Esther Simbol
RE: Statistics & Cn:dentiab. Article V. Section Lf 1- c • ·I •• '
Archdioce:--.e Con:--.titution.
• ' ) me usi, e
THE WORD
In the theme of this year"s biennial
Archdiocesan
Convention:
"See that you fulfill the Ministry which you have received
in the Lord."
CColossians 4:17)
We commend the: leadership of our Father in Christ Metropolitan PHILIP. who for the: past 27 years has exemplified for us
the true meaning of ministry ~ind service. Together with His
Grace Bishop ANTOU , and I lis Grace: Bishop BASIL, who we
Registration
at the Pittsburgh
Editor-in-Chief
Archpriest Georges.
Corey, D.Min.
Editorial Board
Joanne Abdalah, M.L.S.
The V. Rev. Joseph J. Allen, Th.D.
Anthony Bashir, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Elias Bitar, M.Div.
John L. Boojamra, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Antony Gabriel, Th.M.
The V. Rev. Peter Gillq u ist
Elaine G. Hanna, M.Div.
Linda Hopkins
The V. Rev. James c. Meena
The Rev. John W. Morris, Ph.D.
Ronald icola
ajib E. Saliba, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Paul Schneirla, M.Div.
The Rt. Rev. Stephen Upson, Ph.D.
Convention.
welcome for the: first time: as one: of our I lic:rarchs. \\'e pray that
the Lore.Iour Cod will grant them many more: year:--.of ministry to
our beloved Archdiocese. We: also lament th<: falling asleep in
the Lo_rc.lof our Archbishop Michael of thrice: blessed memory.
Pnor to beginning this report. I ,,·oulc.1 like: to rake this oppc~rtunity to thank all those: who assisted in the: compilation of
this report, especially the Rc:vc:rc:nc.1 licha ,j Evans, Pastor of St.
Nicholas Church in Bric.lgeport, CT. my Assistant Pastor, The Re,·erend Peter Shportun, and the: Archdiocesan
Staff. who through
their efforts. s(1_11plified.and mac.le: the \\'ork of this Department
all the more efficient. This is especially so in \'iew of my illness;I
am sorry that l am unable to he with you.
_ Your signature: upon receipt of your ballots, as well as the
paid assessment to the Archdiocese,
constitutes the ··roll call".
The ~)allots were: distributed on Wednesday. July 21. by the Crec.lentials _Committee: anc.l like\\'isc:. will he pickec.1-up after the
nornmation:" and each ballot of the General Assembly. Again, the
PL_irpc_)seof. this is to allow the: General Assembly to continue
with ,rs hus111ess.
At the opening of the -1 lst Convention
of the Antiochian
?rtho~lox Cl~ristian Archdiocese: of orth America, we report the
tollowmg information received ~ts of Wec.lnesday, July 21, 1993We ha':'e 88.68% of the total votes present and it is declared
~hat there is a quorum to officially open the General Assembly.
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rhe committee convc:nec.l Monday through Wednesday, July 21, 1993 in order to compile this report.
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of the
Antiochian Orthodox Chri tian
Archdiocese
of North America
July 18-25, 1993
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Editorial Office:
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PARISH REPORTS
Out of a total ·or 144 parishes, 143 are paying their annu:il
IN THIS ISSUE:
The hierarchs, clergy and trustees of our \rchdiocese of North America, assembled in Pill-.hurgh, PA.
�AIDS to assess the present knowledge, attitudes and concerns of
the clergy about HIV and AIDS so that important areas of pastoral
concern can be addressed in an appropriate form. Members of the
Panel were Fr. David G. Barr, Fr. Michael Ellias, Michael G. Farrow, Ph.D., Fr. Edward Hughes, Fr. Louis Mahshie, Alan E. M_atook, MD, Fr. John Morris, Fr. John Namie, and George J. Pazm,
MD.
Introduced by Bishop Basil, DR. ALAN MATOOK presented
the results of a survey circulated to the clergy of the Archdioce e, the figures were not offered by shock value but to educate the general audience. In his opinion the transmission of
HIV-AIDS in connection with the current method of administering Holy Communion is practically impossible.
DR. GEORGE G. PAZI , a member of the St. Alexander
evsky OCA parish in Pittsburgh and a member of the faculty of
the Univer ity of Pittsburgh, made a full presentation of the various aspects of the AIDS problem.
Good Morning. My task in the next five minutes or so will be
to focus on three aspects of HIV infection and AIDS, i.e.,
(1) What i this entity called AIDS?;
(2) Where did this most dreaded disease of mankind come
from and how did it get here?; and,
(3) What is the scope of HIV Infection and AIDS world-wide
and particularly on the orth American continent?
have produced convincing evidence that the f'"trstbut unrecog.
nized case of AIDS was probably in a 28 year old man who
died of an overwhelming and unusual viral pneumonia (CMV) in
1952.
In 1969, fully a decade before the first cluster of AIDS was
recognized on the West Coast, a 15 year old boy died in a St.
Louis, Missouri hospital of ~isseminated K~posi's sarcoma;
he had suffered over the previous two years with multiple infections. Samples of his tissues and blood were frozen and they
were then tested later for HIV and found to be positive. Other
early cases describe a nurse from Chicago who died of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
(PCP) in 1961 and a British
sailor in New York who died of the same disease in 1969.
There exists in the African green monkeys of West and
Central Africa a related virus called the Simian AIDS virus. It
was probably transmitted to man by exposure to· its blood or
by a bite. It then became adapted in man to become the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus. AIDS is almost exclusively a heterosexually transmitted disease in Africa. As I previously mentioned, there were probably several portals of entry of the
virus into the United States by returning US tourists and other
tourists coming from infected areas, particularly Central
Africa and Haiti. Many Haitians were employed in Africa and
brought the disease back to their part of the Western hemisphere.
III. What is the scope of HIV infection and AIDS worldwide?
(***Slide #3***) The data is both devastating and terrifying
and almost beyond the comprehension of even the most seasoned epidemiologist. Consider the following:
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No disease in modern times has had quite the impact on the
civilized world that the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
has. This disease has rapidly afflicted more than a quarter of
a million persons in the United States (and that figure is nearing 300,000 as I speak) and between 1 and 2 million more are
believed to be infected with the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV). The scope of the epidemic is even more dramatic
in equatorial Africa where millions of people are already
infected. The social and political instability engendered by the
impact of tens of millions of HIV-related deaths can be expected
to be enormous.
I. What is AIDS?
(***Slide #1 ***) The letters A I D S stand for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(***Slide#2***)AIDS is a syndromic, probably uniformly fatal
communicable illness caused by infection with the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which is characterized by profound deficiency of the immune system associated with a variety
o~ potentially life-threatening and unusual infections and/or c;ertam types of malignancies, especially Kaposi's sarcoma.
II. Where did AIDS come from and how did it get here?
Although the disease (AIDS) was first recognized in Los
Angeles in 1979 and subsequently characterized by the CDC in
1981, it probably gained access into the North American continent from several portals of entry. In fact, some investigators
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About the cover: Estimated/projected cumulative adult HIV
infections, 1980 to 2000. The World Health Organization projects
that the annual incidence of AIDS in North America and Europe
will peak around the mid-1990s. In development countries, however, especially in Asia, the annual incidence will continue to
increase into the next century, with an annual death toll of more
than 1 million by the year 2000 - one-half in Africa and onefourth in Asia.
1. One person acquir~s HIV every 15-20 seconds.
2. 11 to 13 million people have AIDS and > 500,000 of
these are children.
3. The World Health. Organization (WHO) estimates that by
the year 2000, 30-50 million people will be infected and 15
million people will develop AIDS and 1/3 will be children.
4. The developing countries account for > 90% of ne~
infections, i.e., 50% in sub-Saharan Africa and approx•·
mately 25% in Asia. This is extremely telling since 50% of ~e
world's population live in South and Southeast Asia. India
alone probably has greater than 1 million infected persons,
5. Male:Female AIDS= 17:1 in USA, but 1:1 in Africa.
IV. What is the scope of HIV Infection and AIDS in the USA?
assessment. This. represents
.
. h99.3% of parishes in the Archd.iocese.
There are 21 missions w 11ic are exempt until they reach full Parish status; however, they are full participants in the work of the
convention and General Assembly.
COMMUNICANTS
A total of 42,3~9 communicants were reported in the compilation. The Archdiocese Assessment has been received from
42,224 communicants, 99.7% of the total. There has been an increase of 2,855 communicants since the 1991 Archdiocese Convention, according to the census taken by the Credentials Committee.
CURRENT STATISTICS1993
1,532
Baptisms
839
Chrismations
542
Marriages
662
Funerals
These figures are based on statistics received from 159 of a
possible 163 Churches and Missions.
There has been an increase in revenue resulting from many
parishes that have increased their assessment. It is worth noting
at this time, that the diligence of some Pastors and Parish
Councils reflects a steady increase in membership, and therefore,
in the assessments received.
NEW PARISHES
We welcome for the first time the following Parishes and
Missionsto the Archdiocese.
Holy Cross Church
Pittsburg
CA
St. Andrew Mission
Riverside
CA
St. Stephen Church
Sanjose
CA
St. Mark Church
Denver
CO
St. Athanasius Church
Newark
DE
All Saints Church
North Chicago
IL
Holy Cross Mission
Baltimore
MD
All Saints Church
Raleigh
NC
St. John Chrysostom Mission
Mechanicsburg
PA
St. Ignatius of Antioch Mission
Virginia Beach
VA
Virgin Mary Church
Montreal
PQ
Holy Cross Church
Fort Worth
TX
TITHING 22 Parishes
It is noteworthy to point out the following Parishes that are
currently tithing to the Archdiocese.
Haslett, MI
Eagle River, AK
Jackson, MS
Ben Lomond, CA
North Royalton, OH
Goleta, CA
Beaver Falls, PA
Huntington Beach, CA
Franklin, TN
Lompoc,CA
Sacramento (St. Athanasius), CA Memphis, TN
Salt Lake City, ur
Boulder, CO
Lynnwood, WA
Newark, DE
Yakima, WA
Atlanta (St. Stephen), GA
Mequon, WI
Wheaton, IL
Saskatoon, SK
Gary, IN
Region
REGIONAL BREAKDOWN OF
PARISHES AND COMMUNICANTS
Number of
Parishes
Can-Am
Eastern
Midwest
NewEngland
Southeast
Southwest
Western
Total
14
29
40
10
20
21
31
165
%of
Numberof
VOTING
Togethe~ from a total of 698 "Po ible·· qualified votes, rhe
breakdown is as follows for the Archdio e e and its organization
Votes
Pre ent and Votin
442 Parishes/Missions
➔ 00
157 Pastors
132
24 _RetiredPastors/ on Parochial Clergy
1
46 Archdiocese Board of Tru te
3
7 AOCWNA
7 Fellowship of St. John the Divine
7 Order of St. Ignatiu of Antioch
8 Teen SOYO
8
698 Possible Votes
619
Total Present
and voting
This represents 88.68% of the "Po ible" voe s according ro
the census of 698 inclusive vote .
Parishes not seated becau e they have not ·ubmitted their
credentials or paid their asse sment are:
St. Lazarus Church, Miami, FL
St. Peter Church, . Miami, FL
Incarnation Church, Detroit MI
St. Ignatius Church, Windsor, 01
St. Anthony Church, Tul a, OK
Pastors of any parish that did not pay their Archdioce"ie a"isessment are seated at this convention. Pa tor who did not "iubmit their credentials are not seated at tl1i convention.
o parishes were seated that did not ubmit their credentials
prior to the start of this convention. It mu t be pointed out that
the work of this department is made more difficult by the noncompliance of some parishes with Archdioce an directives. To all
who faithfully comply with the Archdiocesan directives and expedited the work of this department, we heartily thank you for
your diligence.
Re pectfully submitted,
V. Rev. Antony Gabriel, hainnan
Depa1tment of tati tic • Credentials
Moved by FR. JOH BADEE , seconded by FR. CO'-,":TA TINE NASSAR, the report was received and METROPOLIT
PHILIP declared a quorum present.
3. Moved by GEORGEJOSEPH,seconded by KHALIFE
ABRAHAM
the Minutes of the General Assembly of the 1991 Convention were approved as printed and circulated in The WORD
magazine for November 1991.
%of Total
Archdiocese BaptizedSouls Communicants
8.48
17.58
24.25
6.06
12.12
12.72
18.79
100.00
5,813
7,568
8,580
5,499
2,595
4,242
8,042
42,339
13,73
17.87
20.27
12.99
6.13
10.02
18.99
100.00
PASTORSVOTING
From 156 possible pastors in the Archdiocese 132 are pr~senr at the time of this report, either in person or by proxy· Th~s
represents 84.61 % of Pastors of the Archdiocese. From a possible 24 retired pastors, and non-parochial Archdiocesan assigned
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priests, 18 are present at the time of thi report, either in per on
or by ~roxy._This represents 75% of the retired pa tor and nonparochial pne ts.
Daily Liturgies and Vespers at the Hotel Chapel
4 BISHOPBASILintroduced a discussion of the possible problem
of transmitting AIDS-HIVbased on a survey prepared by and for
the Metropolitan's Commission on HIV Infection and
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(***Slide#9*** FIG. 1. Proportion of HIV Deaths in 173 US
cities with populations> 100,000 in 1990.)
In 1990, AID was the #1 leading cause of death in young
adult males in 64 of 172 cities with populations > 100,000:
Bridgeport, CT- 16%
ewark, J - 45%
an Francisco - 61%
and the #1 leading cause of death in this same age group in
5 states:
ew York- 29%
Florida - 24%
ew Jersey - 28%
Massachusetts - 16%
California - 24%
Leading causes of death among persons 25 to 44 years of age in the
United states from 1982 through 1991. Death rates w~r~ compiled from
vital statistics from the National Center for .Health Stat1st1cs,Centersfor
Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Md. Data are based on
underlying cause of death, using fin a.I data for 1982 through 1990 and
provisional data from 1991. Deaths I.n 19~2 through 1.986 caused by
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 1nf~ctIonwer~ .estI_matedas those
with underlyi.ng-cause assigned ln~e'.nattonal Class,flca_ttono~Diseases,
Ninth Revisiorfl code 279.1 (def1cIency of cell-mediated immunity),
136.3 (pneumocystosis), or 173.0 through .173.9 (nonmelanoma malignant neoplasm of the skin, inclu~ing K~pos1's sarco,:na). Deaths in 1987
through 1991 caused by HIV infe_ct1onwere defined .as those with
underlying-cause assigned cod~s 042, 044, or 043, wh1c~ were introduced for classifying HIV infection as a causer of death in the United
States beginning with data for 1987.4
In 1990, AIDS was the #1 cause of death in young adult
females in 9 cities among 5 states:
New Jersey (Newark) - 43% Maryland (Baltimore) - 15%
Connecticut
New York
Florida
AIDSense Insights Re: "HIV and Holy Communion"
Antiochian Archdiocesan Convention - Pittsburgh, Pa .
George J. Pazin, M.D. - 7/22/1993 - 10:30 A.M.
I. Introduction
*Presenter: Academic internist physician subspecialist in infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center. Special experience and expertise in
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including genital herpes and
HIV/AIDS.
Orthodox Christian associated with the O. C.A. Member, St.
Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church in Atlanta July 1968-July 1970
and choir director '69-'70 while serving in the U.S. Public Health
Service at the CDC.
*Objectives:
1) Present very brief overview of HIV/ AIDS.
2) Discuss elements involved with spread of HIV.
3) Review data on HIV in saliva.
4) Consider potential for spread of HIV via passionate kissing
or contaminated Holy Communion.
(***Slide #4 ***GRAPH)
The 1st 100,000 cases of AIDS were reported between
June, 1981 and August, 1989 (first 8 years of the epidemic). It
only took some 27 months to report the 2nd 100,000 cases
(September, 1989-November, 1991).
FIGURE 1. Death rates• for leading causes of death for men aged
25-44 years, by year - United States, 1982-1991+
...- ...__
60
55
so
'···-···-···-
HIV Infection
45
U.S. AIDS CASES
40
(1981 to 1991)
Cl)
35
iii
!i!,a,rt..Q!~~ase
30
C: 25
50,000
First 100,000 Casas
~r
Su1C1de
~~de
20
45,000
15
Chroi:uc.
Liver.Disease
Cerebrovascu ar Di a.se
10
40,000
5
35,000
0-+--~:":::-::-::-:-~:-:-------.--.----r---,.---=Q.:;~!•~
Year
25.000
20,000
~
15,000
(MMWR:07/02/93)
*Per 100,000 population.
+National vital statistics based on underlying cause of death, using final
data for 1982-1990 and provisional data for HIV infection for 1991.
:".
~
10,000
~~
~
~
o~--,-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 19871988 1989 1990 1991•
~
L------------------------...1
J
By the end of 1991, 206,392 cases of AIDS had been reported with 133,232 deaths. In 1991, 43,672 cases of AIDS
were reported to the CDC. In 1992, 46,648 cases were reported.
It is estimated that between 1 and 2 million people in the
USA are infected with HIV. Heterosexuals are the fastest
growing category of HIV transmission in the USA. Approximately 1 in 30 American males age 30-50 years old are HIV
positive.
(***Slide #5*** QUARTERLYAIDS MAP, April 1992-March
1993)
United States, April 1992-
FIGURE 2. Death rates• for leading causes of death for women
aged 25-44 years, by year - United States, 1982-1991 +
30
25
----------.9~CJ!r
1.!!!!r:ilE!".!!2'1<!1
.fQlllries
t!fili.'1.Q!~~se
HIV Infection
Suicide
20
~~ge
Cerebrovascular Disease
Chronic,Liver Dis11ase
--···-···---···---···-···......__
10
-·-·-·-·--·-·---·--·-
!;.)'!f:?.eleJ
.M~l~lus
P.!1~!-'.'!?<?!¥~
.I!~ .'n~enza
5
·1982198319841985198619871988198919901991
(MHWR:07/02/93)
Year
*Per 100,000 population.
+National vital statistics based on underlyingcause of death, using final
data for 1982-1990 and provisionaldata for HIV infectionfor 1991
75% of all death from AID ar in chi.·age group
(***Slide #8*** LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH
RALL
1982-1991, male and female age 25-44)
Nationwide, IIlV infection was the #9 leadin
all deaths in the USA. Among young adults it w
leading cause of death, i.. , 18.6% of all males and 6 2
females. Only death from accidental injuries and cant:er \\
higher.
on 32%
prindield 20%
Proviaence 23"Hartford 25%
ew Haven 33%
•
ridgeport t 6%
;,.• StarQiord 32%
This slide represents the number of reported AIDS cases
per 100,000 population by state and/or territory. Ranking
in descending order:
#5 - California (41.7)
#l - Washington, D.C. (151.8)
#6 - Delaware (38.2)
#2 - Puerto Rico (68.2)
#7 - New Jersey (37.3)
#3 - New York (60.9)
#4 - Florida (56.2)
Fort Lauderdale S 1"Hialeah 28%
HoHywood 31"Mi.ami 43%
F.i~.1 - The proportion of death_sc~used.by human .immunode~i~iency~irus infection among deaths in 1990 in young men (aged 25 to 44 years) in US
c1t1esof at least 100,000 population in which human 1mmunodef1c1ency
virus was the leading cause of death in young men and the denominator wasat
least 25 deaths from all causes.
THE
1~:m:l.'n enza
?.nt?Y.'TI9P.
~ rtus
1982198319841985198619871988198919901991
30,000
AIDScases per 100,000 population March1993
J.!/llr:it~'l.!!2'11\1.ln
nes
(***Slide #6*** FIGURE 1. DEAIB RATES - MEN 25-44
Years,1982-1991)
In 1991 HIV was the #2 leading cause of death among
YoungmeC: ages 25-44. Only accidental deaths was higher.
(***Slide#7*** FIGURE 2. DEAIB RATES- WOMEN 25-44
Years,1982-1991)
In 1991, HIV was the #6 leading cause of death in women
ages25-44.
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uat1ons
*INDIRECT "accidental" spread or acquis1t1on.
.
"Too small to measure" among 890 people living with 497
people living with AIDS ("PWAs"), BUT
·th
-apparently not zero because there were some PWAs wi
"no 1.d ent1·f·ie d n·sks ( IRs)" who are probably being truthful.
h. ne
( ome of 584 adults; some of 96 children <13 yo, e.g. W it Y
Williams - See PEOPLE magazine, ov. 23, '92).
Metropolitan PHILIP presented the Antonia~ Gold Medal o! Merit
to AOCWNA on its 20th anniversary of service to the Archdiocese,
through Pauline Maloof, first president of NAB.
What about HIV and Holy Communion?
-Is this just a special example of an extremist's "elusive
search for zero risk?"
Almost, BUT considering that acquisition of HIV is all-ornone occurs on single occasions and is ultimately lethal and
trans:iussible to one's loved ones, we should neither promote
nor condone potentially risky behaviors as follows:
-promiscuity - homosexual or heterosexual
-sharing syringes
-pregnancy or breastfeeding by HIV-infected women
-blood or tissue donations by persons with risky behaviors
-intimacy with HIV-infected people even with partial protection provided by condoms
--cavalier or careless behavior by or with HIV-infected people - potential exchange of body fluids to mucosa! membranes
(moist lining surfaces)
*Regarding: HIV and Holy Communion
Possibly consider inquiry re: risky behaviors during Confession.
Persons infected with HIV should notify their priests or ministers.
-"no touch" administration techniques
-perhaps the last communicant
-if contamination occurs - respectful discard, i.e. buried?
Infected clergyman.
-separate chalice
-meticulous handwashing
-alert to avoid contamination of hands or chalice
VI. Summation
Reality: >300,000- with AIDS; -200,000 deceased; -100,000
PWAs
--1,000,000-1,500,000 infected reservoir
--100,000-200,000 heterosexually infected reservoir
Susceptibility + Exposure + Inoculation + Attachment ->
"TRA SMISSIO PARADOX"
Low probability, BUT 100% when it happens.
Blood, semen, vaginal secretions? - Surely.
Saliva? - Directly (via "type 2" kisses) - Probably!
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OVEMBER 1993
(e.g. via Holy Communion) - Unlikely,
BUT
it should be taken into account and should not be ignored as
though it could not happen.
Be not afraid. HIV and Holy Communion should be more of
a concern for the hierarchy, clergy and HIV/ AIDS-associated
medical scientists than for the laity in general:
With respect to acquiring HIV, we, the lai~, need to be more
concerned about our personal and occupational-professional
behaviors than our religious behavior.
MICHAEL G. FARROW, Ph.D., of Sciences Regulatory Services International of Washington, DC offered the results of the
survey circulated to the clergy of the Archdiocese.
1. What causes HIV infection?
Virus 89
Bacteria 6
The Environment o
2. Do all HIV infected persons have AIDS?
Yes 7
No 86
Don' know 2
3. Can HIV be transmitted by "routine" (casual) contacts
such as social kissing, sharing kitchen utensils, touching door
knobs, shaking hands or talking with people?
Yes 2
No 93
Don't know
4. Do you fear getting HIV infection by routine contact?
Yes 3
No 92
5. Major routes of transmission for HIV include which of
the following?
Yes 95
Sexual intercourse
No
Yes 95
Sharing intravenous needles
No
Exchange of other body fluids:
Blood
Yes 94
o O
Don't know 1
Saliva
Yes 23
o 49
Don't know 16
Tears
Yes 12
No 64
Don't know 19
Breast Milk
Yes 31
o 45
Don't know 18
Semen
Yes 89
No 2
Don't know 5
6. Should the functional, newly diagnosed person with HIV
receive the same intensity and quality of pastoral care as people
who have other serious illnesses?
Yes 92
No 2
7. Should patients with advanced AIDS receive the same
intensity and quality of pastoral care as other terminally ill
patients, i.e., patients with leukemia, cancers, etc.?
Yes 95
No
8. Do members of your family or parishioners express concern about your pastoral care of persons with HIV infection or
AIDS?
Yes 21
No 62
9. How do you handle your own concerns and those of
your family or others about ministering to a person with HIV or
AIDS?
Education
33%
Common Sense
33%
Theological
33%
.l
10. Have parishioners expressed concern about the possrbr1ty of contracting HIV/ AIDS through reception of holy communion?
Yes 70
No 25
11. If Yes, how strong is their concern?
Very strong
25
Strong
8
Somewhat concerned
39
Don't know
23
. holy
12. Have members of your parish refused to receive d
communion if they suspect that a communicant may be infecte
with HIV or have AIDS?
23
Yes 37
No 59
Don't know
13. Have these members also expressed concern about the
transmission of other infectious diseases?
Yes 37
No 48
virus.
If Yes, which ones? Strep, Cold, Flu; also germs,
bacteria, TB, pneumonia, VD, herpes, hepatitis.
-Indirectly
*Teaching Perspective: Primarily, almost exclusively, from a
medical point of view because I am more medically than spiritually qualified.
"Our reasoning brain is a gift from God, and we need not he
afraid to use it to the u~most whe~ readi~g Scripture."
Bishop Kall1stos (Timothy Ware) of Diokleia
Orthodox Study Bible on How to Read the Bible
"Our reasoning brain is a gift from God, and we need not he
afraid to use it to the utmost when . . . analyzing medical and
spiritual issues. "
adapted by George J. Pazin, M.D., M.S.
Orthodox Christian layman
II. Overview of HIV/ AIDS
*Extent: In USA as of 7/1/93 - > 300,000 cases of AIDS, 200,000 deaths; - 100,000 people living with AIDS; - 1,000,000
HIV-infected reservoir, 100-200,000 heterosex.
*Cause: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1, HIV-2)
*Effect of HIV Infection: Person's host defenses injured due
to damage to the immune system via progressive decline in CD4
lymphocytes.
*Natural Course: Acquisition -> Acute syndrome -> Sub-clinical phase - 2% @ 2 yrs., then - 6% yr. thereafter - > AIDS ->
premature death a few years later.
*Benefits and Limitations of Therapy: 6-9 months delay in
progression and 6-9 months delay in death, BUT ultimately
lethal.
*Transmission: Politically correct, partyline "AIDSpeak," halftruth perspective. The established types of ~ransmission - unprotected sexual, blood (incl. needlesharing) and mother to newborn. Potentially wishful and overly simplistic.
Thoughtful, "AIDSense," (whole-truth) perspective. Spread
not likely limited to "established," reported routes of spread, i.e.
since all instances of spread are not explained by the "reported"
routes of spread, we should not limit our concepts regarding potential spread of HIV to the "reported" routes. We should consider the potential "undetectable," unreported routes.
The "TRAN MI IO P RADO ••
Spread of HIV in most ituation i • a LO, PR B
B T ... ALL-OR- 0 E, OCC R OJ\
and
"O LY TAKE O CE" ...
IV. Date Re: HIV in saliva
Ho, D. et al (letter EJM Dec. '85)
-1/83 (1.25%) + in saliva ver·us 28. 50 c-6%) + in blood:
B T
< 2cc saliva cultured ver us - 20 c blood: not quanrirative.
-most frequently referred to.
Groopman et al (refereed article in c1ence ct. 26. '8 1)
--8/20 (40%) saliva po itive versus 20 (35%) blood pos.
-includes electron micro copi phorograph of cell from
patient #8's saliva relea ing HI virion .
Levy et al (let Lancet '87)
-3/55 (5.5%) saliva +; 1/16 (6.7%) parotid ecretions +.
(Clin. Inf. Dis. Apr. '93)
-21% saliva culture +; 0/26 when diluted I fold -> "Im,
concentration" even with periodontitis.
Mysteiy (partial) inhibitor in aliva (JADA '8 )
-3 "spiked" saliva - incubated 1 hr.-> 1 positive.
A special musical was presented by Khoureeye Grace
accompanied by Father Mark Sahady and Khoureeye Laila
the Women's luncheon.
Metropolitan PHILIP was presented with an "award" at the Antiochian Women's luncheon, on their 20th anniversary.
III. Elements Involved In Transmission (Spread-Acquisition) of
HIV
1) Susceptibility _ Everyone, all-the-time.
2) Exposure - Necessary, but not sufficient._
.
3) Inoculation - Usually accomplished by nsky behaviors.
4) Attachment to CD4 receptor on surface of CD4 lymphocytes in blood or dendritic macrophages in mucosa! membranes.
*Consequences of the elements involved in transmission:
-Anyone can get infected. Co-factors are not necessary.
.
. -Risk elimination types of behavior enable p~o~l~ to avoid
~ection with HIV. Truly safe sex is possible by hmitmg sexual
tntimacy to an uninfected partner in a faithful monogamous relationship (preferably marriage).
-Risky behaviors not risk groups, enable direct HIV contact
With oral-genital muc~sal membranes (moist lining surfaces) or
penetration through skin.
-Chance-like
impact with receptor makes infection a low
Probability event.
8
Conclusions re: HIV in saliva
1) The virus is present in saliva of HI -infected people.
2) Enough virus to infect lymphocyte· in culture. . . . ,.
3) Clearly not fully inactivated by the "m stery tnh1b1tor
even after 60 minutes pre-incubation.
V. HIV in Saliva in Perspective
*DIRECTmucosal exchange ( ia pa sionate ki..,sing>.
" o reported cases," B T
-The virus is there.
-It is exchanged directly muco al membrane to muco-.al
membrane.
-Low probability, B T 100% when it happen'>
-Nearly impos ible to detect ali ary spread in -. ·ning of
hierarchy of risk .
-Terribly erious (ultimately fatal).
.
.
.
• is
• en 1"ble to belie e it i• occurring and to take that
Hence, 1t
into account with one' behavior .
..
-like "a tiny hole in every condom,
-UNSAFENS so-called afer . ex
-so-called "protection" i pa~
.
-to differentiate expo ure situations from non-expo. ur it-
�with additions and
notes drawn from the
Arabic
translation
which was published
in Beirut in 1952 and
reprfnted
in 1986.
The Typikon contains
the directions
for
how to prepare all
the services throughout the Church year.
In addition to
these large on-going
projects, the committee continues to provide support for the
day-to-day needs of
the parishes of the
Archdiocese.
Meeting of the Conciliar Press members.
Fr. Nifon Abraham has already prepared the Liturgical Guide for Priests, Choirs,
and Chanters for 1994. This will be the 15th year that the
6A. FATHERPAULSCHNEIRLA,Western Rite Vicar General, preDepartment has published this important guide for the use of
sented the report of the Western Rite Vicariate:
our parishes. We are very grateful to Fr. Nifon for his continued
Several features on the work of the Western Rite Vicariate in
help in this project.
The WORD magazine, June, 1993, make detailed treatment unAs we have for the last 14 years, we have again prepared the
necessary in this report.
Vespers texts for the regional conferences as well as for other
Progress has been steady since the Washington General Conmeetings and conferences held throughout the year.
vention, and continues. ew missions appear every month or
The Department also tries to provide texts or special services
two; published material has tripled (interested inquirers may subas may be required by individual parishes for all occasions:
scribe to CREDO for continuing coverage, Monthly, POB 84,
weekday vespers, joint Pan-Orthodox services, Sunday of OrthoStanton, .]., 08885, $10 per year). The Archdiocese budget indidoxy vespers, Sunday evening Lenten vespers, Menaion verses
cated a 400% increase in support. the mission of the Vicariate is
for the Wednesday Pre-Sanctified and other services.
to provide an option for inquirers; it does not promote proselyWe would like to thank all the Priests, Deacons, Choir directizing.
tors, and other members of our Archdiocese who have helped us
in our projects, provided their expertise and time, and have
Moved by FATHER EDWARD HUGHES and seconded by
shared their comments and criticisms with us. We need everyFATHERJOH CON ELLYthe report was received.
one's help to make our department as useful to each parish and
as responsive to the needs of our Archdiocese as possible.
Moved by JACKIE KOURI, St. George, Wichita, seconded by
We also thank our Metropolitan PHILIP for his leadership
E GEORGE, Detroit, the report was received.
and guidance, as well as Bishop Antoun and Bishop Basil for
their interest and support for the work of this Department.
7. FR. EDWARDHUGHESand FR. MICHELNAJIM, Co-Chairmen,
presented the report of the Department of Liturgies and
Moved by FR. MICHAEL ABDELAHAD and GRACE ASWAD
the report was received. A discussion of a standard translation of
Translations.
the Liturgy ensued.
During the past two years, the department has been deeply
involved in the SCOBA commission preparing a common translation of the Divine Liturgy which hopes to produce a common
The General Assembly recessed at 1:15 P.M. for one hour.
English Divine Liturgy to be used in most, if
not all, parishes of the SCOBA jurisdictions
all over the continent. This is an enormous
project, requiring many hours of work outside as well as inside the committee meetings. The Department is very grateful to our
Metropolitan PHILIP for his vision in encouraging and upporting this project.
Fr. ajim has continued his work on a
new Synekdemos (five pounder). This is a
brand-new translation which will contain
much more material for the Sundays and
Feast-days than we now have available. It
will also contain directions and rubrics which
will make it easier for Priests, chanters, and
choir to prepare and execute the Divine
Services.
Fr. Hughes has continued his work on
the Typikon. Thi will be a complete translation of the Greek Typikon of George
Violaki (1888) as it is currently published,
Meeting of the Inter-Orthodox members.
the fall of the Soviet
nion. The Orthodox/ Anglican Theo logical
Consultation was suspended at the same time
as membership in the
CC and a joint
Orthodox-Anglican
Commission
has
been considering resumption, postponement or cancellation
in the meantime. The
next meeting will
convene in September of 1993. The suspension has provided
an opportunity for insight into basic problems.
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11
14. If you have answered Question 12 or 13 in the affirmaby the Standing Conference, pending con ultation b •m een the
tive,what metl_iods have you used to counsel these parishioners?
CC and . an ad hoc corrurn• 10n
• appointed by the
e, •rat
Education
11%
consultation
were
held,
open
hearings to elicit Orthodo. reOpen Mouth, drop in HC
12%
sponse were arranged, and a r port ·ubmirred to th , confer ·nu:
Christ in communion
14%
~n~ approved. 1:h_edecision of the OB calls for a p •riod of
15. Should you ask people with AIDS to refrain from attendluruted
and prov1s1onalparticipation in the
by the rthodo. ·
ing divine services?
members to
followed by recon ·ideration of the relat1onsh1p.
Yes O
No 95
Father Schne1rla and, for a tim due to budgetary onstncuons,
16. Are you awar~ of cou~seling services and other support
F~ther Scott served on the ad hoc c mmi sion for ch , rchservices for persons with HIV mfection or AIDS in your area?
d1ocese.
Yes 80
No 14
17. Are you now ministering, or have you ever ministered,
to persons with HIV infection or AIDS?
Yes 45
No 48
A general discussion followed, among the speakers, Bishop
Basil,Fr. Husney, Bp. Antoun, Fr. John Hamatie, Fr. Peter Demro, Dr. Orlando Skaff, DDS, Fr. James Barakat, Fr. John Morris
SteveAbercia, Ron Malloly, Peter Hughes, Isabel Elac, Susan Na~
has, Fr. Sam David, Ann Mackoul, Fr. Randolf, Robert Andrews,
Julie Hanna.
In response to the often repeated assertion that the nature of
the sacred species precludes the possibility of contagion, FR.
ELIASBITAR observed that it is well-known that the consumption of an excess of the species of wine can cause inebriation so
why not other unwanted effects. BISHOP BASIL announced that
the panel will become a Standing Commission of the Archdiocese. He thanked the participants and .suggested that we
change the way we think and the way we behave.
METROPOLITAN PHILIP thanked Bishop Basil, the experts
and the participants.
5. ERNESTSAIKALYon behalf of the nominating committee announced the following names as the list of candidates proposed by
theCommittee!
George E. Atallah
Forest Hills, NY
Dr. Anthony Bashir
West Roxbury, MA
The new president of AOCWNA,
MarleneMamaryof Oklahoma.
George D.arany
Dearborn, MI
Dr. George Dibs
Fullerton, CA
2. The Standing Conference, still subject to a leader hip
Alex Kalil
Montreal, PQ
vacuum, has functioned well since our last report. Regular meetWalid Khalife
Bloomfield Hills, MI
ings have been held, the International Orthodox
hri<,ti.in
AntoonJ. Khouri
Wellsley, MA
Charities has been enabled and program· addre, sing the fonnaDr. Sam Kouri
Wichita, KS
tion of a standard text of the Liturgy, and the problem of clergy
Dr. Alan Matook
Cedar Grove, NJ
sexual misbehavior are in progress. An international rthodox
David Nuner
Miami, FL
Commission called to consider action in the so-called "Diaspora··
Walter Parhamovich
Las Vegas, NV
has proposed as a beginning local as ociation which are \ 'f)
Charles Saikaley
Ottawa, PQ
close to the Structure of the Standing Conference. Orthodo
Dr. Eugene Sayfie
Miami, FL
People Together and the Orthodox Christian Laity are still in
Additional names may be submitted to the committee before
active life in response to unaddressed but felt ne ds in mentan
4 P.M.tomorrow. For a valid ballot ten names must be voted.
Orthoddxy.
3. The Orthodox/Lutheran Theological Con ultati n 1s
6. At the request of Fr. Paul Schneirla, Chairman, FR. OLOF
on cour'>e \\ ith raSCOTT,Vice Chairth r John \1orris repman presented
the
resenting our r ·hreport
of
the
diocese. Father Paul
Inter-Orthodox
, chneirla, rather Jaand Inter-Faith
son del \ ito and Dr.
Robert JI.ic.ldac.land
Commission.
Dr. . usan . I Ian ey
In addition
to
repre-,ent the .\rl h
personal initiatives
diocese on the Orand contacts the foci
tho do /R man
of the commission efatholi Th 1
forts have been the
ical on ultati n
following:
onle ag.11n fou1s •
1. Our last report
on common aim folto a General Conlowing a difticult pervention announced
iod after the r ·vi, al
the suspension of reof
the niat • lOllllations with the Namunities following
tional Council of
Our hierarchs with the past presidents of AntiochianWomen.
Churches, mandated
?e
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um rous radio, T.V. and newspaper interviews
eekend renewal seminars in many Orthodox parishes of
all jurisdictions coast to coast
/ti the months ahead ...
Pre entation
at Sigma Alpha Epsilon
ugu t:
ational Leadership School, Chicago
Pan Orthodox Missions and Evangelism
ptember:
Conference, September 2-7, 1993, Antiochian
Village. Call (805) 968-4014 to register.
Hartford Leadership Seminar, San Francisco
October:
Speak at Melkite ational Convention, Milwaukee
Evangelism Seminar, Omaha
Week of Campus Outreach to colleges and
ovember:
universities in Boston
Evangelism Seminar, San Francisco
Current Antiochian Orthodox Missions as of July, 1993
Flag taff, AZ (602) 953-1921
Raleigh, C (919) 851-9037
orthern Arizona Mi sion
All Saints Mission
Fr. Anthony ola, contact
Fr. icholas Sorenson
Glendora CA (818) 852-0377
t. George Mis ion
Fr. Luke Matar
Fargo, D (701) 293-0694
All Saints Mission
Dr. Craig Roseland, contact
Lancaster, CA (805) 245-3571
Holy Cro s Mission
Fr. icholas eyman
York, PA (717) 795-7170
St.John Chrysostom Mission
Fr. Peter Pier
Riverside,CA (714) 734-7764
t. Andrew Mission
Fr. Paul Finley
Lehigh Valley, PA (215) 965-2298
St. Paul Mission
Fr. John Kahle
San Jose, CA (408) 268-4046
Santa Clara Valley Mission
Fr. Charles Bell
Beaver Falls, PA (412) 846-5555
St. John the Evangelist Mission
Fr. Basil Banyasz
Boulder, CO (303) 665-4013
St. Luke Mission
Fr. David Mustian
Corpus Christi, TX
Betty Whittaker, contact
(512) 852-2873
Denver, CO (303) 690-6045
St. Elia Mission
Fr. Michael Buben
Salt Lake City, UT (801) 278-5608
SS.Peter & Paul Mission
Fr. William Hartung
Wilmington, DE (302) 737-9770
t. Athanasius Mission
Fr. Ken Hines
VirginiaBeach, VA (804) 523-9424
St. Ignatius of Antioch Mission
Fr. Seraphim Stephens
Chicago, IL (312) 267-1440
All Saints Mission
Fr. Douglas Wyper
Milwaukee, WI (414) 241-9041
St. Nicholas Mission
Fr. William Olnhausen
Wheaton, IL (708) 876-9133
Holy TransfigurationMission
Fr. WilliamCaldaroni
• Proposed new missions
Daytona Beach, FL (904) 677-5755
Central Florida Mission
Bloomington, I (812) 339-3446 Dr. Richard Ajalat,contact
All aints Mi ion
Topeka, KS (913) 354-1010
Dr. Harold Sabbagh, contact
Holy Trinity Mission
Lake Charle , LA (318) 474-2004 Mr. Michael Press, contact
t. John Mission
Asheville, C
Fr. David Thomas
David Huneycutt, contact
(704) 252-8565
Baltimore, MD (410) 945-3938
Holy Cro Mission
Bellingham, WA (206) 966-3937
Fr. Gregory Mathewes-Green
orthwest Washington Mission
Fr. Mel Gimmaka
E. Lan ing, MI (517) 339-2130
t. James Mis ion
Fr. Richard Peters
For a current list of Western Rite Missions, contact Fr. Paul
chneirla, 8005 Ridge Blvd., Brooklyn, ew York 11209.
***
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Moved by FR. EMILE HANNA, seconded
WILSON, the report was accepted.
by FR. WAYNE
***
1O. FATHERJOHN BADEEN presented the report
ACORN proiect.
of the
After three and a half years of operation, this weekly, halfhour explanatory of the Orthodox Faith and Life, has aired in a
total of 75 listening areas (approximately 30 at the current time).
To date, we hav~ more than a hundred fully-produced and approved half-hour programs, th~ first 26 ~f which ar~ being translated, by other jurisdictions, into Spanish, Slavonic, Bulgarian,
and Romanian for broadcast over seas (at no cost to A.C.O.R.N.).
Cassettes of extant programming are available in 13-program
sets for a donation (production, packaging, shipping) of $60.
They have proven invaluable as additions to church libraries,
church organizations, church book stores, inquirers' classes, or
for personal study use. We have even been informed that some
seminarians use them as study tools for their courses.
Meeting of the Ecumenical Commission.
A.C.O.R.N. is listened to by over three million persons per
week (only 15% of whom are already Orthodox Faithful). The
cost for airtime is borne by the local Orthodox communities. We
have suggested, to many who have communicated
with us
requesting ways in which the program could be aired locally,
ideas of how this could be done.
SPONSORS:
There are almost as many methods of sponsoring A.C.O.R.N.
as there have been radio stations airing it. Some areas have more
than one Orthodox Church in the listening area of the given
radio station, and the congregations have split the cost of airtime
(and rotated the sponsorship from week-to-week). Some churches have either gotten a good enough deal from the radio station
to make the cost negligible, or sometimes even free.
There are individual businessmen who are members of the
local congregation or who are, at least, desirous of sponsorin?
quality Christian programming and having their business asso:1ated with it. They might simply buy the airtime and utilize the 1~side commercial and the promos for advertising (which is still
100% tax-free - deducted before the computation of taxes as a
"cost of doing business".
CONTENT:
The Holy Pascha program is most suitable for a demo cassette when proposing the program to a radio station. It is noncontroversial and very interesting.
For solicitation purposes (i.e. to locate possible individuals,
organizations, or businessmen who might be agreeable to sp~nt
sor airtime costs), let them hear "Who are the Orthodox ChnS0
ians?", "Oklahoma City - Part I", "Oklahoma City - Part I!", ~
"The Mail". These programs give an idea of the results achieve
1.~
B.Reconvening at 2:15 P.M. METROPOLITANPHILIPasked
FATHER
JOHN BAD~EN to present the report of the Clergy
long-term disability provision.
I a~ veiy pleased that the funding for the lergy Insurante
Insuranceand Retirement Commission.
and R~tireme?t ~rogram is in sound condition and "Hhin our
The Commission did no~ have any formal meetings during
actuarial _proJ~ctions. I refer you to pages 2 1 and 2 1 of the
the past ~o y~ars. The C~amnan, however, did have an inforAnnual _Financial Report, Fiscal Year ending January :31, 199:3.
malmeeting with Metropolitan PHILIP and Bishop A TOU
You will not~ that our fund balance in that reporr "a
July7, 1992,_at the Archdiocese Chancery in Englewood, J, a~~
$l,711,839, an increase of 246,000 in net ,·alue. ur thanks to
again,l~ter in the same _month, during the Clergy Symposium at
Mr. T~d Mackoul and Mr. Peter Dacales for their diligence in the
the Hentag~ and Learni?g Center, Antiochian Village. Both of
handling of these funds. A job well done!
these meetings dealt with actuarial problems, and misunder_In closing, on behalf of the Commis:,ion and mv Brother:-.in
standings concerning_ the objectives of our program. The probChnst, the clergy of the Archdiocese, I offer our he~1rtfeltthanks
lems encou~tered with. t?e OCA hospital/medical group insurto ~he Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch for their commitment .tnd
ance, in which we participate, was beginning to seriously affect
solid support towards the welfare of the clergy and their families.
ourclergy, and a solution was needed.
to ~he Archdiocesan Trustees, for their ongoing contern .tnc.l
Our Clergy Retirement Program is divided into two segments.
assistance. I must also express my personal gratitude LO \Is.
Thefirst is the cle~gy allowance of $18.33 per month, per year of
K~thy Meyer for the time and effort cheerfully gi, en to the hanservice, to a maxunum of $550 per month, after the age of 65
dling of the day-to-clay affairs of the insurance and retirement
(withthe ~pproval of the Metropolitan Primate), with provisions
~rogram; _to His <?race, Bis~op
TOC •. for his acti,e participafor a surviving wife. The second segment is the Supplementary
tion and interest m the affairs of the commission. nd, finalh·. to
Optional Retirement Fund, covered under I.RS. 403(8)(7) acOur Father in Christ, Metropolitan PIIILIP, who has mac.leit ~di a
count. This is a conreality. God gr~1nt
tributoryprogram behim .\lany Year'i!
tween the parish and
the clergy. It is a
Mc)\ed b) Jl'Rln
vested program. The
BRIEL,Detroit .inc.I
priest may take this
seconded
by DR.
withhim from parish
M KOLRI, \\ ichita.
to parish or, on leavth report ,,as reing the Archdiocese
cei\·ed. Father George
for any reason. It is
swacl protested the
approved by the
clergy pension ,, hich
I.R.S.and annual reps
he found to bl' grossare filed by our fidu1y inadequate. In a
ciary agent
with
resulting discussion
them, as required by
Dr. Eugene
,1} fie
trongly supported a
law. The first segpropo'ial that every
ment is non-particiMeeting of the Liturgical Commission.
delegate work for an
patory, that is, it is
increase in the pension; it i one of the principal concern-, of the
paid by the Archdiocese from its resources. The parishes conOrder of St. Ignatius. Metropolitan PHILIP said he would considtributenothing, neither do the clergy. This is not a vested retireer some of the comments made during the discu<.;:,ion.
mentfund. It has never been, and was never intended to be. The
Chairman stressed, at both meetings, that this should be finally
clarified. Some of those who have requested the funds have
9. FATHERPETERGILLQUISTpresented the report of the
claimed that the $50 per month paid for group life and health
Department of Missions and Evangelism.
and accident insurance by the parishes and, in some cases, the
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PAST 1WO YEAR
clergy,included the Retirement Fund. This, of course, is not true,
• As of February, 1993, the Department includes Fr. Jon
and this misunderstanding should now be cleared up. This matBraun, heading up Church Growth
terwill be fully discussed during the scheduled workshop of the
• Hundreds of new convert are coming to
nhodoxy
Convention, as well as during the Clergy Meeting.
throughout orth America
The problems our clergy have encountered with the OCA
• New Orthodox Missions continue to be horn
hospital/medical group are: 1) Rising costs each year, and con• The preaching mis ion to Romania in 1992 i.s sutcessful:
stant reduction in benefits, and 2) Claims handling. The
150,000 people participate
Chairman has invited Mrs. Marie Hudock to attend the
• Current Antiochian missions are growing
Commission Workshop to answer questions and, hopefully, to
• Coming Home is publi h d, the stories of 18 Protestant
resolvethe problems. She has graciously .accepted the invitation.
leaders becoming Orthodox
. Since our last Convention in 1991, to September 30, 1992, life
• Expansion of the annual 1issions and fa .rngel1sm ,onrsurance claims paid under our group insurance amounted to
ference, to include OCA and Greek Orthodox sponsorship. i
88,000. Disability income benefits have been paid (as of the
realized
samedate) amounting to $12 000. We have been advised by the •
• Cooperation with Western Rite in beginning e,eral new
• that a slight adjustment
' may have to be made on OL~r
acarr~er
missions
nniversary date of October 1, 1993. We were informed of this
• We have worked with Campus .\1inistr1 at .\lichigan.
~so on September 30, 1991, and that change never materialized.
Michigan State, Hillsdale College, olumbi.1. the Bo ton ae. ,
e hope that that will also be the case this year.
Cal-State orthridge, University of Pimburgh and th • 1< 9
. Currently, we have fourteen retired clergy, and two clergy
Campus Ministry conference at ntiochian VilL1ge
;idows, who are receiving the Archdiocese allowance, totaling
• A major a11icleon Orthodoxy for Chri tian
ntury mag7,387 per month.
azine was published March, 1992
Currently we have 168 clergy covered under our life insur• Becoming Orthodox ,,,a._ updatt:d and t:. ·pand d
an
suce program' Cl32 of whom are married, with..-the dependent
released by Conciliar Pres
Pplementaiy allowance provision), and 143 covered under our
12
�responsible in total for airtime costs. We have cor:icentrated on
covering our production costs and general operating ~nd have
barely managed to stay afloat. In spite of th~se ~andicaps, :'e
have managed to maintain the highest technical ~n _product~on
standards of any religious programming on the air m Amenc~.
This has been attested to by many who are engaged in the radio
industry.
h · 1
The influence of A.C.O.R.N. in the area of catec etica
instruction as well as missionary outreach is indisputable. Those
who have 'used A.C.O.R. . in the proper way in their local outreach efforts, constantly report success. For the many listeners
who listen, and write, and have been affected by the message of
The Judge's Choice in the Oratorical - Eric Bitar (Eastern Region)
from New Kensington, PA. Metropolitan PHILIP presented a scholarship to Eric, as a personal gift.
Ortl1odoxy through the program - most of whom are not represented in this Assembly - A.C.O.R.N. has been a resounding
success in introducing them to the Orthodox Faith - in many
cases, assisting them in making a conversion decision. For this
we are tl1ankful. It would be tragic at this point in time, when
we are on the threshold of being a major positive influence on
the religious scene, to lose, through lack of funding, the momentum which has been generated, or to cease operations altogether.
With a proposed budget of only $30,000 total for the coming
year, that is exactly what will happen. Out of this $30,000 , we
must pay rent, a salary, telephone bills, cost of tape and tape
duplication, studio time, postage, office supplies, routine equipment maintenance, etc., etc., etc. ... in short, all the usual costs
of doing business. It simply cannot be done on $30,000 with the
minimal amount of contributions we are receiving. Either there is
an adequate restoration of budget monies, or a dramatic increase
in contribution , or some funding alternative, we will not be able
to continue. Whether we continue ministry or not after this year,
is up to you. The final decision is in your hands.
A.C.O.R.N.
P.O. Box 12377
Beaumont, TX 77726
1-800-880-9673
CURRENT AVAILABLE PROGRAMMING
SERIES I - ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN HISTORY
"Who are the Orthodox Christians?", "The Audit Trial of
Christianity", "The Schism Between East and West", "Orthodox
History after the Schism", "Holy Tradition in the Orthodox
Church", "The Bible - Old Testament", "The Bible - New
Testament", "The First Three Centuries After Christ", "The Great
Councils - Part I", "The Great Councils - Part II", "The Great
Councils - Part III", "The icene-Constantinopolitan
Creed",
"Faith"
THE WORD/
OVEMBER 1993
SERIES II - ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP
"Introduction
to Orthodox
Worship and Spirituality",
"Orthodox Church Architecture", "The Orthodox Daily Cycle of
Prayers", "The Orthodox Liturgical_Yea~", "Orthodox Sac:,a~ental
Life", "Holy Baptism", "Holy Chnsmauon and J;enance , Holy
Communion and Unction", "Holy Orders and Matrimony",
"Liturgy - Prothesis and Kairon", "Liturgy of the Catechumens",
"Liturgy of the Faithful", "Our Children's Children"
SERIES III - ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN SPIRI1VALITY
"Salvation", "Fasting - A Spiritual Diet", "Prayer and the
Book of Job", "Marriage and Family Life", "Sin", "Religion and
Politics", "Prayers for the Departed", "The Lord's Prayer", "The
Orthodox Belief about Saints", "Worry and Stress", "Orthodox 12Step Program - Part I", "Orthodox 12-Step Program - Part II",
"Orthodox 12-Step Program - Part III"
SERIES IV - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN THE ORTHODOX
CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
"Contemporary Issues - Clergy Round-Table", "Women and
Marriage", "How to Talk about Religion", "Why There Must be
One Church", "Parenting", "Married Priesthood", "Role of the
Laity", "Oklahoma City Conversions - Part I", "Oklahoma City
Conversions - Part II", "The Apocryphal
Books - What
Happened?", "Evolution", "Bioethics", "Heaven and Hell - Do
They Exist?"
SERIES V - ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLES
"Monasticism", "Jacob's Wives", "The Mail", "Gifts of the Holy
Spirit", "Works of Mercy", "Stewardship",
"Bishop Basil",
"Orthodoxy Under Oppression - I", "Western Rite - Part I",
"Western Rite - Part II", "Clergy Conversions - Part I", "Clergy
Conversions - Part II", "Clergy Conversions - Part III"
SERIES VI
"The Historical Jesus", "Western Rite - Part III", "Theology
of Icons", "The Personality of Jesus", "Two Fishers of Men - V.
Rev. Peter Gillquist & V. Rev. John Badeen", "Who is Jesus
Christ", "Liturgical Worship and Communion in Jesus Christ", "An
Orthodox View of the Papacy", "The Jesus Prayer", "How to
Understand Grief and Loss", "Is Orthodoxy THE Alternative",
"We Have Seen the True Light", "Heterodoxy vs. Orthodoxy"
Archpriest George M. Rados presented
Relief Fund.
a report on the Children's
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
"Christmas", "Holy Pascha, 1991", "St. Thomas Sunday", "The
Sunday of Myrrh-Bearing Women", "The Sunday of the Paralytic", "The Sunday of the Samaritan Woman", "The Feast of the
Ascension" "Holy Fathers Sunday" "Pentecost"
"A Western
Christmas", '"Holy Pascha, 1993"
'
'
Moved by FATHER JOSEPH ANTYPAS, seconded by FATHE~
PETER DEMRO the report was accepted. Father Badeen appeale
for additional funds, saying that the program cannot survive :
the present budget. Metropolitan PHILIP endorsed the appeal D
additional funds and commended the program to the Assembly
by this ministry.
Orth?~ox C~istian Church of Ocala, and b pon or • ·, ·y·,
and Z • It will take you on a fa cinating journey through the hic.,Sunday morning seems to be the best. If there is an adjacency
tory of the Apostolic Christian Faith."
near the Lutheran Hour (which is and always has been a halfIn both th~ one-minute commercial within the body of the
hour), or Billy Grahan:- - g_rab it! It seems to be very important
program, an~ m the promos (u ually thirty
onds) during the
to our local congregations Cm order to keep them excited about
week,
there
is
a
chance
to
"mention"
both
the
funding parish
their programming and to keep them telling other people about
and ~the~ program sponsors. If there are too many ponsor to
it) that the program play at a time when they can hear it. If a
mention m one promo, have the station produce rv,.,oor even
weekly or monthly Parish Bulletin is mailed to people, make certhree and run them in "rotation."
tain that week after week (or month after month), a reminder of
. Use "local"_time for something stronger than announcing the
the program is inserted.
time and location of Divine Liturgy. Invite Ii tener co a -pecial
OTHERIDEAS:
event a~ the church - an ethnic dinner on ale for the public,
One of the better ideas that has come about in some parishes
adult Bible classes, Inquirers' Cla se , lecture , ere. The local
is to utilize the airing of the programming as a kickoff for Adult
spots can be changed from time to time. Every station expects to
Sunday School. If the timing is right, everyone can listen to the
do this.
program together (say at 8:30), and then spend the rest of their
Production of tl1e local promos and the one-minute commertime before Divine Liturgy, discussing that week's topic. It makes
cial to be aired within the body of the program can be done at
the program do double-duty as both an evangelical tool and a
the radio station. If there is not an appropriate "voice" available
part of the church school curriculum.
in the congregation, the station will let you u e one of their
Remember
that
D.J. 's. This producthe programs belong
tion cost nothing.
to the funding entity!
FINANCE:
After the station has
At the rim of its
run them, either pick
inception, the finanthem up or have
cial projections for
them mail back to
A.C.O.R. ., ubmitted
you. All stations offer
to
Metropolitan
this service as a courPHILIP were based
tesy (and because
on experience·
of
Copyright Law reother religious broadquires it). There is no
cast and the finanpoint in just letting
cial support recei,·ed
those programs
be
by them from the
thrown out by the
faithful of their reradio station, when
spective denominathey can be placed in
tions. nfortunatel •.
the Church Library
our financial experiafter-the-fact
and
ence vis a vis our
used to loan to infaithful, has nol met
quirers, etc.
the norm. Total conIt's up to the
tributions recei,·ed
during the entire
local sponsor to determine what order Our hierarchs with the contestants of the Oratorical Contest and Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. three and a half year:
to run the various
Laham of Boston who gave each a scholarship.
of operation
hav
amounted to just under $30,000. We have been held to the lener
series. Series I, however, is intended to be introductory and is
of the projections
as to annual budget support by the
still the one that gets the best results. Series II - on the
Archdiocese. Our cuts have been systematic, but our funding has
Sacraments and Liturgics - deals specifically with the Byzantine
not been replenished by the anticipated rise in individual donaRite.The programming in III, IV, and V, and the SPECIAL PROtions.
GRAMMINGcan be run in any internal order you want. Series I
As an example, our first full year of funding under the
builds on itself and needs to be run in order from 1-13.
Archdiocesan Budget was $100,000. This included airtime cosls
QUALITY:
as a startup expense only. When airtime funding was withdrawn
Each program is produced on Digital Audio Tape and dupli(according to projections) in the second year, ~ur _budget _''-as
cated on cassette. Program duration is 29 minutes.
reduced by $40,000 - with no comparable receipt in donauon'>
TECHNICAL·
receiving only $9,000 as an offset.
Near the end of each program (somewhere around the 26Due to lack of support on the pari h level, we were forced
rninute mark), there is 70 seconds of extremely dreary music.
to
continue
payment for airtime that had been pr~viously conThis is intended to be the "music bed" (musical background) for
tracted (which we had been assured would be paid for by the
the local "commercial" for the sponsoring parish and/or sponsors
local parishes in the various listening area ).
.
of the program. Usually, the station will also allow the on-air DJ
In addition, parishes who pledged before-the-fact to _fundJtrto "introduce" and "tag" each program "live" with something like:
time, withheld funds once the programming had l?een a1r~d. . ol
" . . . brought to you here in El Paso by St. George Orthodox
wishing to besmirch the reputation of any Archd10 e an mstttuChurch .... "
tion we covered those costs out of the much reduced budget
These "intros" and "tags" provide an additional, gratuitous
and' income. As a result, we had a eriou financial shortfall
"mention."
which
we struggled to overcome.
..
During the week, the radio station should be expected to
In the current year, we were reduced an add1t1onal . 20, 0
provide free "promos" - something along the lines of:
.
· b d et leaving us a total of 40,000. Donations continue at
m u g '
1· .
d ll . b .d ,
"Be sure to tune to WXYZ 1430 A.M., each Sunday morning
about the same rate. As a result, we have e 1mmate a ~u .-,1 te'>
at eight for the Antiochian Christian Orthodox Radio Network.
airtime cost assistance and have insisted that local pan hes be
This program is brought to you each week by St. Andrew's
TJME:
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THE
�If the donor shows an interest in the gift of insurance, We
would explain the three ways insurance can be given:
1. AN EXISTING POLICY. The donor's insurance company
would be directed to change both the owner and beneficiary on
the policy, or simply, the benef~cia:Y. The benefits of t~e policy
may be split between the organizations or between family members and the church.
2. A NEW POLICY. A policy can be obtained through the
donor's own agent.
3. AN "AUTOMATIC"POLICY. The donor completes the simple pledge card (similar to the enrollment card procedure used
with employee health insurance programs), and writes us a
check (made payable to: "Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of
North America). This program is our ENDOW ORTHODOXY
FOR TOMORROW program.
• THE "AUTOMATIC POLICY" PROCEDURE -
Delegate Father Daniel Daly of New Jersey responds to a report ...
• INSURANCE GIFTS INVOLVING AGENTS
All career life insurance agents who are parishioners and
, ho have expressed an interest in helping our initiative, should
he strongly encouraged.
Our parish priests, parish council presidents, et al should
inform all interested agents in the parish that we value the products of the life insurance industry. Our parish priests or parish
council president should encourage agents to recommend "insurance a a gift" to our parishioners, and to further inform them
that our organization encourages donors to consider insurance as
gifts.
EOFf
11. MR. ROBERTBETHONEY,Chairman, presented the report
oftheGifts, Trusts and Legacies Department.
fXECUTIVE SUMMARY
After several m?nths ?f design work and restructuring of a
standard Transamenca Universal Life Insurance Policy, we settled
on the format of the current endowment package "Endow
orthodoxy For Tomorrow" (EOFT).
Simply stated, ~he benefits as expressed in this program centeraround several inherent product attributes:
1. Guarantee Issue - All persons ages 18-65 qualify.
2. Vanishing Premium - Payments are made for five (5)
yearsonly.
3. Flexible Premium Payments - One may skip years of
payment and catch up.
4. Non-Medical - Requires no physical.
5. Apply by Enrollment - No application required.
When the donor shows interest in the "EOFT" option above:
1. The donor will be presented with a PLEDGE CARD displaying policy amounts and a rate card showing required contributions. Explain that this particular gift helps our organizations
now and in the future.
2. The donor chooses a gift with a contribution that is economically feasible.
.a.::&.-.....,"'W
~~e ~os~ pr~s~ing problem other than a key arional
Cooidmation is picking the right local per on to oordinare rhe
effort at the grassroots level. In a urvey conducted among the
?1embe~s of the Archdiocese Board of Trustee , the m ern helmin? c_hoic~to coordinate the program wa • the pari h prie..,t. \\'.'irh
thi~ in rr:imd, we are preparing our correspondence to ea(h
pansh pnest over the next four week .
PROPOSAL
• UTILIZING INSURANCE AS A MAJOR GIFT
• THREE WAYS TO OBTAIN INSURANCE GIFTS
RobinNicholas presented
a check for the Food for Hungry People
program.
Archpriest Gabriel Ashie reports on the work of Convention and
Conference Planning.
3. The donor decides on one of the payment options; annually for five years, or a one-time contribution (20% discount).
4. The donor completes the simple pledge card.
5. The pledge card is sent to the Archdiocese, which in turn
sends it to the insurance company. (Transamerica)
6. We deliver an appropriate acknowledgment of the gift
(certificate).
7. We publish the name of the donor in The WORD magazine.
8. The insurance company issues and mails us the policy and
an invoice for the required premiums each month.
The enclosed letter and pledge card can be mailed to
prospects with a cover letter from either the Archbishop,
Chairman of the Parish Council, or the Parish Priest.
• PROSPECTS FOR INSURANCE
OVEMBER 1993
LOCAIJREGIONAL COORDINATION
Insurance, like a bequest, benefits our organization at death.
Insurance, unlike a bequest, is IRREVOCABLE.In urance death
benefits are immediate; not affected by probate. Cash Value<,
from policies can be accessed by our Archdioce e or Church, if
necessary.
Insurance policies have been referred to a IRRE O BLE
BEQUESTS!
• GIFTS SOLICITED BY OUR ORGANIZATIONS
THE WORD/
. To date,_one article ha appear d in The
RD ma a1ine
senes of article~ is planned for the next 'ix month on rT1eE .FT
program, Chantable Remainder Tru ts, etc. Tombstone ·ids are
nowld~eady for placement C ample are being dbtribured ar rhe
Ar c 1 iocese Convention).
• VALIDATION FOR INSURANCE AS A MAJOR GIFT
Donors contribute to any of our organizations with the
understanding that their names and gifts are kept in strict confidence. Any puhlic acknowledgment of their gifts should always
be done with prior consent of the donor.
Donors names are never to be given to insurance agents
without prior consent.
... as does Robert Andrews of California.
ardona.
lnsuran~e is coming into its own a a major gift. Most national non-profit organ~zations, like our Archdioce ·e, nm\ campaign
f~r and/or accept i~s_urance policie a a I gitimate major gift.
Virtually all umversnies and ho pital foundations with staffed
~lanned Giving departments have, in the past few years, added
insurance to the list of acceptable deferred gifts.
Insurance, used as a gift, refers to any permanent, cash ,·,due
b_uildingpolicy. This includes whole life and universal life policies. It does not include term insurance.
• DONOR CONFIDENTIAU1Y
Insurance gifts, like other deferred gifts, should be solicited
as an optional idea - after the "outright" (cash) gift has been
suggested.
Example:
A 45 year old doctor is approached by our priest or his
designee for a cash gift (or other assets) as an insurance gift.
If the donor expresses an interest in giving cash or stock or
assets (for example, using a charitable remainder trust), insurance need not be mentioned again.
To schedule call: 1-800-552-5622. k for Ro
TIIEWORD ARTICLES
Successful, high-income business and professional people in
the middle of their career are excellent candidates for insurance
gifts. At this time in their lives they are accumulating assets, not
gifting them. Virtually all members of this group own insurance;
and when our organization validates insurance as a gift, they see
themselves as being able to "do for their charity what they have
The program was introduced two years ago at the ArchdioceseConvention (Washington, D.C.) and met with reasonably
good results. However, the success of the program has been at
bestmodest. The current raise-up in endowments is $750,000.
Prior to launching the EOFT program, we made every attemptto introduce the concept of charitable funding through discussionscentered around the estate planning concept. After four
meetingson the West Coast, we quickly realized that high-end
strategies such as charitable gifting through estate planning
(Trusts,e.g.) was much more sophisticated than current mind
setswould tolerate or bear. What was needed was a basic and
simpleapproach which was affordable to everyone. Thus, we
designedand introduced EOFT.
The reasons for the limited success of the program to date
are:
There are three ways to obtain insurance gifts for our rchdiocese or churches, etc.:
1. Unsolicited gifts.
2. Gifts to our organizations prompted by our mernhers' (the
donors) agent.
3. Gifts solicited by representative of our pari he , the rchdiocese, the missions, etc.
• UNSOLICITED INSURANCE GIFTS
All permanent insurance policies offered to our organizations
should be accepted without reservation. The donor should be
promptly congratulated and acknowledged for the ultimate valu
of the gifted policy. (A certificate will be given. ee ample.)
1. Cultural resistance
2. Provincial attitudes re: The Church
3. Traditional methods are ad hoc while EOFT is futuristic.
h 4- Lack of a focused effort by a s~gle individual to shepherd
t e program and work the grassroots.
SEMJNARs
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS:
ti My personal involvement found me speaking at three Parish
1
e Conferences in Wichita (Southwest), Las Vegas (Western)
an~ Hyannis (New England). The responses ranged from interesting
to exciting.
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In fact, certain paris h pnests
requeste d personth appearances at parish meetings by me or my surrogate over
e_next few months. Bob Bethoney is availa,ble to speak at
Panshmee t·ings, regional
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con1erences,
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Chairman of the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch Ralph Abercia,
gives his report.
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�Village. Our
Olympics ports Camp held eac l1 year at An t'ochian
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teens continue to be a source of Christ's love to_ the_ m~nta 11
y
handicapped of Pennsylvania and a sourc~ of inspiration t~
many of us across this orth American Continent.. As a waJ 0
sharing with you this wonderful work of compas:5ion, we . ave
worked with WQEX of Pittsburgh to develop ~ five (5) r:runute
video presentation on the works of teen in this area. ~his presentation will be shown during the Teen SOYO Repoi t and. a
~OI)Y of this video will be sent to each parish in time for Special
to
Olympics Awareness Day ( ovem b er• .21 , 1993)
.
. be shared
.
with all our people. Christianne Roumie will share _rr~ore with
you in her report on AC Teen SOYO. ~e thank C~nstia_nn~, Fr.
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h y Bac 1·
AC Teen SOYO Advisor and their officers for
Tunot
ig all that they have clone this year.
While programs for Teen SOYO work well, the most pressing need of teen ministry in this archdiocese is the ne~d of
trained youth workers. Creating greater awareness of teen issues
and training of adults to work with teens has become one of the
major focuse of this department over the past two years ~ncl
will continue to be a focus in the future. A number of paush,
deanery, regional and archdiocese workshops have been conducted in this area. Foremost among these programs have ~een
last year's clergy symposium on Youth Minist~, presen_tat101:-s
given on Youth Ministry at the Parish Council Sy~p?s1um _m
October, the Youth Workers Conference (sponsored Joint!~ :"1th
this department, the Greek Archdioce~e Office of Youth M~111stry
and the OCA youth directors) held this past January and presentations made to our Seminarians at the Antiochian Study Program
this past January, all of which took place at Antiochian Village. A
great deal of time has been spent on conducting works~ops and
programs geared towards preparing adults_ to work with teens
and young adults. A partial listing of meetmgs, workshops and
other programs conducted appear at the encl of _thi~report.
Workshops will continue to be given by invitation on the
parish, deanery and regional level. Two Youth Workers Conferences are planned over the next year. These "':'orksl~ops are
open to all adults interested in or presently working with te~ns
in the church setting. A workshop is scheduled for the first
weekend of October 1993 to be held on the West Coast and
another at Antiochian Village for January 20-23, 1994. These two
conferences will once again be sponsored jointly by the various
Orthodox Youth Department . Additionally, this department, recognizing the major impact that adults have on child~en, t~e~s
and young adults is reviewing the concept of mentoring within
the local church setting. A concept and program which we hope
to further develop and make available over the next few years.
Towards meeting the needs of teen discussion materials this
department has just published the first in what is planned to be a
series of teen discussion materials on various contemporary
Ors. Anthony Bashir and John Dalack report on the meetings of
Lay Ministries.
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!ready done for their family."
a Donors who have already included one of our organizations
in their will o: trust a~e also excellent candidates for an insurance gift. Besides f~eemg up dollars for their family, their gift
becomes irrevocable.
• CONCLUSION
Insurance, a valid major gift, should be added to our list of
acceptable major gifts. Outright gifts of cash and other assets
shouldbe suggested prior to deferred gifts, including insurance.
Insurance gifts should be accepted - Including those
that are:
1. Unsolicited.
2. Solicited from clients of insurance agents.
3. Solicited by parish priests or board members of our organization.
His Eminence presented a Certificate of ~er~torious Service to
Laraine Mahshie, outgoing president of Anttochian Women.
issues. Publication of this four week discussion book, entitled
"Getting Along with Parents: for Orthodox Teens," ~as
made possible through a very generous anor:iymou~ d~nation.
Future publications will depend on sales of ~his.pubhca~ion an?
future donations towards these types of publications. This publication is available for sale here at the Convention, or by writing
to the Department of Youth & Parish Ministries. "Getting Along
with Parents" sells for $7.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling
per order.
Campus Ministry
.
Since June of 1992 this department began further developmg Secretaries Archpriest Paul Schneirla and Dr. John Oalack record
the work of Campus Ministry. Two major efforts have been gen- allthe deliberations.
erated towards the needs of college age young men and women.
Insurance gifts, solicited by our Archdiocese should not
The first is the College Age Conference held annually and initialrequire:
ly started as a Pan American Orthodox C?~ferer:ice, by the you~h
1. The use of an insurance application form.
department in the 80's during the admm1strat1on of Fr. David
2. The involvement of agents with donors.
Barr. This program was later adopted by the department of
3. Medical examinations.
Campus Ministry, under the direction of Fr. Jon Braun when the
4. Questions of a personal or medical nature.
department of Campus Ministly was established. This past week
5. A mention of an insurance company on the pledge card.
Quly 15-20) college age young men and women from across the
This entire program is critical to the future perpetuation of
United States and Canada participated in the annual college age
conference at Antiochian Village, chaired by Donna Haddad. ourchurch. Endow Orthodoxy For Tomorrow represents only a
Next year's Conference is planned for July 23-28 at Antiochian critical first step. Why? It is simple, easily understood and
requireslittle third-party involvement.
Village. Further information on the work of the Student Board of
However, getting across the concept of deferred giving repCampus Ministry, will be given by its c~airman Matt Swagerty. t
The second major effort has been m the College Age Contac resentsa major hurdle because of the way most of our people
thinkabout giving to our church. It is a counter-cultural problem
Program. As of the writing of this report (May 19~3~ over ~i:re~
becausewe have been for decades imbued with the "Raffle/Hafli
thousand (3,000) young men and women _are rece1~ing ma_Il~ngs
from this department. This past academJC year, five mailrn_g Syndrome"regarding the raising of funds. This barrier must be
broken.This is our major initiative over the months and years to
have been sent by this department to these young people, ~ 1th come.
some of the regions of the Fellowship also utilizing this mailin_g
list. Pending the availability of funds (through donations for this
Moved by GEORGE JOSEPH, Toledo, seconded by FR.
purpose) we hope to add more content as well as numbers to
ESSA,Wichita, the report was received.
these mailings. As of this writing approximately 78% of our ANDRE
th
parishes have sent the names, addresses and birth dates o'. ~ir
12. FR. JOSEPH PURPURApresented the report of the
members 17-25 years of age to this department for inclusion!ll
Departmentof Youth and Parish Ministries.
this service. We expect this percent and the number_s of yo~!
adults participating in this service to increase over this year._kl,
.. Two years of growth, expansion, development a1:1ddefiask pastors who have not yet sent the names to do so as qu!CY llitton have marked the time since my last report to this Archas possi~l:\ so that these youn~ people do not miss out. odox dioceseBody. During this time the Youth Department has b~en
renamed the Department of Youth & Parish Ministries. Dunng
Additional efforts are takmg place on an Inter-Or thArch- th
is.yea~ this department has been given responsibility _fo: the
level, with the youth departments of the Greek and OCA le
dioceses, to create opportunities for all of our college a?e ;ec:i- IAntioch1an Village Camping Program and Campus Mm1stry,
alongWith its traditional role of meeting the needs of the memto gather for conferences, to coordinate efforts on vanou
bers of Teen SOYO and teens at large in this Archdiocese.
puses and other related matters.
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yo)
Duringthis same period this department has been helping to
Fellowship of St. John the Divine (formerly Seruor 5 ofSr
facilitatethe transition of SOYO into the Fellowship of St. John
This department has been working with the Fellowship
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the Divine and ·cs
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1 new onentat1on as a commiued core of adulc
mmist~ oriented volunteers. At this same time thb dep,111menr
was_given the task of leading the creation of the ne\\ outhea ...r
Region, which has come to fruition. ,, irh the completion of two
delegates 1~eet~ng . and its fir ·r Regional conf ere nee this past
June 16-20 in M1am1,Florida.
A new beginning for Youth Mini try!
Towards better understanding the task of mimsrering co till'
Youth of this Archdiocese, this department ser our earlv in its
work to better understand the specific needs of our vc',uth. A
major survey of our teens' likes, dislikes. fears. w~ints and
lifestyles was conducted across the nited . rare... and anada
over a one year period. A great deal was learned through this
stu?y w?ich led to many of the changes and de,·elopment.s
which will be referred to in thi • report. ILbecame , ery apparent
early on in this study that our teens were very serious people
academically, spiritually and socially wiLh man) dreams. fears
and needs. Our task is to create opponuniti ·s on the parish.
regional and archdiocese levels for our young people to hener
understand themselves in light of the Good , ews of hrbt. \\ e
have additionally reviewed a number of studies relating 10 teen ....
and parish growth conducted by Barna Research .. earch
Institute, The George H. Gallup International lm,titure. ,roup
Publishing and other . Through these studies as \\"ell as our own
we are in the process of coming to a better understanding of our
teens and young adults as well as the programs needed to meet
their needs.
Antiochian Village Camping Program
As of this February, this department has been gi\·en the
responsibility of directly overseeing the camping program at
Antiochian Village. As a result of a number of suf\·ey.., and interviews conducted over the past two years by this department \\"ith
staff and campers at Antiochian Village, as well as parents \\"ho
have sent their campers to Antiochian Village. a number of po.sitive, growth oriented changes have been made. The first and
foremost change has been the hiring of a full Lime amp
Administrative director to work under this Department. In
February of this year, Jim King was hired as full time camp
administrative director, a position which was identified a., a
major need of Antiochian Village. At this same time Metropolitan
PHILIP appointed Fr. Joseph Purpura as the Camp Director. O, er
the past several months, Jim, Fr. Joseph and other'> from thi..,
department and the village staff have worked Lo reorganize the
entire management system of the camping programs and '>e\eral
of the programs them elves. Jim King will present to you a more
detailed report on the camping program.
Dr. George Dibs reports on behalf of the tewardship Departm nt.
Teen SOYO and Teen Ministry
.
The existing programs of AC Teen , OYO continue to he _a
source of growth, outreach and learning for our teen ..me.Ithis
Archdioce e. Foremost of our teen progra1 11s 1.., pecial
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�August 11-17 1991
eptember 13-15
eptember 28, 1991
October 4-6, 1991
October 18-20, 1991
October 25-27, 1991
ovember 5, 1991
ovember 9-11, 1991
ovember 2, 1991
ovember 12, 1991
December 7-8, 1991
February 9-13, 1992
February 13-16, 1992
February 20-21, 1992
February 21-23, 1992
February 24, 1992
March 1, 1992
March 6-8, 1992
March 13-15, 1992
March 20-22, 1992
March 22-23, 1992
April 5, 1992
April 10-12, 1992
AC Teen SOYO Special Olympics Sports
Camp.
(Senior) SOYO Planning Meeting for new
program at Antiochian Village.
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Joint Youth Department & Lay Ministry
Meeting in ew Jersey.
Midwest Delegates Meeting.
Archdiocese Board Meeting - Detroit.
Eastern Region Delegates Meeting
Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Metropolitan ew York Deanery Meeting
at St. Vladimir's Seminary.
orthern Florida Deanery Meeting Daytona Beach, FL - planning session
for new Southeast Region.
Can-Am Region Delegates Meeting and
workshops - Gananoque, Ottawa
Coral Gables, Florida parish presentation
on plans for new Southeast Region.
Video taping and editing for Oratorical
Festival Video - Washington, DC.
Group University Conference on Youth
Ministry - Pittsburgh.
Southern Florida Deanery Meeting on
new Southeast Region - Miami, Florida.
Youth Department Meeting at Antiochian
Village.
Winter Meetings at Antiochian Village.
Antiochian Village Camp Meeting
Village.
Lowell, Massachusetts parish presentation
on the ew Fellowship of St. John the
Divine (SOYO) program.
Eastern Region delegates meeting Washington, DC.
Midwest Delegates meeting - Akron,
.Ohio.
Indianapolis Parish Workshop.
Southeast
Deanery
Meeting
Birmingham, Alabama - on establishment of new Southeast Region.
Inter-Orthodox Presentation on Youth
Ministry - Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Workshop Teens & Adults - St. George
Dr.John Boojamra reports on the ministry of Christian education
Christianne Roumie presents the report of NAC Teen SOYO.
John the Divine, under the dynamic leadership of president
GeneAttal and the spiritual guidance of Fr. John Abdalah their
advisor, towards the development of this new program and
movement over the past two years. We have designed this
May 14-17, 1992
movement to meet the needs of our parishes and to create a
sourceof growth for all our parish members. Gene Attal will
sharewith you the details of this new program in his report.
May 20-24, 1992
YoungAdult Conference
Over this past Labor Day weekend we co-sponsored with the
Fellowshipof St. John the Divine a conference for adults 22-40 at
May 29-31, 1992
AntiochianVillage.
June 25-30, 1992
YouthMinistry on the Inter-Orthodox level
This department over the past two years has enjoyed a very
July 1, 1992
positiveworking relationship with the Greek Archdiocese Youth
Officeand its staff. We have attended a number of Conferences
July 2-5, 1992
onYouth Ministry together and have discussed their content and
applicationto our needs in detail. We have jointly sponsored our
July 19-24, 1992
firstYouth Workers Conference and plan several more for the
futuretogether. We have worked together to resolve issues comJuly 24-26, 1992
monto our two archdioceses. We have received good press covJuly 25-29, 1992
eragefor our college age conference in the Greek Orthodox
July 30Observed Antiochian Village Camp Pro- Observeras a cooperative effort on behalf of the Office of Youth
August 14, 1992
gram and made recommendations
for Ministry
of the Greek Archdiocese.
As of the writing of this report, a meeting of the Youth
improvement of the program for 1993.
Observed
NAC Teen SOYO Special I Directorsof the Antiochian, Greek and OCA Archdioceses was
August 16-21, 1992
Olympics Sports Camp and met with plannedfor June 22-23 in Toledo, Ohio to further explore areas
Pennsylvania State Olympics Officers on of common concern and to develop deeper cooperative efforts
inthisarea of work.
plans for the 1993 program.
September 4-7, 1992 Young Adult Conference at Antiochian OtherProjects
To help the local parishes we have created the Festivals
Village.
Meeting with prospective camp director Manualwhich contains the Festival Topics and rules for the creSeptember 17, 1992
and others concerning the future of the ativeArts, Photography, Poetry, Writing, Adult & Teen Bible
youth
movement
at West CoaSt Bowland Oratorical Festivals. An updated set of topics will be
senteach year to every parish for insertion into this manual.
Chancellery - Los Angeles, CA.
A Video of the 1991 Archdiocese Oratorical Festival was proSeptember 19-20, 1992 Workshop on family and teens - .st.
Nicholas - Los Angeles and surroundU1g ducedand sent to all parishes for their teens to use in preparationof future Oratorical Festivals. This project was made possible
parishes.
through a donation by George Moses of St. George, Charle st0 n,
Meetings with Greg Yova and tri~ to
October 1, 1992
Mexico to view the work of Proiect WestVirginia.
Mexico and discuss Teen SOYO and the a _Inan effort to make useful youth ministry materials rea~ily
· • e's
vailablewe reprinted "For Volunteers Only", a publication
Fellowship
of St. John the Divin
~- ~roup Publishing, for the Clergy Symposium on Youth
involvement in this project.
Western Region Delegates Meeting --1 Stnistry last July, as well as other materials for the Clergy
October 2-4, 1992
Ymposiumand related workshops.
San Diego.
To further the availability of materials and information on
Parish Council Symposium and prese~caOctober 8-11, 1992
tion on Youth Ministry - Antiochian :~th ministry, we published the results of the Teen Sur~ey,
htch Was conducted by this department across the United
Village.
Cathedral - Toledo, Ohio and surrounding parishes.
Can-AM Region Conference and workshop on Adolescents - Niagara Falls,
New York.
Western Region Conference and workshop on teens - Palm Springs, California.
Consecration of Bishop BASIL.
Counselor Training Week at Antiochian
Village.
Southeast Region Planning Meeting Orlando, Florida .
Eastern Region Conference & Workshop
on Youth Ministry.
Clergy Symposium on Youth Ministry at
Village.
Summer meetings at the Village.
College Conference at Antiochian Village.
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Gene Attal, outgoing President of the Fellowship of St. John the
Divine receives the Certificate of Meritorious Service.
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OVEMBER 1993
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States and Canada, for the use of our clergy and rhe ongoing
work of this department.
The WORD Magazine Youth Ministry In ert
. Th_isinsert appears four times each year in The WORD. This
ms~r_t1s_focused towards informing p ople of e,·ems and opportunities ~n the area of Youth Ministry and how interesred people
can get involved. Additionally this insert is sent to all archdioce..,e
~arish me~bers who are in our college age contact dataha..,e. \t
time~ the mserts sent to these young people are expanded from
that m The WORD to provide further information specificalh. relevant to this age group.
•
Special gratitude is expressed to Metropolitan Pl IIUP for
his consistent love and dedication to the youth of rhi.., rthdioce~e and for making this ministry possible; Bishop '\ TOL
who 1s always there when needed to provide guidance and support; and Bishop BASIL for his understanding, compassion, and
guidance.
Much gratefulness is expressed to my brothers - those
who have and are serving as advi ors of the arious organi/ations. I also thank my brother priests and deacons in rhe parishe'>
who have enabled this ministry to continue through rheir positive response to the needs of youth ministry in this archdioce'>e
and specifically to those needs of the young p ople in their
parishes.
... as does Raymond George for the Department of Sacred Music.
We have been blessed with many good officers and lay advisors of our various Teen SOYO, Campus Ministry and FellO\\'>hip
Organizations on the regional and archdiocese levels. 'J e thank
these people who have done an exceptional job over rhe past
two years in this ministry and pray that God will conrinue to
bless their good endeavors.
The Order of St. Ignatius, which has enabled so much to
happen in this archdiocese, is thanked for their continued financial support for virtually all of our programs and work. We are
grateful for their continued prayers, encouragement and_v!sion:
I especially thank my staff, Jim King - Camp Admin1strat1\e
Director Antonette Liberoni - our camp secretary and Kathleen
Purpura' - who has officially come on staff this year, hut ha.'>
done much over the past several year in research and de\ ·lopment of programs and workshops. Their continuou'> '>Upport,
hard work and dedication to this ministry has enabled the
accomplishments of this past year to take place.
We thank all of you for your continued support and prayer~
toward the growth of Youth Mini t1y and the d~velopme_~t of
Parish Ministry programs, which strengthen the faith and lite of
Orthodox Christians across orth America.
Meetings, Workshops, Conferences and_Programs
sponsored, run by, or participated in by this departm nt
since July 1991
August 1-9, 1991
Evaluation of the 1991 amping Program
at Antiochian illage.
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;\IBER 1993
�campers for the campers. It is our hope that the enthusiasm of
those involved will continue throughout the year, so that we can
develop a quarterly edition of the camp newspaper. This newspaper will bring a 'little touch of camp' home to the campers to
strengthen the fullness of the Village and their faith and remind
them to share this 'vision' with their community.
Down at the pool we have introduced a "Learn to swim program". Everyday, the children have an opportunity to learn, develop and practice their swimming skills whether they are a beginner, swimming for the first time, or a highly skilled swimmer
learning advanced swimming techniques. At the end of camp,
everyone who participates gets certificates of completion. In
addition, our head lifeguard leads pool games and competitions
during the afternoon free swim period.
One program that was highly successful last year and which
has continued this year is our ever adventurous overnight campout program. John Mefrige (a true pioneer from Canada) has
developed what has become one of the highlights of each camping season. Each night, a group of children leave in the afternoon by foot and hike to a camp spot located in the surrounding
':oods. O~ce there, they learn how to pitch a tent, build a campfire, cook m the great outdoors and bare the rugged back country. After dinner, they participate in a short religious program/retreat focusing on questions about the Orthodox faith.
_ Antiochian Village has undergone some major improvements
this past year. Our maintenance crew have worked very hard to
make the Village a beautiful and refreshing place to spend the
summer. We have a brand new pool deck, freshly painted pool
and bath house,_ and newly planted grass for our sunbathing
area. The gathering place, where we do much of our Christian
Education teaching, has new restrooms. Our dining hall kitchen
was con~pletely gutted and replaced with new equipment. Many
of the_kitchen problems _we have had in the past, such as long
food lmes, no longer exist. In addition, we have resurfaced the
parking lot, the tennis court, the basketball courts and the
Pavilion. A beautiful sight indeed.
We at the village pray that you have a fulfilling and successfu~ ~rni:imer.May God continue to bless and guide your various
mm1stnes.
CHRISTIAN E ROUMIE presented the Report
(NORTH AMERICANCOUNCIL)TEEN SOYO.
of NAC
Matt Swagerty gives the report on the work of Campus M.lll1S. try.
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Villag~ Council Meeting _ Detroit.
October15, 1992
Teen SOYO has been involve~ in many projects over t
course of the past year. The following report highlights s
he October16-17, _1992 Archdiocese Board Meeting _ Detroit.
the major areas of work which the teens focus on.
ome of October23-25, 1992 Southwest General Assembly _ New
Orleans.
Special Olympics Awareness Day
November5-8, 1992 Southeast Region 1st General Assembl
This past year the teens of the Archdiocese have raised .
- Atlanta, Georgia.
y
excess of $16,000 for Special Olympics Sports Camp. The t m
.
l • pro1ect
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b ecause through eens
November9-15, 1992 Youth Specialties Conference on Youth
con tmue
to b e d e ct·
icate cl to t1is
h.
Ministry - San Francisco.
humanitarian efforts, they provide camp for those who are t eir
tally challenged. The Department of Youth and NAC soy;~ntha t through a video tape
we could reach the parish· 1oners
elt
.
th roug l1out the Archdiocese and convey the importan
S~e~ial Olympics. This _vid~o, :-7hich you will see today, w~~
d1stnbutecl to each pansh m tune for Special Olympics Awareness Day, November 21, 1993. We are asking that it be shown
and a short sermonette be read to the parish.
i:
ArchpriestJoseph Purpura delivers the report of the Department
ofYouth ...
Antiochian Study Program and presentations on Youth Ministry to Seminarians Antiochian Village.
Youth Workers Conference - Antiochian
Janua1y21-24, 1993
Village.
Group University Conference on Youth
February8-13, 1993
Ministry - Chicago.
Youth Ministry Presentation to the Senior
Februa1y16, 1993
Class of Holy Cross Seminary - Brookline, Massachusetts.
February18-21, 1993 Winter Meetings in Dallas.
February26-28, 1993 Southeast Delegates Meeting - Jacksonville, Florida.
American Camping Association ConMarch3-7, 1993
ference on Camp Management and Programs - Pittsburgh.
Jacksonville, Florida Parish Workshop.
March12-14, 1993
Omaha, Nebraska Parish Workshop.
March19-21, 1993
Toronto, Ontario Parish Workshop.
March26-28, 1993
North American Region of Syndesmos
April3, 1993
(World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth)
meeting at Holy Cross Seminary Brookline, Massachusetts.
Discussion with -the young people of St.
April12, 1993
George, Montreal on the mystery of
Death & Life, while serving at St. George
for Holy Week.
EventsPlanned as of the writing of this report through July
June 17-20, 1993
Southeast Parish Life Conference and
workshop - Miami, Florida.
Joint Meetings on the future of cooperaJune 22-23, 1993
tive efforts in Youth Ministry with the
Greek and OCA Archdiocese
Youth
Directors - Toledo, Ohio.
Midwest Parish Life Conference and
June 23-27, 1993
workshop - Toledo, Ohio.
Counselor Training We€k at Antiochian
June 27-30, 1993
January10-15, 1993
Robert Bethoney presents the findings of the Department of Gifts
Funds and Legacies.
'
Library Month, January 1993
The t~ens continue to sell memorial book plates to help sup~ort the Library at the Antiochian Village. Comparison figures are
included within the attached Treasury Report.
Great Friday Vigil
The teens throughout the Archdiocese keep a vigil at the
tom~ on Go?d Friday. This continues to be an evening which
provides positive spiritual involvement for all who participate.
AIDS Awareness Committee
The teens decided to compile a program that was designed
to educate other teens about the dangers of the HIV virus facing
the youth of America. It was designed to be a positive educational workshop that ~ncluded both the clinical and spiritual problems and explanations of HIV and AIDS. Folders of educational
ma~erial and workshop guidelines were distributed to each
region at the mid winter meeting.
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Sp~cial Olympics Sports Camp
. Special Olympics Sports Camp will be held at the Antiochian
Village between August 15-21, 1993. There was an excellent response from the teens this year. Fr. John Nosal Fr. Joseph Pur~ura and the Department of Youth have receiv~d many applications !or coaches. I feel that this one week helps teach the true
11:1e_a:1mg
of charity to all who participate. Coaches learn responsibility and share in each athletes' joys and achievements.
Well as you can see, the teens continue to be an integral part
of th e. church and the community. Through these programs, tl1e
en:ier?mg leaders of our churches can actually put into effect the
prmc1ples of ·.Wo rsh.ip, w·1tness, Service, and Fellowship.
I ~ould like to conclude by thanking all who have made mY
year with NAC SOYO so very special. As always,· I remain -•·
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Village.
ew England Region Conference and
workshop - Hyannis, lassachusem,.
July 15-20, 1993
Col~ege_Conference - Antiochian Village.
July 4 through present Ant1och1anVillage Camp Program.
July 1-3, 1993
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Moved by FATHER ELIASMITCHELL,seconded by F TI IER
TIMO!HY BACLIG, the report of the Antiochian Village
Ca~,pmg Pro~ram, by Jim King:
Let the c?zldren come to me. Do not binder them; for to such
belongs the kingdom of heaven."
JI!. 19: l"-1
. We are all the children of God, and it is by His grace that \\'C
will one day be together in heaven. We are also blessed by llim
to have a place such as Antiochian Village, here on earth, to
come and fellows_hip together. Our children are so special and
hav_e a~l been gifted by Goel with many different talents.
Ant1ochian Village summer camp offers the opportunity ro develop and share these unique talents with other Orthodox children
from all across orth America and beyond.
ANTIOCHIANVILIAGECAMP
A~ of this year, Antiochian Village is now part of our
Archdiocese Department of Youth. Fr. Joseph Purpura (Chairman
of_the Department of Youth and Parish ministries and Camp
Director) _and ~ are very excited about this upcoming camping
seas~~- W1~hthis precedent and the establishment of an updated
~dn:11~istrat1on,we are concentrating on developing a team of
md1v1duals who have a camp vision which is both centered
around Ch_ristand focused on the children. To attain thi - goal,
we have implemented some new administrative positions.
T~gether with the Camp Director, the Administrative Camp
Director Qim King), Assistant Administrative Director (Audrey
Ayoub), and the Program Overview Director (Kathleen Purpura),
we hope to build staff unity and a complete program for the
children that is pleasing to our Lord.
... as does Jim King of the Antiochian Village camping program.
For our older age campers (17 and 18 years old) we offer the
option of participating in our C.I.T. (Counselor In Training) program. Under the direction of Matt Miller, this program i-.,designed to train the C.I.T. in camp administration, respon-.,ih1litie-.,
of being a camp counselor, camp situational bsues, and amp
life in general.
Those who enjoy writing are able to how off their style in
our camp newspaper. Each ession we have the CITs \,·ork together to develop and print a newspaper that is "rinen by the
THE WORD . 0
~!BER 1993
�I am ve 1y happy to report again that the Sacred Music Institute was very successful. We had 100 peoJ?le attend and had
as our main speaker Bishop Basil who contributed a lot to the
success we enjoyed.
Our plans for this year's Institute have been completed and I
would like to encourage everyone who has not sent a representative to this Institute to consider doing so this year. We feel that
we have imparted a great deal of information and have create_d a
rapport between many Church Musicians, even though miles
separate them.
.
We are also working toward the completion of the final
phase of the Byzantine Project, which is the Menaion. Upon
completion of this Menaion we will have 12 Volume~ of a
Byzantine Project which is concerned with th~. Chante~s m. the
Church as well as excellent guides for all musiCians. This bnngs
me to a most important part of my report and that is the
Chanters.
Several members of the Credentials Committee await the balloting.
We are experiencing a void in many of our Churches where
we are absolutely in dire need for candidates who are willing to
make a commitment and work hard under a new program for
Chanters which we are about to embark on. The format for this
program was designed by Father David Barr and has the approval of Father Bitar who will work with Father Barr and others
to bring this program to fruition. We met here at this Conference
with other interested people and touched on some of the needs
at our Institute; with good support we could be successful in
training Chanters so that the Liturgical needs of our Churches
can be obtained.
Let me state once again that there is no way that Choirs can
supply all the Liturgical needs of our Churches and that Chanters
are absolutely necessa1y and we would be remiss in not trying to
make this goal.
We have one other critical need in our Churches. We have
several Churches who have been successful in this endeavor. I
am speaking of Youth or Junior Choirs. Anyone who is affiliated
with the music of our Churches knows that we are lacking in
bringing new blood and the youth into the programs. It is critical
enough to consider an Institute especially for people 16 years
and down to 9 years of age. Perhaps a program like this, supported by our Churches and with some support from St. Ignatius,
could be accomplished. We have two presenters who present
information on the formation of Junior and Youth Choirs at our
Institute, both of these presenters have had success in this area.
A strong approach to this type of youth involvement could
result in preparing special music for our Church Schools. Music
like this is already in progress but needs support.
I want to thank Sayidna for all his support in all of our
undertakings. We pioneered in making a Lin1rgical Guide and
we pioneered in a Sacred Music Institute causing the same to be
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picked up by many of our sister Churches. Thank you again, GENERALACCOUNT
1.
Sayidna.
INCOME:
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Balance (8/1/92)
I
$6,050.25
Moved by FATHER ELIAS BITAR, Little Falls, NJ, and secondInterest
$317.96
ed by FATHER DAVID BARR, the report was received.
Dues
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Eastern
$750.00
Southwest
$450.00
14. DR.JOHN BOOJAMRA,
Chairman, presented the report of the
Can-Am
$404.47
Department of Christian Education.
Midwest
$675.00
For the past twenty-three years, as ch~irman of the Depart-/
TOTAL INCOME
$8,647.68
ment of Christian Education, I have organized the scope and a j
EXPENSES:
sequence of my department's work under three headings: l)
Travel and Room
coordination, 2) publication, 3) teacher training. Within these
Summer Meeting (7 /92)
overall categories, I have established my objectives for each
$946.S0
Winter Meeting (2/93)
$1,976.69
year's work. It is within these categories and by these objectives
Phone/Printing/Mailing
$866.84
that I determine how my time and my efforts are apportioned.
Archbishop Michael Memorial
$150.00
Coordination:
Children's Relief Fund
$600.00
During the past two years my department has kept our
Miscellaneous
parishes and other Orthodox Church bodies informed of its work
i5lliill
TOTAL EXPENDITURES $5,115.03
and Christian education new, in general, through its quarterlyI
Newsletter. The Newsletter, which had been a separate publiGENERALACCOUNT BALANCE
$3,532.65
~ation, now appears on a quarterly basis in The Word magazine.
II.
SPECIAL
OLYMPICS
FUND
This has been one of the most effective changes I have made in
1991-92Earnings
$17,110.97
twenty-three years, giving me access to approximately 25,000
$16,773.40
1992-93Earnings
households, as well as the teachers within those households. J
CURRENT
BALANCE
$15,910.78
would like to thank Father Geo_rge. C~rey for his assist~nce in I
moving this project along. I mamtam informal commun1eations m.METROPOUTAN PHIIJP ENDOWMENT RJND
with the parishes by publishing, ad hoc, Emphasis which carries
$4,985.94
1991Earnings
news of my workshops, meetings, Archdiocesan directives, and,
$824.62
1992Earnings
in general, materials that are too informal for the newsletter..In
$668.00
CURRENTBALANCE
addition to these two items, I make regular use of the telephone IV.LIBRARYFUND (Ant. Village Account)
to maintain contact with our parishes and clergy, offering practi$7,100
1990Earnings
cal consultations on an individualized basis.
$5,986
1991Earnings
During the past two years I have attempted to more tightly
$4,797
1992Earnings
organize my department, whose membership consists of repre$1,010
1993(as of 2/26/93)
sentatives from our seven regions. My department works closely
$20,111.43
with the Department of Youth Ministry and supplies the topics V.TOTALACCOUNT BALANCE
for the various "SOYO" arts and writing festivals. My department
The presentation included a new film on Teen SOYO. At the
meets annually in October at the Antiochian Village in conjunc- end of the presentation METROPOLITAN PHILIP gave Christion with our annual Orthodox Teacher Education Program.
tianneRoumie the Archdiocesan Certificate of Merit for outstandAs the chairman of the Department of Christian Education,I ingleadership to Teen SOYO.
work closely with other Orthodox
Churches through the
At the urging of Metropolitan PHILIP Saliba, Fr. Jon Braun
Orthodox Christian Education Commission, of which I am founded the North American Student Board of Campus Ministiy
Chairman, and of which Metropolitan
Philip is President, in 1988.Its purpose was to strengthen and nurture the Orthodox
j
being entertained by Kerygma, an Orchodox
hriscian singing
group. As always, Matins, esper ·, and Compline along wich
Sunday's Divine Liturgy worked as the glue holding the entire
week together, keeping our minds focused on God.
Campus Ministry has just recently come under the umbrella
of the Department of Youth and Parish liniscries <February 1,
1993). Our initiation came in Dallas Texas at chis year's \lidWinter Meetings where our executi e board was able co attend
and meet. We also had an opportunity to address Teen !> Y
and The Fellowship of St. John the Divine officers and delegace...,,
in order to expres our eagerness to help the Department in
keeping college age men and women connected and im oh-ed
with the Orthodox Church. Upon entering che Department,
Campus Ministry has formulated a brand new Mission , catemenr.
which is as follows:
Campus Ministry seeks to facilitate the Department of
Youth and Parish Ministries by creating a peer pecific
group for college age men and women and by a i ting
both Teen SOYO and The Fellowship of St. John and Divine
in the task of keeping this age group involved with the
Antiochian Orthodox Church.
I
Archpriest Andrew
Atlanta, Georgia.
Zbeeb reports
on the 1995 Conveotio1l iJJ
faithamong college age men and women. The college years can
be a volatile time in a young person's spiritual life. The creation
of a peer specific group, for these people, was seen as one way
to help bring them stability through the Church.
The Department of Cam.pus Ministry held its first summer
collegeage conference at the University of California, Irvine in
Julyof 1989. This conference was a huge success, as many collegeage men and women expressed great joy in having an age
specificgroup of Orthodox brothers and sisters for them to fellowship with. As a result, Campus Ministry has held a summer
~ollegeage conference each of the past.four summers at the AnttochianHeritage and Learning Center. Hundreds of college age
men and women have now had the chance to experience that
samejoy.
This year's conference theme was "Homecoming," in an effort to tie a traditional college idea with the conc~pt that .th,e
Orthodox Church is our real home in which we receive our life s
meaning through Jesus Christ. Attendants received some of the
be~tteaching our Church has to offer. After having the honor of
being addressed by His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP, we had
the privilege of being taught by Anthony S. Bashir, Fr. Jon Braun,
Fr_.Peter Gillquist, Fr. Ted Pulcini and Alan Shanbour. Along
~i~hteaching came fun and adventure. Those in attendance participated in many recreational activities, inclu9ing our annual
Whitewater river rafting trip. In addition, we had the pleasure of
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Archpriest John Badeen reports on the clergy insurance program
of the Archdiocese.
At its infancy, Campus Ministry was strictly a . onh rnerican
Student Board with one summer conference. However. in the
past two years we have begun to grow. Campus tinislry no\\
has an established Western Region with its own board and annual conference over Christmas break. As of this year we now ha\ e
a Southeast Region which will be holding its first annual conference in December. Campus Minist1y·sgoal is to eventual!} have
a continent-wide network, similar to other organizations in the
Department, for the purpose of uniting all c~llege age men and
women in the Church witl1 a group that ,viii he able to ,1...,-.1-.t
them in their walk with God throughout their college year-.
I strongly encourage all young adults in the hurch to ,mend
our annual summer college age conference every year al the _ntiochian Heritage and Learning Center in Bolivar, Penn'>}lvarna.
The bonds tied and friendship made are unlike anyth111gthat
you have ever experienced. The Church truly becomes a. more
tangible part of your life. Parents, please infom~ y~>urd~11ldren
about Campus Ministry as it might ju t change the1: ltves. I or any
information regarding Campu tinistry, conra_ct_
F~.Jo-. ·ph Purura at the Department of Youtl1 and Parhh ~hm~tnes
p
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13. MR. RAYMONDGEORGE,Chairman, presented the report of
the Department of Sacred Music:
THE \1 ORD
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R 1993
�appointedby SCOB~. The commission meets three times a year
coordinate educauoi:1 _programs and develop graded curricu10
materials. In add1t1on to meetings attended in Hels· k'1
rn
1u
• 1990
•·
in '
1,eningrad,
M~scow m
. , I participated
in a five day educationalsymposium, or?amzed by the World Council of Churches
andthe Mo~cow Pat~1archat~ (Moscow, December 1991) to provideprofess1on~l ass1s~ance m educational development. A writtenreport of this meetmg has been submitted to His Eminence.
publications
j During the past two years the department has limited its
publications to two audio tapes, one entitled "The Growing
Childin the Christian Home," and the second, "Foundations of
Christian
Education." In. addition to these two tapes, the departmentis presently workmg on a 30 session senior high school
textand the third and final book in the Build Your Own series
priest,
Bishop and Deacon. Two books which had their origins i~
mydepartment, but came to fruition in the OCEC were Focus on
Youby John Boojamra, and How About Advent? by Father Kurt
Spier.
TeacherTraining:
The single most ignificant area in which I work is teacher
training.Our Department of Christian Education remains the only
Orthodox organization offering a regular program in teacher
training.I annually send out an Emphasis listing approximately
10workshops which I am available to conduct for parishes or
groupsof parishe . In addition, each of the regional Christian
educationrepresentatives is available to conduct workshops.
On a larger scale, the Department annually sponsors the
OrthodoxTeacher Education Program held at the Antiochian
Villagein the middle of October for teachers of all Orthodox
jurisdictions.Our 1992 session had to be canceled because of
schedulingconflicts at the Village. This year's conference will be
held October 14-17 on the theme of "Family and Stories."
Publicityfor this has been distributed. We have gone beyond our
dioceseand establi bed within St. Stephen's Course of Study in
Orthodox Theology a correspondence
program in Christian
Educationto allow parishes and diocese to certify their teachers.
Teacher training of volunteer teachers remains the single
mostimportant activity for this Department of Christian Education.We will have to add to this a regular program of parentingskills. Both teacher training and parent education are areas of
concern.I have added one new workshop to my offering for this
year,"Running My Way: Sex and Sexuality," for teens and parents.
During the past two years I have offered workshops in the
following locations, The Aramaeian Education Association,
Hackensack, New Jersey, 4/17 /92; Palm Springs, 5/21-24/92;
Orlando2/2/92; Little Falls, New Jersey, 10/1/92; South Bound
Brook, New Jersey 10/10/92; Education Day, St. Vladimir's
I
Part of the Los Angeles, California delegation looks sati fled at the
results of a vote!
Seminary, 10/3/92; Louisville, Kentucky, 11/6-8 92; Brooklyn.
3/21/93; Yonkers, 4/3/93; Pittsburgh, 6 ·21 93; Toledo. 6 2629/93; Wilkes-Barre, 7/1-3/93; Eagle River, Alaska.
-1093.
Conclusions:
In conclusion, I would like to thank my secretary. Joanne
Droubie, for her valuable and faithful assistance in getting my
work done. I would like also to thank my regional representatives for the time and concern they devote to the Depa11menrof
Christian Education. During the next two years, I intend co focus
the department's attention on producing additional workshops
on parenting skills and Christian formation; I intend to publish a
high school text by Robert Snyder of Akron, Ohio; I intend to
produce four newsletters per year for the Word; I intend to produce more parents' and parenting skills workshops; and finally. I
intend to produce a six session sex education program for pari-;h
use.
In addition to the formal activities of my depa11menr.I would
like to encourage the clergy and church school director!->.especially those new to the Antiochian Archdiocese, to contact me
directly for any assistance they might need in establishing and
maintaining education programs for a total pari h ministl). The
Department of Christian Education invites evaluation from our
clergy, parents, and teachers and will gratefully accept any assistance and talents they would like to share with the depa11ment.
Moved by FATHER DE IS LAJOIE seconded by GE RGE
JOSEPH the report was received. In the ensuing discussion a
priest asked about a program or publication on sexual heha\ iour
and Dr. Boojamra said the program was already available.
METROPOLITANPHILIP added an additional 3.000 to the
budget of the Department of C:hririan Education.
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15. FATHERGEORGES. COREYpresentedthe report of The
Word Magazine.
Toronto, Ontario ~and
Archdiocese.
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receives
the 1997 Convention
of th e
I am happy to make this report to you for the 16th consern-.
tive year as the Editor of THE WORD, the official public.aric~not
our Archdiocese in orth America. As you well kno,,. our 1mirnal began as AL KALIMAT in 1905 by His Grace. Bishop
RAPHAEL(Hawaweeny), and again in 195 as Tiff \\ORD by
His Eminence, Metropolitan A TO
(Bashir). both of thriceblessed memory.
Our publication is now sent free of charge co ~II fa1~11Jte..,
Ill
our Archdiocese whose name are sent co u..,h> their panshe.., In
addition, we have ome 2,000 subscribers. for a total of 2.3.000
names on our mailing Ii t.
The editor and member of the editorial board. plus the tech-_
nical advisor, are all volunteer·.
e have an annual budget ot
THE
�$l50,000 to cover the costs of printing, mailing and subscrip·ons, and we have managed to stay well within that budget.
tl
In that mor_e depa_rtme_nt_s_
of the Archdiocese are requesting
h
I
space to ac vertl~e t eir act1v1_t1es_,
as ~ell they should, we will be
respectfully askmg all organizations, 1.e., The O rd er, Antiochian
women and the Fellowship, to submit articles every other
month, rather th an mont hl y, so as to accommodate the many
other demands
for
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space. We continue
to ask that parish
news be endorsed by
the pastor and that
all letters to the editor, for publication,
be signed.
Our newest features during this past
year included
the
monthly centerfold,
used either by the
Department of Youth
One half of the delegates assembled at the
Ministries, the Department of Christian Education, the Department of Charities and
the Department of Publications. Another popular feature is DID
YOU K OW ... ? We hope to continue these during the coming
year.
Unfortunately we have been advised to expect a possible
40% increase in postage beginning in October '93. In anticipation
of this increase, we have set subscription rates beginning this
September to $18.00 annually for the USA and Canada, $24.00
annually for foreign, and $3.00 each for individual copies. Since
we have only 2,000 subscribers, and 21,000 complimentaries, we
will still depend on your generous donations to THE WORD.
Please don't forget us when you have some "mad money"!
It has been my distinct pleasure to serve the Archdiocese as
editor of THE WORD since 1976. I look forward to more fruitful
years, with your continued co-operation, and the blessings and
tremendous encouragement of Metropolitan PHILIP.
E .
mmence and I thank the ladie and the Metropolitan for having
granted me this honor.
Th
. e greatest highlight of my two year term wa the trip to
Syr~a, and Lebanon in ovember, 1991, accompanying Hi
Eminence with other members of the Board of Tru tee on chi
bl
most memora e journey, which I shall treasure all the day of
my life.
......~~---It ha been two
years since the lection of our board in
Wa hington, DC in
1991. We have had
two very bu y and
productive year . We
have continued to
involve our ladie in
the giving of th mselve
to increa
their Chri tian leadership, their sen e of
fellowship, their love
General Assembly of the Convention.
and service for their
home and church, and to do Christian deeds. It is only through
giving and sharing that we grow in experience and knowledge.
Our organization has had many worthwhile projects since its
inception in 1973 and we continue with ome of these projects
such as, gifts to married seminarians, Children's Relief Fund and
sc,holarships for education of needy women as well as having
undertaken a project to raise funds for the Archbishop Michael
Shaheen Memorial Room at the Antiochian Village.
For my encumbent years our project has been the Balamand
University, Metropolitan Philip's Endowment Fund and IOCC. In
1992 we contributed $50,000 to the special project however the
figures for the current year are not complete. evertheles , we
anticipate another contribution of $50,000. Marlene Mamary, our
Project Coordinator and First Vice-President has worked hard to
promote the IOCC project.
Our second Vice-President and Humanitarian Coordinator,
Grace Mary Parhamovich, has kept our regions informed on leg-
Moved by ELAI E KHOURY, St. icholas, Brooklyn, seconded by GEORGE ATALLAH, St. Nicholas, Brooklyn, the report was
received.
In discussion ROBERT ANDREWS, JR. Orinda, CA, suggested
that news of local societies and organizations was not helpful.
GEORGE ELIAS, Miami, questioned postal increases and FR.
GEORGEreplied that the Associated Church Press, to which The
Word magazine belongs, lobbys for equitable postal rates for
church publications. FATHER MAXIMOS SAIKALY,Halifax, NSD,
said that The Word should offer additional material in Arabic. In
appreciation of his faithful service METROPOLITANPHILIP presented. Father George with four bound volumes of The Word
magazine for 1990-1992.
The Assembly recessed at 5:00 PM.
Friday, July 23rd
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLYreconvened at 10:30 AM.
16. LARAINEE. MAHSHIE, President,presentedthe reportof the
Antiochian Orthodox
Christian Women of North
America.
We have reached a milestone in the history of our Antiochian Women and it is a challenge to us to reach out to a new
generation of women in all of our parishes.
While at the same time including those whose service and
experience has given us such a rich legacy, it is the time for us
to revitalize our commitment to the mission and our role as
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Women.
I have enjoyed serving as President of the Antiochian
Women as well as serving on the Board of Trnstees for the paSt
two years. It has been an honor and pleasure to serve under His
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Bishop Maximos of the Greek Orthodo
opens the Grand Banquet with prayer.
�i lation important to the humanitarian needs of our church as
well a ending guidelines for visiting the ill, caring for the elderly, feeding the hungry, etc.
We thank Francine Phelan for her work as Public Relations
Director. She made sure that our articles appeared in the Word
magazine. A special thanks to Father George Corey and the
Word taff for all the cooperation given our ladies.
Trish Orlovsky, our Religious Coordinator, kept us informed
of guidelines to follow for special feast days and events during
the year and we thank her for this work.
Our Cultural Coordinator, Ramona Darmour and her committee has taken on a tremendous task by compiling a booklet on
the Religious Culture of the Antiochian Church. The printing of
this booklet was donated by two of our ladies.
Orthodoxy and give an example of life and service to be emulated by others for many, many years to come.
I am thankful that the ladies have given me the opportunity
to serve during this most exciting time.
Respectfully submitted
Laraine E. Mahshi~
President
NAB Antiochian Women
New Board
Marlene Mamary
President, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Eleanor Kinan
Vice President, Niagara Falls, NY
Sheny Abraham
Treasurer, Wichita, Kansas
Joanne Abdallah
Secretary, New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Geri Ferris
Public Relations, Akron, Ohio
In conclusion the President announced a $50,000, return on
the Ladies project and an additional $200 contribution to the
Archbishop Michael Memorial Fund.
Moved by ESTHER SAMARA and seconded by LAURICE
KALEEL,the report was received.
METROPOLITA PHILIP asked that the minutes record his
gratitude to the Ladies and presented a Certificate of Meritorious
Service to LARAI E MAHSHIE, the President.
FATHERGEORGEGEHA, ExecutiveDirector, presented the report
of the Heritage and Learning Center.
THE HERITAGE AND LEARNING CENTER
Utilization of Facilities
The Heritage Center's purpose is to serve as a program facility for all Eastern Orthodox Christian churches and as a center for
all ecumenical and/or Christian encounters.
Since our last
Archdiocese Convention in Washington, DC, almost every week-
Nancy Hanna led the delegates in the American National Anthem
Our Membership Coordinator, Delores Albert sent excellent
membership idea to all regions. She followed up with questionnaire and told us of the various activities used in some regions.
Our excellent Treasurer, Eleanor Kinan has done an outstanding job of serving our organization and also developed a
job de cription for this position for the use of ladies who occupy
thi position in the future.
Without correct minutes the records of the Antiochian
Women could not be preserved. Gloria Armistead has served our
group w~ll. Her records leave no doubts about the workings of
our meetings.
I have erved in the double position of Corresponding Secretary a well a President and have tried to keep everyone informed.
o group can have success without a spiritual advisor who
mu t be interested, enthusiastic and devoted to the work being
don . The Very Rev. Louis Mahshie has always been there to encourage, to guide, to uggest and to work. My sincere thanks
and appreciation to him.
Highlights on Regional Level are newsletters, Fundraisers
~etreats and Humanitarian Deeds. We thank all regional Pres~
1dents and Antiochian Women at all levels for their continued
good work.
Our board ha been working on and completed Constitution
and By-Law change which are now approved and being implemented.
The Antiochian Women are now twenty (20) years old. We
e~courag_e all women to become active members. By giving you
will receive. Let us enrich the future of our beautiful heritage,
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end throughout the past two years has a Christian group using
the center for meetings, retreats,. or other Christian encounters.
Utilization of
Fiscal '93
Fiscal '94
Facilities
Actual
Estimated
Antiochian Archdiocese
21%
12%
Other Churches
41%
55%
Religious Organizations
21%
18%
Non-Profit Organizations
12%
10%
Miscellaneous (Reunions etc.)
5%
5%
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CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND*
P.O. Box 340 52 , BETHESDA, MARYLAND 20817
THE VERY REVEREND GEORGE M. RADOS
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
Dearly Beloved,
Once ~gai~ I greet you in our Lord's name, and pray that He continue to sustain you and your
loved ones 1n His grace and peace.
The theme of our Christmas Stamp this year is "The Adoration of the Magi." It immediately
brings to mind two Christian admonitions Self denial:
If anyone desires to come unto me, let him deny himself & take up his
cross, and follow me. (Matt. 16:24)
and Charity:
So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of
necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. (11 Cor. 9:7)
As did the Magi so long ago, we, too, can enjoy the season of giving. They gave to Christ in
person and we can give to the person in Christ. In this respect, Jesus would have us believe that
He and we are one and the same for He said,
In as much as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did
it to me. (Matt. 25:40)
So here is another opportunity to give a sacrificial and loving gift to Christ through the
Children's Relief Fund. If you cannot afford to sponsor a child for $300 annually, perhaps you can
make a considerate donation to the CRF'S General Reserve which is used for unpredictable circumstances usually related to the medical needs of the children.
In anticipation of the progress in the recent initiatives in the Middle East, the needs of the
restoration will undoubtedly weigh heavily upon our shoulders. We need to respond with confidence and strength and that will surely depend on your understanding, your love and your generosity.
As we enter the spirit of this festive season, may our heavenly Father bless all of you with His
grace and serenity. As always, I remainYours in Christ,
Jfa:r;)
Fr. George M. Rados
~rs. By giving you
)eautiful heritage,
Non-Profit Organizations
Miscellaneous (Reunions etc.)
12%
10%
5%
5%
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7108 Bradley Boulevard
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ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE OF NORTH AMERICA
�CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
SPONSORSHIP:
INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX
CHRISTIAN CHARITIES
In 1982, the Children's Relief Fund, now an active
program within the Department of Charities of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, began
as a modest project prompted by the need to provide humanitarian assistance to the children of Lebanon, which
were and continue to be the innocent victims of a war
which does not appear to have an end in sight.
A sponsorship program was then initiated as a pilot
activity, later followed by a program for medical aid and
international adoptions - each one offering a channel
for American families and all others concerned, to provide a message of love to children in distress throughout
the world.
The response was prompt and encouraging from the
very start. Over the years, it has gained momentum, with
hundreds of families and organizations in the United
States and Canada coming forward to share their concern by generously giving of their resources through a
well maintained administration. The children, on the
other hand, are encouraged to correspond with their
sponsors in appreciation of their aid.
A sponsored child, thus, is no more a dead figure, or
a _maskwithout a name. They become a vibrant reality
with all the marks of a human life that is going to be
changed by being tenderly touched by Christian passion
and generosity.
Besides, we are made aware everyday in the media
and through the channels of the United Nations the
universal plight of children in various parts of the world
as millions each day suffer from poverty and hunger, '
from homelessness, from epidemics, illiteracy, and other
forms of ?hild abuse and neglect, let alone the appalling
degrada~1onof the human habitat around the globe.
Nothing less than a global campaign can provide the
leverage needed _foran appropriate answer, engaging in
a labor of love built on cooperation and solidarity among
people of good will from all faiths and all nations.
Nonetheless, we are all called upon to make our
small contribution, each in his own way, and within his
own resources. The Children's Relief Fund, with the
grace of God and your enthusiastic response has been
able within the last 8 years to set an honorabl~ record
t~~s meeting the burden of proof of its dynamism and eff1c1ency,and that by coming to the aid of more than 1000
children in Lebanon and neighboring countries.
A modest beginning indeed, but which has enough
spark to go the extra mile needed to reach into the
hearts of our beloved children. The letters we receive
f~om t_hemthroughout the year are heartwarming testimonials that reveal not only appreciation for the
ge~erosity of their sponsors, but above all the extent to
w~1chthe life of a _child can be renewed with hope and
faith through the little attention and help we give them.
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The Fund recognizes the great urgency for coming to
the assistance of all children in the world that are in
need. Thus capitalizing on the assets of our own ongoing project, and our experience over the last 8 years,
w_~
~re keen to make new plans for developing our capab1llt1esas well as expand our services to new countries.
But meanwhile, given the limitations of our current
resources, the bulk of our contribution at this stage will
focus on the needs of the countries of the Middle East in
general, countries that are now faced with the imminent
threat of a vastly destabilizing upheaval that could affect
millions of people from various nations.
This, however, will in no way jeopardize our work with
the children of Lebanon or cause any curtailment of their
current benefits. Expansion is meant as an enrichment
over and above what we already can provide.
Up to the present, three programs have been set in
~lace i~ our Fund, Sponsorship, Medical Aid, and Adoption. It Is our hope, for the benefit of the children themselves to be able to move from the practice of relief for
single children to that of siding whole families to be selfsufficient. The idea is to enable those families to become
productive and to take over on their own the care of their
children. When people are made to get involved in their
own rehabilitation, the over-all result is more effective
and enduring.
Meanwhile, we shall again primarily focus on our ongoing programs, namely sponsorship of children, Medical Aid and Adoption.
?P~nsorships are solicited from individuals and orgarnz~t1onswho co~tribute $300 a year to a child. Sponsorships do not begin until the initial $150 is paid
After half payment, a child is assigned to its s.ponsor
for one year.
Sponsors receive the child's biography and photograph plus ~etailed progress reports and letters dictated
from the child to a caseworker.
.All specified contributions and letters are personally
delivered to each child by Orthodox Youth Movement
case workers._Atthe time of delivery a member of the
sponsored child's family is requested to sign a receipt.
Letters to sponsors are written when case workers deliver the contributions.
Remembe~,fo~~25 a month you can help a desperately needy child living in despair thousands of miles
away. That's 82¢ a day. Imagine, your spare change
could change a child's life.
----------------------------------------------------ENCLOSED
D is my charitable gift of $ ____
monthly or six-month increments.)
to sponsor a child ( $ 300.00 a year or can be paid in
D is a donation of $ _____
contribute
.. Here is a handful of little ones whose pleading eyes
v1~1dlyexpress the depth of the tragedy in the lives of the
children of Lebanon.
Leban_o~,inde~d, still faces one of the longest and
cruelest cIv1Iwars in modern times. Out of a populatio
of less _thanthree million, hundreds of thousands haven
b~en_k1lled,~aimed, displaced, and up-rooted, or otherwise incapacitated by the atrocities of sixteen dark years
of war.
. We cannot sponsor a child at this time but would like to
to the general reserve for the medical aid program and other emergencies.
Donor(s) _________________________________
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Address _________________________________
_
All contributions
are tax deductible.
Please make check payable and mail to: Children's Relief Fund
c/o The Very Rev. George M. Rados, 7108 Bradley Boulevard,
P.O.Box 34052, W. Bethesda, MD 20817
Thank You
�MEDICAL AID:
CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
The most recent medical aid was given to cover the
cost of Chemotherapy for a young 8 year old, Nadine
Abbou Fadel of Beirut who is suffering from cancer. Our
last word on her was that she completed her treatments
and is in remission.
Another child, Subair Kussairy of Katana, Syria, is
handicapped and upon receiving word of our aid said to
her father while praying in Church, "You see Daddy, God
has heard our prayers."
Two other severely retarded children of Katana,
Syria, have also received some help from our fund.
After learning of the desperate situation among the
orphans of Romania we sent an initial contribution of
$3000 to help that most desperate dilemma.
Your contribution can help the thousands of other
suffering children like those just described.
INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX
CHRISTIAN CHARITIES
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION:
Anton and Sandra Hajjar and their adopted children Claire and Gregory.
J?ey and. Tim Bollan and their adopted
Our program for adoptions is not always fluent due
to the political uncertainties of the Middle East. Based,
however, on our previous success in helping many families adopt infants from Lebanon, we are forever vigilant
in this arena and are always willing to help facilitate the
process of an international adoption. Details on this program are under separate cover and can be sent to interested parties upon request.
Pamela and Kevin Handly and their adopted son Theodore.
�flerltage Museum
The majority of Mi~dle-Eastern artifacts and rare icons
received to date are on display. We have a constant flow of visitors to tour the ~nuse\1m and we hope and pray you will continue ro support this proiect by sending your items.
Museum Total stock
537
artifacts
779
discrete objects
86
donors
We have also completed a room dedicated with past photos
and artifacts to the late Metropolitan ANTONY (Bashir) and we
are currently working on a room to the late Archbishop
MICHAEL(Shaheen) may their memories be eternal!
Conference Center: Route 711 orth, P.O. Box 638, Ligonier, PA
15658 412-238-3677
village Camp: R.D. #l, Box 307, Bolivar, PA 15923 412-238-9565
Library
Our Librarian, Mr. Paul Garrett, is continuing his efforts in
keeping the library up-to-date. Our major source of funding for
ct1e library continues to come from the Order of St. Ignatius and
the current fund-raising efforts of NAC-Teen SOYO. Anyone
wishing to donate money may do so and we are always looking
for donation of books in any language which your families may
not want any longer.
Data
Remarks
Area
Category
11,454
discrete titles
Libra1y Total stock
volume equivalency
25,136
480
duplicate copies
periodical titles
430
Periodicals
unbound periodicals
6,188
fiche (497 titles)
23,516
Microforms
reels (14 titles)
152
cassettes (81 titles)
Sound recordings 215
discs (9 titles)
23
cassettes (174 titles)
Video recordings 180
units (1 title)
1
Electronics
volumes (81 titles)
110
Rare books
volumes (438 titles)
519
Juvenile
desiderata recorded, from
3,108
Acquisitions
publishers
373
$116,764.17 retail value (approx.)
vols. currently on order
171
conunitted (approx.)
$5,722.00
$30,000.00 Order of St. Ignatius
opening balance NAC Teen'
$2,428.43
SOYO
income: NAC Teen SOYO
$4,797.00
available: NAC Teen SOYO
$7,225.43
$17,314.15 spent to date FY 1992
$14,189.28 remaining in budget
current !endings
Circulation
98
new !endings
99
!endings to date (total)
346
Season
Cambers
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
100
NIA
258
NIA
2~5
NIA
NIA
4~7
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from the biennial reporting co the rchdioce-.e
conventions and published in 71Je\f'ord. In the
off-years, no statistics \\·ere published.
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372
86
2
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487
461
491
540
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28
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Moved by FATHER ELIA SHALHOUB and seconded
FATHERGREGORY OFIESH the report was received.
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DR.JOHN DALACK and DR. ANTHONY BASHIRCo-Chairmen
prese_nted
the report of the Department of Lay Ministry.
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Smee our last report to you in 1991, we have endeavo ed t
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see to it that we "fulfill the ministry received from the Lord.~
We have based the work during the past two years on the
following goals:
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Moved by FATHER PETER SHPORTU and seconded
FATHERJOSEPH ABUD the report was received.
by
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FATHERJOSEPHALLEN,Chairman, presentedthe report of the
Continuing Pastoral Education and Pastoral Vocations
Department.
St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology
t. Stephen's Studies continues to fulfill a distinct need for
the Church ina much as it provides a mode of studies for those
who cannot attend an Orthodox. theological school. This course
is not intended to replace the need for a proper theological training for ordination; a professional M.Div. degree remains nonnative for ordination to a major order. St. Stephen's Studies, which
now ha three tracts of study (each geared to the various conditions which may exist in the student's background and future
int nt) has become a most valuable source for those already
ordained, for those with theological degrees from non-Orthodox
chools, for foreign students, for those in various Christian
Education programs, etc.
At the time of thi report, St. Stephen's Studies has now
grown to 130 students in the various Orthodox jurisdictions in
.A., as well as in Europe, South Africa -and Australia. As is usual
in all such courses, attrition remains the chief problem since
each tudent must be self-disciplined and very determined to fini h.
Two new considerations must be noted. First, for all Antiochian students who in special circumstances will be ordained
to the Diaconate, the complete three year program will be
required regardles of hi educational background. Second, we
are currently planning practicum units in which students will
attend a :"eek-long cour e at the Heritage and Learning Center,
on tw?different occa ions. There they will be brought into contact with both seminarians and clergy. This will be a requirement
for all Antiochian Students, and a "potential" for all other students.
Clergy Symposium
In July of 1992, the Seventh Biennial Symposium for the
Clergy of our Archdiocese was held at the Antiochian Village.
The theme of the Symposium was continuous with the other
conferences: Youth Ministry.
As in other years, it was comprised of lectures by guest
speakers, various workshops, evening presentations, and the
daily cycle of liturgical services. A special thanks to the Youth
Director of our Archdiocese, V. Rev. Joseph Purpura, who directed the Symposium which directly related to his departmental
work.
Upon the direction of Metropolitan PHILIP, beginning with
the Eighth Symposium being planned for next year, the structure
will be modified to better meet the needs of the ministry of the
clergy as we enter the 21st Century. The theme will be continuous with the global theme chosen for the Archdiocese in 1994.
Antiochian Studies Program
During January, 1993, the Metropolitan initiated the first
Antiochian Studies Program for all seminarians, regardless of the
theological school at which they are studying. This program is
not intended to be a replication of seminary education - although there will be some elements which necessarily will be
similar - but will focus upon the particular Antiochian programs
and legacy. His Eminence has long been concerned for the full
riches of the spiritual, methodological and practical orientation as
found in a specifically Antiochian setting. The Antiochian Studies
Program is comprised of lectures, discussions, social outings, and
other more informal sessions - all to encourage a comprehensive base for all those who attend.
At the current time, two new elements are being planned to
be integrated into the Antiochian Studies Program:
1) A component for students of St. tephen's Studies, and .
2) A component for other clergy who, on a cyclical bas_is,
will either be assigned by the hierarchy to attend, or voluntanly
desire to return for a pastoral renewal unit of study.
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THE WORD/NOVEMBER
1993
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855
Broken <i,wri by age
Aqc
Special Thanks: to Metropolitan PHILIP io h.
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r is specia attention to the nee cls of his clergy· to the staff of th H . 1
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Learning Center 1or thetr hard work and hospital·ty· t h
• h A • h•
i , o t e mentors m t e ntioc ian Studies Program· to the t ff f S
Steph en 's Stu c1·
ies; to Th e lma Dacales for the' treme d s a • Ob t.
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has done as the registrar
for St. Stephen's Studies. n ous JO s1e
Master of Ceremonies
expertise.
and worship In this wa v we
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,
once again con'itituc' our..,ehes as
t e community of believer working for the edification of rhe
church and the glory of the Lord.
We continue to be concerned for the le, el of under randing
of th~ O~odox Faith within th Ar hdiocese o mulh of the
~a~ m which we understand the Faith is filtered through we.,rern
ogic and we t~rn cultural perspectives. The e act to confound
the understan?mg of Faith. e will continue to dev -'lop and _
O
fer programs intended to clarify and enhance th_. wa ·s in whi ·h
we under tand and incorporate the Orthodox Faith into our Ii\' •s
and daily practices.
Throughout the past two years we have accomplished the
following:
a. Pro~ided Enlivening essions at parish life conferenc ,_..,
and
the_ Arc_hdiocese ~onvenrions. We have co\'ered the follcm"ing
topics, 1.e., the ~ifts of the pirit, Faith and hange, The Lord·..,
Prayer, and Forgiveness and Reconciliation. , ome regions ha, e
pref~rred to conduct their own Enlivening . essions and we hav ,
provided them with the appropriate materials to do so. Because
the cheduling of Parish Life Conferenc s is such, it is not ,ii\\ ay"
possible for us to attend all Conferenc s. There ,, ere three
schedules for o~e weekend. In the future, we ask region.. to
contact us early m the year to confirm their desire to have one of
us present an Enlivening at the conferenc ;
. b. P~ovided a series of working papers for and participated
rn meetings that result in the reformulation of , OYO, The
Department of Youth, and the creation of the Fellowship of r.
John the Divine;
c. Provided the working drafts needed to implement the
Parish Ministry Team program in conjunction
with Fr.
Christopher Holwey, Fr. Michael Ellias and M ·. usan , hah.ide
This program will be presented to you in detail at this meeting.
Please note that the Enlivening to Chri t . e sion scheduled for
Saturday, July 24, 1993, will be entirely devoted to Miniseries and
the Gifts of the Spirit. See you there!
d. Provided lectures and encounters for our young adults at
the 1992 and 1993 College Conference. Few activitie are .is
rewarding as the meeting and long, often intense, conversations
with the young Orthodox Christians.
e. Provided for Orthodox parishe eminar and retreats dur-
S. Joseph Nassif handled the banquet with
a. to involve the laity and clergy in a series of encounters
intended to develop their knowledge of the Orthodox faith;
b. to provide the laity and the clergy with a time to reflect on
their own spiritual condition;
c. to provide the laity and the clergy with an experience of
self-examination, prayer, and meditation as a way to spiritual
development;
d. to create forums in which laity and clergy can join in
mutual sharing about problems and solutions for living an
Orthodox life in today's society;
e. to cooperate with other departments and organizations of
the Archdiocese to effect important program developments and
initiatives;
f. to provide for other Orthodox jurisdictions seminars and
retreats intended for the spiritual growth of its laity and clergy.
We reported to you two years ago about our concerns for
adult development within the Archdiocese. We are pleased to
report that in conjunction with the Fellowship of St. John the
Divine, we have participated
in the creation of the Parish
MinistryTeam concept. This will allow adults of all ages to come
together in service, fellowship and witness. We support this program and believe that it will provide adults a way to continue to
realize their gifts and develop within the Orthodox Faith. We
also see the Parish Ministry Team concept as a way for older
People to mentor younger people in service, fellowship, witness
TBEWORD/NOVEMBER
1993
Host Pastor, Archprkst Samuel David thanked all th
for their labor of love.
�in Advent and Lent. Each of these provided us ~it~ the opportu~ity to share our lives with other Orth~~ox Chnstians. We are
grateful for their warmth, generosity of spmt,. a~d t~ust.
What's next for the Department of Lay Minist1!'.
.
a. continue our commitment to provide quality programs. intended to enhance the personal and spiritual ?rowth of the laity;
b. provide a collection of workshop proJe~ts that can serve
as a part of an adult Orthodox Christian education progra.m; .
c. continue to work on the development of the Pansh Ministry Team program;
..
.
d. initiate a dialogue with regional spmtual advisors _codetermine the future course of the regional enlivening sessions and
work for orderly transfer of responsibilities for programs where
desired.
e provide for other Orthodox jurisdictions programs on aspects. of spiritual growth and development for their laity and
adopted and supported
• Making pledging and tithing a central lemenr of the
paris~ budget, increa ing the number, a\'erage amounc.s, and the
total mcome from pledges and tithing
• Understanding steward hip as an rthodox hristian tradition
• Defining, delineating, and determining parish need Jnd
communicating those need to th pari ·h
• Developing an open tyle of leader hip for improving participation in the parish
• Improving the numb r of organization·, and upgrading the
quality of activities and meeting of organization in the parish
• Improving attendance and full participation in the 'iauamental life of the church
• Fostering cooperation and support among area ruiodox
parishes
• Teaching steward hip concept in multiple ways in th~
parish setting
• Creating a parish environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome and comfortable and participating
• Conducting charitable program which b nefir p ople outside the parish
• Supporting missions development in orrh merica and
near your parish
• Creating an endowment system co p rpetuate your parish
and archdiocese program
clergy.
d
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In closing we wish to offer our gratitu e to etropo 1tan
PHILIP; thank you for your trust and confidence in our work. _To
all of you who participate in our work, our thanks. ~or talking
with us, for your honesty, for taking us in, for feeding us, _for
supporting the effort, for your caring, and most of all for shanng
the way ... God Bless!
Moved by EVELYN SHAMOUN and seconded by FRANCIS
KHOURY the report was received.
***
Vicar General George S. Corey presented Bishop ANTOUN with a
pastoral staff on the occasion of his 10th anniversary in the episcopate, on behalf of the clergy and laity.
17. DR. GEORGEDIBS,Chairman, presented the report of the
Department of Stewardship; announcing that Co-Chairman
Ron Nicola was unable to be present.
ince 1976, the Department of Stewardship has held workshops for over half the parishes of the ~chdio~es~. We c~me to
parish leaders and clergy to assist them in des1g~ing _an~ 1.mplementing plans for use of the gifts of ?od wh1~~ individua~s
return co the Church as a token of their recognition of Gods
help in their lives.
.
Since our last convention two years ago, the pansh workshop programs have continued based on invitations extended
by pari h councils and clergy.
Convention Chair, Kweilin Nassar, and her various committees
gave us one of the f1nest conventions ever - a Pittsburgh tradition!
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Vice Chairman of the Archdiocese
Board of Trustees, Ernest
Saykaly, addressed the banquet on behalf of his organization.
Individuals visits were made to parishes in Flint (Michigan),
Toronto (Canada), Oklahoma City (Oklahoma), and Omaha
(Nebraska), but in a more intense way than the 80 parishes visited before 1991. In each of these parishes, two or more meetings
were held over several days rather than a single workshop session.
A new variation of parish visitations was inaugurated with
individual workshops at parishes in a close geographic area, followed by a joint culminating workshop in that area. In November of 1991, eight parishes in Western Pennsylvania, clustered
near the Antiochian Village, had evening seminars during one
week conducted by Jean Sams and George Dibs, with a culminating workshop for all on the weekend. In May of 1993, thre~
parishes in New York and New Jersey hosted individual senunars followed by a Saturday workshop. The lower cost of travel
for the coordinators invites more parishes to participate.
The most successful activity of the past two years was the
Parish Leadership Symposium on October 8-11, 1992, at the
Antiochian Village. Numbers alone, 35 parishes and 100 leaders,
do not tell the story. For the first time in our history, lay leaders
came together to inform the Archdiocese and to learn about
leadership responsibilities. Metropolitan Philip and leaders from
coast to coast and Canada to Florida dialogued and enjoyed
sharing their visions of the future. Many Archdiocese leaders
gave presentations in an atmosphere of openness and joy.
Following the symposium, mini-symposia in the San Fi-ancisco, Los Angeles, and New York/New Jersey areas gathered
together and informed local parish leaders who did not attend
the Village Symposium.
Another Parish Leadership Symposium is planned for October, 1994, at Antiochian Village and we anticipate a larger gathering of leaders. Department co-chairs, Ron Nicola & George
Dibs urge each parish now to plan to send leaders.
The Department of Stewardship is available to any parish or
group of parishes which want to find ways to improve every
program aspect open to lay leadership. On the reverse of this
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report is a list of some workshop topics available. If any topics
look fruitful for your parish, please contact the department for
assistanc .
We wish to xtend our appreciation to Metropolitan Philip
and our cl rgy in the archdiocese for their continuing support
and encouragement of the Stewardship Workshop Programs.
G orgc Dibs and Ron Nicola, Department Chairs
Workshops Available from the
Department of Stewardship
• Evaluation of the total programs of a parish
• Understanding the components of good stewardship in
parishes
• Adopting a definition of stewardship for your unique
parish
• Assessing the parish again t ideal conditions of stewardship
• Building a tewardship program based on Holy Tradition
and Holy criptures
• Major components of a Christian education program for
children, young adults, and adults
• Using activities to build fellowship and avoiding the need
for fundraising activities
.
.
• Fostering cooperation among lay leaders and pnests in
parishes
• Enlisting, using, and harnessing volunteer talents in parishes for improvements
.
• Improving communications in parishes to and from panshioners
• Learning how to share within and among parishes successfuland unsuccessful programs
.
• Developing visions of the future in parishes and translating
visions into plans and realities
.
• Setting and selecting annual priorities in the pans?
• Turning priorities into action plans in a systematic process
to ensure success
.
.
• Finding and developing lay leadership in a pansh setting
• Understanding archdiocese programs and visions and generating enthusiasm and support
• Building a better, more ambitious budget and getting it
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Moved by FATHER PAUL EYLER,La ega • and seconded
by FATHEROLOF SCOTT,the report was received.
...
18. FATHERGABRIEL
ASHIE,Chairman, presented the report of
the Department
of Conventions and Conference
Planning.
Since our last Convention, the Department of Convention
and Conference Planning has been reorganizing and i • now
made up of Standing Members and the Seven Regions of Pari h
Life Conference Coordinators. My thanks to all who have given
of themselves and especially our Vice-Chairman, Mr. David
Slaman.
Others include: the Rev. Fr. Joseph Abud; the Re . Fr.
Andrew Zbeeb; Mrs. Adeline Abercia; Mrs. Kathy braham; Dr.
David Bojrab; Mr. George Darany; Mr. Robert Maria; Dr. Alan
His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP pr ~nted th ~toruan• ar il forr
M dal of Merit to a surprised and emotional Kweilin
.
h:r years of service to the Archdioce e in the area of pu li relations.
1
�the results before us.
ATIANTA'95
This is our next destination, Lord willing, and with the hospitality of St. Elias Church, and their Pastor, Father Andrew Zbeeb,
we should enjoy a fine Convention July 24-31, 1995.
CONVENTION SITE '97
Although we began with three bids, we will nevertheless be
pleased to hear from our hosts for 1997, the St. George Church
of Toronto, Canada and their Pastor, the V. Rev. Elia Shalhoub
and Mr. Richard Wihbey. Hotel restrictions and high rates resulted in the withdrawal of a serious bid from other communities.
My appreciation to Metropolitan PHILIP for his aid and guidance to me and this department, and to the members and region
coordinators for their input and guidance.
The Department stands prepared to aid any parish holding
an Archdiocesan Convention and to provide assistance to communities that will be hosting our upcoming Regional Parish Life
Conferences; and that all might be done to the glory and honour
of our Lord Jesus Christ as we gather in His Name.
Moved by KWEILIN NASSAR and seconded
JOSEPH ABUD, the report was received.
***
by FATHER
19. ERNESTSAYKALY,Chairman, presented the report of the
Antiochian Village Council.
Archpriest Peter Gillquist introduced our guest speaker at the banquet ...
Matook and Ms. Kweilin Nassar.
PARISH LIFE CONFERENCE '93
Each, to an extent, of our annual Parish Life Conferences
have had joys as well as some unfulfilled goals. It is especially
plea ant to note the first SOUTHEAST REGION Parish Life
Conference, held in Miami, at which Metropolitan PHILIP
presided. Welcome SOUTHEASTREGIO !
We are awaiting the response of our Parish Life Conference
Coordinators with their responses, input and additions to a EW
Parish Life Conference Manual and more clearly relating to the
new Fellowship of St. John the Divine. Few changes have been
indicated so far but the repeated suggestion that an Appendix
featuring the complete schedules of all conferences be included
in the new manual.
A SUGGESTED NEW FORMAT
for our Regional Regions of Parishes is being explored to
include a GE ERAL ASSEMBLYtruly reflecting the region in
parishe seated with the Pastor, Council Chairman, AOCWNA
Chairman, Fellowship of St. John Chairman and SOYO. These
"five' to truly represent EVERY parish and mission as unto a
"Dioce e" meeting presided over by the Metropolitan or Bishop
or his representative. Having met previously, each representative
will hear brief reports to the activities of each regional "group"
and together discuss the matters spiritual and physical of our
communitie .
I am pleased to report that due to the successful operation of
both the Heritage and Learning Center and the Camp, the Village
Council no longer meets on a quarterly basis, but rather twice a
year, in conjunction with the spring and fall meetings of the
board of trustees. I must assure you, howeve, that we are in
constant communication with Father Geha, who keeps us abreast
of the statu·s of the Village at all times. In this manner, any problems which might arise, can be resolved quickly and efficiently.
During the past two years, extensive renovations have taken
place at the camp, to assure that it is kept in excellent condition
at all times. All cabins requiring repairs have been attended to,
the washrooms and shower stalls have been remodelled, a new
pool house has been built, the pool deck has been replaced, and
the tennis, basketball and volleyball courts have been resurfaced
and restriped. In addition, several buildings on the camp site
have undergone extensive repairs, including the dining hall, the
gathering place and the infirmary. This spring, the camp kitchen
was updated and refurbished, and I might mention that there has
been a major improvement in the quality and selection of food
which is currently being offered. Most of the meals are now prepared by the chef at the center, and served in the camp dining
room - the menu is varied to the extent that n
.
ed during a two week period much t 0 l o dme~l is repeat1
campers.
'
t e ehght of the
The Village Camp is accredited by th e Amencan
.
C
•
Association and ranks second to none _
bl'
ampmg
·h
ena mg us to be • t1
pleased wit our accomplishments to th'
cl Th
JLIS Y
and amenities which are offered have prois en • e programs
ven extremely po I
with the campers, and have resulted in O b .
b
pu ar
· f
•
ur emg ooked to
capacity or most campmg seasons
. chil.
• I urge th ose o f you with
dren between tl1e ages of nme and sixteen , to cons1·cter sending
.
h
them
· to
·11tb e camp cfor a minimum two week stay. I assure you
this w1 e an uillorgettable
experience for th em, as th ey will
.
.
have
· dth e opportunity to meet children frorn a 11 areas o f the
Unite States and Canada, and will establish stron and 1 .
friendships.
g
astmg
We are . constantly
monitoring
the
entire
v·11
.
1 age, to assure
that we maintain a level of excellence we can tak e pnc• 1e m.
• This
•
week we had
to open our doors to many o f our
· hfthe occasion
.
0rtho d ox fa1t ul, enabling them to witness first h cl h
·f·
f l v·11
.
an , t e magni JCence o t 1e
1 age, including the Heritage and Learnin
Center, the museum, the St. John of Damascus Sacred Art~
Acaclem~,and the camp, which is in full session at this time. We
are
•
cl
. certain
. , those of
. you who visited the v 1·11agewe re 1mpresse
with ow .accomplishments
.
, made possible throltgh your generous contnhut1ons to our building fund drives.
On .behalf of my. colleagues on the Village Counc·1
• l1 to
1 , I WIS
ke t111s ~pporturnty to express our thanks to the Executive
ta_
0Jrector,
Geha and his excellent staff , 1cor th e11•.
·•
• Father
cl . . George
.
ef1orts '.n ~ m1~1stenng both the Center and the Camp. I would
be
remiss
1ff'I cl1clnot express our appreciation to His Em·mence,
c
h
1or t e con IC1en~e he has placed in our ability to maintain the
s_uccessfulop ration of the Village in general. We trust we have
hvecl up to his expectations, and assure him we will continue
our efforts in the future.
Moved I:~ FATHER A TIIONY SOLA, seconded by FATHER
JOH BADEE the report was received.
2?. GENE ATTAL,President NAC, Fellowship of St. John the
Divine,gave his report.
. I began my tenure as President of the North American Council of the Fellowship of St. John the Divine (then called Senior
S0YO) ~o years ago at our convention in Washington, D.C.
My first official act was to conduct a comprehensive survey
of the leadership of Senior SOYO, both at the N.A.C. and regional level. The results of that survey were a mandate for change.
The vast majority of the leaders of the old SOYO felt that
PROCEDURES FOR ARCHDIOCESE CONVENTION BIDDING
were approved by Metropolitan PHILIP and printed in the
April '93_edition o~ the WORD. We still must be mindful to begin
C?nvenu_on planning 5 years in advance of bidding. Too many
bid begm late not allowing time or visits to hotels for inspection
and con~ract ne~otiation. Those bidding for 1999 should begin
now, a m most instances we are limited to one week (3rd week
of July) of the year to hold a Convention. Some hotel sites are
chosen ten years in advance, especially in the medical community.
PITfSBURGH '93
Hosted by St. George's, and under the leadership of the v.
R v. amuel David and Ms. Kweilin assar, is proving to be a
great conclave with many months of labor manifesting itself in
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•·· Frank Schaeffer, who eloquently
Orthodoxy in this century.
spoke about his reflections
00
THE WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
Metropolitan PHILIP challenged
us as we approach the 21st century.
Tl-IE
WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
Bisho~ ~icholas
benediction.
of the Carpatho-Russian Dioce e gave a fitting
revitalization was badly needed . And , that en t'1ment \va
echoed, _forcefully and without re ervation, by Hi Eminenc
Metropolitan PHILIP.
T~king that mandate seriou ly, I et into motion a detailed
pla_nnmg pr~cess - a proces for self-examination and r nev,ed
action for this venerable organization.
Following th~ Opinion Survey, the next tep in that proce s
was the convening of a "Blue Ribbon Ta k Force" of lead rs
from throughout the Archdiocese in the Fall of 1991 at the
Antiochian Village to diagnose the problem of enior • y
and to recommend a wide variety of option .
Based on all of this input, "A Five Point Plan for th Revitalization of SOYO" was carefully crafted by our Executive
Team.
At our Winter Meeting of Februa,y, 1992, the Plan " as unveiled and deliberations began on its potential application . t
that meeting several basic decisions were reached:
*A new name for Senior SOYO wa el cted - "The
Fellowship of St. John the Divine."
*A new platform was officially chosen - "Living the
Orthodox Faith in Christ through Worship, Witn
Service and Fellowship."
*A new mission for the Fellowship, was articulated - \Ve no
longer would be just "a youth movement." In t ad, the
Fellowship of St. John would be an organization for peopl of all
ages, focused on encouraging total parish involv ment through
various volunteer ministries.
*And, finally, our Regions were urged to begin the pro e of
functioning as "regions of pari he " rather than "region... of
SOYO chapters."
As Sayidna has said, the time for talk wa ov r long ago.
Instead, our focus since that time ha been on action. I would
like to review some of tho e aGcompli hmen for ou.
I. Communication.
In the area of communication, 20 editions of our n "' publication, "The Executive Briefing" have been publi hed ov 'r th ,
past 24 month . This publication i mailed to more than 2
leaders of the Fellow hip and the Archdioce in an effort to fo
ter dialogue and to promote understanding of our unique miniStries.
In addition, virtually every edition of Th
rd magazine
has included our coverage of the Fellowship in our se tion. for-
�*The Fellowship has centralized ai:id. c~m~~ter~zed the ~cl• •
• o f the "St• Philip Prayer Discipline.
mmistration
f·c •This centralizac
.
• h as resu Ite d i·n greater efficiency and e 1ectiveness 1or this
tion
important program.
.
h
. . . ,
*To encourag e Parti·ci·pation and
. to. .assist . t e Disciplines
h
6 00 members with their spmtual Journey, the Felmore •t an
11·1·, N
l tt " h
lows l1ip now pu bli·shes a special "St. P i ip s ews e er t ree
times during the year.
.
*In addition, to encourage new members, advertisements
about the St. Philip's Prayer Program have been run regularly in
The Word magazine.
v Administrative Progress.
• In the spirit of good stewardship, every effort has been made
e Fellowship's resources carefully and to be responto manage th
h f 11 ·
· ·
• • rrari·vely• To those ends ' t e o owmg action Hems
si'bl e ad mmis
have been accomplished:
*The Fellowship has made a pledge of $25,000 to the Metropolitan PHILIP Endowment Fund.
.
*Our seventh and newest region, "The S?~t~east Region" has
been organized and is well on its way to JOmmg the other regions of the Archdiocese as productive members of the Fellowship.
*A new constitution which reflects
the changes we are
experiencing
within
the Fellowship was
presented for adoption at our meeting
earlier in this convention.
*And, finally, in
order to be responsive to the needs of
our
regions
and
churches, and to foster open, two-way
communication,
I
have personally visited all seven regions
of the Fellowship
over the past two
nia border in Mexico. ff
hs who con-celebrated the Sunday Liturgy: (left to right) Bishop ANTOUN,Bishop years and designated
We are very excited ~~~~~ Archbishop KYRILL,
Metropolitan PHILIP,Bishop MAXIMOS
and Bishop BASIL. an N.A.C. representaabout experimenting
'
.
tive to attend all
with uch a direct and meaningful mini try experience.
meetings at which I could not be present.
m. Humanitarian Ministry.
VI. Our Newest Gift to the Archdiocese: The Parish Ministry
in e the 1970' th Fellowship has actively encouraged the
Team Program.
. .
faithful of thi Archdioce e to reach out to those who are less
The initiative which has been our highest pnonty and
fortunat in our ociety. In the area of Humanitarian Ministry, we
received our most serious attention over the past two years _has
continue to njoy the e outstanding programs:
been the development
of the Fellowship's
new "Parish
*Th Fellow hip' annual "Food for Hungry People" CamMinistry Team Program."
.
paign continu
to b tremendously uccessful. Since our conQuite simply, this Ministry program is a systematic means
vention two year ago in Wa hington, D.C., the 18th and 19th
through which each parish can organize and encourage
Annual "Food for Hungry People" Campaigns have been
volunteers in the parish.
launched. I am very proud to point out that, with your help, the
Our goals for this program are both lofty and ambitious: we
F llow hip rai ed more than 225,000 for those less fortunate
want this program to result in total parish involvement. We
through the e fforts over the pa t two years.
want every member of every parish in this Archdiocese to
*In addition over this ame two year period, more than
become an active volunteer, moved by the love of Christ, to
150,000 pound of food have been given to the poor by our
serve each other, the community and the Church.
d
pari h through the Fellow hip's participation in the annual
Our initial framework for this program has been complete ·
" orld Fo d Drive."
The Fellowship is committed to developing this program in great
IV. piritual Development Ministry.
detail over the next five years. At the N.A.C. level, the emphasis
One of th mo t effective yet lea t known programs of the
will be on providing you with extensive materials and excellent
Fellow hip i our " t. Philip Prayer Discipline." This is a welltraining opportunities.
d h' t
tru tured program which encourages participants to actively
Recently, His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP announce t a
engage in a meaningful traditional Orthodox, daily prayer life.
each September will be designated as "Fellowship of St. John
To facilitate the growth of thi prayer discipline, the followMonth" in our Archdiocese.
ing action have been taken:
As part of that celebration,
m rl known a The SOYO Digest, now renamed "Fellowship
Footnotes."
II. Youth and Young Adult Ministry.
k the
While our mis ion now goes beyond you~h wor '
•
t and commitment
to
Fellow hip maintain a strong mtere
. .
h our
folyoung people. To that end, in the are_aof yo~th m~rnstry,-~hethe
lowing has been accomplished
m con1unct10n wi
Department of Youth:
f
children
•over the pa t two years more than 10,000 o our
..
and te nager from throughout the Archdiocese, have parnc:.;atd in fe tival ' pon or d by the Fello':ship of s_r.J?hn. T es~
f tival include the creative writing festival, the c1eat1ve artsf fe~
tival, th creative poetry festival, the cr~ative photography est1val th oratorical festival, and the catech1 m bowl ·
h"
' *To facilitate participation in these _f~stivals, t~e Fellows i~
and th Department of Youth this year JOi?,tlyf?ublished a be~~1
tiful and compr hen iv "Festivals M~nual which has been istributed to every church in our Archdiocese
.
•Becau e our young adults often are the forgotten people m
our organizational efforts, the Fellowship and the Youth Dep~rtment took a bold tep la t Labor Day Weekend by spo1:sor~ng
our fir t "Discovery Weekend" for young adults at the A.nuochian
illage. Thi was a
very u ce f ul first
ffort, with 25 young
adult representing
every region of the
Archdiocese in att-...ndance.
*This year, from
eptember 2-6, our
2nd Annual Young
Adult Conference will
be held on the West
Coa t. During thi
weekend,
young
adult will come togeth r from throughout the Archdioce e
to actually build a
horn for a poor family acros the Califor-
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September, we_ ask you to join us in emphasizing "ministries.,,
We will be call1_ngthat clay, "Recommitment Sunday." It will be a
time in the pansh, when we ask the people to recommit themselves to service. A special blessing will be administered over all
volunteers in the parish during the Liturgy. And most of all we
want to encourage you to use this time to encourage othe;·s to
join minis_rryteams in yo_urch~ir~hes.
Materials on the Pansh Mm1stry Team Program are available
here today for each delegate.
In Conclusion.
I want to tha?k my family, particularly my wife Marsha, for
their support dunng the past two years. They understood that I
had a ministry I felt compelled to complete. My great fortune
was to have so many co-workers who shared their talents and
giftsto make what has been accomplished possible.
Let me close by saying that if you ever have an opportunity
to serve as a leader of The Fellowship - locally, regionally, or
for N.A.C., seize it. I can guarantee that what you receive in return will be well worth the love and hard work you put into it.
He then presented a full outline of the Parish ministry program of the fellowship.
called to serve.
M tr politan PHILIP ha car •d. L •r u noc
wa te our time in idle talk. Let us ea h ee ro our 0\\ n mini cric
for the edification of the hurch and in o doing glorifv ch •
Lord." Within the Pari ·h ,\1ini.try Team. the , d1ffcrenc gifl o
the pirit are r alized for the common good But wh
r
would be great among you must be
ur nrant and h ever would be f1rst among ou and must be rv nt t all.
For the Son of Man also came not to be rved but t
rv
and to give his life as a ransom for man
( 1ark Io 1 - i - )
The Spirit enable u to live th
rrhodox Fa,rh m hri..,1through
Worship, Witne ·, ervice and Fellow hip.
Examples of Parish Ministry Teams.
It is through th Pari h Mini try Team rhar differenc groups of
volunteer organize their ffort • and fo us their work. lanv ditferent Pari h Ministry T am can exi t, ..,uch ,h follm\ s. cJ>Jea-..
•
see DESCRIPTIONOF PARISHMINISTRYTEAM Jn.1th ·d.)
Youth Mini try
Mini try ro che Kk and che
Christian Education Mini try
hut-Im
Outreach Ministry
Mini try to th~ Eld •rly
Ministry to ewcomer
Ministry to the Dying
Parish Council Mini try
Pri on ,\1ini"tf}
1HE PARISH MINISTRYTEAMPROGRAM
Humanitarian Mini try
acred Mu<,ic\1in1"ll)
OF THE FELLOWSHIPOF ST. JOHN TIIE DIVINE
Program/Resource Developm nt
Parish Facilille<,\lint-..tf}
And say to Archippus, "See that you fulfill the ministry which
Ministry
linistries for , pmtuJI
you have received in the Lord" (Colossians 4: 17).
Healing
What is a "Parish Ministry Team"?
The Process of Establishing Parish Ministry Teams.
A Parish Minist1y Team (PMT) is a group of volunteers within
Step One: The PMT are under the leadership of the PJ..,tor.
a parish that is dedicated to serving Christ by assisting the pastor
He
is ultimately respon ible and must give his unn.~..,ened
in ministering to the needs of the parish and larger community.
endorsement to the PMT con epr. The Pastor hall d1..,u .., the
Jesus teaches us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. By
rationale, mission, and admini tration of th PMT \\ nh th · Pari..,h
His works, He has provided us with numerous examples and
Council. The Parish Council mu t then endor · this concept.
directives of how to love and serve. It is through our active parStep Two: With the a si ranee of the Parish oun ·ii, the
ticipation on a PMT that we are "doers of the word and not
Pastor shall appoint a per on a Parish \1in,..,cq Team
hearers only" (James 1:22).
Coordinator. This coordinator serve a the parish\ dire ·tor of
An essential element of this volunteer program is the motivavolunteers,
and is a member of the pa. cor·.., 'it,1ff. The
tion for doing it! As Christ has reached out to us, we must reach
Coordinator is re ponsible for working with the Pa....
cor co dire r
out to each other in love. Since we are created in the likeness
the Parish eed A ses ment, evaluate outcome , and organize.
and image of God, we are then created in and by His love. It is
develop and administer PMT .
through His love that we move out of ourselves and toward each
Step Three: In conjunction with the Pastor. the o >rdinator
other. For "we are God's fellow workers" (1 Cor. 3:9). All of us
conducts a parish needs a essment. The purpose of rim .1....-.. • ..,_
are encouraged to use our God-given talents in His Service.
ment is to determine and study the trength and unmet need of
The Goal of the Program: Total Parish Involvement.
the parish as specified by its memb r . Thi n U'>aw~..,m ·nt 1
The goal of the
central ro the ·nc1r•
Fellowship's "Parish
proce'>s of e tabh hMinistry Team" proing the P\IT . <Pica •
gram is Total Parish
e PARI H
Involvement.
St.
ME T FORM acPaul teaches us that
d for an
"there are varieties
le of a ne •
of gifts, but the
1enr appr
same Spirit;
and
tep Fou
there are varieties
t.'i of che
of service, but the
sment ar
same Lord;
and
iled Jnd
h~
there are varieties
;vith th • encire pa
of working, but it is
nd an auion pla
the same God who
e\ elop ·d. •
• ·inspires them all in
· ·
mp! . 1f th
y
every one. To each A combined Choir, under the direction of Raymond George, led the congregation m
shO\\-'i that ti
ris given the mani- the beautiful Byzantine hymns.
1 of th • 1.1r
·d
festation of the Spirit for the common good" Cl Cor. 12:4-7).
more attention and help, th n it would be .1pp
•
a
Parish Ministry Teams are in no way intended to replace
"Ministry Team for the Elderly." If th tud ..,J
~ •
1 ·n
already existing organizations within the parish - these ~oo
ical condition of the chur h and its grounru
a "Parish Facilitie Mini try Team"
d
the
have their specific mission. Rather, PMTs are intended to bnng
parish see a ne d to bring back
o
an
Parishioners together from throughout the parish and develop. a
Outreach Mini try T am i form d.
ncommon ministry through the sharing of their g~ts. PMTs will
strate a de ire to be more in ol ed i
OJ
allow parishioners of all ages to come together m a common
focus.
ous ministrie hould be creat d. "••• faith
dead" Qame 2:26).
Each of us has a special God-given gift and each of us is
,...._,,,CJL,J,J-
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�only a guide, and is certainly not exhaustive. The focus of
each team may be different from parish to parish, and
other Ministry Teams may be established, according to the
individual needs within each parish.
YOUTH MINISTRY
This team shall be committed to reaching out to the youth of
the parish. Specific ministries can include Jr. High & High School
age groups within Teen SOYO; College Contact to maintain ties
with our college students, either within the parish or on a -panOrthodox basis; and any Young Adult Fellowship for those
between 22 & 30. Our goal is to coordinate a single Youth Ministry Program to meet the needs of the young people in the
parish.
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION MINISTRY
This team shall foster "Total Parish Education," including the
traditional Church School Program, coordination with Youth Ministry efforts, and establishment
and development
of Adult
Education programs. This team may also be involved in planning
special education events, such as workshops, seminars and retreats for these various age groups.
OUTREACH MINISTRY
Archdeacon Hans El Hayek intoned the petitions.
Step Five: Having determined the types of PMTs needed, the
Pastor and Coordinator will then identify a core group of volunteers interested in the specific ministry. This group, in conjunction with the Pastor and Coordinator, will develop the actual
focus of the PMT. They will identify specific activities for the
PMT and determine the necessary agency contacts, e.g., shelters,
food banks, etc. They also will determine the necessary agency
contacts, e.g., shelters, food banks, etc. They also will determine
the people they wish to assist, e.g., homeless mothers and children, the dying, the elderly, etc. Specific training needs for the
volunteers should be addressed as required. Guidelines, expectations, responsibilities and needed preparation should be specified in writing for purposes of accountability. Regular gatherings
of the PMT members should occur to foster spiritual growth,
develop abilities and share experiences. "Let your light so
This team of volunteers shall be involved with reaching out
in a very caring and loving way to those parishioners who have
fallen away from active life in the Church. Proper training is
essential to understand why we must reach out to "the lost
sheep," and how to do it most effectively. The primary goal is to
return these parishioners to full participation in the sacramental
life of the Church. In addition, information and opportunities
should be provided to encourage those who are returning to
rediscover their own need for belonging and participating in the
church.
DESCRIPTION OF PARISH MINISTRY
PLEASE NOTE: The following list of Mittistry Teams is
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pARJSHCOUNCIL MINISTRY
together
the Pastor an cl th e members of the
· Thish team
h brings
b
·
laity, w · ho oave een
1 · either appointed by 11i·m an cl/or e 1ected by
the pans
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. to
.
l. ur goa
k is to do the work of th e Churc 11, which
continue t 1e wor. . of Jesus Christ in the wo rld · o ur responsibility
shall be to participate
regularly in the sacra menta 1 t·f
.
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h· , b Y· w h ich. we set the example of tl1e w10
Churc
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.
and
in con1unction with the Pastor ' to administer all th e a ffairs
• of
' the
church so as to help continue and accomplisl 1 th
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of Christ.
e savmg work
PROG~/RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY
This team shall be concerned with ident·fy·
•
i mg an cl secunng
the resources
needed
to
insure
the
attainment
of
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and if necessary , the con c·mue cl oper· h Pans
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.
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. accomplished
,
of vanous events and ace·ivi·c·
dmation anc p 1annmg
.
ies tl1at can
also serv_e to bnng. our parishio~ers as well as the neighboring
community together for fellowship and interaction.
MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND THE SHUT-INS
This _team shall care for the needs of those who are sick in
the hospital or_at home, and those who are unable to leave their
?omes, or are m a nursing home, due to age or illness. Our goal
1sto let them know, through our prayers visitations cards
.d.
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d
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, provi mg mea s, an domg errands for them, that they are not forgotten. There _may be established local agencies and institutions
(such as hospitals and hospices) that can provide proper training
and development for each area of specialization.
MINISTRY TO THE ELDERLY
~hi~ team sh~ll determine the needs of the elderly communi-
tywithm the pansh. Our goal should be to create specific activit1~sthat me~t these needs. This may include a weekly luncheon
~1th_entertamment, a speaking program with topics of interest,
11desto and from church and errands, visits, or a support group
for elderly people.
MINISTRY TO THE DYING
. This team shall he concerned with the needs of the terminally 111and their families as they near the end of their earthly life.
Our goal is to offer comfort and support both socially and spiritua!ly as they deal with their grief and struggle with the death of
tl:e1r loved ones. Local agencies and institutions (such as hospices) may he available to help in the training and education of
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 5:16).
Step Six: Accountability is an essential activity of all PMTs.
The members need to determine on a regular basis the extent to
':hich their activities are consistent with the PMTs specific mission. Seeking feedback from those who serve and are served is
an important aspect of the program. Periodic review of activities
will allow for change and development of a specific PMT and
~lso will provide information that might be helpful for developmg additional PMTs.
WIIY HO LD WE CREATE PARISH MINISTRY TEAMS I
THE FIR T PLACE?
1. They bear witness to the gifts of the Spirit.
2. They exist for the edification of the Church.
. 3. They renew and extend the fellowship, witness, and service of the worshipping community.
4. They pr~vide for the cooperation of the laity with the pastor and bear witness to the mission of the Church
5. They are a way to use the different talents. within a parish
and thereby allow renewal and self-evangelization.
6. They result in greater community presence.
7 · They can create possibilities for further cooperation
between and among parishes.
they be inside or outside of the parish c
•
feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tait:~ut~i:.h Our goal is to
care for the poor. This may be accom lish
omeles~, ~nd
food pantries, soup kitchens and homei
ei lby_estabhshmg
working. in conjunction with establishe~ssoi~ : ~ers,_and~or by
neighbonng community.
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KYRill
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th ose who will provide this service.
PRISON MINISTRY
.· This team shall offer service and support to those \\"ho ,tr. in
p11son_as"."'~11
as c_arefor the needs of their family member'> durm? this difficult time. A relationship muM first be e'>t·ihli.,hed
with the chaplain at eac l1 prison
•
for proper onernation
•
•
Jnd
aw~reness of the policies and procedures of that facility. n the
~ansh level, prayers may be offered 'for capti\'e'> and their., 11, 1_
t1on·" Th e pn• oners tl1emselves may desire opportunities• • for
•
prayer _or sacramental services, coun, eling, bible study, hnstian
education, and/or companion hip. In addition, help and Jssi-.tanc~ shoul_d be offered to the family for whate\' r i'>needed or
lacking dunng the prisoner's time away.
SACRED MUSIC MINISTRY
This ~ea1:1shall consist of the chanters, members of the dioir,
and a~y-Junior ch?ir in the parish. Our goal is to "he}Wed u·itb
~he Spmt, ad1re~smg one another in psalm and bymn • and spiritual songs, szngzng and making melody to the Lord ll'ith all (our)
hea11, always an1for everything giving thanks in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father" (Ephe, ian 5: 19-20).
Members of this ministry will participate fully in the sef\ ices of
the chu_rc_hby preparing them elves through proper rehearsal'>
and trammg. The chanters and choir should realize that their
ministry is to lead the entire congregation musically in thi-.
prayerful worship of the Lord.
PARISH FACILlTIES MINISTRY
This team shall be responsible for the routine maintenance
and beautification of the entire church complex and grounds In
addition, long-range planning should be considered for future
care, growth and development of the com pie , as the \ arious
needs arise.
MINISTRIES FOR SPIRITUAL HEALING
These ministries are as varied as the n eds of inc.Ii\1duJI
within the parish or larger community. An important aspect of
the healing ministries rightly belongs to the Pastor ,, ho guides
parishioners on a spiritual path that invoh·es incorporating the
sacramental life into their daily living. In addition, other support
ministries may be developed, such as, cancer survin)r group ,
groups for those in recovery (alcohol drug addiction, ahu-. ·)
those with chronic medical or mental illness, those \\.'ho are
grieving, and groups for families under stress.
Bishop NICHOLAS read the Gospel for the day .••
Parish Assessment Form
The following Parish Assessment Forni is pro, ided Js J guide
to "take stock" of your parish life and ministf) effon.s \\ 1th r ·g:m.l
to your (1) present situation and (2) ideas for imprO\ mg it.
MINISTRY TO NEWCOMERS
This team shall be concerned with welcoming visitors to the
church, and helping them feel comfortable in what initially may
be an unfamiliar environment. This team shall also be responsible for providing classes on The Introduction to the Orthodox
Fai~h for those who desire to learn the faith and possibly become
active members of the Orthodox Church.
HUMANITARIAN
HOW THIS ASSESSMENTWORKS!
MINISTRY
This team shall be involved with providing help and assistance to those who are in financial or physical need, whether
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· .. followed by the homily, given by Bishop BASIL.
The objective of this exerci e L to glean common thread of
thought within the pari h. The e "conunon threads <.an I ·gin to
tell us thing about where there is con.,ensu , or a ommon
mind, within the pari h. In our Orthodox Im t1Jn Tradition th
common mind of the Church, guided by the Hol ptrit, i a
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�foundation-stone of our unity.
.
To begin discerning the common mind of the pansh try the
following:
1. WHO SHOULD COMPLETEmis ASSESSMENT? - At
best, every member of the parish should complete the assessment. If this is not possible, at least get a group of people who
represent a good cross-section· of your parish.
... later followed by Bishop ANTOUN.
to start with. Make this rule for yourselves at this point: no idea
is a bad idea. (You'll have a chance later on to critique the
ideas!) If you have a large grou~ you m_aywant to break up into
groups of 3 to 5 people to do this exercise.
2. COMPILEmE IDEAS! - Compile all the ideas generated
in each general area. There is no limit to the number of items.
The more the better.
3. REFINE THE IDEAS! - The first step in evaluating this
compiled list is to eliminate duplicate ideas and merge overlapping ideas as appropriate.
4. EVALUATE/CRITIQUETHE IDEAS - Now as a group go
through the entire list . . . one idea at a time! Discu~s among
yourselves whether this idea is acc~ptable/reasonable(nght/accurate/fair for the parish or whether 1t should be set aside because
it is inaccurate/unreasonable/wrong/unacceptable/unfair
or not
right for this parish at this time,_or e:ver.
One critical point to keep m mmd: the amount of argument
and discussion generated by an idea is directly proportional to its
probable importance to the life of the parish!
Some ideas may become sub-pomts under a more general
area. For example, someone may list the parish's Christian
Education program as a strength. On the same su?ject, someone
else might list the weekly parish bible study. In this example, the
bible study should be listed as a sub-point under the more general area of Christian Education.
Your final list of general areas should not be more than
about 10 areas with all your many ideas listed as sub-points
under the appropriate area (e.g., Preaching/Teaching, Liturgical
Worship, Administration, Outreach, etc.).
5. REPEAT IBE PROCESS - Now repeat this procedure,
this time identifying and discussing the parish WEAKNESSES.
TASK 2 - RANK YOUR STRENGIBS AND WEAKNESSES
1. RANK IBE IDEAS - First for your STRENGTHS, then for
your WEAKNESSES,try to rank the ideas/issues under each general area (ref. TASK 1, step 4) in terms of the relative importance
of each idea/issue to the life and vitality of the parish.
2. IDENTIFY THE TOP mREE - Within each general area
select the top three issues on which to focus your discussion and
attention.
TASK 3-EVALUATE YOUR TOP mREE ISSUES
1. PRAYERFULLYDISCUSS IBE IDGHLIGHTED IDEASAs you feel led, choose the "top three" issues under the various
2. HOW MUCH TIME WILL IT TAKE? - This is an important question. It is hoped you will give your answers adequa~e
time for prayer and reflection. A minimum of two (2) ~ours is
recommended. Another possibility is to use these questions as
the basis of a special, extended parish meeting, even a retreat.
Alternatively, to give your parish members time to ponder the
issues, you might consider a series of s~ecial parish _meetings to
cover the issues and gather the many ideas that will no doubt
emerge.
All points of view should be encouraged. Keep in mind the
objective: to discern the common mind ... not simply become
a forum to "give everyone a piece of your mind!" Be open, suspend judgment, listen and give these ideas room to live or die
on their own. Proving your point is not the point; discerning the
will of God is!
3. WHO SHOULD FACILITATE?- Ask
your most effective meeting chairperson to
facilitate these sessions. This person should
guide the timing of the various elements of
this procedure so that the group achieves
what it sets out to do. This person should
not be manipulative or railroad any person's
individual agenda. This person should make
sure that all participants are given adequate
time and opportunity to express their views
without being criticized or stifled. This is a
very important task in the parish assessment.
A good facilitator can draw out the highest
and best thinking of a group.
TASK 1 - PARISH STRENGTHS AND
WEAKNESSES
1. FORM WORKING GROUPS & GENERATEIDEAS!- With the help of the general parish life areas identified on the
enclosed
Task Worksheet
for Parish
Strengths & Weaknesses, identify what you
consider to be the parish's relative strengths
and weaknesses in each area. First work
through your parish STRE GTHS, then go
back and do this for your parish WEAKE ES. If you are doing this exercise as a The ordination to the priesthood of Deacon Stephen Ziton. Sponsors
group, allow any and every idea to get listed Theodore Ziton (his father) and Elias Bitar (his pastor).
40
gen~ral STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSESarea to discuss. Try discussing why yo~ pl_aced them where you did and/or how that
issue got where it did. Use this opportunity to make an in-depth
evaluation of both your parish and yourself, as a member of the
parish. ~~low yo~rself plenty of prayerful opportunity for the
Holy Spmt to guide your thoughts, words and actions. ("... He
[The Comforter - The Holy Spirit] will guide you into all truth
.. ." John 16:13).
2. KEEP G?OD ~OTES - Have someone record the highlight_sof your disc~ssions. Use these notes in the future planning
sessions. They will be useful resources in highlighting issues
:"here consensu ha already b
to work on,
issues of serious di agreement, i u
Also, keep in mind that th
di u ion and our cim
together will contribute a much to our pari h life a an
cret~ results you may come awa
ith. Th imple pro e
gettmg together to di cu i ue of common cone m ha ir
own benefits. You'll find that you will be ab! co u thi exp riei:ice, perhaps even sub on ciou ly, a a foundation and ceppmg stone to move from trength to tr ngth.
May your deliberation be don in lo and in a piric of
unity. And, MAY GOD BLE YOUR EFFORT !
TASK WORKSHEET FOR PARISH STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
TASK1 - A General Listing of All Parish Strengths and Weaknesses
STRENGTHS
l. _____________________
2.
3.
4.
5.
_
11.
12.
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13. --------------------14.
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15. --------------------16.
6. ----------------------
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7. ------------------------8. ------------------------9. -----------------------10. -------------------------
17. ---------------------18. ----------------------19. ---------------------20. ----------------------(list as many as given.)
WEAK ESSES
11. ----------------------12. ------------------------13. ---------------------14. ----------------------15. ------------------16. ---------------------17. ----------------------18. ----------------------19. ---------------------20. ----------------------(list as many as given.)
l. ________________________
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
TASK2 -
Rank Your Strengths and Weaknesses (Top Ten)
STRENGTHS
1.
2.________________________
3.
4.
5.
6. --------------------7. ----------------------8. ____________________
9. ___________________
10. ____________________
WEAKNESSES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.____________________
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
_
_
_
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TASK3 - Evaluate Your Top Three Issues
First Strength
Why is it your first strength?'___________
How did it become your number one strength?
Second Strength
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were Archprie sts
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your
secondyour
strength?
How is
didit it
become
second______
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�3. Archdiocese Seminarian Fund
(Orthodoxy Sunday)
30,000
Third Strength
4. The?logical Seminaries Fund (October Month)
30,000
Why i it your third strength? _______
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_5. Patnarc?ate_ Fund (Palm Sunday & Other
Contnbut1ons)
How did it become your third strength?
30,000
Total from Parishes and Missions
First Weakness
$910 000
B. From Individuals
Why
first weakness?
1. For the General Fund and Other Fund s
$100 000
How is
didit your
it become
your number one weakness?_
ote 2 - Analy 1• 0 f o th er P c1al
• Projects - Item J
The Order of t. Ignatiu of Anti h
(a) Ant~och~anVillag - Camp holar hip
Cb) Ant1och1an illag _
Teen OYO Aid - p cial I mpi
Cc)Departmental Grants
(d) Heritage & Learning Center (1) Library B k
(2) Museum Development
~
(e) Archdioce an Hea~quarter Expan ion Program 2Q.QQQ
Total Other pe ial Proj c
Sl6B
. Other_ amounts. contributed by th Ord r which are
iall .
included m respective expenditures cla ification:
p
}
Cle~·gyInsurance and R tirement Fund ( 50,0 0)
Pansh Development ( 20,000)
Seminars for Pa toral Education ( 5,000)
Ortho?ox Chri tian Education ( 5,000)
Archdiocese Administration Exp n
( 60 000)
Y~u~h and Campus Ministry ( 90,000)
M1ss1onand Evangelism ( 60,000)
Antiochian Christian Orthodox Radio erwork
(ACORN) ( 30,000)
Heritage and Learning Center - Pha e II ( SO000)
TOTAL ($370,000)
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C. From the Archdiocese Conventions and O rgaruzat10ns
•
•
Why i it your second weakness? ----_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_--__--_1• Th e O rd er o f St. Ignatius of Antioch
(a) Heritage & Learning Center
How did it become your second weakness?
(1) Library
$30,000
Third Weakness
(2) Museum Development
Why is it your third weakness? _____________________________________
_
20,000
(3) Building Fund - Phase II
How did it become your third weakness? _________________________________
_
50,000
(b) Clergy Insurance & Retirement Fund
50,000
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B. Other Related Expenditures
$
75,000
(c) Parish Development
20,000
21 . METROPOLITAN PHILIPpresented his Message to t e Genera
1 _Clergy Insurance and Retiremei:it ~und
(d) Christian Education Fund
5,000
Convention. {See the September '93 issueof The WORD.)
2. Clergy Contributions for and w1thm
20,000
(e) Youth and Campus Minist1y
90,000
22. FATHER JOHN HAMATIE presented a life-size portrait of
the Patriarchate
4,000
(f) Archdiocese Administration Expense
60,000
Metropolitan PHILIPto him, saying in part, "This portrait· reflects
3_ SCOBA, NCC, Etc.
(g) Antiochian Village Camp Scholarships
50,000
your image to us and our love for you." METROPOLITAN PHILIP
4. Fellowship of St. John, Teen SOYO and
5,000
(h) Teen SOYO Special Olympics
8,000
50,000
thanked Father John and the people of Orlando.
AOCWNA
(i) Seminars for Pastoral Education
5,000
· db
5. AOCWNA
100,000
(j) Departmental Grants
10,000
23. To supplement the list of wor ker priests ment1one
y
6. Charities - (a) Food for Hungry
125,000
(k) Mission and Evangelism
60,000
Metropolitan PHILIP in his address FATH~R GORDON w_AL~~R
(b) Children's Relief Fund
(1) Antiochian Christian Orthodox
added the following names: Fr. Seraphim Stephens, Virginia
(c) International Orthodox
100 000
Radio etwork (ACOR )
30,000
Beach VA a school and college teacher; Fr. Andrew Moore,
Christian Charities
$479 000
(m)
Archdiocese
Headquarters Expansion
50 000
Hiram: GA college teacher; Fr. Joseph Copeland, Ya_kima,WA, a
Total Related Expenditures
Total from the Order of St. Ignatius
$538
000
C. Archdiocese Departments
janitor; Fr. Ken Hines, Newark, Delaware, truck driver; Fr. John
2. AOC
A
$125,000
$50 000
1. Youth and Campus Ministry
Henderson, Jackson, MS., College Administrator, Fr. Troy
3. From Fellowship of St. John and Teen SOYO
19,000
2. Orthodox Christian Education
Mashburn, Memphis, TN, comptroller.
(a) Parish Life Conferences - Registration Fees $30 000
8,500
3. Sacred Music & Liturgics
(b) Food for Hungry People Program
100'000
24. THEODORE MACKOUL presented the Archdiocesan
65,000
4. Parish Development
Total
$130000
95,000
Budget for the year ending January 21, 1995. He noted that the
5. Mission and Evangelism
4. Department of Charities budget had been circulated by mail to everyone possible·and had
6. Antiochian Christian Orthodox
30,000
Childr n's Relief Fund
$125 000
been adopted by the Departmentof Financeand the Trusteesof the
Radio Network (ACORN)
10,000
5. International Orthodox Christian Charities
$100 000
7.
Information
and
Media
Relations
Archdiocese.
65,000
6.
Mission
Councils
$30 000
8. Orthodox Christian Books & Publications
ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN ARCHDIOCESE
160,000
Total
from
Organizations
and
Mission
Councils
$973
000
9. The WORD Publication
OF NORTH AMERICA
30,000
D.
Other
Archdiocese
Receipts
10.
Conciliar
Press
Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year EndingJanuary 31, 1995
7,500
11. Continuing Pastoral Education
1. Balamand Th ological Education
I. B DGETED EXPE DITURES
16,000
$45,000
12.
Western
Rite
Vicariate
Fund & Other Contributions
A. Theological Education
3,000
13. Inter-Faith and Inter-Orthodox
90,000
2. Sale of Orthodox Books and Publications
1. Seminarians - Tuition, Room, Board
2,000
14. Credentials and· Convention Planning
$ 70,000
8,000
3. Subscriptions and Gifts to the WORD Magazine
& Allowances
50,000
45,000
40,000
15. Endow Orthodoxy for Tomorrow
4. Tuition Fees - St. Stephen's Course of Studies
2. Balamand Theological Academy
6,000
15,000
16. Other Departments and Standing Committees
5,000
5. Miscellaneous - Other Receipts
3. eminar in Pastoral Education
$692
000
20,000
$188.000
Total Departments
Total Other Receipts
4. Theological Seminaries
D. Maintenance & Operation of Archdiocese
5. St. Stephen Course of Studies in
TOTALBUDGETED SOURCES OF RECEIPTS$275,000
40 000
Headquarters (Note 1)
Orthodox Theology.
$2 171 000
Items A through D
54,000
$ 190 000
E. Metropolitan's Allowance and Office
Total Theological Education
64,000
$2 171 000
TOTALBUDGETED EXPE DITURES - page 42
F. Auxiliary Bishops' (two) Allowance and Expense
20,000
EXCESSOF BUDGETED EXPENDITURES
G. Archdiocese Chancery in Toledo
H. West Coast Chancery/Operations and Maintenance 35,000
OVERBUDGETED RECEIPTS
35,000
I. St. Athanasius Academy
NOTESTO BUDGETED EXPENDITURES
168,000
J. Other Special Projects (Note 2)
Note 1 - Analysis of Maintenance and Operation of
20,000
K. Antiochian Village (a) Camp Improvements
Archdiocese Headquarters - Item D
10,000
(b) Operations Deficit
Office Staff Salaries
$78,000
L. Heritage & Learning Center
Medical, Health and Life Insurance & Social Security 39,000
30,000
(a) Reserve for Capital Improvements
Household (including Maid's and Cook's wages)
60,000
24,000
(b) Libra1y Operations
Utilities (telephone, gas, electricity, oil heating)
25,000
50,000
(c) Building Fund - Phase II
Postage
6,000
15,000
M. Conversion of Canadian Dollars into US Dollars
Liability,
Theft,
Fire
Insurance,
etc.
10,000
10,000
N. Miscellaneous and Contingencies
Repairs and Maintenance
20,000
ifil_Q,QQQ
Total Items D through N
Capital Improvements
12,000
gmJ2QQ
TOTAL BUDGETED EXPENDITURES
Office Supplies and Equipment
10,000
II. BUDGETED SOURCES OF RECEIPTS
Automobile Expense
10,000
A. From the Parishes and Missions
(Gas, Oil, Repairs, Insurance, etc.)
$700,000
5 000
Sewer
Charges
and
Cottage
Real
Estate
Taxes
1.
Parish
Assessments
The newly ordained priest, Father Stephen Ziton, communes the
120,000
$275 000
2. AEOM Tithing
Total-D
clergy ...
Second Weakness
1
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THE WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
TBEWORD/NOVEMBER 1993
Moved by GEORGEATALLAH,secondedby ABE ABRAHAMthe
budgetwas received.
25. 1:00 PMTheAssemblyrecessedfor lunchuntil 2:30 PM.
26. 2:30 PMTheAssemblyReconvened.
27. FATHERGEORGERADOS,and MISS ROBINNICOLAS,Los
Angeles Co-Chairmanpresentedthe report of the Department
of Charities.
The Department of Antiochian Charitie con i ts of 5 pr grams:
1. Children's Relief Fund
2. Middle Eastern Relief Fund
3. Emergency Relief Fund
4. Special Parish Ministries
5. Food for Hungry People
1. Children's Relief Fund: Report ubmitted by . Rev. e rge
Rados
2. Middle Eastern Relief Fund:
A. Deir atour Project - Tripoli, Lebanon (chi is a s ho I
for mentally handicapped children)
B. Dhour Cheweir Hospital
C. Scholarships to needy student
D. Needy people and familie within th Patriarchate of
Antioch.
3. Emergency Relief Fund
A. 1989 - San Francisco Earthquake ictim
B. 1990 - Iranian Earthquake Victim
C. 1991 - Iraqi Children's Fund
D. 1992 - Hurricane Andrew Victim
E. 1992 - Yugoslavia & omalia War ictim
4. Special Parish Community Mini trie :
itizen Hom
Food Baskets
pon
Hom
Blood Drives
Rona]
Hou e
Food Banks
Meal
Visiting Shut-ins
alvat
Visiting Senior Citizen
Projec
Canned Food Drives
Pri on
Support Rescue Missions
Thank
inner
Manning Hot-Lines
Chri
r
Clothing Drives
Batter
n helter
Special Olympics
Open Door Program
Serve Daily Lunches
Community ork Partie
Serve Weekly Breakfa t
DARE
Home for Un-wed Mother
�Operation School Bell
Loaves & Fishes
Operation Santa Claus
5. Food for Hungry People
A. World Food Day: (Annual Canned Food Drive)
From October-December 1989 - 66,273 lbs.
From October-December 1990 - 74,183 lbs.
From October-December 1991 - 106,206 lbs.
From October-December 1992 - 321,075 lbs.
(30 lbs. of food will feed a family of 4 for 3 days)
B. Food for Hungry People
. .
AC SOYO now the Fellowship of St. John the D1vme has
been raising fu'nds to feed hungry people for nineteen years.
Since 1975 we have collected and distributed over $1,29~,379.?0!
We are answering God's plea to feed the hungry, give drmk
to the thirsty, house the homeless, welcome the strangers, clothe
the naked, visit the sick and imprisoned. We have reached out
our hands to those half way around the world, as well as to
those who live next door.
Sayidna, from the loving hearts in your Archdiocese to the
hungry hearts all over the world we present to you She reported that the Department had given $120,000 to
Metropolitan Philip for special charitable purposes. DR. EUGENE
SAYFIE expressed his thanks to the Department and ~o all those
who raised funds for Hurricane relief in South Flonda and to
Metropolitan Philip for making it available.
REPORT OF TIIE CHIIDREN'S RELIEF FUND
Abortion: How to Fight for Human Life?
Kareem & Deborah Ameen Ohio
David & Darlene Ballan, Ma achu rrs
Assaf & Diane Choueiri, Ma achu errs
Bartholomew & Lydia Earl , a ·achu errs
Anton & Sandra Hajjar Maryland
Joseph & Karen Brian, Maryland
Melvin & Gail Bram Texa
Kevin & Pamela Handly, Ma achu errs
At pre ~nt we hav~ four famili in th adoption pro e'>-.
. In_ closm~ I submn a an appendix to rhi report rek~,Jnt
fmanc1al details along with a Ii t of current spon ors in our program. I urge all of you to plea e help u in ome way by word
or deed to "exercise positive influence upon the blind and crimin_alinjustice which the world around u keep preferring ro the
Light of Chri t."
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORSIIlPS
-
The Primate and Chief Celebrant gave the blessing.
Witness to the world
Fr.John Meyendorff, 1987
January 22, 1975, marked the first anniversary of the fateful
decision by the United States Supreme Court liberalizing the legal practice of abortion. On this rather sad oc~asion, Archbis~op
Philip of the Antiochian Archdiocese has published an encyclical
letter to his parishes condemning "a society that condones the
destruction of life for social and economic convenience."
The Archbishop is certainly right in the maintaining that the
root of the evil lies not simply in another law, but in the tragic
fact that "the price tag of life has been lowered," and that the society in which we live considers this as "progress."
even more important that they manifest, in word and deed, the
positive content of Christian teaching about human life. For it is
precisely because they hold this teaching to be true that they
oppose abortion. This teaching demands that we support all
measures which give bred to hungry children, as well as education and other decent opportunities and which make adoption of
unwanted children easier. And - last but not least - each
Orthodox Christian must be ready to practice the responsible,
personal sacrifices per-supposed
by his Christian faith. For
Christianity can never be simply reduced to a formal support of
social and humanitarian causes, however legitimate they may be
in themselves, but implies personal commitment.
The liberalization of abortion laws in this country is a tragic
demonstration of the fact that America is no more a "Christian
country." Many would doubt that it has ever been one. Whether
there can be a legitimate hope to make it one in the fun,re is
doubtful. It is much more probable that, for Christianity, the
future lies in a situation which the Church knew at the very beginning of her historical existence: the situation of a minority,
misunderstood
and often persecuted. BUT THE SPIRITUAL
STRENGTH AND THE ULTIMATE VICTORY OF THE CHURCH
ALWAYS LAY IN THE CONSISTENT COMMITMENT OF HER
MEMBERS THEIR DESIRE "TO BE THE CHURCH OF CHRIST"
WITHOUT HESITATION OR COMPROMISE, LOVI G ALL,CONCERNED FOR THE LIFE OF ALL, READY TO HELP ALL.
If we remain faithful to that understanding of Christianity,
then possibly (but not necessarily) we may also obtain the recognition of others and exercise positive influence upon the blind
and criminal injustice which the world around us keeps preferring to the light of Christ.
February, 1975
. . . and then the laity are communed
"SEE TIIAT YOU FULFILL THE MINISTRY
WIDCH YOU HAVE RECEIVED IN THE LORD" (Col. 4:17)
Clearly, the lack of moral consciousness which motivates this
attitude of the courts and of the sympathetic or indifferent popularity supporting their decisions cannot be corrected through
tricter legislation alone. We witness a spiritual decay which can
only be cured through spiritual means, through the rediscovery
of a Christian understanding of man and his life.
Clearly, all Orthodox Christians should do their best, joining
other Christians, particularly Roman Catholics, in all legal
attempts at having the abortion legislation repealed. But it is
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The scripn,ral theme of this 41st Archdiocese Convention is
indeed a charge that focuses on our awareness and commitment
as Orthodox Christians to abide by the two great commandments
that we love God with all our being and our neighbors as ourselves. It becomes necessary to the fulfilling of our individual. as
well as our corporate ministry to seek out a certain perspective
in order that our charity take a certain shape and direction. T~e
late Fr. John Meyendorff, of thrice blessed memory, puts this
most pointedly when he states:
THE WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
Induction into the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch. Membership is
now over 1200 faithful.
... the spiritual strength and the ultimate victory of the church
always lay in the consistent commitment of her members, their
desire "to be the Church of Christ" without hesitation or compromise, loving all, concerned for the life of all, ready to help all.
Such a statement could very well be the motto of the Department of Charity in general, and the "Children's Relief Fund"
in particular. To say the least, it is our raison d'etre.
Since our last assembly two years in Clystal City, Virginia, the
Children's Relief Fund ha made a significant transition. All overseas transactions are now administered within the auspices of
the Archdiocese of Beirut under the most capable shepherding
of Metropolitan Elias Audi who has designated his Vicar General,
the Very Reverend George Dimas, as director. Fr. Dimas has lost
little time in reorganizing the overall program overseas. With the
help of his ocial workers, he had each case reviewed by personal interview to determine worthiness of continuance. As a
result of this review, Fr. Dimas strongly recommends that we
limit our sponsorship to the age of 15 and younger. Only in
exceptional cases, such as medical cases, will older children be
considered. Many sponsorships were terminated because of age,
marriage, employment, etc. Appurtenant sponsors will always be
informed of the circumstances as to the reasons why this sponsored child has graduated from the program, and, in turn, be
assigned another worthy candidate along with his or her picture
and short resume.
Emphasis will also be placed upon the importance of written
communication between each child and their respective sponsor .
Although we encourage correspondence both ways, a minimum
of one letter must be sent annually from the child.
Another important development is the involvement of St.
George Hospital in Beirut. We now have a comprehensive pa1tnership regarding adoptions, pertinent medical treatments, and
general cooperation.
I am most pleased to report that we have successfully
a_rranged eight adoptions through the Children's Relief _Fund
since our last assembly in 1991. Through our program, children
Wereawarded to the following families:
TBEWORD/NOVEMBER 1993
Mr. George Hakim, '.J
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Freige, I
Holy Transfiguration Melkite Church, M Lean,
Mr. Michael Atallah PA
Dr. & Mrs. Albert Maalouf Canada
Ms. Isabelle Elac, CA
'
Dr. Thomas Ayan, MA
Mr. & Mrs. Jacobs, MI
Mr. & Mrs. Deeb, TX
Mr. & Mrs. Blado, SD
Mr. & Mrs. Eidi, MD
Mr. Gerald & Mrs. Kate Gabriel MI
Mr. Frederic icholas
Ms. Helen O'Brian, PA
Mr. & Mrs. icholas Abraham, Canada
Mr. George & Mrs. Mary Dibs, CA
Mr. Lois Joseph, RI
Phoenicians, OH
Mr. & Mrs. David Simm, MA
Mr. Charles Makhoul, MI
Mr. Gregory Menas, KS
Ms. Jean Sam, MI
Mr. Thomas Dahdouh, DC
Mr. & Mrs. Basil Gustavson, TX
Mr. Ernest Younes, Canada
Fr. & Mrs. George A wad,
Mr. Charles Makhoul, MI
Mrs. Jamie Issac, TX
Rev. Fr. George Geha, PA
Mr. William Obaid, PA
Mr. Van & Mrs. Carolyn Spiro , MA
Ms. Linda Shady, MI
Mr. & Mrs. D. Rizkallah, H
Mr. & Mrs. Malanowski, CA
Rev. Fr. ichola ayman, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Mazare , MA
Mr. Stephan & Mr . Mary Leida, IA
Dr. & Mrs. Gail Bram, TX
Dr. & Mrs. C.F. Milkie, CA
Ms. Lilian K. Solomon, MI
Dr. & Mrs. William Rouady, A
Mr. Allen Adwon, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Terry Kadir, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Gordon T. hahin, VA
Ms. Patricia Saad, FL
Mr. & Mrs. McKenzie,
Mr. George . Jabbour, MI
Mr. & Mrs. John Asha MD
Mr. Charles Makhoul, MI
Mr. John & Ms. icole Doumanti,
Mr. Thoma Dabdoub, DC
Dr. Jerome Laham
Dr. & Mrs. David Bojrab I
�Mr. ichola Kobbs, CT
Mr. Andre & Ms. Therese Boullata, England
Mr. Henry Geha, FL
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Badwey, MD
M . Mabel Abraham, KS
Mr. icholas Kobbs, CT
Mr. Arthur W. & Mrs. Christie A. Menze, I
Ms. Catherine H. Silski, OH
Mr. Lloyd Oveton, MO
M . hron Dean Skaff, CA
Mr. Ron Coury,
Ms. Evelyn K. Haddad, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shadyac, VA
M . Vivian Habib, Canada
hums IL Bir Club, WV
Dr. Pamela Barkett, OH
Mr. & Mr . Philip Genest, Canada
icholas G. Barim Veteran's Auxiliary, MA
Mr. M. Azar, MA
Dr. & Mrs. M. Bram, TX
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Pinkstaff, VA
Dr. & Mrs. Charles Khouri, FL
Young Women's Club, Canada
Mr. Samuel Homsi, APO
Mr. Robert & Mrs. Vivian Ghiz, WV
Mr. Victor Awad, J
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Tom, IN
Mr. Victory Khoury, AZ
Mr. & Mrs. James Abdelnour, MA
Mr. William Stefanco, NY
Mr. Charles Jacob, PA
Mr. & Mrs. William Pokoyoway, MI
Mrs. Laila Abud, MI
Mr. Jerry R. Cripe, CA
Mr. Alan & Ms. Debbie Abraham, MI
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Livernette, CA
Mr. Elie & Mrs. Virginia Abushanab, RI
Ms. Selma & Ms. Evelyn Abdo, NY
Rev. Christopher Davis, PA
Ms. Diane assir & Mr. Peter Bandurraga,
NV
Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Shaheen, OH
Mr. & Mr . William Higgins, MA
Ms. Lina Abouchanab, CA
Mr. Frederick & Ms. Celia Howard, MA
Mr. Andrew Howard, MA
Mr. Wade Abraham, MI
Mr. & Mr . espo Kaleel, OH
Mr. Victor Zakaib, Canada
Mr. & Mr . Andrew Carol & Family, CA
Mr. Erne t Saikali, Canada
Gillqui t Family, CA
Mr. David Carl Lewis, CA
Mr. Gary McFarland, CA
Mr. John ommer, CA
Mr. David eudeck, MA
Mr. Paul Livernette, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Michel Easa, MA
Mr. John Bo har, MA
Mark Markish, MA
Dr. & Mr . Raymond Kyriakos, J
Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church, VA
Parents & Teacher Guild, PA
Dr. & Mr. William Rouady, VA
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Braun, CA
The Humanitarian Committee of Pittsburgh,
PA
Mr. & Mr . George ahass, J
Mr. & Mr. Edward Ka ab, MI
Bishop Basil Essey, NJ
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Dacales, NJ
Mr. Rudy George, OH
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Abercia, TX
Venture Six Enterprises, Inc., CA
Mr. & Mrs. George assor, NJ
Ms. Laurence . Shaheen, PA
Ms. Diane Rafeedie, CA
Mr. Daoud Khairallah, VA
Mr. Raymond & Ms. Helen Zraik, OH
Mr. & Mrs. Pastore, MI
Rev. Fr. & Mrs. Timothy Baclig, CA
Mr. Charles Auger, Canada
Rev. Jon Braun, CA
Dr. . Tawile, MI
Mr. George Bassett, Canada
Mr. abil Wahbeh, CA
Rev. & Mrs. Daniel Daly, NJ
Mr. George & Mrs. Elsie Nassor, NJ
K. Sanftner, TX
Mr. Sarni & Mrs. Nadia Khoury, TX
Mr. Robert Madey, NY
Ms. Helen Jabbour, TX
Messrs. Nicholas G. Barim Veteran's
Auxiliary
Mr. James & Mrs. Christine Bezreh, MA
Mr. & Mrs. Eidi, MD
Sigma Lambda Zeta Society, IN
Mr. William Najjar, MI
Dr. & Mrs. George Ajalat, CA
Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Kubina, KS
Mr. & Mrs. Nahan, FL
Mr. & Mrs. Abraham, MI
Mr. Rudolph & Ms. Marie Yanney, PA
Mr. Hank Abraham, VA
Ms. Victoria Day, MN
Family of Ann Coury, MA
Mr. Brad & Mrs. Darlene Walker
Mr. Marion Combs, GA
Mr. James & Mrs. Margaret King, CA
Mrs. Isabelle Abousleme, CA
Ms. Sarah Kelly, FL
Mr. George & Mrs. Darlene Walker
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Abou Rjeily, MA
Mrs. Olga Grinder, CA
Dr. & Mrs. M. Bram, TX
Mr. Mike & Mrs. Leslie Dunaway, KS
Ms. Beverly Ann Elias, PA
Mrs. Helen Amin, OH
Mr. & Mrs. Kurker, MA
Dr. & Mrs. N. Kallel, FL
Mr. & Mrs. Ekhart, IN
Mr. Gregory Menas, KS
Mr. & Mrs. Mcsween, LA
Dr. & Mrs. M. Bram, TX
Mr. Charles Aboukire, OH
Dr. & Mrs. Glenn Kubina, KS
Mr. Micah el Serwint, PA
Mr. & Mrs. Kaim, TX
Mr. Joseph Samra, RI
Mr. Ralph Zacky, CA
Ms. Eleanor Saba, OA
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Cloutier, Canada
Dr. & Mrs. Mosier, NY
Mr. George & Calema Abdow, MD
Dr. Jerome Laham
Ms. Mary Esper, PA
Mrs. Ruby Zakhem, CA
Mr. W. ajjour, CA
Ms. Vivian Habib, Canada
Mr. & Mrs. Karrip, MI
Mr. & Mrs. W. Long, MS
Rev. Fr. & Mrs. Moriak, PA
Ms. Nellie Busata, MD
Ms. Sandra Abercia, TX
Ms. Patricia Abraham, NY
Mr. Abdo Abboud, PA
Ms. Patricia A. Abraham, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Bitar, OK
Mr. Robert & Mrs. Berlina Kurker, MA
Ms. P.A. Abraham, NY
Mr. & Mrs. William Haddad, VA
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Courey, OH
Mr. Robert & Mrs. Linda Thomas, MA
Mrs. R. Bahou, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Howard, MA
Mr. & Mrs. Haddad, VA
Mr. & Mrs. Tarazi, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Matta, LA
Dr. Said Abou-Samra
Mr. & Mrs.Lyszack
Ms. Joanna Marge, NJ
Ms. Helen Jabour, TX
Mr. Roger & Mrs. Najwa Tarazi, CA
Mr. Gabriel Hakim, Sr., NJ
Ms. Maha Bassila, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Frederic Davis, WA
Ms. Lily Jean Haddad, OH
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Hagge, GA
Ms. Elaine Haddad & Ms. Bernice Burden,
IL
Ms. Belinda Zamer, MD
Ms. Mary Ann Dibs, CA
Ms. Muha Jacobs, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Zabaneh, Ontario
Mr. Eddie Khou1y, AZ
Mr. & Mrs. Kubiek, Ontario
ADOPTING FAMILIES
Anton, Sandra, Claire and Gregory Hajjar
Melvin, Gail, Ruthie and Isaac Bram
Michael Choueiri
Karen, Joe and Kevin Brian
Joey, Tim and Emily Bolian
Pamela, Kevin and Theodore Handly
CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
UST OF PARTICIPATING CHURCHES &
CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS
IADIES ORGANIZATIONS
St. George Ladies Aid Society, Allentown, PA
St. George Ladies Guild, Charleston, WV
St. George Ladies, Flint, MI
St. George Ladies Society, Detroit, MI
Ladies of St. Mary, Brooklyn, NY
St. George's Ladies Society, Phoenix, AZ
St. Nicholas Auxiliary of the Peninsula,
Hillsburg, CA
St. George Ladies Society, El Paso, TX
St. George Orthodox Church Women,
Niagara Falls, NY
Ladies Society of St. George, West
Roxbury, MA
Women of St. George, Vicksburg, MS
Southwest Region AOCWNA
New England Antiochian Women,
Medford, MA
St. George Ladies Society, Danbury, CT
Ladies of St. Peter & Teen SOYO, Jackson,
MS
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THE WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
St.John Chrysostom Ladies, Fort Wayne, IN
St.Michael's Ladies Guild, Cleveland, OH
St. George Ladies, Lowell, MA
St.Andrew's Orthodox Women, Eustis, FL
St. George Ladies, Akron, OH
St.Mary's Ladies, Omaha, NE
Ladies Guild, Greensburg, PA
St.Michael Ladies Guild, Van Nuys, CA
Young Women's Club, Montreal, Canada
St. Peter & Paul Ladies Society, Bethesda,
MD
St. George Ladies Society, West St. Paul,
MN
St.Vincent Of Lerins Women's Auxiliary,
Saskatoon, Canada
St. George Ladies, Montreal, Canada
Church of the Redeemer Ladies Auxiliary,
Los Altos, CA
St. George Ladies Society, San Diego, CA
St. George Senior SOYO, Phoenix, AZ
St. Nicholas Cathedral Hamelat El Teeb, NY
St.Anthony's Women's Guild, Bergenfield,
NJ·
St. Elijah Ladies Guild, Oklahoma City, OK
Cathedral of St. George's Ladies Society,
Coral Gables, FL
Ladies of St. George, Little Falls, J
St. Nicholas Ladies, Montreal, Canada
St. Elias Women, Austin, TX
St. Elias Women, Syracuse, NY
Antiochian Ladies of St. Elijah, Ottawa,
Canada
Antiochian Women CA AM Region
Women's Club of t. George, Worcester,
MA
St.Mary's Teen SOYO, Brooklyn, NY
St.George Antiochian Ladies, Cleveland,
OH
St. George Ladies Auxilia1y, Cedar Rapids,
IA
St. George Ladies S ciety, Terre Haute, IN
St.Basil Ladies Guild, Metairie, LA
St.Nicholas Cathedral Ladies Society, Los
Angeles, CA
Ladies of t. Georg , Wichita, KS
St.John Contra Meda Ladies, Orinda, CA
St.Ma1y's Ladie of t. Elias, Atlanta, GA
Ladiesof St. Mary, Cambridge, MA
St.Elias Ladies ociety, Sylvania, OH
LadiesMyrrh Bearing Society, Washington,
DC
Women of St. Michael, Geneva, IL
Ladiesof St. Mary, Li coln, RI
St.George Ladies Guild, Methuen, MA
Alpha St. George Ladies Guild, Orlando, FL
LadiesGolden Links Society, Grand Rapids,
MI
Ladiesof St. George, Spring Valley, IL
St.George Ladies, Bergenfield, PA
St.Michael Ladies, Louisville, KY
St.George Ladies Society, Norwood, MA
St.George Ladies Society, West St. Paul,
MN
St.George Women, Richmond Hill, Ontario
St. Nicholas Cathedral Teen SOYO
Brooklyn, NY
Adult Fellowship of St. Ma1y/Teen OYO
Pawtucket RI
St. George's J~nior Guild Wichita K
St. George Teen SOYO, Cicero, IL
St. George Teen SOYO, Worce ter, CA
St. Elias Teen SOYO, Sylvania, OH
Ss. Peter & Paul Teen SOYO, Bethesda
MD
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St. George Teen SOYO, Allentown, PA
St. George Cathedral Teen SOYO, Coral
Gables, FL
Teen SOYO of Pittsburgh, PA
St. Elias Teen SOYO, ew Castle, PA
St. George Junior SOYO, Little Falls, J
St. George Teen SOYO, Cleveland, OH
St. Mark Orthodox Mission Irvine CA
New England Region Teen' SOYO
St. George Teen SOYO, Detroit, MI
Ss. Peter & Paul Teen SOYO Bethesda
MD
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St. George Teen SOYO, West Roxbury, MA
St. Michael's Teen SOYO, Greensburg, PA
St. George Teen SOYO, Terre Haute, I
CAN AM Teen SOYO
St. John The Evangelist Teen SOYO,
Orinda, CA
FELLOWSHIP OF ST. JOHN
St. Luke Fellowship, Garden Grove, CA
St. George Fellowship, Houston, TX
St. John of Damascus Fellowship, West
Roxbury, MA
St. Mary's Fellowship, Johnstown, PA
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Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Franklin,
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Holy Epiphany Orthodox Church, ttawa,
Canada
St. George Orthodox Church, 1pper
Darby, PA
St. Mary's Church Council, Johnstown, P
SPONSORSHIP DISBURSEMENT
Allocation
1&2
3&4
5&6
7&8
9 & 10
11
12
13 & 14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
#
Period Covered
July-Dec. 83
Jan.-June 84
July-Dec. 84
Jan.-June 85
July-Dec. 85
Jan.-June 86
July-Dec. 86
Jan.-June 87
July-Dec. 87
Jan.-June 88
July-Dec. 88
Jan.-June 89
July-Dec. 89
Jan.-June 90
July-Dec. 90
Jan.-June 91
July-Dec. 91
Jan.-June 92
July-Dec. 92
Jan.-June 93
Amount Di. bur· d
3, 00
,500
50
1 ,500
15,'-¼-0
r,ro
39, 50
➔ rSO
52,100
-1,'-¼91
60, 30
66,1366, 00
68,- 5
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56 O O
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TEENSOYO
St George Teen SOYO, Washington, DC
EasternRegion Teen SOYO
St Mary's Orthodox Teen SOYO,
Cambridge, MA
TBEWORD/NOVEMBER 1993
OR HIP ) = 2
OR HIP ) = 31
ii
�t. George of Bo ton, Wet Roxbury, MA
St. John Chrysostom, Houston, TX
t. Elijah Church, Ottawa, Canada
t. icholas Parish Council, Los Angeles,
CA
St. Timothy of Lompoc, Lompoc, CA
Parish Council of St. icholas, NY
St. Mary' Antiochian Orthodox Church,
Wilkes-Barre, PA
t. Athana ius Orthodox Church,
Sacramento, CA
t. George Church, Methuen, MA
St. Mark Orthodox Church, Youngstown,
OH
Ss. Peter & Paul, Bethesda, MD
St. George Orthodox Church, Niagara Falls,
NY
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Boston, MA
St. Mary Magdalene Mission, NY, NY
St. Simeon Orthodox Church, Birmingham,
AL
St. George Church, orwood, MA
t. Luke' Church, Garden Grove, CA
St. Herman of Alaska, Edmonton, Alberta
Ss. Peter & Paul Albanian Church,
Philadelphia, PA
St. icholas Orthodox Mission, Mequon,
WI
28. RALPHABERCIA,National Chairman, presentedthe report of
the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch.
On behalf of all members of the Orders of St. Ignatius, I am
honored to pre ent the annual progress report to this distingui hed body at our 41st biennial Grand Assembly for the
Antiochian Archdiocese.
Our patron saint, Ignatius of Antioch, wrote to the Ephesians
that the tree is known by its fruit. During the past two years the
Order ha produced fruit that is sweet in the service of our Lord.
As the philanthropic
branch of our beloved Antiochian
Archdioce e, our purpose is primarily to raise funds on a continuing basis from dedicated individuals. The cross that we wear
symbolizes our commitment to service and sacrifice through a
lifetime membership in the Order. We are meeting our daily
challenges and responding to our goals, providing succor to the
Archdiocese with the fruits of our labor in the vineyards of the
Lord.
I am happy to announce that since its inception through the
fiscal year ending January 1, 1992, the Order has contributed
$6,477,083. For the year 1992-93, we raised $603,225. With a
total expenditure of $562,683, our net is $40,542 after expenses.
We have $1,238,360 in reserve.
I am delighted to report that all members of the Governing
Council of the Order of St. Ignatius attended the annual Spring
Meeting on May 20, 1993, in Saddlebrook,
ew Jersey. The
council's attempt to
confine its meeting to
a single day was so
succe sful that we
have decided to continue this practice at
future meetings. The
meeting was most
productive, and great
step were taken to
forward the Order
and the Archdiocese.
You are aware
that
the Order's
Grand Assembly for
1992, which was to
be held in Miami,
wa cancelled
because of the devastating hurricane.
An
attempt to reschedule
the as embly for this
fall was infea ible, as
Metropolitan PHILIP
will be in the Middle
Ea t. The Governing
Council
has
approved holding the
Officers of the Archdiocese Board of
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OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
indeed wish to enhance our ri
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retirement and to c .
th P e t
tandard of living after
ontmue
huma 01·c •
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feeling prevail in th h
anan contnbution. Thi
e eart and -oul of the
d
r er.
talk \\ lth
Al ex Randos Chairman of tl I
this worthy charity
.
ie • • .C., trengrhen the desire f, r
proie r.
An amendment whi h w
•
council that we recom
~ ~narnmou I ' approved b' che
approve in their 1995 b md n _c e ~oard of the r<.hdioce e
p ·
u get, 1 an mer a e of 1
r, h
nest Retirement Fund, a well a 30 000 c
'
r c ~
The p ·
,
1or the I
roiects Committee recom
d d
•
the council's approval. Howe
°:e~ e no ne\\ programs or
going projects in 1993 Gi in ~r h)3 '. 06 wa allo aced for onand I am proud to s~ thatg I t e ~11ghpurpo of our rder.
received has been dire!red to ::::::.Xi°';I~tely
0% of all in ome
the budget.
c 1 10 e to h Ip 11nplement
St. George Church School, CT
St. Basil Church School, Metairie, LA
St. John's Community School, Eagle River, AK
Parents & Teachers Guild/Christ The Savior
Cathedral, Johnstown, PA
St. Nicholas Men's Club, Montreal, Canada
St. George Progressives, Indianapolis, IN
Clergy of Combine Southwestern Deanery,
Oklahoma City, OK
Humanitarian Committee/St. George
Church, Pittsburgh, PA
Sigma Lambda, Zeta Sorority/St. George,
Terre Haute, IN
Grand Assembly in Phoenix, Arizona at the Scottsdale Wyndham
Hotel in September-October 1994. The room rate will be $79 per
night, and we are looking for a record attendance.
Our Grand Assembly committee and its chairman, George
Darany, have been hard at work to prepare us for what promises
to be an outstanding event. Three general mailings have been
prepared to inform the entire membership of the schedule, hotel
accommodations, social activities, seminars and panel discussions. Program Co-Chairmen Dr. George Dibs and Dr. John
Dalack have always provided us with stimulating and challenging panel presentations, so we encourage your attendance and
participation.
As reflected by the attendance at these gatherings, the Order
of St. Ignatius continues to grow. Our membership
is the
lifeblood of our .Order. Our works are possible only because of
the lifetime commitment of members to support the Archdiocese
programs through their contributions. Two years ago, when I
became chairman, our founder Metropolitan PHILIP set a goal of
2,000 members. I am extremely happy and proud to report that
we now have almost 1,200 members within the Order. Dr.
Orlando Skaff, our National Membership Chairman, stated at our
spring meeting that we do have about a 10% delinquency in our
membership due largely to the economy.
The continued growth of our Order is the responsibility not
just of the membership committee, but of each Knight of the
Order. By serving as
living testaments to
our purpose, let each
of us encourage
other caring individuals to join us in our
work.
As an aid in recruiting new members, the Governing
Council has authorized funds for the
filming of a video
about the Order.
At the request of
the Governing Council, Constitution and
Bylaws Committee
Chairwoman
Carol
Laham has prepared
a report on creating a
new
category
of
membership
within
the Order. This proposal would grant
membership to nonOrthodox supporters.
Trustees take their oath
0;
office ...
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... as do the officers
(NAC) . . .
of The Fellowship
of St
J h
h
• •
• o n t e D1vme
Members in this restricte_d. category would enjoy voting privileges, but _w_ouldbe pr?hibited from holding office. Approval by
the Governing Council would require an amendment to the
Bylaws of the Order.
. One important t?ol that helps bind our membership together
1s ?_ur newslett~i:. Elea_nor Bourjailey has done a super job of
editing and mailing this quarterly communication. The council
~!so approved printing and mailing an updated directory, which
is_bemg prepared by Jeanette Younes, chairperson of the
~irectory Committee. This will be distributed after the convention.
In other committee news, Protocol Chairman Dr. Sam Kouri
reported that our St. Ignatius Sunday was a great success. This
~ear even more individuals participated by presenting informa~ve serm~ns o_n the purpose, goals and projects of the Order.
hey were ass_isted b>:7a suggested sermon kindly prepared by
one of the region chairmen. A mailing informed all members of
the proper protocol and ritual at Order functions.
On behalf of the Long Range Planning Committee Chairman
AlexK~lil presented a comprehensive report on a surv~y that has
been fiv~ years in the making. This excellent report revealed
valuable information that will benefit not only the Order but the
Archdiocese as well.
an More than 300 people responded to the survey, representing
excellent 24% return. The survey found that the Order has
earned a very good image for its humanitarian efforts and ability
t~ support various projects of the Archdiocese. It also revealed
t at people wish to see more religious teachings.
A _committee was appointed to review the report in its entire~- This committee will prepare for the council recommendations
at could be implemented to benefit the Order.
Sa !he council also heard from our Projects Committee. Dr.
. yfie proposed an annual fund drive, as he has each year, to
~rease the Priest Retirement Fund. He requested that the counc1 take necessary steps to ensure the monthly benefit for each
rer
• pn_est.
.
$1iring
Gerald Gabriel announced that there is now
,_700,000m the Priest Retirement Fund, which would allot our
retired priests $600 to $700 per month.
The feeling of the council was very strong that we would
TBEWORD/NOVEMBER 1993
The Order currently fund appro imatel
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throughout the Archdiocese · Th e me
. lude rru. ion
. - aprogram
libra ,
co 11
ege campus, special ol m ic Al
'
f} • a
camp at Antiochian Villa y p , corn, o'.d Maga7me, the
educational and ad .. ge,_and many oth r vital humanitarian,
d ..
rrurn trat1ve program of th
hdi e
In
a dit~on, the Order has helped rai fund for the t e~r e
Hospital and the Balamand niver ity in Lebanon.
have at
h~lp_ed fund the visits of th Patriarch. Ladie and entl m n
~his is the heart of our work. You can each feel proudgto uppo~
it.
The. Governing Council wa mo t gratified to con ider the
many diverse efforts on behalf of the Order. I have mention d
the names of several committee chairper on , and I "ould like
to thank each of our chairmen for their capabl contribution I
would also like to acknowledge tho e member who ha~-e
worke_d behind the scenes to upport committee proj er
C~mmmee volunteers are the heartbeat of our organization and
w1tho~t ~heir hard work and support we would urely fal;er in
our mission to serve our beloved Archdioce e.
This report would not be complete without a pecial thank
you to our Conventions Chairperson, Kweilin a ar, for making
such excellent accommodations available to u for our 1993
Grand Banquet here in Pittsburgh.
In c~ncl~si~n, I would like to thank ayidna PHILIP for his
blessed msp~ration, our beloved Chaplain Father Jo eph Allen,
and the dedicated and committed member of our Governing
Council.
Most especially, I would like to thank each member of rh
Order for your loving commitment and support, and for making
all of our work possible.
I remain your servant and the ervant of our Lord.
Moved by FATHER JO EPH HAHDA, and eeonded b •
ALEXKALILand all of the member of the Ord r of t. Ignatius
the report was received.
29. CHARLES
AJALATand ROBERT
KOORY,Chancellors,presented the report of the Department of Legal Affairs and
Resolutions.
I. The following amendment to the r hdiocesan onstitution are being submitted by Carol Laham and Edna Deeb n
behalf of the Fellowship of t. John the Divin in a ordan e
with Article VII, Section 1. They will be ored on dunng the
General Assembly of the Archdioce e Convention.
Proposed Change Number One:
ARTICLEV, Section 4, C.2 currently read a follows
Delegates
C. (2) Each Senior OYO Region hail b repr
many delegates as it wi he to end and ea h • nior
Region shall be entitled to one (1) ore.
It is hereby proposed to be changed to read as fi U w :
C. (2) Each Region of The Fellow hip of t. J hn the Divine
shall be repre ented by a many delegate as it wi h to nd
�and each Region of The Fellowship of St. John the Divine shall
be entitled to one (1) vote.
Proposed Change Number Two:
ARTICLEVI, Section 2, B currently reads as follows:
B. Membership: The Archdiocese Board ~f- Trust~es sha~l
consist of the Metropolitan Archbishop, the Auxiliary Bishops, if
any, the Vicar General, the Protosyngelos (the Dean of the
Clergy), the Executive Secretary, the Chance~lor or Chancellors,
the Financial Advisor-Comptroller, the President of the North
American Council of SOYO, the President of the Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Women of orth America, the Chairman of
the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch and thirty (30) additional
member to be selected as follows: Ten (10) members shall be
appointed by the Metropolitan Archbishop; Fi~e (5) members
shall be appointed for a term of two years; and five (~) _members
shall be appointed for a term of four years. The remammg twenty (20) member of the Board shall be elected by the General
Conventions: Ten (10) members for a term of two years; and ten
(10) members for a term of four years. Upon the expiration of
the appointed or elected terms as set forth hereinabove, such
Board members thereafter shall be appointed or elected for full
terms of four year .
It is hereby proposed to be changed to read as follows:
B. Membership: The Archdiocese Board of Trustees shall
consist of the Metropolitan Archbishop, the Auxilia1y Bishops, if
any, the Vicar General, the Protosyngelos (the Dean of the
Clergy), the Executive Secretary, the Chancellor or Chancellors,
the Financial Advisor-Comptroller, the President of the North
American Council of the Fellowship of St. John the Divine, the
President of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Women of North
America the Chairman of the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch
and thircy (30) additional members to be selected as follows: Ten
(10) members shall be appointed
by the Metropolitan
Archbishop: Five (5) members shall be appointed for a term of
two years; and five (5) members shall be appointed for a term of
four years. The remaining twenty (20) members of the Board
shall be elected by the General Conventions: Ten (10) members
for a term of two years; and ten (10) members for a term of four
years. Upon the expiration of the appointed or elected terms as
set forth hereinabove, such Board members hereafter shall be
appointed or elected for full terms of four years.
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On the motion of DR. EUGE E SAYFIE the change was
accepted by acclamation.
II. Moved by GEORGE ELIAS the following Resolution on
the Jerusalem Patriarchate was adopted by acclamation.
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RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE PATRIARCHATE OF
JERUSALEM
Whereas the overwhelming majority of constituents within
the Patriarchate of Jerusalem has been, and is now, composed of
ethnic Arabs; and
Whereas since the reign of Patriarch Dositheos of Jerusalem,
who was enthroned in AD 1662, it is required that a candidate
for the patriarchal throne of Jerusalem be a member of the
Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, the membership of which
by cu tom ha been and is, except with very few exceptions,
re tricted to ethnic Greeks; and
Whereas custom also dictates that a candidate for episcopal
election within the Patriarchate of Jerusalem be a member of the
Brotherhood of the Holy epulchre; and
Whereas the spiritual and material needs of the majority of
constituents within the Patriarchate of Jerusalem have been, and
to a great extent continue to be, ignored by the hierarchy of the
Patriarchate; and
Whereas the majority of constituents within the Patriarchate
of Jerusalem has many times in the past and is now again asking
for an increased role in the affair of the Patriarchate· and
Whereas hegemony over ethnic Greeks in the s~-called dias-
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pora has been the prerogative
of the Patriarchate
of
Constantinople, and hegemony over ethnic Arabs in the so-called
diaspora has been the prerogative of the Patriarchate of Antioch;
and
Whereas Patriarch DIODOROS I and the Holy Synod of
Jerusalem are attempting to extend the Patriarchate's hegemony
to communities, including but not limited to ethnic Greek and
ethnic Arab communities, in the United States, Canada, Australia
and elsewhere in the so-called diaspora;
BE IT THEREFORERESOLVED:
That we encourage and stand in solidarity with the majority
ethnic Arab constituency within the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
which is again calling for an increased role in the affairs of the
Patriarchate; and
That we call upon Patriarch DIODOROS I and the Holy
Synod of Jerusalem to desist from meddling in the affairs of the
Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Antioch by
attempting to extend Jerusalem's hegemony to ethnic Greek and
ethnic Arab communities outside the Patriarchate's canonically
defined geographic boundaries; and
That we respectfully ask Patriarch DIODOROS I of the Holy
City Jerusalem and his Holy Synod to direct their most earnest
paternal interest, attention, concern and efforts to the clergy and
laity, especially those of the ethnic Arab majority, who reside
within the Patriarchate's canonically defined geographic boundaries.
Submitted by:
Fathers Demetri Khoury, Hanna Sakkab, Joseph Sakkab,
Michael Khoury, Louis Mahshie, Constantine Nasr, Nicholas
Dahdal and Elias Nasr.
Moved: That we urge the Hierarchs and members of the
Patriarchate of Jerusalem to amend its constitution to provide
that a candidate for Episcopal election within the Patriarchate of
Jerusalem may be a qualified member of the Arabic communio/
which makes up the overwhelming majority of the communicants of such Patriarchate.
III. Resolution on Married Bishops in the Orthodox Church
Whereas, The faith and practice of the Apostles as recorded
in the inspired Scriptures is the supreme expression of Holy
THE WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
Tradit1h·
on, and the norm for the faith and practice of the universal
churc ,
And Whereas, Th~· married episcopate is explicitly approved
by the Apostl_e Paul 1~ two epistles of the holy and canonical
scriptures (1T1m. 3:2, Tit. 1:6),
And Whereas, A married episcopate was the common practice of the Orthodox Church throughout the first millennium of
her existence,
And Whereas, The married episcopate represents the strict
practice _of the Church (~kriveia) and the rule of mandatory
celibacy 1s an accommodation to specific historical circumstances
(economia),
And Whereas, The historical situation that led to the establishment of the celibate episcopate is no longer relevant,
And Whereas, There 1s a lack of celibate candidates available
for elevation to the episcopacy,
And Whereas, The married state is in no way incompatible
with pastoral ministry, as witnessed by the Apostles and the
Church Fathers,
And Whereas, Any practical considerations relative to a married episcopate could be appropriately handled by canon law,
And Whereas, Many contemporary Orthodox theologians
have called for and support the restoration of the married episcopate,
Therefore, Be It Resolved, That the General Assembly of the
41st Archdiocese
Convention of the Antiochian Orthodox
Christian Archdiocese of orth America hereby authorizes that
this resolution supporting the restoration of the married episcopate be submitted to the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of
Antioch, and to all the autocephalous Orthodox Churches,
encouraging them to consider this matter, especially as a possible agenda item for a future Pan-Orthodox Synod.
Submitted hy.·
V. Rev. Paul O'Callaghan, St. George, Wichita, KS
V. Rev. Timothy Ferguson, St. Mary, Pawtucket, RI
Aft~ prolonged discussion the resolution was referred to a
written ballot and was defeated 319 to 272.
IV. RESOLUTIO ON THE PEACE PROCESS
Submitted hy George Elias, Jr. of Coral Gables, FL
Whereas, there has been armed conflict in the Middle East
since 1947; and
Whereas, this conflict has resulted in the loss of thousands of
human lives, the injury and crippling of men, women and children, the displacement of thousands of innocent people and the
destruction of homes, hospitals, churches, mosques, temples and
other houses of worship; and
Whereas, this conflict has resulted in the displacement and
disenfranchisement of thousands of innocent people and countless violations of human rights; and
Whereas, the search for a just and lasting peace in the
Middle East has been the subject of many United Nations resolutions; and
Whereas, a just and lasting peace in this region has been the
concern of many Presidents of the United States; and
Whereas the Antiochfan Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of
North Ameri~a has repeatedly spoken out on behalf of suffering
people and victims of armed conflict worldwide and continually
prays for the peace of the .world; and
Whereas a number of Arab countries in the region, together
~ith a Pales~inian delegation, have entered into and taken po~itive, meaningful and constructive steps in Mideast peace negotiations; and
Whereas the Middle East Peace Conference proposed and
initiated by President George Bush after the Gulf War, and cosponsored by Russia, was welcomed by this Archdiocese and all
peace-loving people; and
.
.
.
.
Whereas the new Administration of President Bill Clinton is
pursuing the peace negotiations, which have been on~going for
over 20 months, with the participation
of senwr State
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WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
Department official and Middle Ea t p ciali ·Ll> eeking to reate
a momentum for achieving la ting p ace in thi ensirive area of
the world; and
. ~hereas, the ne~ 1:111ericaninitiative eek to change rhe
d~re_ctionof the negotiation from di cu ion<,of ·"territorial ·uri'r
1
diction" to immed ia
• te Pa1e tmian
•
control over vanou '"governmental functions", including, among other item the manage~ent of the police force, budget, land, health a~d edu tional
issues; and
Wherea , a delay of di cu sion on th final srarus of rab
East Jerusalem until commencement of n gotiation · on rhe permanent status of the occupied territorie is one of the principal
obstacles to a peace agreement between rhe Pale cinian'> and
Israelis;
OW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE OL ED that the nr1ochian
Orthodox Christian Archdioce e of orth merica, at Hs 1 l sr
Convention duly assembled at Pitt burgh, P nn ylvania, from
July 18-25, 1993, urges the President of the nited 'rares and the
Secretary of State to diligently pursue tl1 on-going Middle East
Peace negotiations.
BE IT FURTHERRE OLVED that the Archdioce ·e vigorou ly
urges that the President and the ecretary of tare, among other
things, include in their initiatives immediate di cu ion con eming the final status of the occupied territorie of Ea ·r Jeru alem,
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
BE IT FURTHERRESOLVEDthat the Archdio ese encourage'>
the President and the Secretary of State to continue and maintain
their active intervention and concerned efforts a hone ·t broker
in these peace negotiations.
BE IT FURTHERRESOLVEDthat a copy of tl1i Re olution be
sent to President Bill Clinton and ecretary of , tare \1 arren
Christopher.
Adopted by Acclamation.
V. RESOLUTIO ON LEBA O : Travel Re triction •
Submitted by George Elias, Jr. and Amba ador Thomas
Nassif
Whereas, in February, 1987, Pre ident Ronald Reagan u pended the rights of United States airline to erve L banon and
the rights of Lebanese carriers (MEA) to serve the nit d rate
for security reasons; and
Whereas, the United States Department of tare, on February
17, 1993, extended the current travel ban to and from Lebanon
for an additional one year period; and
Whereas, under such existing restriction , American travel t
Lebanon is limited to four categorie : profe ional journali t ,
American Red Cross, family reunification and national inter ts;
and
Whereas the conditions which re ulted in the 19 travel
ban no lon~er exist; the Lebanese Government continue to
achieve stability, security in Lebanon ha improved dramatical!}.
reconciliation is underway, recon truction i Lebanon'· numb r
one priority, and the Lebanese Army i now in firm control and
has established stability and ecurity throughout mo t of
Lebanon; and
Whereas various airlines have re urned travel to and from
Beirut Inter~ational Airport, and Briti h Airway i curr nrly r examining its restrictive travel policy toward Lebanon; and
Whereas, the travel restriction , by the ame token, verel
damage America's economic intere ts ince Am rican compJnie
are effectively prevented from p<trticipating in the mult1-b1lhon
dollars reconstruction of Lebanon' infra tructure and \.Jst ommercial redevelopment; and
Whereas, the United tare Amba ador co Leban~n on
January 3, 1993, stated that "There i abundant_ o~porturnty ~ r
profit by American firms in the e related area if
c~mpant
are prepared to deal creatively with the ban on Amen an Citizens' travel to Lebanon"; and
�Whereas the continued existence of such travel restrictions
reflect neg~tively on United States confidenc~ in Lebanon _to
Lebane e ex-patriots and the international business community
considering investments in Lebanon; and
Wherea The Honorable Warren Christopher, Secretary of
State has indicated that the US Government will reassess its current ~avel ban to and from Lebanon.
OW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, at its 41st
Convention duly assembled at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from
July 18-25, 1993, urges that the United States forthwith lift the
travel restrictions and permit United States airlines to serve
Lebanon and Lebanese airlines (MEA) to serve the United States.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be
sent to President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Warren
Christopher and President Elias Hrawi of Lebanon.
***
Adopted by Acclamation.
unity and reconciliation among all the Lebanese people in accordance with the Taif Agreement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Archdiocese urges the
President of the United States, the US Senate and House of
Representatives and the entire US Government to support the
territorial integrity of Lebanon in words and deeds by helping
Lebanon implement both the United Nations Resolution 425 and
the Taif Agreement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Archdiocese urges the
United States Government to reopen forthwith the US Consulate
in Beirut.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be
sent to US President Bill Clinton, Lebanese President Elias Hrawi,
US Secretary of State Warren Christopher and the leadership of
the US Congress.
Adopted by acclamation.
VII. RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATIO
Whereas, St. George Orthodox Church of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has graciously hosted the 41st Archdiocesan ConVI. RESOLUTION 0
vention; and
Submitted
by
Whereas,
the
George Elias, Jr.
Pastor,
Archpriest
WHEREAS,
Samuel David, the
Lebanon has been
Convention
Chairinvolved in a tragic
person, Kweilin Nascivil war and a victim
of
geopolitical
sar, the entire Condynamics in which
vention Committee,
thousands
of innothe Parish Council
cent victims were
and all the faithful
killed, displaced and
have not spared any
made refugees
in
effort to assure the
their own land; and
success of this ConWHEREAS,
~ vention
and to proLebanese President
vide for the utmost
Elias Hrawi and his
enjoyment and spiriGovernment continue
tuality of the deleto promote national
gates and guests;
reconciliation
in
Therefore, be it
accordance with the
resolved that this 41st
Taif Agreement and
Archdiocesan
Conseek to re-establish a
vention, duly assemsecure, stable and
bled at Pittsburgh,
in d e p e n d e n t
Pennsylvania,
from
Lebanon
with full
July
18-25, 1993,
control over its terri- The Chapel for daily services was a blessing to all who attended this historic convention in extends to them by
tt
tory; and
Pi burgh, PA.
acclamation its heartWHEREAS, the government of Lebanon seeks the immediate
felt thanks and appreciation for an outstanding and extraordinary
and unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from South
convention.
Lebanon in accordance with the unanimously adopted United
Submitted by Archpriest George S. Corey, Vicar.
ations Security Council Resolution 425; and
WHEREAS, the US Congress (Senate and House of
Adopted by acclamation.
Representat'.ives), in a Concurrent Resolution (S. Con. Res. 28) of
the 1st Session of the 103rd Congress on June 29, 1993, interVIII. At this point METROPOLITAN PHILIP appointed JEAN
fered in the internal affairs of the Republic of Lebanon by unilatSAM to the Centennial Commission of the Archdiocese.
erally calling for the withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, a
IX. FATHER ANDREW ZBEEB and JERRY G. NADRA presubject which is officially a matter solely between the governsented the 1995 Convention Report for Atlanta. St. John of
ments of Lebanon and Syria; and
Damascus, Dedham, MA, having withdrawn its bid the Assembly
WHEREAS, the US Embassy in Beirut has no consular secby acclamation accepted the bid of Toronto for 1997 as pretion, creating great hardship for Lebanese citizens wishing to
sented by GEORGE KHOURI of Toronto, whereupon METROtravel to the United States; and
POLITAN PHILIP appointed him to the Board of Trustees of the
WHEREAS, it is the policy of the US Government to support
Archdiocese.
the unity, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of
X. METROPOLITAN PHILIP opened the election process
Lebanon;
for Archdiocese Trustees by appointment of the following
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVEDthat the Antiochian Orthodox
Nicola Antakli
Christian Archdiocese of orth America, at its 41st Convention
Robert Bethoney
duly assembled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from July 18-25,
Dr. George Farha
1993, goes on record as reaffirming its support for President Elias
Dr. Paul Massad
Hrawi and the Lebanese Government in their efforts to effect
Mrs. Adele Soffa
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He expressed his regret at the retirement 0 f , ,
.
- • d w~t
• h g1eat
. , d1stmct1on
· • . since 1979.
ancy Cohlmia
who se1ve
XI. FATHER MICHAEL EVANS presided at ti
I .
.
.
1e e ect1on of
Trustees.• Th es -J,ate o f nommees
mcluded.
George E. Atallah, _St.Nicholas Cathedral, Brooklyn, NY
Dr. Anthony Bashir, St. George Church, Boston, MA
George Dara~y, St. George Church, Detroit, MI
Dr. George Dibs, St. Mark Church Irvine CA
Gerald ~ab~iel, _St.George Churcl~, Detr~it, MI
Ale~ Kalil, ?t. N 1cholas Church, Montreal, PQ
Walid Khalife, St. George Church, Detroit, MI
AntoonJ. Khouri,
St. John of Damascus Church Dedl - MA
D r. Sam K oun,• St. George Cathedral, Wichita, ,KS 1an1,
Dr. Alan Matook, St. George Church, Little Falls, J
David Nimer, St. George Cathedral, Coral Gables, FL
Walter Par~amovich, St. Michael Church, Las Vegas,
Charles Saikaley, St. Elias Church, Ottawa, PO
Dr. Eugene Sayfie, St. George Cathedral, Coral Gables, FL
THE WORD/NOVEMBER 1993
The following \\'ere elected.
Dr. Sam Kouri
Dr. Anthony Ba~hir
Dr. Alan Matook
Dr. Eugene Sayfie
Charles Saikaley
Dr. George Dibs
George E. Atallah
George Darany
Alex Kalil
Walter Parhamm·ich
~~I. On th~_motion o!· SAH\IY KOl RI -..ernnc.lec.1hy C,l:Ol{(;f:
JOSEI H the Assembly ad1ourned at 5:10 P\1.
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<p>The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication <em>The Word</em> is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic <em>Al-Kalemat</em> appeared in 1933, and the English iteration <em>The Word</em> began anew in 1957.</p>
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�VOL. 37,
The Most Reverend
Metropolitan PHILIP, D.H.L., D.D.
Primate
The Right Reverend
Bi hop Antoun, Auxiliary
The Right Reverend
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Founded in Arabic as
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EDITORIAL
"A Piece of the Peace"
IN THIS ISSUE:
Editorial .................... •··················································· ·············3
Nurturing the Orthodox Family ............................................... 4
by John T. Chirban
The Ever-Memorable Founders ............................................... 6
by Rick A. Michaels
Sex and The Kingdom .............................................................
by Deacon Genna nos Janssen
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Archdiocesan Office .................................................................
9
Lifestyles X ..............................................................................
by Father Milton hjihimiou
14
Department of Gifts, Trusts & Legacies ................................ 15
Dialogue ..................................................................................
by Father Paul O 'Callaghan
16
Department of Christian Education ....................................... 17
The Order of St. Ignatius .......................................................
Antiochian Women of
21
orth America .................................. 22
Fellowship Footnotes .............................................................
23
Daily Devotions ......................................................................
by Father George Alberts
25
Introclucing ..............................................................................
26
Re/View ...................................................................................
27
Did You Know? ......................................................................
28
The People Speak ..................................................................
29
Communities in Action ...........................................................
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THE WORD/OCTOBER 1993
All of us were taken by surprise the last week f ugu t h n
we heard the unbelievable news that the I raeli and th Pal ,_
tinians had reached an accord, granting some autonom to th
Gaza Strip and the town of Jericho on the West Bank thu pa ing
the way for a two-state solution. For all practical purpo e Pal tine will now exist, alongside Israel! Seemingly irreconcilable n mies have agreed to begin the process to recognize each oth r a
human beings with the same rights, dignity and resp ct. They ar
after all, children of the same Father Abraham. One can al ay
expect sibling rivalry over the years and e have witne ed thi
between Jews and Arabs for centuries. The last 46 years
re no
exception.
What is equally important in this agreement, which could ea ily
change from the time of this writing to its printing, is the fact that
the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) must call an end to the
destruction of Israel, recognize its right to exist and renounce terrorism against the Zionist State. Israel, in turn, would recognize the
PLO as the official voice of the Palestinian people, and open the
doors to self-determination to a people who have lived on that
sacred land from time in1memorial. Who said miracles don't
happen'
But this is only the beginning to be sure. There is the question
of the rest of the West Bank and the fate of East J eru alem. Can the
Holy City become the capitol of two countries? A piece of the
peace 111ightbe a beginning and dialogue is so much better than
war. Let's give it a chance!
The next step is the relationship with the other Arab countries.
Israel occupies the Golan Heights which belongs to Syria. Is Israel
ready to return land for peace with its most fearful enemy~ Israel
occupies South Lebanon. Is Israel ready to end the occupation for
Lebanese promises of security of its northern border? Israel shares a
border with Jordan. Is Israel ready to open its border for free and
unrestricted travel? As each month goes by, we should se ome
agreements made in these areas as well. But we can equally expect
extremists on both sides doing their best to destroy the peac
process. The moderates must prevail! There can ~e no .turnin?
back! Even a piece of the peace is better than continued mtran 1gence.
George
THEWORD/OCTOBER 1993
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�NURTURING THE ORTHODOX FAMILY
by John T Chirban
"The modern family is the building block of society.))
"The contemporary family is slowly decaying.))
One test of spiritual vitality in our
e have all been exposed to
homes
may be answered by asking
such cliches that underscore
direct questions: "What do I believe?"
the importance and endangerment of the family. Yet we seem to and "How are my beliefs made manibe at a loss about how to enhance the fest in my life?" Our answers to these
family structure. To respond to this questions could be a barometer of our
dilemma, we need to consider facts spiritual vitality and of our genuine life
about the current status of "the family" in Christ. Frequently, many families
and clarify how we can nurture the have no explicit beliefs and lack
meaning and purpose. Life becomes
Orthodox family in our own homes.
The psychological profiles of family simply a series of temporal stimulamembers, in general, reflect a lack of tions. This ambiguity in life seems to
be implicit in our culture, but it also
emotional fulfillment, entanglements
and enmeshed relationships. As a peo- defines what it means to be "existenple, Orthodox Christians whose roots tially sick." If a family has no direction,
are based in traditional cultures, e.g., it cannot be going anywhere. And if
we understand the Devil (etymologiGreeks, Russians, Serbians, Antiochcally, diavolos,
as the one who
ians, tend to dismiss such alarming
divides)
as
the
author
of chaos, this
problems as alien to both the culture
setting provides the breeding ground
and tradition.
There is -no question that, in the for trouble.
Many families perceive that they are
United States and Canada, Orthodox
"achieving"
if children "get" married,
Christians have felt the impact of North
American cultural issues: drugs, alco- "have" a family, and "make" money.
hol, suicide, changing sex roles and To be sure, many try this and find that
role confusion, sexual promiscuity and it secures neither the marriage nor the
its epidemics, as well as modern day family. Nor does it make family memfulfilled.
epicureanism and hedonism have all bers more intrinsically
made an impact. It may be helpful to Families' resources are exhausted with
recognize that these are all spiritually- the expectation that such pleasures
originated disorders. They are often and luxuries as vacations, recreation
symptoms of disordered homes and and extravagant homes will constitute
indelibly engrave their pathology on "success." What is discovered, again, is
otherwise healthy children. The pres- that in spite of such efforts, the family
and its members are neither secured
ence of these disorders and their
symptoms are often less visible in the nor protected.
Clearly, a family is not simply the
relatively affluent or the more culturalproduct of a wedding ring or children;
ly endowed
people of our time.
Middle-class North America is insulat- it is rather a process and an experied, or chooses to be insulated from ence of some complexity and "somethe reality of inharmonious hom~s- We thing more." One psychologist identido this vis-a-vis material comforts and fies this "something more" as pathos, a
worldly success - cushioning our- virtuous yearning, or a "passionful"
selves until "somehow," "out of no- pride.'
where," a symptom pushes through
Such filial love is expressed with
the facade in the form of a divorce
equivalent power by Massachusetts
drugs or suicide. In this way, comfort;
Senator Paul Tsongas, who prematureblur our vision of the importance of ly r~tired from the Senate in his early
our spiritual lives.
forties after learning that he had a
I am suggesting that spiritual vitality chronic, terminal lymphoma. He wantis at the heart of the Orthodox family. ed to spend his last years with his famBut what exactly is spiritual vitality, ily. Tsongas stated, "I've yet to meet
and how do we know if spiritual vitali- anyone who chose family over career
ty exists in our homes?
and regretted it. No one on his death
W
bed ever said, 'I didn't spend enough
time with my business.' "2
Yet, if we are able to speak objectively, we must recognize that there is
nothing unique about culturally-based
love in the family.
on-Christians
maintain this love, secular humanists
endorse it, and, as a native of Cicero
Illinois, the "work place" of Al Capone:
I can attest that even the Mafia practice
it. Caring families are not necessarily
Orthodox families. There is, however
another dim n ion in the Orthodo~
family which may help us to understand its finer elements. What matters
is the degree to which the pathos of
the home is influenced by the essence
of the faith.
We need to ask: Is mere influence
enough? Have we realized the potential power of our faith in marriage and
the family? Or, more directly: Would it
not he better for us to experience the
full ess nee of the Orthodox family
rather than merely to be influenced by
it?
The Essence of the
Orthodox
Family
It should not be surprising to us that
Jesus Christ had hardly anything to say
about the basic family, as a building
block, since a family is not defined by
its structure but rather by its substance.
The New Testament speaks of "God's
household" and the "family of believers" (Ephesians 2: 19, Galatians 6:10). '
Scriptural reference addresses what
fills the home. For the Christian, the
essence
of the family, of life, is
achieved in the spirit of God. A home
based upon the resources of human
beings alone does things that human
beings do. A home based upon the
resources of God does things beyond
human im.agination.
d
Therefore the Orthodox family an
home must' recreate the particular el~ments which distinguish the Church;
•
hit
must reflect the marks of the Churc •
As Orthodox Christians, we must see
family life flowing out of the life of tl:e
d1sChurch, not vice versa. For w h en
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ordered homes influence the Churc:·
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.
1 se their
entire congregations
may o
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course. The priority must be God, who
provides dire~tion.
Left to human
design, the family becomes lost in the
forces and values that surround it.
What are the elements
of the
church? What marks of the Church
should families properly manifest in
the home? Holiness. Humility. Love.
And action.
Holiness
St. Paul writes "to the saints" in his
epistles, referring to Christians as those
people who believe and work as they
believe. Such are holy people, not perfect, but people who bring "God's
power" into their daily lives. Christians
who do not take their holy identity
seriously lose their greatest asset the chance to be in the process of experiencing and achieving their potential. It is through such holiness that we
can be made into "new beings," thereby experiencing the "God-vision," to
know a resurrected existence.
St. Gregory the Theologian says, "It
is a good thing to speak of God but
still better to purify oneself for God." A
Christian home is one where family
members learn how to affirm their
goodness, and to correct their sins.
Homes must convey through the experiences of respecting, valuing and caring. We can do this practically by
understanding both our sins and our
virtues. By acknowledging our "state,"
and improving
our "selves,"
we
embark upon the process toward holiness. In so doing, one takes God and
faith seriously.
Humility
When St. Augustine was asked to
describe the Church, he said, "The first
~hing that I can say about the Church
is humility. The second thing that I can
say about the Church is humility. The
third thing that I can say about the
~hurch is humility." Certainly humility
ts the virtue upon which all other
Christian characteristics
are built.
Humility sets the stage for listening. If
one can be humble, and listen, he or
she can hear God, "other," and self.
Most of what we know about the
~o~munication gaps between parents,
hildren and generations stems from
~~e-~robl~m of poor listening. The
dividual is often so absorbed in his
or her own thoughts that the needs
Wishes, and concerns of others ar~
rarely heard, let alone understood.
When we practice humility we are
~pen to God's grace and the contribution of others. We are able to hear the
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voices that influence us - both inside
and ?utside of our own minds. With
hu~ihty, we can hear the needs of our
family and respond in kind. Humility is
a harbinger of love.
Love
The Greek word for community liter~lly means communication. In the
faith, as we communicate,
we are
bo nd ed as a unit. Communication is
therefore the process of love. One of
the greatest diabolical attacks on the
family is poor communication: husbands against wives; fathers against
sons; and brothers against sisters.
Through effective communication, love
can nurture the wholeness of the family unit. The family, like the Church,
must be a community, having a common unity. Christian communication
intimacy, and love cannot be separated
from the love of God, as it is God who
models and fuels "good relationships."
Such family spirituality requires that
we pray and talk about our relationship with God.
At the same time, love in the home
needs to be expressed and experienced as friendship. The definition that
I prefer for "friendship" is illustrated
with two circles that overlap one
another, and one of those circles is
divided in two. The drawing is accompanied with the maxim, "A friend doubles your joys and divides your sorrows." This concrete definition of a
friend can also serve as a test for those
who care about us. Indeed, those who
love us double our enthusiasm and
divide our pain. Such a definition of
friendship should be modeled and
experienced by the members of a family. Friendship of family encourages,
comforts and enables each member to
grow.
One Christian family prays openly
together at the end of each day. If the
husband and wife are arguing, they
bring the "issue" to prayer, because
above all else they agree to pray
together. In this way, their pattern of
seeing arguments from a single point
of view is broken by their commitment
to God through communication.
Through loving communication and
friendship we share quality time with
one another. St. Paul insi ts, " ... Love
is long suffering, love is kind; love is
not self seeking, it is humble and is
not puffed up ... But it rejoices in the
truth. It bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all
things" (I Corinthians 13:4-7). The e
characteri tic of love pro id th kind
of ~ol_idreinforcement upon
hich a
Chnstian home i built.
Action
Chri t ay , You hall kno
by their fruits!" (Matth w 7: 16 .
Epistle of t. Jame w 1 am 'Faith
without work i a dead thing!" (Jame
2:17). The criteria for t rnal lif
according to Je u in the Go p 1 of
Matthew, i through work : f eding
the hungry, giving helt r to th horn less, visiting the pri on r and aring
for the afflicted (Matthew 25). Doing
works bear witne to our faith.
~y living in an Orthodox family a
child learn how to be cared for in th
~ome so that he or he may gi car
m the world. The product of our family reflects the degree to which we
have made the effort to conne t th
things we say or b lieve to th thing
we do. An Orthodox family int grate
faith and life; it is real and ideal. It i
holiness, humility, love and action.
Such are the marks of the Church and
they are also the critical dimensio~s of
the family. These qualitie con titute
our Christian identity and ultimately
our well-being.
urturing the Orthodox family i
critical for the individual and ociety.
By drawing upon the natural, piritual
resources of the Orthodox Faith the
sustenance of the individual, the horn
and the Church are as ured and all are
nurtured.
Notes
1
Papajohn, J. Pathos. Alumni Lecturers. Brookline: Holy Cro
1974.
2
Tsonga , P. Heading Home.
York: Vintage Book 1984.
John T. Chirban Ph.D. Th.D. i a
professor of psychology and co-director
of Counseling and Spiritual Development at Hellenic College-Holy Cro
School of Theology and an advanced
fellow in behavioral medicine at Harvard Medical School at The Cambridge
Hospital.
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s I look at an old, blurred picture of the "ever-memorable
founders" of the church I grew
up in, I see the still photo of my own
self in the quiet moment of their gathering so many years ago, caught and
crystallized in faded black and white
like an old movie. I feel like showing
some gesture of honor, a sign of veneration. This is an icon melting into my
memory. These people gave me my
Orthodoxy, and my soul its possibility
of peace.
Here they are, these fathers and
mothers, these elders of my own. I ask
to be a guest in their presence, at their
invitation. I would not preach to them
the Truth learned as dogma and disclosed in neat definition what they
tried to live as Love. It would be a sin,
perhaps, for me to set before them the
pattern of their faith with merely
words and only reason. I'm sure the
Lord heard the eloquence of their
endurance and shared the hope in
their hea1ts for the well-being of their
children. So I will listen to the stories
they tell me and gather the wisdom
and feel the wound of their nostalgia
for far away homes and people they
never saw again. Why do I feel they
paid for my peace and that I've
incurred a debt of love? But posterity
can never merit the heritage received,
it can only preserve, polish, and pass it
on.
The thick wool suits hang on strong
bodies built by daily labor and not
with free weights in spas. Their faces
how the fruitful strain of determination. They look more settled and dependable than I do. I should spend
more time looking at them than in the
mirror. Maybe that's what icons are
for, by looking at them you get a better idea of who you are than if you
just look at your own reflection. My
grandfather stands on the far left, on
the top step, with other men his age.
The bishop is in the middle of them
all as it should be.
Remember that tall, wide book, "The
Faith of Our Fathers?" My friends
remind me it is too elementary, nar-
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row, limited and incomplete in its presentation of our faith. You must be
patient with us, we've read the
Fathers, learned some Greek, earned
degrees. There is so much more now.
We've passed beyond the scope of this
paper-bound,
orange-brown
book.
Yet, I have not comprehended
the
depth of living faith and struggle of the
generation that had it published. So I
keep it in my little library beside my
Master's thesis which I wrote to get my
theological degree.
My father remembers my grandfather
reading his Bible in Arabic. Both my
parents tell me of how little prayers
and doing the Sign of the Cross
marked so many moments of their parents' lives, at occasions when other
people wouldn't have attached a religious observance.
When an ambulance went by my
father and mother used to cross themselves. No matter they didn't know the
person inside that c1ying, frantic vehicle whipping through the daylight,
they knew the pain of their own fears
and relived the memories of their own
losses. And so, with the Sign of the
Cross, they handed over that unknown
sufferer into the hands of Him Who
knows everyone and everything. Every
morning I give to God, I hand over
these loved ones, "who have completed their lives in piety and faith." And
sometimes, but rather self-consciously,
which betrays the weakness of my
faith, I do the Sign of the Cross when I
hear a siren sound.
Pampered and protected from the
ardor of their times,
I cannot
empathize with the strident effort they
expended,
nor hope to match the
heroic content of their endurance.
Who knows what little and large indignities they swallowed or what hurtful
episodes eroded their most elevated
expectations. They pushed all this into
open spaces in their hearts and
mourned alone. They built the social
halls and churches, raised families,
adapted the strange requirements, and
bought my comfort with their blood,
another sacrifice of love. My more
Jesus said, "If you love me, obey my
commands. Do what I say. Do as I tell
you!"
Every child in the world knows
exactly what that means by no later
than the age of two, and by the age of
17 he has completely forgotten it.
But at 17 he thinks he knows all
about love. The truth is that he knows
more about love than you think he
knows; and less than he thinks he
knows. The same applies to girls.
How are we to reconcile the freedom of love with love of obedience?
They can be reconciled in Jesus Christ,
and only in Him. For love is the way
to obedience, and obedience opens to
us all the ways of love.
My cold-blooded Anglo-Saxon and
Teutonic ancestors knew about love,
but they said, "One word will do."
Likethose remarkable dresses they sell
in women's salons: one size fits all!
The warm-blooded
Greeks said,
"One size does not fit all. We need at
least four words": Agape, the selfless
love that desires nothing but another's
good; it is the love with which the
father welcomes back his prodigal son;
it is the love by which Christ has pity
and heals - and dies for us on the
cross. Then philia, friendship, seeing
eye to eye, delighting
in common
interests. Third, storge, affection. And,
finally,eros, romantic love, passionate
desire, yearning, longing to be united
with the beloved both in spirit and in
the flesh.
I once put my pastor on the spot by
asking him, "How many times does
the word eros appear in the New
Testament?" And without hesitation he
answered, "It doesn't." Quite right. The
reason is that the Greeks had appropriated the word for the salacious
orgies that went on in some of their
pagan temples. So the New Testament
Writersdeclined to use the word.
Not so the Fathers of the Church.
T~ey proclaimed eros as the yearning
With which God loves us and with
Which we are to love him. Some
;Poke of the divine as an "erotic
Orce." Maximos the Confessor says
mild, reflective, open ways are the
signs of luxury. You see, there is a
cost to resourcefulness.
Care-free
smiles are not as striking as care-worn
ones; it's all the difference between
icing and the cake.
I feel they sacrificed some measure
of their very souls, "that best portion
of a good man's life," as the poet
Wordswo1th said, to a distant, western,
Anglo-Saxon world wrapped in the fog
of chilly, peat-moss shores, of English
custom and enlightenment,
the real
American heritage.
I'll never glean from theological texts
what is best passed down from heart
to heart, soul to soul, fathers to sons,
masters to disciples. My friends and I
must take the crumbs of our sustenance from our masters' table, and
accept our Orthodoxy from seconda1y
sources.
We know
the musical
arrangements, but they sing better than
we do.
I've read things in books too marvelous for me, words from great,
ascetic, joyful holy fathers. They are far
from me, and beyond the grasp of my
introspection.
They told me to first
learn from these fathers and mothers
in this picture, and to t1y to attain their
strength and goodness, before seeking
full fellowship with them. First things
first, they said. One step at a time.
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that God produces in us a state of
intense longing, for he "thirsts to be
thirsted for, longs to be longed for,
and loves to be loved." God longs to
be united with you not in spirit only
- and not only in an intellectual sort
of way - but in very flesh and
blood. God means our relationship
with Him to be an erotic relationship.
And that, of course, is precisely what
we have when we receive the Body
and Blood of Jesus Christ in the
Eucharist. It is an intimate, intensely
personal thing. More intimate and personal even than the coitus of a loving
husband and wife.
And now we come to the nub of the
matter. Which is that every erotic thrill
we feel, eve1y heart-throbbing impulse
that draws us to another person, of
either sex, is simply a paradigm of the
attraction God feels for us and that we
are to feel for Him. Every erotic
impulse is meant to point us to God,
for He created that impulse and He
means to rule over it in a frenzy of
love, as some church fathers put it.
In the reading from Genesis during
the first Presanctified Liturgy of Great
Lent we are told that God made everything very good, and this of necessity
included eros. Then how did anything become evil? We know that Eve
wandered off into the woods and met
that handsome devil, the serpent. (He
had not yet been condemned to crawl
on his belly.) Eve undoubtedly had a
beautiful body. But this also was good.
St. Augustine said that evil began with
sex, but he mistook symptom for
cause, for sex also is good.
How then do we arrive at evil? To
arrive at evil we have to experience
the good in a contrary way, a perverse way. Eve did it. She failed in
obedience and thereby lost love. Any
competent dramatist could write the
probable script. The serpent seduced
her by flattering her, or worse, and
Eve came out of the woods saying of
her beautiful body, and her lovely person "This is mine; I shall do with it as
I please!" Today that sounds all too
familiar!
When Adam heard her, a chill went
down his spine as he realized \ hat
this was going to mean in their relationship. Then he compounded the sin
by saying, "Then my body also i'>
mine, and all creation and becaus
God made it good I shall claim it all as
mine!" And so the cry has echoed
down through the ages today louder
than ever: mine! mine! mine!
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God's. And in that indulgence of , elf,
in that rejection of God and di obedience to Him, the good i perceived in
a perverse way and become e ii, and
both God and love (for God is love)
are lost to us and we die. The dominant religion of our day is the cult of
self, of disobedience, fueled by an
eros usurped and perverted by men. It
kills love. It will kill us. We must give
up all proprietary claim to eros. The
Kingdom of Self is utterly opposed to
the Kingdom of God.
In that same Presanctified Liturgy.
there is a reading from Proverb in
which a young man is told to a ·k wi<,dom to deliver him from the lewd
woman, the adulteress who has forgotten God. Why? Does she not gi e pleasure? Yes, but the pleasure she gives i:
a lie. For she calls her body h r own.
and that is a lie. he cannot in truth
give her body to the young man
because her body belongs to God, and
she has appropriated it for her own
pleasure and profit. The same is trut::
of him when he goes to meet her.
Hers is the way of death for both of
them.
Eve said in effect, "My ero is mine ...
But eros belongs to God. He reated
it and He means it to lead us fir t to
tl~e chalice and worship of Him. H •
then assigns it to bind the lifelong relationship of hu band and \Vif or of
monasti s to their Lord. He forbid., its
use for elf-wor hip.
Mary, the Theotokos, the "handmaid
of God," when she, aid to ahrieL "B ~
it unto me according to our \ ·ore.I."'
thereby renounced ero and all indulgence of elf and remained e\er-virgin.
In her obedience she found 10\e and
became for u - the ... ev. Eve.·· the
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�uncorrupted true Mother of us all even
a h was al o "the Mother of God."
The opposite of love is not hate. It is
our appropriation of eros in the indulg nc of sell out of which hatred for
both our elves and others follows. St.
Ignatiu of Antioch as he was being
dragged off to martyrdom, cried out,
'My eros is crucified!" Of course. Eros
tolen from God, fallen eros, must die
on the cross with Christ. The only
way to Christ and His Kingdom, to life
eternal, is to fight our way through the
swamp of self, through the miasma of
self-appropriated
eros, until we're
clear of it. And for that we must have
the chalice and every other sacrament
the Church offers us, together with the
example and intercessions of the saints
and all the advice, Godly counsel and
direction a dedicated pastor and spiritual guide can give us.
Apart from God, eros is a powerhouse of evil. This does not mean that
ARCHDIOCESAN OFFICE
sex is to cease to function, but only
that we must place it under the authority of God, as did Mary. The result is
joy. It is not enough for teenagers to
"just say 'no'." They have at the same
time to say "yes" to God. Then they
will know all that humankind can ever
know about love.
Deacon Germanos sent this article to
use for THE WORD a few months
before he fell asleep in the Lord. May
his memory be eternal/
ORDAINED:
,
,
ASSIGNED:
Greater Synod Disciplines Patriarch Diodoros
O STA TI OPLE
Citing activities
not in
accordance
with
the
canons of the Church by Patriarch
Diodoros
of Jerusalem,
a rare
Greater Synod met July 30-31 and
unanimously decided to give him
until Christmas to restore the proper order and to repent, and struck
his name from the Diptychs (list of
names
commemorated
at the
Pro komide and after the consecration of the Holy Gifts).
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew convened and presided over
the high-level Synod, comprised of
the leaders
of all the Greek
Orthodox Churches of the world,
including Archbishop Iakovos, following official complaints of the
Jerusalem Patriarch s intrusion into
the areas of the jurisdiction of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate, particularly Au tralia.
This and other actions of a similar nature had created a crisis situation which threatened
the internal unity and canonical order of
the Churche .
In taking this action, the Synod
al o defrocked the Chief ecretary
of th Jerusalem
Patriarchate,
Archbishop
Timotheos
of Lidia,
and
Bishop
Hysichios
of
Capitoliada, who represented Diodoros in Australia.
C
It also defrocked four priests of
the Jerusalem Patriarchate accused
of collusion
in the move into
Australia,
an eparchy
of the
Ecumenical Throne.
A few days after the Synod meeting, Patriarch Diodoros
issued a
statement
saying that he would
the stature of
the Ecumenical
Patriarchate
and the mandate of
the
unity in Christ
were implemented
once again."
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accept its decision
and is withdrawing from the areas under the
Ecumenical Patriarchate's
jurisdiction.
Other Orthodox
leaders taking
part in the meeting included Patriarch Parthenios
of Alexandria
Archbishop
Seraphim
of Athen~
and All Greece, and three Metro-
politans,
Agathangelos
of Nea
Smyrna, Chrysostomos
of Peristeri,
and Petros
of Acre, who represented Archbishop Chrysostomos
of Cyprus, as he was not permitted
to go to Turkey. Also participating
were the hierarchs
of the Ecumenical Throne abroad.
Upon His Eminence's
return to
the United States, he commented
to the Orthodox Observer that "the
stature
of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate and the mandate of the
unity in Christ were implemented
once again.
"I hope that whomever,
from
reasons
of incidental
benefit,
would
dare similar
intrusions
where
the thorns
of the Holy
Canons exist, will think twice."
Calling such a Synod is unusual,
but not unknown in the history of
Orthodoxy.
Most recently,
a similar high
council met about 20 years ago
over a situation
involving Archbishop Makarios
of Cyprus and
three
metropolitans
who "defrocked" him uncanonically.
That Synod, with the Patriarch of
Alexandria presiding and in which
a former Patriarch
of Jerusalem
took part, reinstated Makarios and
punished the three perpetrators.
( Orthodox
Deacon STEPHEN ZITON to
the Priesthood
on July 25,
1993 at the Archdiocesan
Convention in Pittsburgh PA
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The Priest MICHAEL TRIGG, pastor of
St. Michael Church in Whittier, CA, to
the dignity of Archimandrite,
on
August 15, 1993, at St. Nicholas
Cathedral in Los Angeles, CA.
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�A Department of the
Archdiocese:
Gifts, Trusts and Legacies
'There was at Joppa a disciple named
Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was
full of good works and acts of charity, "
(Acts 9:36).
Because of their great love and concern for the work of Christ which is
being accomplished
by the Archdioce e, an ever-growing number of
individuals are expressing their desire
to be tow upon the Archdiocese gifts,
in the form of trust funds or by remembrance in their wills. Others wish
to contribute to the future work of the
Archdiocese by having insurance policies written with the Archdiocese and
the local parish listed as beneficiaries.
To assist these individuals in accomplishing the e noble desires, the Department of Gifts, Trusts and Legacies
was established. Professionals in these
fields offer expert advice and guidance
to persons so inclined to give.
t Archdeacon t
Andrew Kallil
Charles Kallil Jr. was born to Charles
and Mary Kallil on February 13, 1925,
in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He moved
to Toledo, Ohio, at age five, with his
family. He started serving in the altar
at St. George Cathedral at age six and
has continued doing so ever since,
until he fell asleep in the Lord on July
19, 1993, at age 68, after more than
thirty years of service as a deacon. He
had attained the dignity of archdeacon
and was a senior deacon of the
Archdiocese.
Archbishop Samuel David, while
pastor of St. George Church in Toledo,
took "Charlie" under his wing. He
would pull the young boy by the ear,
saying, "ta 'ala ya ibni" (Arabic for
"Come, my son.", and would teach
him about the Orthodox Faith and the
hymns of the Church. Following his
episcopal consecration, Archbishop
Samuel continued to guide and inspire
his young protege, as did the renown
Archimandrite Hanania Kassab.
Following his graduation from high
school, Charlie entered the military
and served in the Coast Guard. While
stationed in Massachusetts, he met
Loretta Haddad of Worcester, and the
two were married on November 29,
1947. They returned to Toledo, and
Charlie opened up a sign shop. He
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subsequently sold the business and
worked as a sign painter for twentyfive years with the Traffic Engine~r~ng
Division of the City of Toledo, retmng
in 1987. All the while, he was faithful
in serving his Lord through
the
Ch
h
fl
Benevolent Society served a most del"cious and dignified mercy meal, ha~ing also prepared food for the wak
the previous night.
~ e
We shall all miss Archdeacon
Andrew greatly. He was a kind, loving
"""'
and humble seri~~~ arrival in
vant of the Lord.
Toledo in 1962,
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He assiS t ed the
Archbishop MichpaSt ors through his
ael Shaheen
orregular visitations
dained Charlie to
/
to the sick and
the holy diaconate
youth
and altar
with
the name
servers. He was a
Andrew. He served
member
of the
at St. George CaToledo Eastern Orthedral and occathodox Clergy Assionall y accompasociation, holding
nied Archbishop
the office of treaMichael in his travsurer at the time of
els for thirty years.
his passing into
Archbishop Micheternal
life. He
ael elevated him to
made every sign
the dignity of Archwe ever needed
deacon near the
around the Cathetime of the consedral,
and,
of
cration of the new
course, he assisted
St. George Cathe_............. at all our liturgical
dral, around 1974.
ArchdeaconAndrewKallil
services. May his
During this time, Deacon Andrew
memory be Eternal!
and Loretta also raised four children,
-Father Nabil Hanna
Charles III, Krist, Ann (Brothers) and
Dean of St. George Cathedral
Cheryl (Leathers) who have, collectiveToledo
ly, given the pair nine grandchildren.
Deacon Andrew was full of pride and Orthodox Theological
emotion when he served at the wedding of his first grandchild, Laurie
Society
(Kallil) Mancuso, this past April. St.
The 1993 Annual Conference of the
Paul wrote, "Let the deacons be the Orthodox
Theological
Society in
husband of one wife, and let them
America (OTSA), representing theolomanage their children and their house- gians of the diverse
Orthodox
holds well" (1 Timothy 3.12), and this Churches and educational agencies in
Deacon Andrew has certainly done.
North America, met May 24-26 on the
The Cathedral was filled to capacity campus of Hellenic College-Holy Cross
for the vigil and funeral service, July (Greek Orthodox) Theological School
20 and 21, respectively. His Grace
in Brookline, Massachusetts. 30 memBishop Basil presided at the services
bers 1 plus visitors were in attendance.
and spoke words of great comfort to
The basic theme was "Orthodox
the family - both the family accord- Ecclesiology and the Contemporary
ing to the flesh and the family accord- Ecumenical
Movement,"
including
ing to the Spirit, as he noted in his ser- forums on key bilateral dialogues, relamon ~ during the hierarchical Divine tions with the World and National
Liturgy that preceded the funeral. Also Councils of Churches, and topical preparticipating in the services were Fr. sentations.
Michael Ellias of our sister parish of St.
Guest speaker for the annual Fr.
Elias, Sylvania, Ohio, and all the clergy Georges Florovsky Memorial Lecture
of the Toledo Eastern Orthodox Clergy was the Very Reverend Dr. Georges
Association, as well as Fr. Paul Eyler (a Tsetsis of Geneva (Switzerland), repreformer pastor at St. George Cathedral)
sentative of the Ecumenical Patriarchand Fathers George Shalhoub and
ate of Constantinople
to the Worl_d
Stephen Close from Livonia, Michigan. Council of Churches. Father Tsetsis
Following interment, the members of effectively drew upon both his schola~the St. George Cathedral
Ladies'
ly studies as well as his long ecumeniTHE WORD/OCTOBER 1993
cal experience
in assessing
the
Orthodox Church's presence and theological mandate to participate in the
20th century's movement to draw the
Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox
and "independent" churches into dialogue and the service of humanity.
Complementing Fr. Tsetsis's presentation and audience discussions was a
presentation by Father Thomas Hopko,
dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary, on the
topic of "The Church and Salvation:
Extra
Ecclesiam
Nullus
Salus."
Respondents included Fr. Emmanuel
Clapsis, of the Holy Cross faculty, and
Dr. David Ford, of St. Tikhon's
Canada, was elected unanimou 1 .
_Inother action, the ociety appro d
"fir~t reading" of a propo al to accept
~nental/Non-Chalcedonian
theologia~s as full, participating member
subJect to 1994 Conference action
Ano th er proposal for "student a oci~
ate~" was, however, rejected.
. Finally, the Society accepted th gracious offer of His Grace, Bi hop
Herman,
Rector of St. Tikhon'
Seminary in South Canaan Penn ylvania, ·to host the June 1994 Annual
Conf er~nce of OTSA. A standing vote
of gratitude was, meanwhile, extended
to His Grace, Bishop Methodio
President, and Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas'.
Following a scholarly fonun, Orthodox theologians gathered this summer for the annual
conference of the Orthodox Theological Society in America (0STA). Pictured in the
center/forefront are: The Very Rev. Dr. Georges Tsetsis, the Ecumenical Patriarchate's
Representativeto the World Council of Churches,who presented the "Fr.GeorgesFlorovsky
Lecture";His Excellency Metropolitan Demetrios (Trakatellis)of Vresthena; and outgoing
OTSApresident Professor Dr. George Bebis. Hellenic College-HolyCross Greek Orthodox
Seminary, in Brookline, Mass. was the 1993 host site for the Society's annual meetings.
Antiochianrepresentatives were ArchpriestTimothy Fergusonand Dr. MichaelMassouh.
The forums focused particularly on
three important bilateral consultations
- with the Oriental/Non-Chalcedonian Churches, the Roman Catholic
Church, and the Lutheran Churches,
on the international and North American levels alike.
In the Society's business meeting,
the membership elected four executive
officers: Fr. Hopko, president;
Fr.
Nicholas Apostola, vice-president; Fr.
Gregory Wingenbach, secretary; and
Fr. Anthony Nicklas, treasurer. Also, a
new 3-member representative, at-large
group will supplement the officers on
the OTSA Executive Board. Immediate
past president, Professor George Bebis
was accorded the members' thanks for
his service and scholarship.
Fr. Tsetsis was welcomed as an honorary OTSA member, and Dr. Roman
Yereniuk , of St. Andrew's (Ukrainian
Orthodox)
College in Winnipeg,
THE WORD/OCTOBER 1993
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ville, Maryd, a graduate of Eleanor Roo
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ior High chool.
s. Carol M. Babyak, orth Huntdon; Mr. ean F. McClain, ho rees in Linden, Penn yl ania; and M .
Julie C. Leone, of Latrobe, were granted transfer academic cholar hip .
Mr. Aaron B. Hinde, of Felton, California, who attended
an Lorenzo
High School, received a aint incent
College Orthodox Chri tian cholarship.
HOWCANYOUHELP
THEANTIOCHIAN
VILLAGE?
As we continue to grow in our ministry to the faithful of our Archdiocese, the Orthodox churches, and all who use our facilities, our need are
many. Here are a few in the area of the SS. Peter and Paul Chapel:
Icons of various saints of Antioch ....................................... $200-$2,000
Episcopal throne,compatible with iconostasis .................$5,000-$7,000
For more information, contact:
The Rt. Rev. George Geha, Executive Director
ANTIOCHIAN VILLAGE
Route 711 North
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after my work because it caused nots and disturbances. I must admit I have been in jail three or four times, but not
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However, if you can use me, I shall do my best for you."
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North American Council Teen SOVO Special Olympics Sports Camp
The Fourteenth Annual Special Olympics Sports Camp, sponsored by the North American Council of Teen
S0YO, was held August 15-20, 1993 at the Antiochian Village. Teens from across our Archdioce~e gave a full
weekof their time and love to the mentally handicapped young people from the State ~f Pennsylva~1a. .
. A five minute video tape presentation has been sent to all parishes of our Archdiocese s~owing this exceptional work of Christian Love that our teens have been doing for the past fourteen years. Parishes are asked to
show this video on Special Olympics Awareness Day - November 21. NAG Teen SOYO asks that you b~ very
ienerous with your donations. Contributions may be channeled through your local Teen SOYO Chapter or directly
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the NAG Teen SOYO Treasurer:
Joseph Olas
3824 Kessler Blvd., E.
Indianapolis, IN 46220
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�LIFES1YLESX
J2EPARTMENTOF GIFTS, TRUSTS & LEGACIES
Is The Bible A Pornographic Book?
Perpetuate Your Orthodox Faith with a CRT
by Tbe Rev. Dr. MiltonB. Efthimiou
t one time, certain writers of
the
ational Literary Guild
condemned certain bookstores
and the religious community for trying
to stop the sale of Rushdie's "Satanic
Verses" and obscene magazines and
books to young people. These writers
made a list of various crimes of sex
and violence found in the Bible, then
triumphantly drew their conclusion that you cannot protect a community
from filth unless you are prepared to
clear the bookshelves of copies of the
Holy Scriptures. To equate a film like
"The Last Temptation of Christ" or a
book that describes in lascivious detail
the imagined amorous adventures of
Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene with
references to sex and violence in the
Bible is simply preposterous.
This argument is nothing less than a
dreary repetition of an argument heard
frequently during the Meese Commission hearings in order to discredit
censorship of any sort. It is impossible,
say the smut peddlers, to draft a rule
that would ban obscenity without supp res sing the Bible, Shakespeare,
Euripedes, and other classical writings.
A
THE ERRORS OF SCHOOL
AND PARENTS
The leazy logic of the smut peddler ought to be so evident that it is
hard to credit the good faith of those
who use this logic. The only defense
possible is that occasionally over-zealous defenders of decency and morality
do commit errors. It was some overzealous Orthodox clerics who "protested too much" and brought many people out to see "The Last Temptation of
Christ." They sometimes condemn
books that are not truly obscene but
are not proper literary reading for
young people.
This often happens not infrequently
when chools aod parents object to
certain themes on required reading
lists for school children. Their objection is often quite proper. Their mistake i in labeling a book "obscene"
when it is really "adult" material that
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Do you own highly appreciated assets, such as stocks, closely-held business interests or real estate where the
original amount is significantly less
than fair market value? If you do, you
may want to consider
creating a
Charitable Remainder
Trust (CRT),
which can turn these assets into valuable contributions to the Antiochian
Archdiocese and your local church.
What Is a CRT?
A CRT is a retirem nt and estate
planning v hide that nab! s clients to
rescue highly appreciated assets from
the capital gains tax trap. Because the
IRSconsiders a CRT a "qualified" trust
(qualified like an IRA), any assets held
within the CRT can be sold free of
capital gains taxes. One the assets are
sold, the client may th n invest the
entire amount to g nerate increased
lifetime income.
CRT - but without th impo 'ition of
The Benefits of a CRT
any federal or tate e tare ta .
Establishing a CRT provides you
• The creation of a CRT allo s ou
with these valuable benefits:
to receive a ignificant i d ral incom
• By est~blishing a CRT and placing tax deduction
ince the assets are
the appreciated asset within it, you can placed in trust for a charitable b nefisell the asset with no income tax being ciary, such as the Antiochian Archimposed upon you whatsoever. By diocese and your lo al church. As statinvesting the proceeds of the sale in ed, you receive income from the ass ts
an investment that receives a reason- in the trust for as long as you ar ali e.
able rate of return, you can receive At death the principal pas 'e, to the
investment income for the balance of charity.
your lifetime that will far exceed what
To Learn More
you would have received if you hadn't
If you would like to rec i e addiestablished a CRT.
tional information about
RTs and
• Some of the increased tax dollars how this estate planning vehicle can
can be used to purchase life insurance provide you with income a. w ll as
in another tax-exempt trust. This will estate tax savings, plea e compl te the
enable you to pass on to your heirs following coupon. Based on the inforthe same amount of wealth you would mation you provide, a proposal will b
have passed on without establishing a created.
billion dollar business, and each year
this figure is growing.
If the pornographers
traded only
with adults, their racket might be
viewed as one of the many negatives
that a free society must tolerate. But
the heart and soul of this racket is not
the adult! It is the curious child, the
adolescent of fifteen or sixteen years
old, whose natural instincts make
him/her
an unsuspecting
victim.
Orthodox Christian children are not
immune from the smut peddler, as the
many cases that come to the attention
of the Archdiocese will attest to.
The answer to the problem is not
only proper sex instruction at home
and vigilance of parents and teachers.
It is true that there can be no substi---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------tute for a good Orthodox upbringing.
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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VS.
But in our society, it must be an
INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
accepted principle that the state must
Smoker:________________
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The Supreme Court has stated that and is obliged to assist where family
"obscenity" does not enjoy constituFairMarket Value of Asset Being Transferred: _____________________________
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resources are inadequate to their task.
tional immunity. That is to say, "ob- To this end, there are legal procedures
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scenity" is not protected by the First available to communities that wish to
Amendment which guarantees
the
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curb commercial smut. Not long ago, a
freedom of the press.
Greek theatre, in a large city, showing
Marginal Estate Tax Bracket: ____________________________________
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No freedom is absolute, but must be pornographic
Greek child pornograsubject to reasonable curtailment to phy, was closed down because of the
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protect the rights of other people and willingness of citizens to demand the
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to safeguard the common good. This help of the law, and in supporting
principle should be sufficient rebuttal
conscientious officials in the perforIf No, Do You Seek To Replace et After Estate Tax Value of Asset?____________________
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to those who argue that to censor
mance of their duty. Is the Bible a
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obscenity is to destroy freedom of the pornographic book? If after looking at
The
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Archdiocese of North America
press.
the facts as stated in this article, there
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nicious victory in recent years. They ment, it is these very people who will
have successfully popularized the term continue to drag the Truth of God
"book burning," (as in the case of through the streets and degrade this
Rushdie's Satanic Verses) as a smear Truth in the name of freedom and digwhich they apply to any attempt to nity.
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control this growing menace.
We must never forget: people reject
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the
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phy in recent years, chiefly as the reFather Milton is the Director of the
for
sult of court cases won by smut ped- Dept. of Church and Society of the
dlers. It is a big business, it is a dirty Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and the
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would perhaps do children more harm
than good. The argument itself merely
knocks over a straw man. Those who
are battling the smut peddlers do not
defend the untenable position that sin
has no place in an artistic or literary
production. They are not victims of
19th century Puritanism or prudishness. As realists they see a clear distinction between the legitimate treatment of sex and violence by serious
writers and the "dirt for dirt's sake"
type of material put out by commercial
pornographers.
If those who fail to
perceive this distinction were consistent, they would have to oppose governmental suppression of traffic in narcotics on the grounds that drug stores
and doctors are guilty of the same
offense.
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ANTIOCHIAN
ORTHODOX
CHRISTIAN
ARCHDIOCESE
�D JALQGUE
As Christians, do we believe the
Jews are the chosen people of God?
Did God promise them the land of
Palestine forever?
This question seems to come up frequ ntly in Antiochian parish life, precisely becau e, I am sure, so many of
our people have been directly impacted by the creation of the state of
I rael. Unfortunately, moderate and
solidly biblical responses to the issue
seem scarce indeed.
To correctly understand this issue,
there are a couple of basic principles
we must take into account. First, as
Christians, we always read the Old
Testament in the light of the New.
Second, we must understand to whom
the promises of God were made.
The book of Genesis tells us that the
promises of God regarding the land
(of Palestine) and being a blessing to
all the nations were given to Abraham
and his seed (Gen. 12:1-3, 17:1-8).
Who is the seed of Abraham? The
Apostle Paul makes this clear: Christ/
by Archpriest Paul O'Callaghan______
(Gal. 2:16). Then he adds: "And if you
are Christ's, then you are Abraham's
seed, and heirs of the promise' (Gal.
3:29). The promises of God given in
the Old Testament all belong to Christ
and His Church; both the Old and
New Testaments recognize that being
a physical descendant
of Abraham
does not make one his heir. It is being
a spiritual descendant, that is, faithful
to God's Word, that is critical (Matt.
1:9, John 8:33-44, Rom. 2:28-9, 9:7-8).
Two concluding points need to be
made. As Christians, we believe that
the Jews, as the descendants of Abraham, were given a special revelation
of God and a special calling - especially so that the Savior of the world
would be born of their nation (Rom.
9:4-5). However, they lost the inheritance of the Divine promises (including the land of Palestine) through
unbelief
and disobedience.
The
promises were given conditionally on
their faithfulness (Deut. 28, Rom. 11).
Secondly, from a New Testament
_
point. of view, the physical realities
and ntes of the. .Old Testament a re
types o f t l1e spmtua 1 realities of the
New Covenant. Thus, circumcision is
repentance and change of heart (Rom.
2: 28) '. ar:id the promised
land of
Palestine 1s the promise of the heavenly kingdom (Heb. 11:8-16). We Christians, therefore, do not look forward to
moving to Palestine someday. We
await the fullness of the kingdom of
God.
I encourage _every reader to look up
the above Scriptures and study them
carefully. The direct answer to the
question, on the basis of Scripture, is
that the Jews of today cannot be considered "the chosen people" and that
they cannot claim to have an everlasting right to the land of Palestine.
The new editor of DIALOGUE is
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YOUTH MINISTRY
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IN THE 90'S
An!io~hian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
Ant1och1an Village Camp Completes an Exciting Year of Camp
and ~repares for a New Oner
F1v~ Hundred and Forty Six Campers enJ~yed.the splendor and grace of
the Ant1och1an Village this past sum~e r. Record numbers of campers
~Il!ed th e cc3:mpto capacity in sessions
2 & 3. Three add1t1onal cabins are being prepared to
accommodate the many would be campers who had to
be turned away due to the large number of camper applicants. Campers are u_rged_
to register early for the 1994
season, as spa~e will still be limited to the first 220
campers who register for each session.
under the direction of Ed Joseph. Some of the activities
wer~ canoeing, softball, volleyball, basketball, soccer,
tennis, lacrosse, floor hockey, pillow polo, horse shoes,
th~ famous 4 square, cage ball, scooter hockey, ultimate
Frisbee, peg board, aerobics and flag football.
Arts & Crafts this year was directed by Fred McLoota
who, brou~ht many !1~~and interesting projects to this
years variety of actIvItIes. The philosophy of this year's
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f1r~_~s~din our afternoon program which was designed
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t e camper and the activity to his age and peer
group. Campers were well supervised by the counselors
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Horseback riding, Canoeing, Arts & Crafts, Evening
Programs, Learn to Swim Programs, Afternoon Sports
P_rograms,_
qhurch Services, Overnight Camping, Camp
Fires, Chnst1an Education the launching of rockets and
hot air b_alloons made by the campers, as well as
archery highlighted this summer at the Village.
The Red Cross Learn-to-Swim
Program was a new feature this
year. Directed by water safety
instructor Debbie Compton, this
program enabled children in each
session to better their swimming
ability as well as to earn their
American Red Cross Level certification.
Archery, under the direction of our Afternoon
P~ogram Director Ed Joseph, was reinstated this year
with great reviews from our campers. Campers learned
to_shoot arrows with accuracy as well as the safe handling of bows and arr9ws. Safety and enjoyment were
THEWORD/OCTOBER 1993
Cageball
program was to establish a mission, present the motivation and tools and after teaching the basics, have the
student forge his own way while being diligent, thrifty
and neat. Campers worked with a variety of mediums.
One of the favorite projects was to create an icon on I
heavy foiLby engraving the metal and filling the depressions with black or red acrylic paint.
Tye-dye T-shirts, a classic at Antiochian Village, were
�perspective~ tow~rd~ love and hate, dating and marria e
and excessive drinking amongst other topics relating
Christian m_orals and ethics. Yo~nger campers dis~
cus~~d the 1mporta_nceof respecting parents, makin
decIsIons and what It means to be a Christian. Camper~
were led to develop a deeper love and understanding ot"
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prog_ress. Three new cabins are b •
readied, other b_uildingsare getting t~1~g .. ~ •
usual preventative maintenance work ~ 1[!111 •
an~ pl_ansare being laid for next year'~
actIv1t1es.The recruiting of staff mem- \
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sI ions available for the 1994 c-"¼>
Season:
Two
Camp Nurses (RN)
water Safety Instructor
Life Guards
Ca
NC.,.,.
~taff of Counselors a~d Program Directors, who all min1stere?well to the ch1ldre~ entrusted to the Village. The
planning and succes_sful implementation of this year's
prowam was ve:Y evident at the Village, as seen in the
smiles and posItIve experiences of the many Village
campers.
Preparations for the 1994 Camp season are in
Campers on horse-back
o:1ce again seen hanging out to dry. Gimp, another clas~Ic, was fo~nd amongst other arts & crafts projects ranging from painted fabric banners to calligraphy.
Campers with their Counselors
Sommer
Paul DeTrana
and Nathaniel
Counselors
(S_WSI)
Assistant Sports Director
~;n~ng ~rogram D~rector
Adult Volunteers
(Srnkn_g
rogram Director
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its, Games etc )
( ma es & ?femal~s for each session)
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Ftuhrtherinformation can be obtained by writing directIy to e camp.
Campin~ dates for this coming season:
Session #1: July 3-15 1994
Session #2: July 17-19 1994
Sessio_n#~: July 31-A~gust 12, 1994
Applications n:,ay~lso be obtained by writing:
Ant1och1anVillage Camp
RD #1_,Box 307 • Bolivar, PA 15923
or by calling the Camp at 1-412-238-3677.
their Orthodox Faith, while enjoying the fellowship of
other qrthodox Christians. In addition to our Christian
Education, campe~s were blessed by the presence of
three of our Reg_1onal Teen Spiritual Advisors: Fr.
A~thony Yaz~e, Midwest; Fr. Jim King, Western; and Fr.
Michael Lewis, ~outhe~st, ~ho along with Fr. Joseph
~urpur_aled evening ca?in d1s~ussions, as well as spent
time with the campers discussing an array of issues.
1993
Antiochian
Village Camp
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Staff
Fred Mcloota with campers reviewing the work done on an icon.
Christian Educat_ionat the Village found itself at the
st~rt of each morning program. This year's program
written by Mark Maymon, and implemented by our coun~
Jlt•••11Ydll
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New Publication from the Department of Youth and Parish Ministries
Female Campers with Counselor Karen Hanna
A group of campers & counselor outside the Arts & Craft building.
selors and visiting clergy, challenged many of 0
people to confront their faith and life and to re ueryo~ng
th ·
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- xamine
eIr re a ions ip with Christ and each othe T
campers engaged in conversations concernin~ O~~~~i~
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Evening program, directed by Nathalie Fawaz
brought the usual laughs and bright faces from our
campers and staff alike. Among the favorites were
Capt~re th~ Flag, Welcome Night, the Pool Party,
Carnival N_1gh~,Treasure Hunt, Game Show Night,
Camper_Skit Night, Camp Fires, Village Olympics, and
the h1lario_usCouns~lor Dress up Night.
~ve~rnght Camping continued for its second year at
Ant1och1anVillage. Campers fourteen years of age and
older _w~re treated to this fun and rewarding outdoor
experi~nce. Camp~rs learned to set-up their own tents
and ~u1lda camp fire, to cook meals and enjoy "some~ore~ ·. Even at t~e camp site campers participated in
Ch_rist1anEduca~1on.Overnight camping helped them to
enJoy ~nd ~xperience life in the outdoors.
Antioch1an Village was blessed with an exceptional
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Getting Along With Parents
for Orthodox Christian Teens
This 4-week course is designed to help teenagers develop healthy relationships with their parents. It will help them meet their :
goals of having a healthy home life and making their parents proud, two of the leading desires of our teens as ident1f1edin a recent
study of our Archdiocese Youth.
This course designed for High School Youth Group Teens may also be used with Junior High Teens in the same Youth Group.
. This publication is the first in what we hope will be a series of teen materials on contemporary issues for Youth Group discus~ion. This active curriculum leads students in doing things that help them understand important principles, messages and ideas. It
is a discovery process that helps teens internalize what they learn.
Permission to photo copy discussion sheets given for local parish use. Price: $7.95 each, plus $3.00 postage & handling per
order. One or two copies needed per group.
Order from: The Department of Youth & Parish Ministries, P.O. Box 2598, Westwood, MA 02090 Please make chec s payable
to the Department of Youth & Parish Ministries.
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�_]'HE ORDER OF ST. IGNATIUS OF A TIOCH
Orthodox Christian
Youth Workers Conference
Who We Are
by Ralph Abercia
W
Antiochian Village - Ligonier, Pennsylvania
January 20 - 23, 1994
Sponsored by the Youth Ministry Departments of the Antiochian, Greek and OCA Archdioceses.
"Understanding the changes in today's youth and their families. How to attract young people and involve them in the
youth ministry program. How to communicate to young people one-on-one and in a group setting. How to invest your
time in a teen 's life. Dozens of ways to tap into the potential that exists in every young person. Practical steps to
motivate teens. Creative methods of recruiting other adults to work with the youth in the church. Building a youth team.
How to keep, train and occasionally retire a volunteer."
• All inclusive Cost $185.00
Main Speaker: Les Christie, Internationallyknown author, lecturer and youth worker for over 25 years. Additional Topics by Youth
Directors Fr. Joseph Purpura and Fr. Angelo Aretmas.
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ith some 1200 Knights of
Christ already united under
the cross of the Order of St.
Ignatius, the goal of 2,000 members set
by our beloved Metropolitan PHILIP
seems within reach.
The goal of increasing our membership is not for the sake of growth
alone. It is for the service of our
Archdiocese and the glory of our Lord.
The lifetime commitment
to service
and sacrifice that each member makes
provides the means for our Archdiocese to reach out to those it serves
in each parish: to the young and the
old, to the needy and the hungry, to
the victims of war, to the victims of
spiritual impoverishment as well. Each
new member helps send another child
to camp, train another priest in a semina1y, treat another patient in a hospital, provide another elderly priest with
a dignified retirement. Each new member helps deliver comfort and refuge
to those who need it most in a frightening world.
The truth is that this work becomes
more important than ever today as we
stand on the edge of social disintegration. We are losing a generation to
drugs, violence, poverty and disease.
Our young people are learning their
values from the wasteland of TV; they
are developing their ethics in the prisons and the streets.
Who shall rescue our children? Who
Galilee, Jesus gave u.., the an..,,, •r:
"You are the light of th world.
ciry
that is ·er on a hill ·annot he hid.
either do men light a candle, and put
it under a bushel, but on a candle..,rick;
and it giv th light to all that are in th,
hou, . Let our light so shin , I ·fore
men, that they may s ...e ·our good
works, and glorify our Fath ...r which
is in hea en."
Brother. and sisters, the rder of ,·r.
Ignatius i. a cit that sits on a hill.
Each of us is a candle that shin ·s
through it - \vindows. Each n w member lights another torch. Every child
we send to camp, e ery stud ·nt we
educate shines a light on our rder. Ir
is our task to win new m "mhers,
expand our works and educate people about what we do. Let each of us
shine a light for our Order, and for our
Lord. That light will illuminate the path
that we all must walk together.
We would like to thank all the members, the many officers, and committee
members who work so hard behind
the scenes to govern the Order and
expedite our work. God bless all of us
as we enter yet another year in the
service of our Lord.
Ralph Abercia i chairman of The
Order of St. Ignatiu of Antioch. Thiarticle is taken from hi acceptance
speech at the Archdioce e Convention
inju(y, 1993 al Pittsburgh, PA.
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shall take them by the hand and guide
them toward the Light? There is only
one answer. That answer is the
Church.
The Church calls on each of us to
help fulfill this mission. The Order of
St. Ignatius plays a supporting role.
Under the guidance of our beloved
Metropolitan PHILIP, the members of
the Order labor side by side with all
the faithful in the vineyard of the Lord.
We are here to help the priest in the
parish as he reaches out to his sheep.
We are here to help fund the programs
our Archdiocese needs to offer an
appealing alternative to our young
people, a vision for a better way of
life. We are a critical part of the backbone of the Archdiocese, working to
make our churches strong.
One of our great challenges today is
to build awareness
within
the
Archdiocese of who we are and what
we do. The goodwill of the priests and
the parishioners is critical to our endeavors. For just as we support our
priests, we must ask for their support,
too. Just as we provide the means for
the Archdiocese to serve its parishioners, we must ask the parishioners to
support us as well. Our goals are their
goals. Their dreams are ours.
The question is: how do we build
this mutual support and awareness?
How do we illuminate our unity of
purpose?
On a mountainside
in
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�ANTIOCHIAN WOMEN OF NORTH AMERIC4_
Fellowship Oratorical Festival
"Let Us Lift Up Our Hearts"
by Geri Farris) PR Director
We pray the e words in
every Divine Liturgy. Because
th heart is the most vital
organ of our bodies, it controls our lives. If it stops beating, we stop living. So, in
effect, we are offering the
mo t important part of ourselves to
God.
We as Antiochian Orthodox Christian Women, are the very "heart" of our
families, local parish and YES, even
our Archdiocese.
Significantly,
as
recorded in the Scriptures, the women
have always been the most loyal followers of Christ. Administering to His
comforts; as Martha and Mary; following Him to the Cross with His mother;
anointing His body for burial, and proclaiming His resurrection. Unlike the
male disciples who were "called" or
recruited by Christ, the women disciples volunteered
willingly
and
unselfishly.
The Antiochian Women continue to
face the challenges of the 90's by confessing the Faith. We are surrounded
by negative influences on all sides. We
must confront society as steadfast
Orthodox Christians and help our children cope with the pressures of daily
life. Drugs are readily available for the
asking. Violence is claiming innocent
victims in every neighborhood.
The
problem of abortion is out of control.
AIDS has become the number one
health issue. Who is responsible for
their guidance?
All Antiochian Women should be
informed about these issues. We need
to educate our youth at home and in
our churches. If the mother doesn't
have a strong foundation of faith, the
family goes astray. We need to share
the gifts which we have received from
God. We can teach in our church
schools, sing in the choirs, and administer to the less fortunate. As members
of His church and AOCWNA, we have
the perfect opportunity. We must do
more to further the purpose for which
we have been organized and fulfill our
ministry.
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Our continued support of the charitable programs of the Archdiocese is
imperative: Support the Children's
Relief Fund, contribute generously to
the Food For Hungry People Program
and IOCC. By doing these good
works, we glorify God by sharing our
abundance of earthly good things. The
contributions
to the projects of the
Antiochian Women in North America
from the local parishes over the past
twenty years have yielded
over
$600,000.00. NOW WE MUST LOOK
TO THE FUTURE!
The Antiochian Women must rededicate themselves to a more spiritual
commitment
and prayer life. The
power of prayer does exist. When a
tragedy strikes somewhere
in the
world, even if we do not know anyone involved, the first words we utter
are "Oh, God, please help them."
The power of prayer does exist. A
few years ago, a very active and dedicated member of the clergy in our
town was helping his son do some
work on the roof of his home.
Somehow he lost his balance and fell
off the ladder. He lay in a coma for
many days with no chance of recovery. Our local parish priest organized a
twenty-four hour prayer chain. This
was active for about three weeks.
Then a miracle occurred. He recovered. Now he is very active, takes long
walks and when asked, assists in serving Divine Liturgy.
When my father was struck down by
a stroke three years ago, we were told
there was no hope. This active, gentle,
professional man, would never walk
again. That is when our family showed
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their strong belief in the power of
God. We gained our strength from our
prayers and our deep faith. Dad is
doing just fine now. He is able to walk
with the aid of a "walker," goes to his
favorite restaurants, is able to attend
Divine Liturgy and receive Holy
Communion, and Mom even takes him
to Florida for the Winter months. The
power of prayer is very much a pa1t of
our Orthodox heritage. We should not
forget to pray and give thanks.
Our traditions of faith continue to
keep us focused on a clear path to
God. We light candles and offer the
holy bread. We again give thanks and
pray. God hears our prayers. He does
answer them. However, many times
we are confused about the answers.
We do not always understand what
the Lord wants from us but we must
remember that God loves us. We are
HIS people. He sent His Only Son to
be the example of that love. What can
we give back to Him? Our life and our
future belong to HIM. All that is asked
of us, is to live according to His commandments and to remember that we
are on earth for a very short time. The
time we spend is very important, so
we must give thanks for all we have
been given.
Our Antiochian
Women's prayer
says, "Our hearts are directed and
attuned to Thee."
Congratulations to the NAB officers
elected for the years 1993-1995:
President: Marlene Mamary
Vice President: Eleanor Kinan
Recording Secretary: Joanne Abdulah
Treasurer: Sheny Abraham
Public Relations: Geri Farris
THE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WOMEN
OF NORTH AMERICA CHARITY DRIVE
FOR 1993-1994 WILL BENEFIT
BAIAMAND UNIVERSITY IN LEBANON.
PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY TO YOUR
LOCAL PARISH/CHAPTER.
THE WORD/OCTOBER 1993
My ministry in
Christ. When I
began to think of
how I might write
an oration on this
topic, I first asked
myself, "What is a
ministry?" After I
Eric Bitar
deliberated for a
National Winner
short
while,
I
found myself turning towards the Feast
of Pentecost, probably one of the first
examples of a ministry. At this time,
the Apostles and a crowd of 120 were
gathered when, as it states in the book
of Acts, a "sound came from heaven
like the rush of a mighty wind, and it
filled the house where they were sitting. And there appeared
to them
tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them." With these
tongues they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit, and began to speak in languages that the crowd could understand. When outsiders looked upon
this, they were astonished. They could
not believe that the Apostles, who
were Galileans, were speaking their
own native languages. They thought
the men were drunk. And Saint Peter,
realizing this, spoke out to the onlookers, affirming that the men were not
drunk. He then quoted the prophet
Joel, "And in the last days it shall be,
God declares, that I will pour out my
Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams;
yea, and on my menservants and my
maidservants in those days I will pour
out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy." This Spirit was and is the fulfillment of the promise and the completion of hope. This Spirit, "hath taught
wisdom to the illiterate; He bringeth
together all the laws of the church."
Upon looking in Webster's dictionary, I found the definition of ministry
to be the office or functions of a minister." A minister is an "agent or instrument, a clergyman." I also found the
verb form of minister to mean "to
supply what is needed."
When I began to examine the quotation from the book of Colossians that
THEWORD/OCTOBER 1993
supplements the theme of thi fe ti al
"See that you fulfill the minist1y that
you have received in the L rd " I
asked myself, What have I recei ed in
the Lord? With no effort at all, I began
to see everything. Everything that I
have ever done, had done to me or for
me has in some way been through the
Lord. Without Him, I would not be
here with the ability or confidence to
stand up and speak to all of you.
Without Him, I would not be the
empathetic listener that I am. Without
Him, I would not have the patience to
lead and instruct the young altar boys
at my home parish.
Then I asked myself, What is the
ministry that I have received through
the Lord? Although it was a slightly
more difficult question, I still found an
answer. I simply looked back on my
church life. I searched back to when I
was baptized and chrismated, when I
first received the Holy Spirit. For some
reason, I don't quite remember that
one. But, I do remember when my
parish priest invited me, at the early
age of five, to serve as an altar boy at
the Holy Saturday morning service.
There weren't even any altar boy
robes that fit me! All through my childhood, I have fond memories of the
church: the Sunday school years when
I learned about the Church and its history, the Ten Commandments,
the
Sacraments, etc.; the creative arts festivals; the summer Bible school sessions; and the many summer vacations
at the Antiochian Village. As I grew
older, the actual importance and true
meaning of the services brought a
whole new dimension to my religious
life. From regular Sunday Divine
Liturgies, Presanctified Liturgies, and
feast day celebrations to the entire
series of Holy Week services, all of
those would help me explain Orthodoxy to others as part of my ministry.
During Lent each year, I am constantly
explaining to others that I am Orthodox and why our Lent and Easter are
different from theirs. And inevitably,
the question arises, "Is your Christmas
different too?" With that I can further
explain O1thodoxy to my friends.
This past year, I began to bring my
girlfriend, a d ,\·our Roman alholic, to
rvices, sp ·cifi ·ally the ood Friday
and Hol
aturda • ervi • . ft _.r
explaining the . "rvi . to her, ic wa a
good i eling to ·ee h r r "sponding to
the different part. of che sen ice. h"
n ·tart d to sing along during th·
Lamentation-.
Each per ·on b ing th· inc.Ii\idual
that he or ·h is, ha hi or her own
call and I beli e mine is to I come
an attorn . !though I \VOn't b • nt ring the s mina1y, mu h to th disma
of my parish priest, I am going to I "'
using what God gav m and in man
way continuing to be a st \ ard of
God. A lawyer i. on who interpr t
the la , and who but th high pri" ·t
and clergy did ju ·t that from th b ginning of time. The fir t fiv book - of
the Bible, in fact, contain th la\v.
In my attempt to find quotation· in
the Bible, I found 593 reference· to
law, although not all po iti e, in
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of
the Bible. The mo t notable of th e
were the reference to th ·uprem
Lawgiver. In a courtroom, the lawyer
witnesses and other mu t an w r to
the pre iding judge and in th end it i
hi final decision. At the end of time it
will be the Lord our God to wh m we
must ultimately answer, and it ill be
by Him that we will b judg d.
it
says in the book of Jam , "Th re i
one lawgiver and judge, he who i
able to save and to de troy." Another
such reference to law i in the Go pel
of Saint Matthew. There, w r ad
about a lawyer who i asking our Lord
what he b lieves i the gr ate t commandment of all. It i her that Je u
ays, "You shall love the Lord your
God with all your heart and
ith all
your oul and with all your mind. Thi
is the great and fir t commandm nt.
And the econd is lik it, You hall
love your neighbor a your If. ' Lat r
in the Go pel of aint Luke w r ad f
a lawyer wi hing to test Chri t by a king Him, "Teacher what hall I do to
inherit eternal life?' Chri t r plie
"What is written in the La ? Ho do
you read? And an wering orr ctl th
lawyer re pond , "You hall lo
th
Lord your God with all your h art and
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�with all your soul and with all your
strength and with all your mind and
your neighbor as yourself." After th_e
lawyer inquires of Christ as to who his
neighbor is, Jesus relays the story of
the Good Samaritan and tests the
lawyer by asking him who he believed, " . . . proved neighbor to the
man who fell among the robbers."
After the lawyer once again responds
correctly, Christ says to him, "Go and
do likewise."
It is the modern-day lawyer's duty to
help those who cannot help themselves. Most people believe it is the
lawyers who simply help themselves
to what they have gained for their
clients. It is those crooked lawyers
who give a bad name to the many
honest attorneys.
As a lawyer, I would not only use
what God gave me, but I would also
need to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit:
Wisdom, Understanding,
Counsel,
Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and the
Fear of God. I would need the wisdom
to know the law and to know how to
make good decisions to use it properly. I would need the understanding of
the law and how it works. I would
counsel my clients in the proper manner; after all, lawyers are also referred
to as counselors. I would need the fortitude and courage to stand up in front
of a courtroom full of strangers and
plead my client's case to t~e best of
my ability. I would need piety to express my beliefs and morals, whether
relevant or not to my client. And as for
the fear of God, the oath that witnesses swear to before they take the stand
reads, "Do you swear by the almighty
searcher of hea1ts, that you will tell the
truth the whole truth and nothing but
truth that you may answer to Him on
that last great day?" In the situation
that I would be in, I would almost
have to take a similar, unwritten oath
to do my best. As an attorney, I must
be able to listen to my client and
understand his or her individual predicament. Whether it be traumatic or
not, I will try to ease my client's mind
and reassure him or her. If my client is
willing, I could t1y to convince him to
turn to God for guidance and strength.
This, however cannot be simply my
ministry. I cannot do this by myself.
My ministry is dependent on yours.
Just as a priest cannot perform liturgy
alone (for who would say amen?), we
need everybody to contribute in order
to draw more people to God. Adults
and senior citizens are not going to listen to teenagers and, in this day and
age, teens aren't readily going to listen
to adults. We all must cater to our own
peer groups, young and old, because
1
1t 1s never too late. As Saint John
Chrysostom says in his Paschal sermon, "If any have toiled from the first
hour, let him receive his due reward. If
any have come after the third hour, let
him with gratitude join in the Feast.
And he that arrived after the sixth
hour, let him not doubt; for he too
shall sustain no loss. And if any have
delayed to the ninth hour, let him not
hesitate, but let him come too. And he
that hath arrived only at the eleventh
hour, let him not be afraid by reason
of his delay;· for the Lord is gracious
and receiveth the last even as the first.
He giveth rest to him that cometh at
the eleventh hour, as well as to him
that hath toiled from the first." We
must give to others with what we have
and use the seeds that were planted in
us to help cultivate the minds of others. We must supply what is needed.
With this Oratorical Festival, your sons
and daughters are prophesying. All
men have dreamt dreams and will
continue to do so, and I, a young man,
see a united church in the future as a
result of our ministries. I have a vision
and so must you.
Eric B ii ctr u •as the Judge's Choice in
Pi!!shurgh. He represented the Eastern
Region. Eric is 18 years old and a
member of St. Georp,e Church in New
Kensington, Penm,ylvania.
NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER COLLEGE CONFERENCE:
"HOMECOMING 1993"
by Jason Klatt
ANTIOCHIAN VILLAGE, LIGONIER, PA. The week's activities began with Welcome Night, where the board members
performed a spectacular entourage of skits that had the rowdy crowd on their feet. The evening then moved to various rooms
where old friends were reunited and new friendships were born. Breaking into the morning hours the excitement finally subsided and everybody, tired and weary, could only anticipate the truly incredible week that was yet to come.
The next morning, bright and early, the buses departed for the torrential rapids of the beautiful Youghiogheny River, high
in the northern Appalachian Mountains. The convoy of 14 rafts proceeded down what seemed to be a docile river. As the miles
rolled by, tranquil waters became raging rapids, and the group sighted their first true white-water rapid. Tensions turned to
confidence as all the rafts were successfully navigated through the first few miles of the course.
After lunch the convoy continued reaching their final destination safely. Tired and weary once again the hungry group
returned to the Village and ravenously devoured their meals. Compline and sleep soon followed.
The following days proved to be even more spectacular than the day before. An incredible panel of speakers dazzled the
?rowd_ov~r t~e du~~tion the c_onference.Bishop BA?IL fielded currently pressing questions troubling today's Orthodox 1outh
1nan 1nsp1rat1onalO & A session. Dr. Anthony Bashir spoke on the dimensions of prayer and made himself readily available
for one on one spiritual advising. Fr. Ted Pulcini spoke on maintaining an Orthodox identity in college. Fr. Peter Gillquist, Fr.
Jon Braun, and Alan Shanbour each conducted three part seminars on the validity of Christ, where we stand on CatholicProtestant squabbl~s, and th~ _c_oncepts
of exile and temptation throughout the history of God's people, respectively.
The extrac~,rncular act1~1t1es
were extr~ordi~ary in their own rite. Crazy Olympics consisting of various relays, including
~he ever-popula~ Bat Races, wer~ a smashing dizzy success. Mystery Night and Pool Olympics were accordingly challenging. "!"heKaraoke contes_t_andMardi Gras, Masquerade Ball, with five course dinner, was the hit of the conference. Team number five ended up preva~llngas the ~ndisputed champion. With the addition of fellowship and camaraderie it was evident that
the conference had provided the recipe for a truly enlightening experience.
Through tearful good-~~es, strangers departed friends with sharper minds and focused beliefs. Some remained together
for another week a~ the exciting Archdiocese Convention in Pittsburgh. All anyone could think about was getting back to the
college conference in 1994. See you there!!!
o!
--
DAILY DEVQTJ Q NS by Archpriest George Albert
Novembe~ 1993
1. 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27-13:8; MATTHEW 10:1, 5-8
ss.Cosmas and Damian, the Wonderworkers
and St. Theodota
16.
1 CORINTHIANS 4:9-16; MATTHEW 9:9-13
Apostle and Evangelist Matthew·
. ergiu
Fulvian (FAST)
and
1 THESSALONIANS 4:1-12; LUKE 15:1-10
SS. Gregory the Wonderworker and Lazaru
Iconographer (FAST)
the
2. COLOSSIANS 2:20-3:3; LUKE 11:34-41
Martyrs Acindynus, Pergasius, Aphthonius,
Elpidephorus and Anempodistus
17.
3. COLOSSIA S 3:17-4:1; LUKE 11:42-46
18.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:1-8; LUKE 16:1-9
Martyrs Plato, Deacon Roman and Child, Barula
and Zacchaeus (FAST)
19.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:9-13, 24-28; LUKE 16:1518, 17:1-4
Prophet Obadiah; Martyr Barlaam;
. H lidoru
and Euphemias (FAST)
20.
2 CORINTHIANS 11:1-6; LUKE 9:57-62
Forefeast of the Entry of the Theotoko •
Gregory and Proclus of Constantinople (FA T)
21.
HEBREWS 9:1-7; LUKE 10:38-42, 11:27-28
Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into th
Temple (FAST)
22.
2 THESSALONIANS 1:1-10; LUKE 17:20-25
Apostle Philemon of the 70; Prince Micha 1
(FAST)
23.
2 THESSALONIANS 1:10-2:2; LUKE 17:26-37
SS. Amphilochius and Gregory of Agrigentum
(FAST)
24.
EPHESIANS 6:10-17; LUKE 21:12-19
Martyrs Catherine, Mercurius and Philothea
(FAST)
25.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:13-3:5; LUKE 18:31-34
Leave-taking of the Feast of the Entry of th
Theotokos; SS. Clement of Ohrid and Peter of
Syria (FAST)
26.
2 THESSALONIANS 3:6-18; LUKE 19:12-28
SS. Alypius tbe Stylite and Stylian Paphlogonia
(FAST)
27.
GALATIANS 1:3-10; LUKE 10:19-21
Martyr James of Persia; St. Theodo iu T mo o
(FAST)
28.
EPHESIANS 4:1-6; LUKE 13:10-17
Martyr and Confessor tephan the
Chrislo (FAST)
Martyrs Acepsimas, Joseph and George
Neapolitan; St. Poeman (FAST)
4. COLOSSIANS 4:2-9; LUKE 11:47-12:1
Martyrs
Great
icander
and Hermas; St. Joannicius
the
5. COLOSSIA S 4: 10-18; LUKE 12:2-12
Martyr Galacteon; St. Jonah and the Apostle
Hermas of the 70 (FAST)
6. 2 CORI THIAN
5:1-10; LUKE 9:1-6
SS. Paul of Con, tantinople, Luke· Tauromen
Barlaam Khutyn
and
7. GALATIANS 6:11-18; LUKE 8:41-56
33 Martyrs of Melitine; SS. Lazarus Galis and
Zosimas
8. HEBREWS 2:2-10; LUKE 10:16-21
Synaxis of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel
9. 1 THESSALO IANS 1 :6-10; LUKE 12:42-48
Martyrs Onesiphoreus
Matrona
and Porphyrius;
St.
10. 1 THESSALONIANS 2: 1-8; LUKE 12:48-59
Apostles Erastus, Olympas, Rodion, Sosipater,
Quartus and Tertius of the 70 (FAST)
11. 1 THESSALONIANS 2:9-14; LUKE 13:1-9
Martyrs Mennas, Victor, Vincent, Steph~nida and
Theodore
12. 1 THESSALONIANS 2:9-14; LUKE 13:31-35
SS. John the Almsgiver, Nilus the Faster, and
John the Fool-for-Christ (FAST)
13. HEBREWS 7:26-8:2; JOHN 10:9-16
St. John Chrysostom; Martyr Antonine
artyr
14. EPHESIANS 2:4-10; LUKE 10:25-37
·
Apostle Philip; Emperor Justinian; New Martyr
Constantine
29.
1 TIMOTHY 1:1-7; LUKE 19:37-44
St. Paramon and his 370 Companion
Philumenus (FAST)
lS. 1 THESSALONIANS 2:20-3:8; LUKE 14:12-1~
SS. Gurias Samonas and Abibus; Martyr - •
Demetrius' (ADVENT FAST BEGINS)
30.
l CORI THIANS 4:9-16· JOH 1:35-52
Apostle Andrew; SS. Frumentiu and Al
(FAST)
';:
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Tl-IEWORD/OCTOBER 1993
•
artyr
and r
r
�INTRODUCING . . .
Father Gregory of Dormition
Re/View
Skete, Buena Vista, Colorado
Hieromonk
Gregory,
the abbot of
Dormition Skete, has been painting icons for
28 years. He works in the Greek Cretan
School of iconography and does panel, as
well as fresco-type paintings. Father Gregory
(Abu-Asaly) is of Lebanese and Syrian
descent, born and baptized in the Antiochian
Orthodox Churc_:h,and comes from a long
line of Orthodox religious men and women.
The first Antiochian bishop in America
Archbishop Victor (Abu-Asaly, 1924-1934),i~
directly r lated to him. Father Gregory
became a monk in his horn town, Boston,in
1966 at the Transfiguration Monastery when
that community
was in the Russian
Orthodox Church. He painted icons for
twelve years in Bo ton, when, in 1978, he
left the ea t coast for the mountains of
Colorado, to tart "sk te life" in America.
Dormition k te was founded in 1979
by Hieromonk Gregory, with the blessingof
Archbishop eraphim (of blessed memory)
of the Rus ian Orthodo , Church Outside of
Russia. In Orthodox monastic tradition there
are three types of ascetic life. The first is a large community consisting of many monks. This type of establishm nt i generally calleda
monastery and, if large enough, may be called a lavra. The second type is a small community called a 'kete, con i ting of a few monks.
Sketes are usually more isolated than monasteries and the life more austere. The third is the retirement of a hermit who lives in solitude,
seeking the Lord with the greatest of zeal. From its inception, Dormition Skete was intended to be a community of small numbers, with
its handiwork, the painting of icons. It is located in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains on 20-acres of beautiful mountain property, 9,000 feet in altitude, in the St. Elizabeth National Forest. The Skete has two churches, one in honor of th Holy Dormition of the
Mother of God and the other in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-GivingCross. Among the treasured relics of the skete is a
large portion of the true Cross in a blessing Cross on the Altar Table. A third and larger church, in the Athonite-Byzantine style, will be
built in 1993.
Father Gregory's icons have been reproduced in North America, as well as Greece and the Holy Land. Due to the many requests
that his icons be made available to others, a catalogue has now been offered to the Orthodox churches and lay people worldwide. The
need of Orthodox icons from legitimate sources is great. At the present time, we can offer over 200 mounted or unmounted icons measuring approximately 8"x10". They are laminated reproductions offered as mounted on 3/4" birch wood or unmounted laminated prints
suitable for framing. The prices have been kept deliberately low, so as to make them affordable to all. Of cour e, hand-painted icons are
also available. Estimates are given freely and happily from the small portable icon to the large dome icon in a cathedral.
Please write us at Dormition Skete, Post Office 3177, Buena Vista, Colorado 81211, and let us know that you read about the Skete
in THE WORD magazine.
Every Christmastime
the
church school staff faces the
problem of what_ to d~ f1_r a
Christmas pro gr am.
t 1rst
glance it seems that the probI m is easy to solve - do the
~ativity story. After all, isn't
that what Christmas
is a_ll
about; The innocence of children telling the age-old story
never fails to bring a lump to
the throat and a tear to the
eye.
.
But to tell the same story m
the same way year after year
can become boring and the
story is then in danger of losing its meaning.
Also, the
director, brave soul that he/
0
she is, has to work under cer0
0
tain constraints, such as lack
of adequate rehearsal
time,
usually no proper
tage, or
else a very small one, and the
necessity of providing
parts
for all those children
who
never come to rehearsals but show up
on the day of the performance asking
"What can I be?"
This last is especially vexing. Do you
become a mean old Scrooge anc! say,
"No, you can't be in it?" Logic says
that's the thing to do, but how can you
be so hard-hearted
at Christmas? Do
you send them away disappointed or
do you find them a part and let them
stumble around unrehearsed,
thus
spoiling the effect created by those
who have worked hard? The• solution
to this dilemma is to provide a program with lots of "extras." Dressed up
Playing It Up
for
Christmas
• • •
ChristmasPlaysfor Children
as villagers, shepherds, or animals, the
last-minute actors can be partnered
with those who have rehearsed and
become part of a glorious, crowded
finale.
Another consideration is the fact that
preparing for the Christmas program
takes time away from the classroom.
Since there is little enough time scheduled for the Church school, it is important that the Christmas program adds
to the children's understanding of their
faith and encourages them to think
about the birth of Christ and what it
means to them. They should have fun
and still learn.
Given the e r quirem nt , it
is not alway
ea y to find
appropriate
material.
On
solution i to writ your o n
and the five play pr
nt d
in this book ar th r ult of
such an ffort. Th y meet all
the requir ment m ntion d
above and ar offered in th
hope they will be of a istanc
to Orthodox Chri tian pari h
faced with imilar pr blem .
All have a nati ity cenc, but
each approache it from a different direction, exploring a
different aspect of that wondrous event. They range in
length from 15 to 45 minute .
hould you wi h t int grate the Chri tma play into
0
0
your Church
unday chool
program, at the end of ach
individual introduction th re
are sugge tions for activitie
and que tion for di 'CU ion
of what the play trie to convey. Of course, each teacher will ne d
to adopt these to the age 1 vel of
his/her class. Of nece ity, we ha e
aimed for school-age children b tween
8 and 12 years. The cover illu tration
may be used for adverti ing purpo e
by the addition of the time dat ,
place, and spon or in the appropriat
space on the sheet. It may al o be
used for a play bill cover.
Order from the Antiochian
rchdiocese, 358 Mountain Rd., Engl wood,
J 07631. ( 9.00 including
postage).
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The Biggest Birthday Party has its
origin in the need of the Orthodox
families for a way to keep the forty
day Advent fast in a meaningful way.
Unlike Great Lent the Advent fast
before Christmas g~es largely unnoticed even by many conscientious
Orthodox families.
There are, for
instance, no special services and activi~ies such as highlight Great Lent. Even
if the family abstained
from meat for
the forty days, that is from November
15 to December 24, something more is
needed by way of common family
activity. We offer The Biggest Birthday
Party as "something more."
Christmas is a special time of year. It
THEWORD/OCTOBER 1993
seems as if everything is preparing in
one way or another to celebrate the
joyous birth of the Second ~erson of
the Holy Trinity as a man m human
history. As in Orthodox cultu~es, both
now and at other times, we m orth
America must develop our own customs to prepare for this "coming" ~f
Jesus in our own homes. After all, this
is not just any birthday we are celebrating· it is the birthday of God, the
Creat;r,
who became a chi_ld a~d
dwelt among us, sharing our life with
its joys and sorrows.
.
Unfortunately, in orth Amenca the
celebration of this most wondrous of
events is taken over by manufacturer
and retailer , who for th ir own reason treat it as a celebration of onsumerism. Orthodox famili
an have
a more meaningful c I bration if they
choo e. This Advent
alendar i: a
mode t contribution to thi: alternat1\ •
celebration. It off r. the
rtho<lo:x
family an opportunity to set asid ~h •
twelve day immediat I pre eding
Chri tma b tween D c mber 13 an<l
December 24, in a• P ial wa ·
AboutChristmas
Although the Church ha. ahva celebrated the Birth of its avior, the ..,p"cific and eparate celebration
of
Chri tma on Dec mb r r dates on! •
from the fourth centur . Before th1.,
r
�the Church celebrated the birthday of
Jesus Christ along with three other
events on January 6 - the Wedding
Feast at ~ana, the Visit of the Magi,
and the Baptism of Jesus - as
"appearances" or epiphanies of God
on earth.
The separation of the Nativity feast
from the other commemorations and
its celebration on December 25 first
occurred in Rome. December 25 was
probably selected because it was the
date of the pagan celebration of Sol
Invictus, the Invincible Sun god. This
occurred sometime around 354 A.D.
From Rome it spread to the Churches
in the East where it was introduced
around 380 A.D. in Constantinople and
Cappadocia in Asia Minor. Some years
later it appeared in Antioch and, finally, in Palestine, the place of Jesus'
birth.
Using this Advent Calendar
.
The Biggest Birthday
Party 1s
designed to take your family thro~g~
twelve of the forty days of Advent; 1t 1s
also designed to introduce your children to the Nativity icon and its chief
elements. The calendar consists of a
book of texts and pictures and a master sheet, 12"xl6", divided into twelve
squares. When December 13 arrives,
have the rectangular
master sheet
taped to the wall of your kitchen or
refrigerator. Together with your family,
decide on the most convenient time of
day for each of the next twelve days to
do each of the frames of the calendar.
You might try several minutes before
dinner or before the youngest child's
bed time when the entire family can
be together; try to stay with the same
time each day.
Beginning
on the evening
of
DID YOU KNOW
. . . that the main feast days in October are the following: Protection of the Theotokos (1st); the Apostle
Thomas of the Twelve (6th); the Apostle James
Alphaeus (9th); the Apostle and Deacon Philip of the
Seventy (11th); the Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical
Council (17th); the Apostle and Evangelist Luke (18th);
the Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord (23rd); the
Great Martyr Demetrius (26th). Saturday, October 23 is
the Saturday of Souls, in which we remember those
who have fallen asleep in the Lord. MEMORY ETERNAL!
. . . that the Church of Greece is eleventh in rank,
after the Churches of Constantinople,
Alexandria,
Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Georgia, Serbia, Romania,
Bulgaria and Cyprus. Orthodox Christianity was introduced there by the Apostle Paul in 51 A.D. IN 451, it
was placed under the jurisdiction of Constantinople.
In 1850, it became an autocephalous Church, and has
remained such since that time. It is presently headed
by His Beatitude, Archbishop SERAPHIM, whose official title is "Archbishop of Athens and All Greece."
The seat of the Church is in Athens. The Church of
Greece has no ju.risdiction in other parts of the world.
It is limited to its own country.
. . . that there were several Greek and Syrian Popes
of Rome before the Great Schism in 1054 A.D. Our
source is THE AUGUSTINIAN, published by our St.
Augustine
of Hippo Orthodox
Church in Denver,
Colorado. They are the following:
TELESPHORUS, 117-138 A.D., Greek
HYGINUS, 138-140 A.D., Greek
ANICETUS, 155-166 A.D., Syrian
28
December 13, read the text on the
page where the date appears; allow
one of the children to cut out the
4"x4" frame, ;another to color it, and
another to paste it on the rectangular
master sheet in the location corresponding to the date. It must be pasted in the correct frame to complete the
icon of the Nativity. Do this for each
day between
December
13 and
December 24. Should you want to
complete the Advent calendar with a
birthday party for Jesus, plan for a
cake on the morning of December 25
as a fitting completion to The Biggest
Birthday Party.
Begin on December
13 and get
ready for Th Biggest Birthday Party.
Order from the Antiochian Archdiocese, 358 Mountain Rd., Englewood, NJ 07631. ($ 5. 00 including
postage).
THE PEOPLE SPEAK ...
Dear Father George:
The April 1993 article "The Priest in
the Parish Setting" by Bishop ISAIAH
of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of
Denver, was great as was the May article on the "First Annual Antiochian
Studies Program" by Paul D. Garrett.
Can laypersons attend these as well as
seminarians from Holy Cross and St.
Vladimir's?
Robert S. Andrews
Los Angeles, CA
Editorial Response:
Yes - there are plans in the making for anyone, clergy or lay, to
attend the Antiochian
Studies
Program at the Antiochian Village
in January each year. Watch for an
announcement
from the Archdiocesan Office!
?
ELEUTHERUS, 175-189 A.D., Greek
ANTERUS, 235-236 A.D., Greek
SIXTUS II, 257-258 A.D., Greek
EUSIBIUS, 309 A.D., Greek
ZOSIMUS, 417-418 A.D., Greek
THEODORE I, 642-649 A.D., Greek
JOHN V, 685-686 A.D., Syrian
SERGIUS I, 687-701 A.D., Syrian
JOHN VI, 701-705 A.D., Greek
JOHN VII, 705-707 A.D., Greek
SISINNIUS, 708 A.D., Syrian
CONSTANTINE I, 708-715 A.D., Syrian
GREGORY III, 731-741 A.D., Syrian
... that October
is YOUTH
MONTH
in our
Antiochian
Archdiocese
of North America, as proclaimed
by His Eminence,
Metropolitan
PHILIP.
During this month, we honor our teens, sub-teens and
children and acclimate them to church life in all its
aspects. We have more programs in our Archdiocese
for children, than any other programs or depa1tments.
Count them with me:
Children's Relief Fund
Christian Education
Sacred Music
Youth & Parish Ministries
Campus Ministry
The Fellowship of St. John the Divine
Teen SOYO
Antiochian Village Camp
St. Nicholas Camp
God bless our children! What we do for them roda~
will determine what they do for the Church tomorrow.
wrrnm/OCTOBER l993
Dear Members of the
Order of St. Ignatius:
Thoughtfulness like yours is always
appreciated! My son just returned from
an enlightening week of camping at
the Antiochian Village Summer Camp
program. The Camp Fund, made possible from the Order of St. Ignatius of
Antioch, made it possible for him to
attend. Thank you so very much!
Jaimie Kanakis
Warren, Ohio
Dear Fr. Corey:
Thank you for publishing the fine
article by Ghassan Rubeiz, "Prospects
for Peace in the Middle East," in your
June 1993 issue. This is an excellent
article - clear, fair, insightful, hopeful.
And please pass my appreciation to
the author.
I'm always cheered when ACP member publications achieve this level of
excellence in serving their readers.
Cordially,
John Stapert, Executive Director
The Associated Church Press
Dear Father Corey:
During the Midwest Region Parish
Life Conference, June 29 to July 3,
1994, in Chicago, Illinois, our great city
Will host several events, including the
World Cup Soccer games and opening
ceremony, the Taste of Chicago, and
several other large conventions. For
this reason, we have been given an
early deadline by the hotel for reservations. Therefore all those who do not
send in their reservations early will,
needless to say, find it impossible to
find room at our hotel or anywhere in
the city. Hence it is imperative that our
people in the Midwest hurry and send
in their hotel reservations as soon as
possible. You may call the Woodfield
Hilton & Towers at 1-800-344-3434 or
1-708-394-2000. Do it today!
Nadine A. Rihani
Chicago, IL
Holy Communion: Are
We Missing the Point?
While I was unable to attend the
session on Holy Communion and AIDS
at the recent Archdiocese convention, I
did listen to an audio cassette recording of the various points of view relating to the use of a common spoon for
the administration
of Holy Communion. As a physician, I found the
arguments inconclusive at best. As an
Orthodox Christian I felt a degree of
uncertainty. St. Paul tells us that God
makes foolish the wisdom of the wise.
Perhaps our inability to find the "right"
answer on this question has meaning
in and of itself.
During my forty-three years in the
Orthodox Church, I have often been
fascinated with our obsession in finding the "right" way of administering
the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus
Christ. It is my interpretation of the
New Testament that at the Last Supper,
Jesus broke bread in His hands and
then passed the pieces to His disciples.
He then passed around what we might
refer to as a common cup and told the
disciples to drink from it. In all of the
Orthodox churches that I have attended I have never seen Holy Comm~nion given in this original manner. I
ask myself, is there truly a "correc_t"
way, a detailed process spelled. out m
Canon Law? My research (while not
exhaustive but inclusive of writings by
Timothy Ware, Alexander Schmem~nn,
and Louis Bouyer) leads me to believe
that the answer is no.
In his book on the Orthodox
Church, Timothy Ware separates tra_ditions of the Church into those which
would be referred to a Traditi n v •.
traditions. Capital "T" tradition ar the
Bible, the Creed, and the doctrinal definitions of the Ecumenical Coun ii. .
Small case 't' tradition, , in the words
of Ware, are human and accid ntal pious opinion (or worse) hut not a
true part of the one Tradition th
essential Chri tian mes age. ( ar
Timothy. The Orthodox Church.
ew York, 1986). Through the ountless hours of passionate discu ·ions, it
seems as if we have elevated the tradition of how we give Holy Communion
to being equal to the Tradition of actually receiving the Body and Blood of
Jesus Christ. I can find no ju. tification
for doing so.
Perhaps even more di curbing i.
what appears to be the judgment of
one Orthodox Christian by anoth r.
What I have heard on different oc asions and in a variety of forms i : "If
you really believed that Holy Communion is truly the Body and Blood of
Jesus Christ than you would ha e to
believe that disease would not be
passed from one individual to another
with the common spoon." Put in other
words: "If your faith was a trong as
mine, then you would be a better
Christian."
While it is impossible for any human
to know what is the heart or mind of
another, I raise this "judgment'· issue
because I cannot begin to imagine
another explanation for uch a passionate debate on the mechanics of
Holy Communion, an issue which the
Apostles never addressed and is very
much a tradition, a practice of mortal
men.
If indeed the faith of any of u<;
Orthodox Christians is less than perfect, then we are in good company. 't.
Peter becau e of doubts, began to
sink 'v.rhen he was walking on the
water to meet Jesus. The man with the
ill son proclaimed, "I believe O Lord_
Help me in my unbelief." Jc-;u-,hi1mclt
told the crowd, "Let him without "illl
cast the first stone."
t. Paul instructs u, not to put "ilUlllbling block in front of our brother. He
said that even though he had no proh1em eating meat, he would refrain
from eating meat if it v ould cau e h,..,
brother to in. If our judgment ~)rtrad1tion cau. e our brother_ and <;1tcr to
1
refrain from approaching th
up.
regardle, s of their human \, c.ikn ~..,.
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THEWORD/OCTOBER 1993
�then have we not put a stumbling
block in their path? If we question
their faith, even quietly, then are we
not playing God and subjecting ourselves to His judgment?
Ware instructs us, "Not everything
from the past is of equal value, nor is
everything received from the past necessarily true. It is necessary to question
the past. True Orthodox fidelity to the
past must always be a creative fidelity;
for true Orthodoxy can never rest satisfied with a barren 'theology of repetition,' which, parrot-like,
repeats
accepted formulae without striving to
understand what lies behind them." It
is easy to understand that as Orthodox
Christians we are to partake in Holy
Communion on a frequent basis. It is
not so easy to understand why we
consume so much of our precious
energy on the debate of how our
Lord's Body and Blood are given, recognizing that arguments based on theology or medical science are suspect at
best.
Let us therefore openly recognize
that none is perfect except God Himself and that we all doubt and stumble
for different reasons. Let us not be
stumbling blocks to our brothers and
sisters but rather be understanding of
their concerns, even if we do not share
those concerns. It is my hope and
prayer that our Church finds the wisdom to make Holy Communion the
unifying event, for clergy and laity
alike, that it was intended to be, to the
glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
-Craig R. George, M.D.
St. George Church
Akron & Cleveland, Ohio
Dear Editor:
This summer, I had the fortunate
opportunity of visiting the majestic
country of Lebanon. The motivation
for unity and the sheer strength of
Orthodox Christianity in the Middle
East left me filled with respect and
admiration. In only two weeks, I witnessed an enormous amount of rehabilitation and rebuilding by the people
of the country. Through misery and
destruction,
St. George Orthodox
Hospital has treated the suffering.
Through
violence
and pain, the
Orthodox Balamand University, has
continued to grow and educate the
minds of the young. Through anguish
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and conflict, The Middle East Council
of Churches (MECC), continues to provide housing, medical care, food,
clothing, and education for the families
whose lives were torn apart by the war.
I can only pray that my words have
meaning as I attempt to describe the
spirit, life, and love of these brave
Orthodox Christians. In a land where
the percentage of Christianity is slowly
decreasing, Orthodoxy is flourishing to
bridge the gaps created by war and
division. I saw hidden caves perched
high in the mountains where prayer.
was once only safe; and I saw powerful Orthodox Churches built for all to
see. I felt the warmth of God in Metran
Elias Audi, Metran George Khodar, and
the radiant nuns of Mar Yacoub Didi
(St. James of Didi), when we embraced.
Please, continue to give, continue to
write your Senators and Congressman
to lift the ban on American citizens
entering Lebanon. Not only to promote, support, and aid, but to see
God's Land. To walk amongst the
Cedars that Jesus once brushed. To
feel the breeze and smell the scented
air, from the district of Koura to the
mountains of Sanine.
As Antiochian Orthodox Christians, it
is essential to unite with our roots. We
must walk the paths of our grandfathers, eat the fruit of their land and
pray in the churches built from the
sweat of their brow.
I have obtained a new respect and
pride for my heritage and culture, after
visiting this proud land. I pray that one
day, all of my brothers and sisters in
Christ will feel the same joy and eternal peace that God has granted me.
Your sister in Christ,
Pamela Ann Gillett
St. Elias Church
Austin, Texas
Dear Editor,
. I write to you in response to a rising
tide of criticism in Orthodox publications that, thanks to your piece Will
Success Spoil John Chrysostom? or The
Dangers of Orthodox Fundamentalism
(June '93), by Rev. Michael Keiser, has
now given some Orthodox Christians
the official title of "fundamentalist." I
speak on behalf of those who believe
in a six day creation. It appears that to
Rev. Keiser a person must be an unthinking "literalist" (another of his
labels) to accept a six day creation
over the "scientific" theory of evolutio
of species over millions of years. It~
strange that this debate was never a
debate at all prior to our own century.
Shall we suppose that all those prior
were "literalists" and "fundamentalists"?
In all fairness though, we do tend t~
accept much of what the scholarly
community tells us. They, after all, are
the experts. I would however encourage all of my friends on both sides of
the 'fence of beginnings' to examine
the whole of scientific data fairly if
they intend to make an issue of the
matter. The facts are, there is a tremendous body of scientific evidence that
supports a young earth and which flatly contradict the popular evolutionary
model. Furthermore, the evidence in
support of the classical evolution theory is considered so scant by the scientific community today that very nearly
no specialists in the field with any
degree of true scientific honesty any
longer hold to that theory (i.e., the theory that the various kinds of plants
and animals are descended from other
kinds that Iived in earlier times and
that the differences are due to inherited changes that took place over many
generations. This is nol to be confused
with the normal process of natural
selection).
Might it not yet be best if all the
"fundamentalists," both creationist and
evolutionist open their hearts to the
greater truth? The God who raised
Lazarus from the grave, who healed a
blind man when He a pp lied a bit of
mud mixed from saliva to his eyes,
who is truly present in the Eucharist
and whose body is the Church is
equally able to have created the universe and its various life forms in an
amazingly brief six days even to the
insult of our human reason. This inscrutable
God who made the sun
stand still in the day's sky in order that
Israel might pursue her enemies, and
who fed one of His prophets for a season by the ravens, could have created
this universe and its life through natural processes ( which are only natural
by His own will) cover a very long
period of time. What is the real issue?
Might not the real issue be a lack of
charity in favor of one's personal experience and world view by which we
judge our brothers? Should belief in a
six day creation merit the ungracious
labels so liberally supplied by curren~
Orthodox writers? If your grandmothei
, WORD/OCTOBER l993
believed that evolution was God's tool receive it, and always with much interwould she fall from grace? If grandma
eSt ; the June, 1993 issue was no exbelieved in a six day creation would
ception. In the article "Will Success
you call her a "fundamentalist"? I could Spoil John Chrysostom or the Dangers
supply the names of non-Christian
of Orthodox Fundamentalism
by
anthropologists, geologists, and biolo- Father Michael Keiser, I became ve1y
gists who do not believe that the clas- upset in again finding the phrase "trasical theory of evolution is valid and
ditional ethnic ghettos" used to express
some who believe in a young earth,
the fact that an Orthodox Church has
should they be labeled "literalists"?
chosen to keep alive its ethnic tradiWhy do we save these special labels tions and culture by implementing
only for our brothers? Perhaps it's diffi- parts of its Divine Liturgy in its 'mother
cult for any of us to humble ourselves
tongue'. We must remember that the
before God and to be willing to Orthodox Church in North America
appear as fools before men. Perhaps it was brought to this contingent by imis even more difficult to recognize the migrants who only understood the
movements of the enemy of our souls.
Liturgy in their native tongue. These
Lastly, I would like to clear up the immigrants were committed, dedicated
misuse of his term "fundamentalist." A people who loved and lived their
true fundamentalist
is a person who Orthodox Christianity daily, not as a
holds unwavering
to the essential,
'Sunday go t~worship' faith. This faith
foundational or basic part of somewas very central to their well being,
thing. All true Orthodox Christians are which is why the Orthodox Churches
fundamentalists
with respect to the came into being in this country.
I researched and wrote the History of
basic tenants of the Orthodox Faith. A
the Church of St. john of Damascus in
Christian whose rhetoric is not conhonor of its 85th Anniversary this past
cerned with the fundamentals
and
year, and found that the dedication
who by his rhetoric causes divisiveness
and commitments of its founders are
in the Church is not a fundamentalist
at all but a fool. I think it is safe to say memories held dear to those of us
that we are all unwittingly such fools who have followed. Allow me to
from time-to-time and may God for- quote from the Epilogue, "Mem01y is
essential if we are to have a sense of
give us for allowing His and our own
seff, for identity is formed around our
enemy to use us in such a dreadful
manner. Let us rather hold fast to St. roots as well as our hopes and dreams.
Paul's admonition in his epistle to the Memory is part of our identity and is a
source and sustainer of Faith, which
Colossians, "If then you have been
raised up with Christ, keep seeking the must be present in a life shaped by
things above, where Christ is, seated at commitments, loyalties and moral values. The cultural traditions and values
the right hand of God. Set your mind
on the things above, not on the things of the immigrants were instilled in their
children, and the continuity
was
that are on earth. For you have died
and your life is hidden with Christ in scarcely disturbed. In the Church, they
God ... And so, as those who have found a haven, and their need to bond
with others of their own ethnic backbeen chosen
of God, holy and
ground
was answered. The Church
beloved, put on a heart of compasgrew and flourished, and remained a
sion, kindness, humility, gentleness
vital part of their lives."
and patience; bearing with one anoth"What of the children of the second
er, and forgiving each other, whoever
and
third generation, and those of the
has a complaint against anyone; just as
the Lord forgave you, so also should future? We owe our children the Truth:
you. And beyond all these things put the Truth of their Faith, their ancestry,
on love, which is the perfect bond of and their heritage. The simple Truth is
that the Church can only become
unity."
Sincerely, strong again as each of us realize~ ~ur
need to grow spiritually. When relzgzon
Roger J. O'Brien
it
Palmdale, CA is void of spiritual experience,
becomes ritualistic and meaningless."
Through spiritual growth, we are
strengthened, and the whole becomes
so much greater than the sum of its
Dear Father George:
It is my practice to read THE WORD parts. We may not live in an ideal
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THE WORD/OCTOBER 1993
stand for the ideal principle of Je u
Christ, and those prin ipl are international and can be u, tained in practice regardless of any language barriers. I am proud of my ethnic ba kground, and as a fir t g neration
daughter of yrian immigrant will forever be indebted to my parent for the
traditions, value
and pirituality
which they in tilled in me.
In time the Orthodo
Church in
America will unfo1tunately evol e into
the 'melting pot' community which ·o
many seek to pu h into existence and
we will then look wistfully back to the
cherished memories of the o- ·ailed
"traditional ethnic ghello ".
Yours in Orthodoxy
Laurice B. aloley
Bo, ton,
Dear Saidna PHILIP,
Christ is in our mid t! He L and
always shall be!
With deep gratitude, we commend
you and the Order of t. Ignatius of
Antioch for your generou
gift of
$5,000 for ministry to prisonec, as we
continue ministering under your leadership in fulfilling Chri t's command ...
to visit prisoners . . . proclaiming the
Good
ews of alvation in Jesu:
Christ.
Through your kindness and car ,
another issue of Orthodox Chri ·tian
JOURNEY will be published, and pri ·oners will hear the Gospel mes age of
repentance and the pathway to ternal
life. Your gift i making a difference.
Letters from prison chaplains and
staff indicate that a format other than
newspaper (either magazine or paperback book) i more suitable and
longer la ting. After coun, el from
Father Peter Gillqui t and Father Ja k
Sparks, it was sugge ted that the next
issue of JO
Y be published in th
more durable format a a pap rhack
book.
Thank you for your consideration of
"minist1y to pri oner " when ·ou review reque ts for additional funding a
monies are a ailahl .
May God grant ou many cars.
Thank you for your prayer . Pray for
pri oner and their al ation.
Your umvorth} -,on.
Father Duane Peder n
Orthodox hri tian , tr t
Pri ·on ~1ini.tf)
Holl ;vood. A
�COMMUNITIES IN ACTION
"The Budway Heritage",
An Album to Remember
Since the passing of the famed
oudist, Joe Budway in 1990, the
children of Leo Budway decided it
was time for them to record an
album with their father. So they
bought him studio recording time
for his 66th birthday. This resulted
in Leo's playing three instruments,
violin, oud, and kanoon on three
separate tracks. With David, his
son,
playing
on
keyboard,
Maureen, his daughter, on vocal
(being
proficient
in Italian,
Spanish, and German, from her
operatic training, she still found
Arabic challenging)
and Cheryl,
David's wife, on tambourine and
finger cymbals. The album includes
such popular pieces as "Antal
Hoob"
(You Are My Love),
"Hibeena" (Love Me), and "Zeena"
(Beauty), along with two oud solos
by Joe Budway, previously recorded in concert in 1971 and 1990. To
complete the family circle, Leo's
daughter Kathy wrote the liner
notes for the album.
This album is a must for your
Arabic collection. You may order
the cassette tape by contacting
LeoBudway
514 Hastings St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Or by calling (412) 361-5610.
The cost is only $10.00 plus mailing and handling ($1.50).
Governor honors teen
for her cultural work
ALLE TOWN - Tammy Sabbagh of
Whitehall Township yesterday wa'>
recognized by Gov. Robert P. Casey of
Pennsylvania.
The 18-year-old University of Pittsburgh tudent was honored for her
work in:
• Establishing
an annual ArabAmerican heritage festival in Allentown.
• Teaching Arabic dances to Lehigh
Valley youth.
• Visiting the elderly and the sick.
• Feeding the homeless.
For her accomplishments, Sabbagh
was given an elaborate Khmer Court
dance headdres and named recipient
of the 1993 Youth Award under the
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Governor's
Pennsylvania
Heritage
Awards.
"I didn't do it for any awards - I
just did it for the good feeling of helping other people,"
Sabbagh said
before the awards ceremony in the
governor's reception room in Harrisburg.
Tammy Sabbagh with Governor Casey
Sabbagh, whose father, Anthony, is
pastor at St. George Church in Allentown and whose mother, Minerva, is a
teacher
at Roosevelt
Elementary
School, helped create the annual St.
George's Heritage Festival. The festival
is designed to acquaint Lehigh Valley
residents with Arab heritage through
poetry, music, food and dance.
"There's a great difference between
diversity and divisiveness," Casey said.
"We celebrate diversity."
After rec·iving the award, Sabbagh
thanked the governor and said, "I am
proud to live my American culture
and my ethnic heritage. To live my
culture is to love it. To love it is to
share with one another the common
good that our cultures have to offer."
The awards have been given for the
past three years to individuals who
have demonstrated the value of cultural diversity in Pennsylvania. The
program is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission
composed of 53 people representin~
Pennsylvania's various ethnic communities.
The Beauty of Your
House: The Mission
Vineyard
by Father Seraphim Stephens
"O Lord our God . . . sanctify those
who love the beauty
of Your
House ... " We begin and end the Divine Liturgy with these words of petition in our mouths and hearts. But
these words have special meaning t~
those of us who serve and are served
in the domestic missions. They particularly describe the heartfelt dedication
of we "Missioners"
in the Virginia
Beach/Tidewater,
Virginia Orthodox
Mission of St. Ignatius of Antioch.
We, here in Tidewater, started three
(3) years ago with only two (2) people - Dr. Ray Stephens
(now Fr.
Seraphim) and his wife Anita. We believed God was initiating an Orthodox
Missionary effort from our "parent"
church, St. Ignatius in Franklin, Tennessee. We had absolutely
no resources but prayer. We faithfully met
eve1y Sunday praying Typica and we
were soon joined by our four ( 4)
daughters.
Because we loved the beauty of
God's House, we constructed makeshift Icon stands designating an area
of our living room as "The Sanctuary."
After several months we were joined
by three families we had known in
our former confession. This was shortlived owing to the efforts of a fundamentalist "friend" who convinced the
three families that we were "off base."
However thank God the "word that
goes for{h from [God's] mouth shall
not return void" - Is. 55:11. One of
the families returned - Subdeacon
Paul Keith, his wife and daughter.
This was the beginning
of a
Watershed
response.
In March of
1989, the Stephens' girls were chrismated and by Pascha of 1990, the
Keiths and my future son-in-law Bob
Taylor were chrismated.
By 1992, we were joined by several
Orthodox families bringing our numbers to near 40 people, meeting in
two locations 50 miles apart - the
loving room of one house and the
dining area of another. We were at
overflow in both. It was time to act.
We rented an old dilapidated store:,
front in a dying "business
park.
Working throughout last summer to
bring it up to "Orthodox snuff," we
THE WORD/OCTOBER I993
held our first services there in July,
1992_ In Octobe_r, following my ord~tion to the Pnesthood, our first D1~;ne Liturgy wa~ _served. We instantly
utgrew this facility, so we rented the
~djoining fo~-me~·"Orien~~l f~sh mar~
ket" designating 1t as our pansh hall.
We now have a full religious education program meeting in the parish
Hall and a full expression of Divine
Father Seraphim blessing Easter baskets
Services. We presently serve 50 people in a 100 mile radius (as far away
as Richmond).
Our membership
is composed of
former Roman
Catholics,
Jews,
Methodists, Pentecostals,
Episcopalians and cradle Orthodox.
We
often quote Metropolitan PHILIP when
he said to the AEOM, "Welcome
home!" We now have life-long Orthodox members who are witnessing
their new-found evangelical zeal of
"coming home."
I truly believe the success of this
mission rests in the sanctifying Grace
of God poured out on those of us
Who love the beauty of His House.
THEWORD/OCTOBER 199~
St. George Church,
Flint, Michigan
Double honors have been awarded
to Anton Edward (Tony) Khouri.
1. The Genesee County Bar Association held an essay contest in area
middle schools, asking students to
write about the theme 'Justice for all,
and for all justice." Tony's essay,
'Justice is equal opportunity in education, work and free speech " won first
place in the eighth grade in Flint
where he is in the academically gifted
program at Whittier Middle School.
2. Tony also took first place (a computer) for his "Pet Vac-Comb" creation.
He can thank two things - his active
imagination and his cocker spaniel
Buff.
Buff inspired several of the creations
that Khouri devised for the E. Douglas
Hougen/Flint
Community Schools
Inventiveness
Contest. He entered
eight or nine ideas because he "just
couldn't stop thinking of them" and
won prizes for two, both related to
dog care.
The "Pet-Vac-Comb" creation is a
dog comb attached to a vacuum hose,
to suck up all the hair that Buff sheds.
Khouri also won a $100.00 honorable
mention prize for his "Auto Pet
Walker" a leash he attached to a pole
that is ~agnetically connected to a car
hood. He actually uses it to "walk" his
pooch ... at a slow car speed.
Tony, the son of Edward and Salwa
Khouri, does not plan to become an
inventor. He is considering entering
medicine or politics. This talented
young man writes and has speci~l
interests in drama and speech. He ts
an active member at St. George
Church in Flint, Michigan serving as an
Altar Server and participating in the
Church School program.
Congratulations, Tony! We are proud
of you.
-Fay Joseph,
St. George Church School Staff
Journey of an Episcopal
Parish to the Holy
orthodox Church
The St. Elijah Mission and Outreach
Committee of Oklahoma City, OK
sponsors a very effective outreach pr~·n which a notable individual is
gra m l
·
f
invited to speak on so~e topic o
interest, and follows up with a 12 ses-
sion erie of Inquirer'.
la'->'->e'->.
Pa'->C
speaker have in luded Dr. ndre,\
Walker Fr. P ter illquist, and Franky
Schaefer.
n 1a y , Fr. Patrick
Mccaul y from the hurch of the Holy
Apostles, Ft. , orth, Texa ..,, spok"' on
The Journey of an Episcopal Parish
to the Holy Orthodox Church. The
audience included both rthodox and
non-Orthodo with a good number of
Epi copalian. who were especially interested in hi. account of how h • and
his pari h came to mhrace Holy
Orthodoxy.
Fr. Patrick wa born and rai..,ed in
Texas, and recei ed his educarion in
Texa and Louisiana. He earned hi..,
Ph.D. in homiletic· and preaching in
1981 and was ordained to the Epi<.;copal priesthood in 19 3. He and his
parish were in the nglo- atholic or
"High Church" wing of the Epis opal
Church and became incr asingl
alarmed at the radical doctrinal and
moral laxity of the Episcopal hurch,
including attacks on the irgin Birth,
denial of the in, piration of Hol •
Scripture, regarding the Re urrection a,;
"a conjuring trick with hones", the
ordination of practicing homosexuals,
the development of alternate creed,;,
and gender-inclusi e language The
Episcopal hierarchy eemed determined to enforce a redefinition of the
Christian Faith a a form of panthei">m
and reintroduce the very things which
"The early Church fought tooth and
nail against."
In an effort to tem the tide of liberalism within the Epi copal hurch, the
Bishop of Ft. Worth organized the
Episcopal Synod of merica \\'~th the
aim of remaining within the Ep1s·opal
Church and working for its re..,toration
to the hi toric faith of the hrt">tiJn
Creeds. When it became appar ·nt that
the synod would fail Fr. Patrick and
his pari h began to con ider other ~>prions. Rome wa out of the que">ll0n
and while Orthodoxy was th ~ologically appealing, they found the "t~ulture shock" of following the B, z,1nt1ne
tradition
too great to a cept. fr.
Patrick met with Fr. Peter Gillquht .rnd
learned of the journey of the E, ,tngelical Orthodo Church to the . ntiochian Archdioce e. Then he d1 tm ered the Western Rite and the d ·u..,1on
was made.
.
Fr. Patrick de. cribe. the We..,tem RJt,
as "a 1,c0 rm of wor hip th,ll \\ ,1.., U. ">e<l
by ChrLtians in we..,tern Europ , _hetorl',
the Roman Catholic-, broke with th<.::
G
�It is an exciting
and a rewarding act
of love that brings
the teens, spiritual
advisor, lay advisor
and parish council
and parishioners to
excitement.
The excitement
starts on the church
van but it does not
end there. Our drivers
drive
the
church van through
the city streets, to
the rescue missions,
the salvation army
and the ghettos of
Father Patrick McCauley in Oklahoma
town to gather the
Orthodox Church." Or, more precisely,
poor and the homeless, in order to
"The Western Rite as approved by the feed them. Our drivers have a real
Antiochian Archdiocese is the theologisense of joy driving the van, breath
cally corrected form of worship for- holding moments, a real spirit of flying
merly used by the Roman Catholics
high and fast. The offensive odor of
and adapted by the Anglicans." He human bodies crammed together is a
feels the use of this liturgy will be a welcomed challenge, and a daring
strong attraction to Episcopalians and response to service.
others of a liturgical background who
The smiles of the hung1y, the noise
are wandering in the dese11 of a "post
Christian America", and who will find
their way to Holy Orthodoxy.
There were many consequences of
the decision to abandon the Episcopal
Church in favor of Holy Orthodoxy:
Holy Apostles was threatened with
(and is now involved in) a lawsuit
over their property and longtime
friendships were lost. But as Fr. Patrick
puts it, "To remain would have meant
risking an eternity not in God's presence, or at the ve1y least, the violation
of one's own conscience
and integrity." But the good consequences
far outweighed
the bad: Christian
Allentown
foundations are no longer being eroded and the True Faith is being re- of the children, and the excitement of
ceived, lived, and passed on to their our Teens are an unforgettable and
children.
unmatched experience, except by our
Fr. Patrick feels it is the vocation of own chefs who busy themselves not
former Episcopalians such as himself only preparing, cooking and cleaning
and his parish to open the way for but teaching the teens how to cook
other Anglo-Catholics to have their
and how to prepare a heavenly meal
faith restored to them in the Eternal for a divine banquet. The aroma of the
Church.
luscious, hot, home cooked meal wel-Scott Campbell comes the hungry homeless from a
distance. It is wonderful to hear: "I
have never had a meal like this one."
or ·'This makes me feel at ·home. "
St. George Teen SOYO of
Glory he to God who enables the
Allentown
giver and the receiver to rejoice toThe St. George Teen SOYO is get- gether as a family.
ting involved in feeding the hungry
The Teens chant, pray and then
and the homeless of our community.
serve the tables with smiles and zeal.
34
They hug the little children, chat with
the homeless and reflect on their own
life. They bring laughter, smiles and
joy to the poor. They satisfy their
brethren's hunger with food and load
them with more food to take and
share with others. The Teens wonder
what will the hungry eat the rest of the
month, where will the homeless sleep,
who looks after them, and why they
are this way. Th teens wish that there
may never be hunger, thirst, homelessness and hopelessness in the world.
The Teens of St. George of Allentown are discovering the joy of charity,
the change
of a community,
the
response to the call of God's service
and they can make a good difference
in the lives of many. The Teens are
grateful for the privilege and the opportunity to serve and be the good,
faithful and obedient
doers of His
word in their community. "The least of
the brethren" are also our responsibility say the Teens of St. George. Fulfilling this joyful and rewarding responsibility is our obligation and debt to
God and to humanity.
Teens
St. Paul Church
Lynnwood, WA
Two major events have happened
recently to St. Paul Church in Lynnwood, Washington. First, Bishop BASIL
came for a pastoral visit, and ordained
our deacon Rick Davis to the priesthood on April 3, 1993. Second, we
have finally received our building permit and we plan to build soon.
Bishop BASIL arrived on April 1 to a
lunch with the Parish Council. He attended a Vesper service that night. On
Friday niaht
we had a Presanctified .
0
liturgy followed by our traditional Friday Lenten potluck. On Saturday, we
moved to Assumption Greek Orthodox
THE WORD/OCTOBER 1993
church for a Divine Liturgy presided
over by Bishop BASIL. At that service,
Deacon Rick Davis was elevated to the
priesthood
and took
the name
Thomas. It was a beautiful service with
priests from other jurisdictions concelebrating, and several deacons and
priests who are friends of Fr. _Thomas
also serving. Honored guests mcluded
monks from the local monastery, an
Ethiopian priest who had attended St.
Vladimir's seminary
with Bishop
BASIL,and the Roman Catholic priest
whose church is so generously letting
us use their chapel for our services.
The music was beautiful and the worship wonderful. Afterwards we had
Lenten refreshments.
Also, Father James Bernstein, our
pastor, announced several weeks ago
that we had gotten the permit to begin
building our church building. It has
been a long, sometimes
frustrating
journey, but, we hope to soon have
our own place to worship.
The dream started almost 15 years
ago, when St. Michael's Church first
started in a storefront. It had 10 people
and a desire to grow into a real presence in the community.
Our priest,
Father Thomas McDowell died a few
years later, and his widow lent the
parish money from his estate to purchase a small church building in the
west part of Seattle from a former
Nestorian church that had floundered.
The parishioners were overjoyed even
though the building was very small
and in need of a great deal of repair
and remodeling.
We removed old
pews, painted, carpeted, cleaned and
built walls to create a room for Fr.
Gregory Cooke, who was pastor at the
time. The room was very much a
monastic "cell" and Fr. Gregory was
ve1y saint-like in his tolerance for his
living conditions. It was a real church
building, however, and people felt
good about having it.
At the same time as St. Michael's was
establishing itself, Holy Trinity church
of the Evangelical Orthodox church
was growing and developing in the
north end of Seattle. It had purchased
some land and was looking at building
on it.
Holy Trinity members began to visit
St. Michael's as they considered Orthodoxy. Bonds began to develop. Finally, when the EOC became the
AEOM and when Metropolitan PHILIP
chrismated its members,, Holy Trinity
and St. Michael's combhled to become
THEWORD/OCTOBER 1993
St. Paul's.
we are asking for help from anyon ~
We now had 30 people and no who would like to see
rthodox •
church building. Fr. David Anderson
grow in the Pacific orth\Yest. Help w,
our new pastor, found a Roman Cath~ build our church building. This is a
olic church that had a small chapel we growing area, and we have a real opcould use for a short time while we po1tunity to promote the hurch her~built on the land. The "short time" We have pledged and borrowed all we
turned into six years with changes in can. We are so close to our goal. ~ 'e
City Councils, no growth city policies, need your help. Plea ·e contact us at
etc. We found that we had to build a P.O. Box 437, Lynnwood,
980 +6.
settling pond for potential torrential
We will continu to have fund raisrain. We had to consider traffic control ing projects. W now ha v two prie-;cs
and all sorts of environmental issues. and a deacon. We have a parish that
More and more people came to St. has outgrown its location.
• have
Paul's. We began to burst at the seams. great dreams for our new building. ~ e
(It's a good thing that city fire inspec- have a great desire to he a beacon of
tors don't work on Sunday. We're al- "The Light of Christ' in our ar a. orne
ways over capacity). Over the six and visit us ometime.
!so, if ou
years, and many starts and stops, we know of any Orthodox people \vho
managed to deal with all the reasons live in the Seattle area who do not
not to build.
attend a church, please send u • their
The last, and seemingly biggest, hur- name and we will invite them to visit
dle was left. We needed more funds us.
than we had. Our land was owned
free and clear. We had made some of
St. George, Houston, TX
the land improvements we needed.
The Ladies Altar Society of :t.
We had a building fund. Our people
had pledged and contributed as much George in Houston gathered on Hol
as they could. We still needed about Friday to decorate the tomb of our
$100,000 more. The financial wizards Lord. This is a time when we join in
in the parish came up with some fi- love and fellowship to continue the
nancing schemes and raised some of traditions passed down to us b our
the money. We had fund raising pro- mothers. It is a beautiful experience in
jects and raised more. We found that which to participate. We celebrated
we are still $25,000 short from being our Holy Friday services together that
evening when we had the privilege of
able to complete the building.
That leaves us where we are now: removing the flowers to as ·ist Father
d President and Chief Executi e Offi er of 0c id ntaJ
Dr. Ray R. Irani, Chairman of the B:
'da September 12 1993 in honor of .1 trop litan
Petroleum hosted a luncheon on
~ y, in Los Angele' Left to right, ' tr. . ~ b alib
Petro cum
. •
PHILIP at the offices of Occidental
.
Dr. Ray R. Irani, Metropolitan
PHILIP an d Mr• allin Israwi.
�THE WORD
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Englewood, ~ 0 631
Joseph with the distribution after the
ceremony. Our ladies spent hours together cleaning and polishing the altar
and church, in preparation for the holy
services as pa1t of our responsibility to
maintain and fulfill the needs of the
church altar area.
tone's Import Company, was honored
for her many contributions
to the
church and community. Our Ladies
Altar Society and L'Entasar Club joined
together in this affair.
As we continue our church work, let
us remember that in our own lives we
The ociety also gave a luncheon for
the enior citizens of our parish and
Senior Citizens Center of West
niversity, as we do several times
each year. This is an event they look
forward to and enjoy very much. It is
part of the outreach of St. George and
they are appreciative of this. We distribute food baskets on a regular basis
throughout the year to senior citizens
who are living on fixed incomes and
need a sistance.
Josephine Anto0e, one of our oldest
and mo t generous members, was recognized at a banquet dinner and
dance given at the ].W. Marriott Hotel
in the Galleria area. It was well attended and Jo ephine, owner of An-
are guided by One greater than we are.
We need only ask and it shall be given,
seek and it will be found, knock and
the door will open, for when we seek
the Lord, we can believe that what we
need we will receive.
-Betty Jean Murr
John has ascended the Pennsylvania
throne of wrestling
championship
games for 1992. John has been given a
scholarship for his scholastic and athletic achievements. He is now able to
afford and choose the university of his
choice. John, responding to his parish
priest, said: ·'I played my best. I utilized
all my God-given talents. I achieved the
Wrestling Championship for two reasons: First is the support of my wonderful Dad, Mom, sisters, relatives, my
Teen SOYO and school friends. Second
is my many previous defeats. My previous defeats did not crush me. I have a
suppo1ting family. I was defeated thirty
five times. I was scheduled to play early
in the games to be eliminated first by
the undefeated wrestlers. I conquered
the undefeated, one after another because eve1y time they put me in a predicament, I was there before. I knew
what to do and how to escape. My previous loss experience saved me. When
I was able to put my wrestling opponent in a defeating position, he did not
know what to do. He was not there before. Glory be to Jesus Christ and glo1y
be to Him forever. He gave me a supporting family, Church and the experience of defeat to make me a champ."
A Matter of
Determination
A numerously defeated wrestler wins
the wrestling championship
of the
state of Pen ..1sylvania.
John, son of Faysal and Siham Sallit
is a handsome, strong, determined and
spiritually active Teen SOYO member
of St. George Church of Allentown, pA.
John Sallit
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<p>The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication <em>The Word</em> is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic <em>Al-Kalemat</em> appeared in 1933, and the English iteration <em>The Word</em> began anew in 1957.</p>
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�EDITORIAL
The Most Reverend
Metropolitan PHILIP, D.H.L., D.D.
Primate
The Right Reverend
Bishop Antoun, Auxiliary
The Right Reverend
Bishop Basil, Auxiliary
Founded in Arabic as
Al Kalimat in 1905
by Bishop Raphael Hawaweeny
Founded in English as
The Word in 1957
by Metropolitan Antony Bashir
Editor-in-Chief
Archpriest George S. Corey, D.Min.
Editorial Board
Joanne Abdalah, M.L.S.
The V. Rev. Joseph J. Allen, Th.D.
Anthony Bashir, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Elias Bitar, M.Div.
John L. Boojamra, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Antony Gabriel, Th.M.
The V. Rev. Peter Gillquist
Elaine G. Hanna, M.Div.
The V. Rev. James C. Meena
The Rev. John W. Morris, Ph.D.
Ronald Nicola
Najib E. Saliba, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Paul Schneirla, M.Div.
The Rt. Rev. Stephen Upson, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
Donna Griffin Albert
Editorial Office:
The Word
52 - 78th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11209
Subscription Office:
358 Mountain Road
Englewood, N.J. 07631
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
U.S.A. and Canada, $18.00
Foreign Countries, $24.00
Single Copies, $2.50
THE WORD (USPS626-260), published monthly except July and August, by the Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North
America at 358 Mountain Road, second class
postage paid at Englewood, New Jersey 07631
and at additional mailing offices.
Postmaster send address changes to: THE
WORD, 358 Mountain Road, Englewood NJ
07631
'
I S 0043-7964
2
IN WIS ISSUE:
September Is "The Fellowship" Month
Editorial .....................................................
The Primate's Message to the Archdiocese
••............................ 3
Convention ....... 5
The Forgotten Church in Antioch ..........................................
by Kenneth G. Skantz
9
Street & Prison Ministry ........................................................
by La Verne Hollapeter
12
Archdiocesan Office .............................................................
14
Department of Christian Education .....................................
17
Lifestyles X ............................................................................
by Father Edward Pehanich
25
Did You Know? .....................................................................
26
Re/View .................................................................................
27
Order of St. Ignatius .............................................................
28
Introducing ............................................................................
30
Daily Devotions ....................................................................
by Father George Alberts
31
The People Speak .................................................................
32
Communities in Action .........................................................
34
The Orthodox World ............................................................
36
MEMBER: The Associated Church Press
Conciliar Press
Ecumenical Press Service
COVER:
Our hierarchs at the conclusion of the Divine
Liturgy on Sunday, July 25, at the Archdiocese
Convention in Pittsburgh, p A. (1. to r.) Bishop
BASIL, Auxiliary; Bishop MAXIMOS, Greek
Diocese; Metropolitan PHILIP Primate· Archbishop
KYRILL, OCA Di;cese;
Bishop
NICHOLAS, Carpatho-Russian Diocese; Bishop
ANTOUN, Auxiliary.
THE WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
Hi~ Emin~nce, Metropo.litan PHILIP, Primate of our. beloved and ever-growing
Archdiocese
m North America, has declared the entire month of September as "The
Fellowship" Month. "The Fellowship" is part of the new name given to the former Senior
SOYO; its full name is The Fellowship of St. John the Divine, named after its patron
saint, the beloved John the Apostle, who was probably the youngest of the Twelve called by
Christ. "The Fellowship" is an organization for everyone, beginning after the teen years and
extending well into maturity. The new platform deals with total parish ministry and involvement and could ve1y well give "new life" to older parishes, and "a boost" to younger ones.
All it requires is the endorsement of the parish clergy, a parish ministry team coordinator, a
good number of volunteers to fulfill the various ministries that are needed within the parish,
and people to respond to those ministries. Half the battle is won if the priest/pastor is
enthusiastic about Parish Ministry Teams. Our pastors should know that Metropolitan PHILIP
has personally endorsed this concept for parish life, desires that each parish have a
"Fellowship" by whatever name it chooses, and will be watching carefully during the coming year to see that this concept is accepted in all the parishes of his Archdiocese. In addition, all "Fellowships"
are invited to participate in the annual regional Parish Life
Conferences held eve1y summer.
What is a "Parish Ministry Team"? According to a pamphlet printed and distributed by
"The Fellowship", a Parish Ministry Team is a group of volunteers within a parish dedicated
to serving Christ by assisting the pastor in ministering to the needs of the parish and larger
community. Jesus teaches us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. By His works, He
has provided us with numerous examples of how to love and serve "the least of these my
brethren" (Matt. 25:31-46). That is why we have had such tremendous success with our
annual Lenten drive FOOD FOR HUNGRY PEOPLE PROGRAM. Since its inception we have
raised and distributed to the poor of the world over 1.2 million dollars. This and other programs in our parishes and Archdiocese are basically done by willing volunteers. An essential
element of this volunteer program is the motivation for doing it! As Christ has reached out to
us we must reach out to each other in love. Since we are created in the likeness and image
of' God, we are then created in and by His love. It is through His love that we move out of
ourselves and toward each other. For "we are God's fellow workers" CICor. 3:9). As such,
we are encouraged to volunteer our God-given time, talents and resources to Christ and His
Church through these Parish Ministry Teams.
.
Many and various Parish Ministry Teams can exist, accordit:g. to. the needs of the ~ansh.
Obviously many parishes have been doing some of these. 1:1~~1stnesfor.~ long ~e~10~ ~f
time. This list is only suggested by "The Fellowship" as poss1b1ltt1esfor add1t1onal mm1stnes.
Minist1y to the Sick and Shut-Ins
Minist1y to the Elderly
Sacred Music Ministry
Christian Education Minist1y
Parish Facilities Ministry
Youth Ministly
Prison Ministiy
Humanitarian Ministry (Needy, Homeless, etc.)
Spiritual Healing Ministry
Outreach Ministry
Ministry to Newcomers
Ministry to the Dying
Fundraising Ministry
· "Th F 11 h 1•p"
Why should we create Parish Ministry Teams in the first place? Agam
e e ow
answers our question.
3
THEWORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
�d h faith and service of the worshipping community.
t _e
d .
lvement of the laity in the true mission of the
2. They engage the cooperation an mvo
1. They renew and exten
Church.
. the untapped talents
within a parish and thereby allow for
3. They are a way o f usmg
.
individual and parish renewal and self-evangelism.
.
4. They allow for greater community pre~e1:ce and involvement.
5 The assist the parish in fulfilling its mission to the world.
.
.
•
y
h
b
f
The
Fellowship
of
St.
John
the
Divme
dunng
the ·1month
O
So we salute t e mem ers
d f
of September their month! And we applaud them for the program th~y- have compi e_ ?r
our use a fter' many Years of struggling with the problem. Their vigilance
d ·1 d has
· f paid · its
rewards'. We all will benefit by The Parish Ministry Teams. For more etai e m ormation
write:
· TX 78746
Mr. Gene Attal, 1201 Constant Springs Drive, Austm,
George S. Corey
Editor
Statement of the Middle East Council
of Churches
on
Israel's Invasion of Lebanon
The Text of MECC General Secretary Gabriel Habib's statement on
the recent events in Lebanon:
"Instead of implementing the U.N. Resolution 425, Israel is raiding
new territories in Lebanon causing further destruction and death of
innocent men, women and children, disturbing the social stability and
harming the economic recovery of that country. It also is displacing
thousands of people from their homes at a time when the Lebanese
government and NGOs are helping the displaced population of the last
16 years of war in the process of returning to their original villages.
"We call upon the international community through the United
Nations to put an end once and for all to such Israeli policy and force
it to resort to constructive dialogue for peace instead of war.
"We also call upon all concerned to break the vicious circle of confrontation in the Middle East which constitutes a major obstacle to the
peace process between the parties involved and to shift from violence
as means of interaction between opponents to dialogue as a way of
understanding and peace.
"We therefore appeal to the churches and related agencies in the
world to support efforts through the Middle East Council of Churches
to alleviate new human suffering in Lebanon."
4
THE WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
MESSAGE OF METROPOLITANPHILIP
TO THE 41ST ARCHDIOCESECONVENTION,
PITTSBURGH, PA, JULY 18-25, 1993
Your Graces, Beloved Clergy, Archdiocesan Trustees,
Delegates,
and
Faithful of our God-protected
Archdiocese:
Since we are focusing this year on
"Ministry" I would like, be_fore I
ddress the main theme of this con~ention, to make the following announcements:
(1) Two years from now, we will,
with thanksgiving,
celebrate
the
Centennial of Antiochian
Orthodoxy in North America.
We do not want this occasion
to pass without rejoicing and
reflecting on the past one
hundred years of Antiochian
witness to the Holy Orthodox
Faith which "once and for all
was delivered to the saints." I
would like to see a scholarly
book published to commemorate this occasion and tell the
heroic story of our people in
the United States and Canada.
To guide us in the preparation for this historic event, I
am appointing a Centennial
Commission consisting of the
following:
His Grace, Bishop Antoun
His Grace, Bishop Basil, CoChairmen
V. Rev. Paul Schneirla
V. Rev. George S. Corey
V. Rev. Antony Gabriel
V. Rev. Peter Gillquist
V. Rev. John Morris
Dr. Robert Haddad
Dr. Issa Boullata
Dr. Najib Saliba
Dr. George Atiyeh
Mr. Paul D. Garrett
Ms. Alexa Naff
Ms. Anne Glynn Mackoul
Dr. Joyce Alexander
Ms. Kweilin Nassar
Ms. Jean Sam
(2) There is a genuine movement in
our Archdiocese for the canonization
of our first saintly bishop of thriceblessed memo1y, Raphael Hawaweeny.
In order to prepare the necessary documents on his life and achievements in
Orth America which we must submit
to the Holy S~nod of Antioch, I am
Tl--IE
WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
appointing the following committee:
His Grace, Bishop Basil, Chairman
Rt. Rev. George Geha
V. Rev. Michel Najm
Mr. Paul D. Garrett
Rev. Fr. Andre Issa
V. Rev. George Shalhoub
I need these documents in Arabic as
soon as possible because we would
like the canonization
of Bishop
Raphael to coincide with the Centen-
Metropolitan PHIUP
nial of Antiochian Orthodoxy in this
hemisphere.
( 3) As you know, we have reached
the threshold of a new century. Seven
years from now the Twentieth Centu~
will be history and a new century will
dawn on us. The question is: Are we
prepared, as a Church, to face? the
challenges of the new century .. In
order to find answers to this quest10n
and define our goals for the years to
com,e I am appointing a Task Force
of the following individuals:
Mr. Robert Koory, Co-Chairman
Mr. Charles Ajalat, Co-Chairman
V. Rev. Joseph Antypa
V. Rev. Gordon Walker
V. Rev. Michael Kei er
V. Rev. Constantine a r
V. Rev. Joseph Purpura
Rev. George Eber
Rev. Michael Ellia
Dr. John Dalack
Dr. George Dibs
Dr. Anthony Bashir
Mr. Ron icola
Mr. Gene Attal
Mr. Charles aikaley
Ms. Carol Laham
Ms. Linda Hopkin
Dr. Anne Thoma
Ms. Julie Dakdouk
I expect a compr h n i
report from this Ta k Force b
next year.
(4) Two year ago in a hington, D.C., I spoke to y u
about the significance of the
Balamand Univer ity. I am
happy to report to you that
our Balamand Uni er ity ha
had its first graduation, la t
year, in the pre enc
f our
Father-in-Christ, Patriarch IGNATIUS IV, and the Pre ident
of the Republic of Lebanon,
His Excellency, Elias Hra wi. I
have a video of thi hi toric
event and it is a ight to behold. Two outstanding unni
Muslims, one from Lebanon
Prime Minister Rafik I-Hariri
and Mr. Outhman Al- a idi
from Dama cu
donated
$1 000,000.00 each to the niversity of Balamand. I ha e
committed our Archdioce e to rai. ~
1 000 000.00 to build an ntio hian
Village' at Balamand. Thi. illage " ill
con i t of home for prof . , ors and
dormitorie
for tudent . I ha e already rai ed a half million. dollars and
I want you to help m rat, th re...,l.
Last May I brought thi. matt r to the
attention of the Board of Tru<it es c!f
our rchdioce. e who pledged their
utmo t upport to thi. cau. e._Hi. rac~,
Bi hop Ba. ii will he co-ordm~tmg th1...,
dri e and we v ant all our pan"ihe _and
people to do their. hare. ur goal t to
rai e 500,000 b the end of. la . 1994.
�(5) (a) There are different months of
the year which are designated for various organizations in our Archdiocese.
In addition to that, I am designating
the month of September which marks
the beginning of the Church Year, as
the "Fellowship of St. John the Divine
Month." During this month, I expect
our clergy and Fellowship leaders to
inform our faithful about the ministry
of The Fellowship.
(5) (b) I am designating the month
of November as "The International
Orthodox Christian Charities Month."
We have budgeted $100,000.00 for
IOCC; thus, I expect our clergy to
speak about this charitable organization in their sermons. I also expect
collections to be taken in every parish
every Sunday in November for the
poor. When we sit down to stuff ourselves with all kinds of food on
Thanksgiving
Day, let us think of
those millions of people who are
starving to death, especially in Africa
and Asia. St. John Chrysostom said:
"Feeding the hungry is a greater work
than raising the dead."
(5) (c) Last but not least, I am designating the month of December as
"The Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch
Month." I expect our clergy to speak
about the impact of the Order on our
Archdiocese and its programs. Since
its inception,
the Order has contributed more than $6,000,000.00 to
help our projects and charitable
endeavors. I expect the members of
the Order to communicate the goals of
the Order to our people by preaching
sermons, writing articles, and recruiting new members in order to reach
our goal of two thousand members in
the year 2000. Henceforth our motto is
"two thousand for 2000."
Ladies and Gentlemen:
What I have already announced is
very much related to the theme of this
convention which is "See that you fulfill the minist1y you have received in
the Lord," (Colossians 4:17). When we
speak about ministers and ministry,
some of us immediately think of the
ordained clergy. All of us, clergy and
laity, are called to be ministers, servants. We read in First Peter that we
"are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, God's own people that
we may declare the wonderful deeds
of Him who called us out of darkness
into His marvelous light," (I Peter 2:9).
St. Peter, here, is not directing his
words to the ordained clergy alone,
6
but to all who were baptized into
Christ and "have put on Christ," ( Gal.
3:27). He has chosen us before the
foundation of the world, and to share
in His priesthood is a great privilege
and an awesome responsibility. The
aim of Christian life is to be Christ-like
in obedience, service, love, sacrifice
and care for others. In the lyrics of the
famous play LES MISERABLES,there is
a verse which says: "To love another
person is to see the face of God."
The ordained clergy have a special
ministry in the Church which is rooted
in the Pentecost experience.
"When the day of Pentecost had
come, they were all together in one
place, and suddenly a sound came
from heaven like the rush of a mighty
wind, and it filled all the house. And
there appeared to them tongues as of
fire distributed and resting on each
one of them. And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit," (Acts 2:1-4).
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are
bestowed on both the clergy, through
the laying on of hands, and the laity
through Holy Baptism and Chrismation. All of us, clergy and laity, have
our gifts and hence our ministry to
perform. In First Corinthians, St. Paul
speaks eloquently about these gifts:
"Now concerning
spiritual gifts,
brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed." Then he goes on to say,
"Now there are varieties of gifts but
the same spirit; and there are varieties
of service, but the same Lord, and
there are varieties of working, but it is
the same God who inspires them all
in everyone. To each is given the
manifestation of the spirit for the common good. To one is given through
the spirit the utterance of wisdom, and
to another the utterance of knowledge
according to the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another
gifts of healing by the one spirit, to
another the working of miracles, to
another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to
another various kinds of tongues, to
another the interpretation of tongues.
All these are inspired by one and the
same spirit, who apportions to each
one individually as He wills," (I Cor.
3:9).
Ministry, therefore, encompasses all
the members of the Body of Christ,
not the ordained clergy only, but most
i1:1portantly the ordained
laity by
virtue of their baptism. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of lay
ministry. The ministry of the ordained
clergy is often confined to the boundaries of the parish, while the ministry
of the laity transcends the boundary of
the parish to the heart of the world
Orthodox laity, by virtue of their vari~
ous professions, come in touch with
all kinds of people. Thus, I call on all
of you, whether
you are doctors
lawyers, teachers, administrators, secre~
taries, shop keepers, restaurant owners
factory work_ers, fathers, mothers, etc.:
to witness to your faith fulfilling your
ministry and letting your "light shine."
There is a prerequisite,
however
which you must have before you ca~
minister to others, and this prerequisite is love. "When a lawyer came to
Jesus testing him saying, 'Teacher
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?:
He said to him, 'What is written in the
law? How do you read?' And he
answered, 'You shall love your God
with all your heart, and with all your
soul, and with all your strength, and
with all your mind; and your neighbor
as yourself," (Luke 10:25-28). Before
you can invade the hearts of others,
you must invade your own heart and
become immersed
in that divine,
boundless love. You cannot change
others and ultimately change this troubled and decaying world, unless your
inner being is changed. We are more
transparent than we think.
St. Gregory the Theologian said: "It
is a great thing to speak to God, but
still a greater thing to purify one's self
for God."
Television and instant communication have reduced the world to the
size of a tiny village.
Sneeze in
Moscow and you are instantly heard
in New York. There are almost a billion people in this world who go to
bed hungry. I am sure all of you have
seen shocking
pictures
of human
skeletons
walking the streets and
hamlets of southern Sudan, Somalia
and parts of Asia. Do we have an effective ministry for the poor? Do we
receive them and the oppressed as
Christ did? How can people know that
we are Christians? Aristedes, a nonChristian, defending
the Christians
before Hadrian, wrote:
"Christians love one another. They
never fail to help widows; they save
orphans from those who would hurt
them. If a man has something, he
gives freely to the man who has_n? th;
ing. If they see a stranger, Chnsuan
take him home and are happy, as
THE WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
though he were a real brother. They
don't consider themselves brot?ers in
the usual sense, but brothers instead
through the spirit of God. And if they
hear that one of them is in jail, or persecuted for professing the Name of
the Redeemer, they all give him what
he needs. If it is possible, they bail
him out. If one of them is poor and
there is not enough
food to go
around, they fast several days to give
him the food he needs ... This is really a new ki_n? o! perso~. There is
something D1vme m them.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In his Epistle to the Ephesians, St.
Paul said: "Look carefully then how
you walk, not as unwise men but as
wise, making the most of the time,
because the days are evil. Therefore,
do not be foolish, but understand
what the will of the Lord is," (Eph.
5:15-17). More than any other time in
history, we are called to minister
earnestly to others "for the days are
indeed evil." Some historians believe
that we are already living in a postChristian era. There is a cultural war
going on between the values which
our Church represents and the new
twisted values which our modern culture represents.
Television
is contributing much to this social and moral
tragedy. I believe that we are living
now in a post-Democratic
era. Very
few people in our society read meaningful books which deal with ultimate
questions. Thus, everything is dictated
to us by television, the "New Dictator." It is not the substance of things
which matters anymore; it is, rather,
how you package your product and
how you sell it. Put garbage in a nicely wrapped box and use an effective
selling pitch and you will be able to
sell garbage. This dangerous phenomenon has not affected our consumer
products only, but people in high
places who control the destiny of this
nation, i.e., congressmen,
senators,
presidents and other elected officials.
If a person is well programmed, well
?roomed and projects well, he or she
ts elected regardless of substance. Our
scale of values has turned upside
down.
Very dangerous trends are insidiously invading our society. Consequently,
our children are threatened, our youth
are threatened, our parishes are threatened, the sanctity of our family is
threatened. Barbara Whitehead, in an
article in the April 1993 ATLANTIC
THEWORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
MONTHLY, said "family breakup is an
My dear friends,
inevitable feature of American life
Two years from now, in Atlanta
and anyone who thinks otherwise i; Georgia, and throughout
orth Amerindulging in nostalgia or trying to turn ica, we will be celebrating the centenback the clock." Even the integrity of nial of Antiochian Orthodoxy. W
the Holy Scriptures is threatened. A must never forget the brilliant mini try
few years ago, a bishop in New Jersey of our parents and grandparent under
wrote a book in which he claimed
the omophorion of our fir t Antiochthat St. Paul was a frustrated homoian Bisho-p of thrice-bles ed memory,
sexual. I need not defend St. Paul be- Raphael Hawaweeny, and hi illu tricause St. Paul speaks for himself. In ous successors. I am especially thankhis Epistle to the Romans, St. Paul ful to the Almighty God for the opporwrote:
tunity which he gave me to minister to
"For this reason God gave them up you during the past twenty- even
to dishonorable
passions.
Their
years. I am thankful to God for the
women exchanged natural relations
ministry of our many dedicated clergy,
for unnatural, and the men likewise
especially those who are serving mall
gave up natural relations with women
parishes and suffering financial hardand were consumed with passion for ship. Priests like Father Michael Kei er
one another, men committing shame- who serves our people in Eu ti ,
less acts with men and receiving in Florida, and in order to supplement
their own persons the due penalty for his income, works part-time a a janitheir error," (Romans 1:26-27).
tor; Father John Essa of Spring Valley,
If the Scripture is no longer sacred, Illinois; Father Paul Blanken tein from
is there anything sacred left? Our Iron Mountain, Michigan; Father
Ayoub from St. Paul,
nation is really in trouble. The Roman George
empire was not destroyed from with- Minnesota; Father Paul Eyler from Las
out; it was rather destroyed from with- Vegas, Nevada; Father David Straut
ew Jersey;
in, by moral decadence. I am trying from South Plainfield,
my best, with the means which I have, Father Elias Nasr from South Glens
to protect our children and youth from Falls, New York; Father George Alberts
this filth, but I need your ministry, "for from Monessen, Pennsylvania; Father
the days are evil." We thank God for Boniface Black from Souderton,
Pennsylvania; Father John E tephan,
our Youth Department, our camping
our Arabic scholar, who serve a parprograms at the Antiochian Village,
Camp St. Nicholas in California and ish and teaches school at the ame
our Heritage and Learning Center. I time; Father William Hartung from alt
will continue to appeal to parents and Lake City, Utah; Father David Thomas
of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and last but
grandparents
not to abdicate their
not least, the Right Reverend Michael
roles within the family.
Trigg
from Whittier, California.
In the past, and on many occasions,
Some of our priests have e tablished
I have told you that we used to have
three main institutions in our society: parishes from point zero like Father
the family, the church and the school. George Shalhoub, Father Elia halI do not have to elaborate on what is houb and all our Antiochian Evanhappening to our schools. Around the gelical Orthodox clergy. I would be
area where I live, schools have in- remiss if I do not mention the mini try
of Father Peter Gillquist in Mi sion
stalled electronic devices to detect
and Evangelism; the ministry of Fath r
knives and firearms which children
take with them to school. This, in John Badeen in A.C.O.R. .; and the
addition to the drug problem and con- good work of Father Paul chneirla on
dom distribution by the school itself, behalf of the Western Rite. I am pehas made our once great schools ob- cially grateful to God for the mini try
solete. Thanks be to God that we, as of the longest serving editor of The
Orthodox, have two institutions left: WORD magazine, Father G orge
the family and the church. If the fami- Corey (16+ year ) .
Ladies and Gentlemen:
ly and the church minister tog~t~er,
The mini t1y of our laity i hy no
and if our clergy and parents mm1ster
together for our children's sake, only means les important than the mini try
then can we look at the future with of our clergy. Many of our pari, he
oci ti
some hope. Remember that we are no were establi hed by Ladie
and
Men'
ocietie
,
without
th
1 adlonger an island in this society, "for
er hip of prie t and bi hop . Fir t and
the days are evil."
�foremo t I want to thank all the member of the Board of Trustees for their
mini try both on the local and orth
m rican level. These ladies and gentlemen minister to us in words and in
d eds. I want to single out, however,
member of our Executive Board for
their extra work and dedication,
namely: our very able Vice-Chairman,
who heads the Village Council and
give so much of his time and means
to our Archdiocese, Mr. Ernest Saykaly
and all members of the Village Council. I want to thank our very dedicated
and generous treasurer, Mr. Robert
Laham and the Chairman of our Department of Finance, Mr. Theodore
Mackoul and my good neighbor and
a sistant treasurer, Mr. George Nassar.
I want to thank our very faithful chancellors, Mr. Robert Koory and Mr.
Charles Ajalat for their very special
ministry. I want to thank the CoChairmen of the Department of Lay
Ministry, Dr. John Dalack and Dr.
Anthony Bashir. I want to thank one
of the founders of the Board of
Trustee and generous contributors to
the Archdiocese, Mr. Abe Abraham
and his brothers.
ow, I would like to thank some of
the people who have excelled in their
ministry both on the local and North
American levels, namely: Ray George
of Detroit Michigan, Chairman of the
Sacred Music Department;
Mrs.
Christine Lynch of Little Falls, New
Jersey; Khouriyee
Grace Aswad;
Khouriyee Laila Corey; Miss Robin
Nicholas, The Co-ordinator
of our
Food for Hungry People Drive; Mrs.
Pearl Nahass who ministered to our
children freely at the Camp for many
years, and the late Mrs. Emilie Armelli
who dedicated her ministry to our
entire community of southern California. Time does not permit me to
mention all the clergy and laity who
have ministered to us with distinction.
And since we are speaking about ministry, I ask you, where would this
Archdiocese be without the outstanding ministry of the Order of St.
Ignatius of Antioch; the Antiochian
Women who are celebrating, this year,
their Twentieth Anniversary; the new
and promising Fellowship of St. John
the Divine and last, but not least, my
pride and joy, Teen SOYO.
I could mention thousands of men,
women and young people in this
Archdiocese who are working tirelessly to fulfill "their ministry in the Lord."
These are our silent heroes and are
well known to God who will reward
them according to their faith and good
deeds. Ten years ago, His Grace,
Bishop Antoun was elevated to the
rank of the Holy Episcopacy, thus I
take this opportun~ty to wish him, ~n
behalf of the entire Archdiocese a
Very Happy Anniversary. In May' of
1992, a new breath of fresh air swept
this Archdiocese, starting in Wichita
Kansas. I am very grateful for the min~
istry of His Grace, Bishop Basil.
Finally, I would like to thank my
overworked, yet tireless staff, especially a lady who has been working for us
with much distinction
for the past
twenty-four years, Miss Kathy Meyer;
our registrar, Mrs. Marietta Voutsinas·
our assistant comptroller,
Mr. Pete;
Dacales; the Very Reverend Georges.
Corey and last but not least, the most
patient man I have ever known, Archdeacon Hans El Hayek.
In conclusion, as we all struggle to
fulfill our ministry in the Lord in this
broken world, according to the gifts
which we have received, let us heed
the admonition of St. Paul, one of the
greatest ministers ever:
"Take the whole armour of God,
that you may be able to withstand in
the evil day, and having done all to
stand. Stand therefore . . . having put
on the breastplate of righteousness ...
taking the shield of faith . . . the helmet
of salvation . . . and the sword of the
spirit which is the Word of God."
(Eph. 6:13-17)
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ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN THE WORLD
The Forgotten Church in Antioch
by Kenneth G. Skantz
With photos by Simon Porter
"Where Christ is, there is the Catholic
Church." - Ignatius of Antioch AD.
JOO.
What was true 18 centuries ago in
Antioch, is still true today. Only now,
the birthplace of Christianity as we
know it, is called Antakya in the
Turkish province of Hatay on the eastern-most shores of the Mediterranean
Sea.
There are three churches currently
in use in Antakya: The Grotto of Saint
Peter, which is where the first Christians gathered round Paul, Barnabus,
Mark, Luke and Peter; the Roman
Catholic Church; and the Orthodox
Church. But Saint Ignatius was not referring to a building in the above
mentioned quote. Instead he was
referring to the congregation
of
Christians that worship in these buildings.
In the late fifth centu1y there were
more than a half million Christifns living in and around Antioch. Thf vicissitudes of Antioch over the last rnillennium and a half (i.e. earthquakes,
Arab invasions,
the Crusades,
the
Turkish conquest) have reduced the
city from a once mighty bastion of
Christianity to a "titular" seat of different faiths.
Sadly there are less than 2,000
Christians of Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Maronite or Jacobite faiths currently living in Antakya. The relocation of the Patriarchate
of Antioch,
from Antioch to Damascus, in the sixteenth century, persecution under the
Ottomans and massive emigrations to
the Occident account for this abridgment of the Orthodox
faithful in
Antakya.
Today's Orthodox of Antakya
The Orthodox form the largest community of Christians in Antakya numbering about 250 families and this
community and its clergy has preserved and remained faithful to the
traditions of their forefathers.
This tiny community in a city of
lS0,000 blends in with the indigenous
Muslim population in every aspect of
THEWORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
their daily lives (schooling, professions, culture, recreation) except one.
In their worship, the Orthodox parishioners are light-years removed from
their Muslim neighbors.
Their language is made up of Arabic
and Turkish with a spattering
of
Greek. Amongst the elders, Arabic is
Inscription (in Arabic) at the base of the
column to the right of the front doors of
the church.
the mother tongue whereas with the
younger generation Turkish is the
dominant language. The liturgical services are conducted in both Arabic
and Greek.
The presbyter
of their church,
Father Sarni Sabagil, along with the
help of his four deacons, lead the
faithful in their worship.
The Church
The Orthodox Church it elf i a
splendid Chri tian beacon to the f \\,
living there urround d b a sea of
Islam. Enclo ed by a 20-foot wall,
entrance to the courtyard of the
church is through an iron door gateway that i locked and unlo k d b
Turkish authoritie at the prescrib d
times of worship. Th iron door'->are
neces ary to protect it from the vandalism that virtually all Chri ·tian houses of worship suffer in Turke .
When photographer , imon Porter
and I entered the courtyard a Turki h
sentry, appointed by the Turki ·h government to over ee th going on of
the Church attempted to di suad u.
from being on the premi ·e -. s w
approached
the entrance
to th
church, the sentry, with his th , pi
(prayer beads) in one hand and a cigarette in the other, became animated
telling us that we weren't allow d in
the church since there was a , ervice
about to begin. After I informed him
in Turkish that no one ha. the authority to prevent Christian. from entering
a Christian house of worship and that
we had been invited to attend the s rvices, he reluctantly allowed u to pa. s.
Once inside the church we v r
aghast by the magnificent i on. that
covered the entire iconosta. is. Taking
our places at the rear of the church.
we ob erv d the liturg and emulated
the repeated prostrations and gesticulations of the clergy. B hind us v
could hear the
ntr patrolling the
rear of the church ke ping an ye on
us "yabancis" (foreign rs).
During the er ic v e could h ar
Father abagil from b hind the i on stasis repeatedly in oking th nam
"Isa' (the Chri. t J sus).
After the . ervic Father . abagil e, plained to u that th pricel . i on
that adorn the icono ta. i'>,'-' hi h s parates th nave from the sanctuary.
were donated b the Ru. '->ian rth dox Church in the ninet enth
ntuI).
He then directed u. to a "throne··
wh r the Patriarch of ntio h, Hi'>
Beatitud
Ignatiu , . it: during hi'->
occa ional
i it to ntak a. The
9
�Christ during his crucifixion)
I
'throne" extends about 15 feet into missionary of the Christian Church in
burie?
beneat~
t~e
floor
of
the
Gro~;
Asia
Minor.
His
14-year
endeavor,
the air and is laden with carvings and
of Samt Peter ms1de the citadel of th
which began in Antioch, spread
rabic inscriptions all over its wooden
city. This revelation inspires the battle~
throughout
the
Roman
Empire
and
frame.
weary
troops
who then
History ofChristianity of
charge
the
walls
and retak
Antioch
the
city
in
the
name 0~
"It was in Antioch that the
Christendom.
Once
inside the
di ciple were first called
citadel the floor of the catheChristian ." - Acts 11:26.
dral is dug up and a 6-footAbout five years after the
l o ng rusted
iron lance is
crucifixion of Christ, Saul of
found
and
the
word is passed
Tar us tilla Sadducee fanatic,
throughout
the land of the
was on the road to Damascus
"Miracle of Antioch". This sinwhere he was to flush out
gle event more than anything
and persecute the Nazarenes
else accounted for the early
there. It was on this journey
successes of the Crusades.
that he encountered a light
A Reunion between East
from heaven that blinds him
and West
and knocks him from his
The
addition
of the "filhorse and he hears a voice
The clergy of the Orthodox Church of Antioch. Father Sami
that demands of him, "Saul, Sabagil (second from left with hat on) and his deacons, at ioque" to the Nicene-Constantinople creed and the difaul, why are you persecuting Christmas services 1992.
ference of opinion concerning
me?" Saul asks the voice to
identify itself and the voice replies, "I was soon to become the most domi- the interpretation of a few words led
to the Schism that divided these two
am Jesus the azarene and you are nant force in all of humanity.
persecuting me." Once in Damascus
Some of the most influential names
great Christian institutions a thousand
ail 's eyesight is restored
by a in early Christianity come from or years ago. An attempt at union beazarene. Saul then became Paul, the were born in Antioch: Saint Luke, who tween the Orthodox and Latin Churchwrote one of the
Gospels; Saint Ignatius, martyred in
Rome A.D. 110;
John
Chrysostom
(354-407);
Theodoret, a great theologian
of
the
School of Antioch;
Bishops Babilus and
-
View of the Orthodox Church from inside the courtyard.
10
Christian holy days together such as
Easter (on the Orthodox date).
These two small Christian communities have much in common in Antakya. The Roman Catholic Church has
been persecuted throughout history as
has the Orthodox Church and this persecution, although not as violent as it
was more than a hundred years ago,
continues to this day through land
seizures, exorbitant taxes and restrictions on services. As a result of this
subtle form of persecution the Roman
Catholics and the Orthodox
have
grown increasingly closer in that they
both have a common bonding in that
of Jesus Christ. What the Patriarch of
Constantinople and the Pope of Rome
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Frontal view of the
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of Orthodoxy that were fir t e tabli hed
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one of the earliest
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Minor. In addition to
these famous early
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(Matthew).
A thousand years
later,
while
the
Crusaders were laying siege to the city
that the Arabs had
conquered, a priest
received a premonition from the Holy
Spirit. In this premonition
the Holy
Spirit informs the
priest that the Holy
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�SPECIALARCHDIOCESANMINISTRY
--~~~~~~~~~~~::...-=~~----------Street and Prison Ministry
by La Verne Hollapeter
"For I was hungry and you gave me
something to eat, I was thirsty and you
gave me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you invited me in, I
needed clothes and you clothed me, I
was sick and you looked after me, I
was in prison and you came to visit
me."
Matthew 25:35-36
There's an Orthodox presence in
prisons - with the blessing of His
Eminence
Metropolitan
PHILIP,
Orthodox Christian JOURNEY, a journal for prisoners, edited by Father
Duane Pederson, of the Antiochian
Archdiocese, is published and distributed in over 500 local, state and federal prisons in North America.
Metropolitan PHILIP selected the
Holy Apostle Silas as patron Saint for
Orthodox Christian Street and Prison
Ministry on May 17 of this year. The
feastday of Holy Apostle Silas is July
30, and the troparion, chanted in the
Third Tone, is: "O Holy Apostle Silas,
intercede with the merciful God to
grant our souls remission of sins."
A CHALLENGING MISSION FIELD
To date, 48,000 copies of JOURNEY
have been printed and distributed in
prison.
The response to JOURNEY has
been overwhelming. Chaplains and
prisoners ask for guidance and direction on their personal spiritual journeys. Here are brief excerpts from a
few of the hundreds
of letters
received:
LE1TERS FROM PRISON
cation via the Chaplain of this institution. He had one copy of JOURNEY that
had not been previously read by anyone. I have had it now for two days,
and it is a blessing to my life. I've been
hungering for any type of Orthodox
contact. I am an Orthodox Christian,
so when I borrowedJOURNEY
for
three days it was just like Christmas
time for me. Could you mail a copy to
me? I will forever be in your debt. "
D.H. (prison r),
Florida State Prison
"May we ask a small request in
behalf of the men in our institution?
The one copy of JOURNEY has been
"borrowed" by three of the men in our
''May the Lord God remember in His unit, and there are already several
everlasting Kingdom all Orthodox
others who are inquiring after a copy
Christians, always, now and forever, for themselves. You are able to reach so
Amen. Your kind gift of Orthodox
many ... May we have a few more
Christian JOURNEY brought to this copies ofJOURNEY? I am Orthodox. "
prison untold assistance, light, strength
D.V. (prisoner),
and holiness. If it is possible to give us
California State Prison
the same chari~y again, we bless you."
Frequently, Father Duane writes 300
Chaplain F.B., let~e~s a month to prisoners seeking
New York State Prison spir!tual counsel and help. Many
''A note of thanks for your ministry
receive no other personal mail.
to us by way of the Orthodo'x
FATHER DUANE PEDERSON'S
Christian JOURNEY."
BACKGROUND
R.C. (prisoner),
Father Duane, a former protestant
Federal Prison clergy based in Hollywood, California,
"I came upon your wonderful publi- was considered a leader in the Jesus
12
People Movement
during the late
1960's and early 1970's. Under his
direction the well-known Hollywood
Free Paper was published for street
~hristians. He convert~d to Orthodoxy
m 1989, and was ordained deacon and
priest in July 1991, by His Grace
Bishop A TO
in the Antiochian
Archdiocese.
Since 1963, Father Duane has served
as a volunteer in prisons and jails
spending countless hours counselin~ '
teenage boys charged with murder
and other viol nt crimes, and lost,
lonely kids on the streets. Boys who
ask, "Does God forgive murder? ...
How can I get out of the gang? ...
How can I stop using drugs? ... Can I
r ally change? ... "
He is a member of a number of prof ssional organizations including: the
rnerican
orrectional
Association,
Am rica n
orrectional
Chaplains
Association, and
ational Council on
Crime and Delinquency.
H has written
several books,
among them, HOW TO ESTABLISHA
JAIL A D PRISO
11 ISTRY (Thomas
elson Publishers), used by many religious groups prison ministry teams,
training seminars and colleges as a
textbook to prepare volunteer workers.
STREET MINISTRY
Father Duane is a man with a listening heart, born of a deep, God-given
compassion for troubled young people - gang members, drug pushers,
runaways, "throwaways" - kids full
of pain, scared, lonely, hungry, without hope for the future.
Only Goe.I can bring comfort and
healing to a broken heart, and ease
the agonizing pain of rejection and
abuse. Father Duane brings the Good
ews of Salvation,
love, healing,
hope.
,
Along with the message of Gods
love, through the help of many of the
Faithful, he provides Bibles, books,
clothing meals toilet articles, warm
'
'
• ket
blankets, sleeping bags, ~ ~xis _nceel
home for a homesick
d1sdl uswn
.' 11 d'ay cake for
young runaway ... a b irt
,
1
an excited child, "I've never had '
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birthday cake before!"
A tattooed, muscular 16-year-old in
juvenile hall said, "You really care!
Nobody ever cared about me before!
My dad was killed in a drug fight, and
my m~m's on the streets ... somewhere.
"I can't help them all," Father Duane·
says, "so I help the ones I can ... one
at a time."
CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS
CHRISTMAS FOR KIDS is a fun day
filled with laughter, excitement, food,
music, the story of the birth of Jesus
Christ - and a new gift for every
child.
A special blessing, Christmas 1992,
was the attendance
of His Grace
Bishop BASIL, helping distribute the
gifts. More than 1127 children
received new toys. Over 90 volunteers
from our parishes assisted in ushering
and keeping the crowd under control.
Children from below-poverty-levelincome families selected new toys,
such as cars and trucks, pretty dolls,
and soft stuffed toys made just for
hugging. For µiany children, this is the
only gift they may receive.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
"I am deeply grateful for the prayers
and help of friends wh_o faithfully
stand with me," Father Duane says. "I
ask you to join with me in praying for
prisoners and their salvation:"
For a complimentary copy- of JOUR-
NEY, please write Father Duan .
Correspondence and financial contributions for the on-going work of thi
compelling Orthodox ministry may b
sent to:
Orthodox Christian treet and
Prison Ministry
c/o Father Duane Pederson
P.O. Box 1949
Hollywood, CA 90078-1949
La Verne Hollapeter is a free lance
writer. She divides her time between
her home in Harlingen, Texas, and Lo
Angeles, where she does volunteer work
for Orthodox Christian Street and
Prison Ministry.
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ORDAINED:
the Antonian Silver Medal of Merit, on
May 30, 1993.
D aeon ATHA ASIUS WILO to the Priesthood, at St. RESIGNED:
The Priest STEPHEN R. THOMAS, atGeorge Church in Indianapoli , I , on April 4, 1993, tached to St. Athanasius Church in
Goleta, CA.
and assigned to All Saints
RELEASED:
Mi ion in Bloomington, IN.
CHARLE BELL to the Diaconate on The Priest AMBROSE OMA YAS, atJun 12 1993, and to the Priesthood tached to St. Augustine Church in
on June 13, 1993, in San Jose, CA, and Denver, CO, to the Greek Orthodox
as ign d to the pastorate
at St. Diocese of Denver.
teph n Protomartyr Church in San DECEASED:
The Deacon JOHN WADE HADDAD
Jo , CA.
E GENE CLARKto the Diaconate on of St. George Church in Akron, OH,
June 13, 1993, and assigned to St. on May 18, 1993. MEMORY ETERNAL!
tephen Protomartyr Church in San DEPOSED/IAICIZED:
The Deacon JOHN WILLIAM DUNNIJoe CA.
IVA JACK O to the Diaconate on WAY on June 14, 1993.
June 13, 1993, and assigned to St. ANTIOCHIAN STUDENTS AT SEMItephen Protomartyr Church in San NARIES:
St. John of Damascus Seminary in
Joe, CA.
Lebanon - THOMAS
TIMOTHY READ to the Diaconate on Balamand,
June 13 1993, and assigned to St. ZAIN, JOHN SALEM and SHANE
Stephen Protomartyr Church in San ROBERTS.
St. Vladimir Seminary in Crestwood,
Jose, CA.
Deacon F. PHILIP AOUFAN to the New York - Father STEPHEN ZITON.
Prie thood on June 27, 1993, at St. Holy Cross Seminary in Brookline,
Michael Church in Las Vegas, NV, Massachusetts - JOHN REIMANN,
a waiting a signment.
EDWARD KELLY, JAYSON POST,
Deacon F. ISKANDARYOUNES to the ANTONY BELCHER, ERIK PEDERSON
Prie thood on July 4, 1993, at St. and RAYMOND ACKER.
George Church in Montreal, Quebec, TRANSFERRED:
a waiting assignment.
The Priest DENIS LAJOIE from the
DOUGLAS WYPER to the Diaconate
Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittson June 26, 1993, and to the burgh, to the Antiochian Archdiocese,
Priesthood on June 27, 1993, at St. and assigned to St. Nicholas Church of
George Cathedral in Toledo, OH, and Beckley, WV.
as igned to the pastorate of All Saints APPOINTED:
Church in orth Chicago, IL.
The Metropolitan Primate has appointJOH KARAM to the Diaconate on ed the following to the Archdiocese
July 4, 1993, at St. Mary Church in Spiritual Court for 1993-94:
Wilkes-Barre, PA, and assigned to that
His Grace, Bishop ANTOUN, Chairpari h.
man
NEW PARISHES:
Archpriest George S. Corey, St.
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whose pastor is Father Athanasius
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Wil on.
Little Falls, NJ
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Jo e, CA, whose pastor is Father
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tions to be with you personally to
share your sorrow and bid farewell to
Fred; but unfortunately,
difficult circumstances, which resulted from the
stormy weather Sunday night over
ew York, prevented that.
r have known Fred since 1956,
when I arrived to these blessed shores
of the United States of America. The
Elias Brothers endearingly still call me
Philip, without titles, as a sign of love
and affection which I deeply appreciate. The passing away of Fred marks
the end of a great era in our American
life. He and his brother, Louis, and
late brother, John, have been in the
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Message of Metropolita~
PIIlLIP to the Elias FamilY:
To the Family of Fred Elias who fell
asleep in the Lord in Detroit,• MI·'
funeral on June 21, 1993 Dear Samira and Louis,
I am deeply saddened by th e pass1
ing away of my friend, Fr~d.
changed my plans and had all mtenTHE WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
restaurant business for more than sixty
years. I remember, and many of you
do, their heroic struggle from a humble beginning into one of the most
successful restaurant businesses in our
country. Fred, as Chairman of the Big
Boy Restaurants, was instrumental in
helping many people in Detroit and
outside Detroit, succeed in life. Thus
he and the Elias brothers were always
ready to share God's blessings with
others, whether they were individuals,
families, parishes, boy scouts, schools,
l~arning centers and many other charities. An old proverb says: "Give cheerfully with one hand and gather well
with two."
Despite his outstanding
success,
Fred was a very humble man and
down to earth person. He loved to
pend time with his wife Samira and
the children, his brothe'r Louis and
E ther, his brother in law, Gabe and
nrnWORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
his sis_ter, Mary, the rest of the family
and his very close friends, Eddie and
Peggy Kassab. Certainly, his departure
from us will leave a tremendous emptiness and he will be greatly missed.
My dear friends,
In this cultural war which is now
going on in America, between the old
values which made America such a
great country and the new twisted values which are threatening the fabric of
our life, Fred Elias exemplified the old
values, the American dream and that
spirit of rugged individuali~m which
was totally dedicated to hard work,
love of family, love of country, honesty, sincerity and decency. May his
exemplary life be always a source of
inspiration to his children and all of u .
Fred Elias was a Knight Commander
in the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch
for many years and a few years ago, I
had the pleasure of bestowing on him
the highest award of the Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of
North America, in recognition of his
commitment to the eternal values and
principles which our Church represents. Although he is no longer with
us, physically, his spirit will continue
to live in the collective consciousness
of future generations. I am sure that
our gracious Lord will receive Fred in
His holy mansions where the faces of
the righteous shine like the stars of
heaven.
On behalf of myself, the Order of St.
Ignatius of Antioch, and the entire
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, I would
like to express my deepest sympathy
to his wife, Samira; his children
Christopher, Lisa, Fred, Jr., Susan and
Candace; and to his brother, Louis and
his wife Esther; and to his si ter
Mary, Ann and Helen; and all members and relatives of the Elias family.
Surely, Fred's memory will be eternal and his soul will rest in peace.
orrowfully,
;'\---=--6'-~-:::::::::Metropolitan PHILIP
Primat
Antiochian Orthodox Chri tian
Archdiocese of orth America
Archbishop
George Dies
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A Department of the
Archdiocese: Ordination
Review and Clergy Affairs
''Brethri n, pick out from among J u
el'en men of go d repute, full of the
�---------------------Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we
may appoint for duty. " (Acts 6-3)
The Apostles and Fathers of the
Church have prescribed that "no one
shall be deemed to deserve the divine
degree of holy orders without much
investigation and strict examination."
This Department fulfills this requirement for men seeking ordination in
our Archdiocese or acceptance into it
from another canonical Orthodox
jurisdiction. Candidates are carefully
screened "lest the most holy functions
be performed by men who are unworthy." The members of this Department
are also charged with the responsibility of reviewing any and all clergy
affairs referred to it by the Metropolitan. It is commissioned to recommend to the Metropolitan in all such
matters, leaving the final decision to
his discretion.
Bishop BASILAttends
Meeting with Anglicans
" . ~- the Church is bound by God's
law to show compassion and to help
heal those who come to her." These
words, spoken by Bishop BASIL at a
recent Anglican/Orthodox meeting in
Chicago, were said in response to accusations by some in the Episcopal
Church that the Orthodox Church is
openly pursuing and proselytizing disgruntled Anglicans.
Bishop BASIL was invited to this
meeting to discuss options available to
those - both clergy and laity - interested in converting to Orthodoxy.
Many of these people have been considering the Orthodox Church for
some time. In fact, most of them have
been progressively adopting Orthodox
views and practices - but, under oppressive conditions in the Episcopal
Church.
For centuries, many in the Anglican
Communion
have been close to
Orthodoxy; however, over the past
two decades, things have changed
dr~matically for them. Sadly, today's
Ep1s~opal Church is hardly recognizable as a church with a catholic heritage. There are some who have tried
to hold on to historic Christian ideals
but it is becoming increasingly diffi~
cult. They are outcasts for their beliefs
and the new ideas are rampant. These
are the men and women reaching out
to the fullness of the Orthodox
Church.
It is for these reasons that the meet16
ing in Chicago took place. For two
days, a group of concerned people
met to confer with one another and to
discuss what options might be available. This gathering included priests,
both young and old; wives; and laity;
as well as a few newly chrismated
Orthodox Christians.
Presentations were made regarding
the transition to Orthodoxy. Bishop
BASIL clarified several of the issues
that were raised about the structure of
the Antiochian Archdiocese. Additionally, explanations were given concerning the differences between East em and Western liturgical rites.
The meeting was not intended to result in any definite conclusions, but
was rather a means for exploring options. Bishop BASIL concluded the
meeting by saying, "We have nothing
to offer but truth with a capital T."
The participants agreed that it was a
very worthwhile and enlightening experience.
Following the meeting in Chicago
Bishop BASIL went north to Nashotah
House, a traditional Episcopal seminary near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He
attended Alumni Day festivities and
met with priests and seminarians from
around the country. He was also interviewed by The Living Church, a weekly Episcopal news magazine.
He concluded his visit to the Great
Lakes area by presiding at a liturgy on
Ascension Day at St. Nicholas Mission
in Mequon (a new Orthodox congregation begun by a former Episcopal
priest.)
Reagan, Carter Co-Chair
$10 Million Faith and
Order Campaign
Honoring Archbishop
Iakovos
NEW YORK - Out of their friendship with Archbishop Iakovos of the
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North
and South America, former U.S.
Presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy
Carter will serve as honorary co-chairs
of a $10 million endowment campaign
named in his honor. The funds will
support work of the National Council
of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
(NCC) and World Council of Churches
(WCC) related to the search for
Christian unity.
Funds raised will constitute the
Archbishop Iakovos Endowment for
Faith and Order, named in hono f
the Archbi~hop of the Greek Or;h~dox 1:-rc~d10c s ?~ orth and South
America m recognition of his life-Ion
work on beha~f- o~ Christian unity an~
human reconc1liat1on. In accepting th
honor, Archbishop Iakovos said th:
endowment demonstrat s that the tw
Councils are "placing faith issues a~
the forefront" of their service among
the churches. The CC and WCC will
benefit equally from the endowment.
"Faith and Order activities are at the
heart of ecumenical life," said the Rev.
Dr. Joan B. Campbell,
CC General
Secretary. " o one knows that better
than Archbishop Iakovos; no one has
embodi d a y arning for faithful unity
b tter than th Archbishop himself."
Churche
ar divided over what
Christians believ
(faith) and about
how th churches operate (order).
Further, th i su s that divide humanity also divide th churches: race, class,
gender, nationality, culture and the
like. Faith and Order finds its agenda
conn ct d to all of these issues. The
Archbishop Iakovos Endowment for
Faith and
rd r will ensure that
Christian unity ha. a primary place in
organized
cumenical life, said the
two Council's l aders. Faith and Order
work rea ·hes for a united Christian
witness in a world tragically divided
by experien
s of human hostility,
th y not d.
USDA Awards $15
Million Grant to
International Orthodox
Christian Charities
July 1, 1993 (Baltimore) - International Orthodox Christian Charities
(IOCC) signed an agreement today
with the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA), valued at more
than $15 million, to provide ~oo?
commodities a part of its humamtanan assistance program in the Russian
Federation.
Working closely with its Russian
counterpart, the Charities Department
of the Russian 01thodox Church, aoci
other Russian non-governmental ch~ritable organizations, over the next nine
months IOCC will distribute 10,700
metric 'rans of food commodities.
These commodities will include flour,
rice, vegetable oil, whole-fat dried
milk, butter oil and infant formula,
and will be distributed without charge
(cont. on p. 21)
THE WORD/SEPTEMBER1993
DEPARTMENT
OF CHRISTIANEDUCATION
ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOXCHRISTIANARCHDIOCESE
EDITORIAL:
Introduction
by Christine Benagh
Nashville, TN
Christian education presents some unique problems
and challenges to Orthodox churches. For one thing, it is
a relatively new phenomenon and so we have not built
up a store of experience and tradition in formal instruction, particularly for children. Learning the faith used to
be a matter of osmosis, as the developing person
soaked up knowledge and outlook from an organic
Orthodox society in which he lived, a society where the
entire life of the people was permeated with the faith and
practice of the Orthodox Church, its feasts and festivals,
fasts and penitential seasons.
Today the situation is radically different and its consequences may go deeper than even the most concerned teacher realizes. We live in a completely secularized society where civil education is biased against religious instruction and celebration of any kind. The powerful tools of the media - television, the music industry,
journalism, publishing, and the like - proliferate harmful
and often foul and disgusting material. And this is what
permeates the culture in which our children must now
live and grow. In addition to offering instruction in the
Orthodox Faith, our Christian educators must provide
some counterbalance for the collapse of moral standards
in our society at large, some protection from dangers our
young people often do not perceive as dangers at all.
Another problem arises from the feeling that we must
compete with the vigorous Sunday school movement in
Protestant churches with their large staffs of well-paid
professionals, aggressive publishing programs, and wellequipped facilities. This is a three-pronged problem:
First, we want to maintain harmonious relations with our
fellow Christians who are non-Orthodox, and this can be
a delicate matter when dealing with our children who
may look with envy at their "busy" Protestant counterparts. Next, there are critical theological and philosophical differences which make it unwise and inappropriate
to adopt their educational material, no matter how accessible and attractive it seems. But chiefly, there is a lack
of appreciation for and promotion of the rich resources
we have in the Orthodox Faith: its joyous and wholesome approach to life and the world as God's good gift,
the magnificent hymns of the Church, the reverent
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awareness of Christ's presence among us, the steady
optimism made possible by the Holy Spirit's immediacy
and availability as we work to purify our lives, the exhilarating sense of being part of another world - God's
kingdom. But all these concepts must now be consciously taught, whereas they were once just absorbed with the
air we breathed, the food we ate, the songs we sang.
One more difficulty is the tendency to underestimate
the receptivity of young-children, to treat them as if they
cannot understand very much about God. But the truth is
that their fresh and eager hearts understand in a deep
way what we ourselves have forgotten, and this is the
time in their lives when we can speak to them with the
least embarrassment and apology. Note: By Editor, John
Boojamra, Robert Coles, The Spiritual Life of Children.
We present such tiny, diluted doses of near-truth that no
one, including the teacher, can be stimulated. Our faith
is glorious; yet we often hand out synthetic samples.
Good education challenges the student at every level to
exceed his capacities. The teacher of even the youngest
children should speak to them, instruct them, with the
same appreciation for their intelligence, the same concern for mutual understanding that is practiced in a loving home.
It is with these concerns in mind that we Orthodox
must prepare lessons for very young children - and this
is where we must begin - lessons that are distinctively
Orthodox in approach and content. We need to give our
children real substance; abridging and simplifying very
carefully so that the truth is not distorted. There are other
treasures that we can help them discover and appreciate: We can preserve the sense of reverence and awe
so characteristic of our faith - something the very
young child readily responds to - by using traditional
hierarchical address to persons in the Holy Trinity: Our
Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Mother of God, the Blessed
Trinity, etc.; not just "Jesus" and "Mary." Most important,
we must convey our own love and devotion to our God
and his Church. Without this all our effort will be wasted.
All rights reserved by the author and this article may
not be reproduced in any form w/o her written permission.
�The Handicapped Child in Church School
Orthodox Teacher Education Program
by Archpriest George Alberts
In setting out to write this article, sev~ral thou~hts, ideas
and questions arose in my mind. I w~uld ll_keto begin by looking at some of them as a preface to this article. .
.
Having served in parishes in four of o~~ six regions_ of
SOYO (the new Fellowship of St. John the ~1v1ne),an_dhaving
attended numerous local, regional and national meetings and
workshops, one thought immediately stru~k me. Wh~ have I
never heard one person bring up the question of handicapped
children in the church school? Of all the questions I have heard
and discussions I have participated in, why was this or relat~d
questions never asked? The answers I arrived at ~re that this
"problem" does not exist; it is being handled effectively or the
handicapped are not being included in o~r Church Sc~ools.
Let us begin by dividing this group into the_physically a~d
mentally handicapped. The first group I would like to deal with
is the physically handicapped. If by this we mea~ reduce~ or
limited mobility, I can see the first problem we might run into.
How many of our churches are barrier free in the sense that
these physically limited children (and adults) can freely enter,
move about and exit the church and church school rooms or
meeting areas? If they cannot get in, they cannot participate
and learn! Well, not exactly. Besides physically changing our
existing church architecture, we can make some changes in
how we deal with these students. Materials can be given to
them to do at home with the help of their parents. Class audio
tapes (or videos) can be made with the instruction and students' questions and answers. The "shut-in" church school student can listen to them and even record his/her responses,
questions and thoughts. They can also record their reactions
and questions on the next lesson and these can be played to
the class. In this way the student can "participate" in the class.
These are very impersonal ways of meeting this challenge.
Other more "personal" ways can be used as well. Why not
(with the parents' consent) bring the class to the child on some
regular basis. This can be done in conjunction with the tapes or
the parent teaching the lessons. It will also work with the "shutin" child who is not physically handicapped, but is confined due
to a long-term illness. The meeting place can be in the child's
home, another's home that is accessible or another "public"
meeting place that is barrier free, such as a public library. Not
only will the children learn their textbooks lessons, but they will
also learn another important lesson. That lesson is that the
Church includes everyone, both the able and the disabled
alike. They will learn that Christ comes to all who make an
effort to come to Him. Ideally, the church school itself might
even set a goal of raising funds to have the church and the
church school area made barrier free.
In looking at the physically handicapped, we also have to
address those who are visually and hearing impaired. Several
things can be done with visually impaired. Lessons and books
can be enlarged very easily with readily accessible photocopy
machines. Overhead projectors can be used in teaching so
that the material is larger than board work. There is also a variety of pre-made color transparencies on various topics.
Transparencies can be made on most photocopiers. Lessons
can be copied and other resource material used. The class can
also be made more "verbal" in nature. That is, the lessons can
be read or summarized before a discussion rather than the
"you read it and then we'll discuss it" format. This will work with
those who are totally sightless as well. Again audio tapes can
be used with these students, with other students reading the
lessons. If you review your video tapes, you may also find that
the sound track can usually stand alone without the video. The
si~hted children can see and hear the video while the sightless
children can learn from the audio portion as well. Radio does
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this today by playing the sound track of your favorite TV commercials. An excellent project for older church school classes
or Teen SOYO could be reading various church school materials or Orthodox books onto cassettes.
The American
Association for the Blind also does this type of thing. A church
or deanery can purchase a tape duplicator which can make
quick and inexpensive copies of your tapes (as well as sermons, lectures, workshops, etc.) and these can be distributed
to the visually handicapped in the parish or deanery as a
whole. Remember, Christian education does not end at acertain age.
The hearing impaired or the deaf present a greater problem
in the sense that not many of us are trained in sign language.
In these cases, the classes must be much more visual than
audible. Again an overhead projector works well. Discussion
questions can be written on transparencies
with student
answers being written on blank transparencies (or blackboard).
In this way the hearing impaired students can "see" the other
students' answers as well as the questions and can answer
himself by writing on the transparency. Filmstrips with written
captions can also be used or the student who is hearing
impaired can be given the written script (which usually accompanies the filmstrip) to read and follow. The ideal would be to
have someone knowing sign language attend the class and
help out. This same person could also "sign" the Divine Liturgy
and sermon.
Physical handicaps may be hard to deal with, but most can
be "overcome" with a little thought, creativity and love.
Overcoming them requires two things: First, that the handicapped individual wants to learn and participate. Second, that
we allow him/her to do so and make every effort to make their
participation possible.
If we move from the physically handicapped to the mentally
handicapped, we find the process of education a little more difficult in some ways but easier in others. Through many years
of involvement with Special Olympics, I have found one thing
that seems to be a constant. Although most mentally handicapped persons may not understand theological theories,
words, etc., they most certainly understand God and His love
for them and others. Their faith, hope and love is for the most
part strong, honest, and unquestionable. Maybe this is why
many people just do not know how to act in their presence. Our
assumed role playing does not seem to work.
.
First, let me dispel the myth that "they" cannot learn like
"us." The mentally handicapped, especially the slightly or moderately handicapped person, can indeed learn (and probably
teach us a few things as well). What is usually necessa~ for
their learning is repetition and sensual stimulation, two th1~gs
that the Orthodox Church is noted for and very familiar with.
Prayers that are repeated over and over again are good to
begin with in teaching younger children. Teachers should use
the same prayer before and after lessons - prayers that ar~
also heard and said in church. Have all of the students say it
together. Do it in front of an icon preferably with a vigil light an_d
add a scented candle (unless incense can be used). In ~his
way there is both repetition and stimulation of speech, hearing,
sight, smell and touch (kissing the icon). For most of the me~tally handicapped structure is important. It not only helps in
learning, but also aids in making the child feel secure as well.
That is why it is important to have a sense of structure to your
class for all of your students.
In teaching, follow the example of Christ and use everyday
situations or experiences to teach your lesson. Concepts ca~
be taught in this form much better than in lengthy verba
(Continued on Page 20)
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Families and Stories
October 14-17, 1993
The Department of Christian Education of the Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Archdiocese has planned its fourth annual
Orthodox Teacher Education Program on the themes of
Families and Stories. Both of the themes are intimately tied
together; in addition they speak to the ancient tradition of the
Orthodox Church.
The themes and the manner in which they are dealt with
will be of value to both parents and teachers.
The Department of Christian Education seeks to provide
more than lectures and information about teaching. Sound
education theory must focus on teacher preparation through
practice and hands-on-techniques. Anyone who has attended
our previous programs know~ that above all el~e we want you
to return with new or more highly honed teaching and parenting skills.
For these reasons we have selected the best possible people available. On Friday, Father Theodore Pulcini will present
three workshops on nurturing faith in the Christian homes and
relating that faith to what the children are doing in the church
school program. On Saturday, Cindy Guthrie will help you learn
all there is to know about stories, writing stories, and telling
stories. Recent research among educators as well as anthropologists have shown the significance of "stories" in the life of
all people regardless of their age.
.
..
We have taken a major step to place stones and fam1l1es
as two foundational principles of sound Christian education. As
is usual with our training programs we like to limit the number
of participants to no more than seventy-five. We hope to train
each participant in the use of several teaching strategies which
they can use when they return home to assist in the preparation of their fellow teachers.
The objectives of the Orthodox Teacher Education program
are:
1. to give the participants the tools to relate church school
materials to the nurturing of children at home;
2. to be able to nurture children in Christian traditions and
beliefs;
.
3. to assist parents in creating Christian lifestyles in the
home;
4. to enable the teacher to recite stories;
5. to communicate skills basic to effective listening;
6. to enable the teacher to create stories.
Workshop Leaders
Father Theodore Pulcini is a former pastor of St. George
Church in Cleveland Ohio. He holds degrees from Harvard,
Notre Dame and the 'catholic University of America and is currently compl~ting his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh.
His specialty is family life and values formation.
.
..
Cindy Guthrie is a professional story teller, with trai~ing
and degrees in library science and elementary education.
Cindy specializes in stories of a religious nature and has traveled throughout the world collecting stories as well ~s techniques. She has worked for the Episcopal Church in North
America and her husband is an Episcopal priest.
Location
The Orthodox Teacher Education Program will be ~eld_at
the beautiful Heritage and Learning Center of the Antiochi~n
Village in Ligonier, PA. Access to the co~fere_nce center is
easy. Directions will be supplied after reg1strat1onforms are
received. Pick-up from the airport, however, can ~nly be provided from the Latrobe airport, approximately 20 _minutesaway
by car. Please contact the Conference Center directly by tele-
phone (412) 238-3677 with any questions you might have.
Rooms will fill quickly so get your registrations in early.
Accommodations at the one-hundred-room facility are hotelstyle and the conference facilities are the best in the area.
This is a tightly packed program. It is designed to give each
participant specific skills in dealing with the learner, the learning situation, and the learning materials or subject manner. We
have tried to allow for free time to just relax or tour the Villages'
beautiful facilities. The cost for the conference will be $125
plus $10 non-refundable registration fee per person for double
occupancy. Single occupancy will be $180 plus a $10 nonrefundable. Both include eight meals. Those wishing to attend
only part of the conference will be charged $30 per day, which
includes the meals for the day. The cost is to be paid directly to
the Heritage and Learning Center. Please send registration fee
and form below to the Orthodox Teacher Education Program.
Registration Form
Please reserve a place for me at the Orthodox Teacher
Education Program. Enclosed is a $10.00 non-refundable
deposit for each participant. (Make photocopies for additional
participants.)
Name ___________________
_
Address ___________________
City __________
_
State ___
Zip ____
Parish ___________________
Single room _______
_
_
Double room _____
Indicate roommate _______________
_
_
Arrival at Latrobe Airport
Date ____________
Time _____
_
Time _____
_
Departure from Latrobe Airport
Date ____________
Send to:
Orthodox Teacher Education Program
Heritage and Learning Center
Rt. 711 N, Box 638
Ligonier, PA 15658
The Department of Christian Education of the
Antiochian Archdiocese is happy to announce the
appearance of a new series of audio ~apes to ~e
entitled "Education Dynamics." The first tapes in
this series are available and are entitled and priced
as follows:
Education Dynamics I "Foundations of ~rthodox Christian Education," by Dr. John L. BooJamra.
(40 minutes) $7.70, includes shipping and handling.
Education Dynamics II ''The Growin_gChild in
the Christian Home," by Dr. John L. BooJamr~. (60
minutes) $11.00, includes shipping and handling.
The Education Dynamics Series will continue as
new tapes become available.
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�The Handicapped Child in Church School
explanations which can become confusing for any student. The
teacher of a mentally handicapped child really needs to be creative and thoughtful in order for the lesson to be successfully
understood. But in the end, everyone benefits.
Second, I would like to point out that the greatest source of
teaching is example. As I stated previously, the mentally handicapped have a strong sense of love, fairness and honesty. It is
very hard for them to understand, much less justify, the hypocritical actions of someone, especially someone they hold in
high regard. They will be quick to notice these hypocrisies and
equally quick to point them out. We should never try to teach
one thing while doing another. For example, a teacher who
teaches the importance of frequent Communion and never
takes the Sacrament is a total contradiction, which I guarantee
will not go unnoticed. The best way to teach then is a combination of repetition (reinforcement), stimulation (sight, sound,
(cont.from p. 16)
(Continued from Page 18)
touch, etc.), relating material being taught to everyday life situations, and by example.
Finally, I would like to conclude_with those ~hildren who are
both physically an~ mentally hand1c~pped. This group is very
difficult to work with and may require a combination of the
above mentioned techniques. Extreme cases need to be
looked at on an individual basis and programs need to be tailored to meet these needs. This may even require professional
assistance to make_the program _work. In any case, we should
do all that we possibly can to bnng everyone to Christ and to
bring Christ to everyone.
In a future article I will deal with the need to train the "normal" children to work with and accept the handicapped.
Fr. George pastors churches in Monessen and Brownsville
PA.
I
Jurassic Park: A Movie Review
by John Daly, age 10
Bergenfield, N.J.
The following review by John Daly is an effort to allow you
to express your views of contemporary cinema. John gives us
his view of "Jurassic Park" and raises a serious moral issue.
J.L.B.
On June 11, 1993 my family and I went to see the movie
Jurassic Park. My brother and my father had already read the
book Jurassic Park and were anxious to see the film. I was in
the middle of reading it when we went to see the movie. I
expected it to be a terrific film because it was based on a best
selling novel and because movie reviewers were saying that it
was excellent.
The movie was better than I thought it would be! Jurassic
Park had great special effects, a great story, and terrific acting,
but it was as a movie picture that I liked it best. It was just great
fun to watch.
It was more than a great movie because it raised some
very important issues such as those raised by the character
Ian Malcolm. Malcolm said that the scientists at Jurassic Park
were too concerned about if they could replicate dinosaurs
rather than if they should do it. Scientists today should look
before they leap because they could create a disaster.
Stephen Spielberg limited the amount of gore and violence
in this movie. Which proves that it is possible to make a good
action film and still limit the amount of gore. I believe that children younger than nine should not see the movie.
I would give this movie four "dinostars"!
How About Advent!
An Advent Calendar for the Orthodox Christian Family
By Father-Kurt Speier and Deacon John Finley
Edited by Dr. John Boojamra
. Price: $9.00, (+ 10% postage and handling)
Published by the Orthodox Christian Education Commission
Order from: PO Box 69 Colvin Station • Syracuse New York 13205
T~tw Abo_u~~dv~nt! i~ desig~ed to guide the Orthodox ~a~ily from the beginning of Advent through the Feast of the Nativity, December
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throughout the central region of the
Russian Federation.
Pensioners and
other needy people will benefit from
the program,
as will residents
of
orphanages, hospitals, old-age homes
and other social service institutions; it
is estimated that more than 400,000
people will receive assistance in this
program.
.
.
This is the first maJor grant awarded
directly to IOCC. Last year, working in
collaboration with Brother's Brother
Foundation and the Russian Orthodox
Church, IOCC supervised the distribution of approximately
12,000 metric
tons of food commodities, through 450
Russian organizations and institutions.
Alex Rondos, IOCC's Executive
Director, stated, "Orthodox Christians
of North America are grateful for the
opportunity to reach so many people
in need in Russia and to be able to
fulfill our mission to the poor. The
Russian Orthodox Church, collaborating ecumenically with other groups in
Russia, is particularly well-suited to
identify those who are most in need in
circumstances
prevailing
in Russia
today. With this support the Church
can also be a significant contributor to
social stability and justice in post-communist Russia."
In a statement from the Very Rev.
Robert S. Kondratick, Chancellor of
the Orthodox Church in America, he
expressed that, "we are delighted with
the news ... It again reinforces IOCC
as a serious humanitarian aid agency
that has won respect based on the
work it has already accomplished. We
appreciate our government's response
to the needs of others in all lands
where there is a crisis ... "
IOCC is the international humanitarian assistance organization of Orthodox Christians in the United States and
Canada. IOCC was created in March,
1992 by the Standing Conference of
Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the
Americas (SCOBA), which represents all
major canonical Orthodox jurisdictions
in the Americas with the support of lay
leaders. His Eminence Archbishop
Iakovos is the Chairman of SCOBA.
OCAMPR Conference
Workshops to Focus on
Orthodox Personal,
Professional Identity
Bishop Kallistos Ware of Diokleia
and Dr. Christos Yannaras of Panteion
University in Athens will be the featured speakers for the Eighth Annual
National Conference of the Orthodox
Christian Association of Medicine
Psychology and Religion (O.C.A.M.P.R.)'.
November 3-7, at Hellenic CollegeHoly Cross School of Theology, in
Brookline. This year's expanded fiveday National program will feature four
pre-conference
professional
workshops focusing on "Personhood,"
addressing particular needs of physicians, psychologists
and clergy:
"Toward Developing
an Orthodox
Psychology," "Orthodox Identity and
the Medical Health Professional " "The
Identity of Orthodox Priests in Modern
America," and "Clergy Sexual Misconduct."
Orthodox Psychology
The opening workshop "Toward
Developing an Orthodox Psychology,"
designed for mental health professionals will be presented
by John T.
Chirban, Ph.D., Th.D., professor of
psychology at Hellenic College/Holy
Cross and an Advanced Fellow in behavioral medicine at Harvard Medical
School at The Cambridge Hospital and
J. Steven Muse, Ph.D., a psychologist
and Senior Pastoral Counselor at the
Pastoral Institute, a division of the
nonprofit Bradley Center Psychiatric
Hospital. This workshop will provide
an opportunity for clinicians and theologians to discuss the needs, methodologies and content of the interface
between Orthodox theology and modern psychology. The traditional approach of Orthodox anthropology will
be juxtaposed to perspectives of modern psychology which may be adaptable to an "Orthodox Psychology".
Specific case issues from pastoral
counseling and clinical intervention
will demonstrate the utility of this area.
For more information, contact: Ms.
Jennifer .Keohan, Orthodox Christian
Association of Medicine, Psychology,
and Religion, P.O. Box 958, Cambridge, MA 02238. Phone: (617) 8686 557 _
Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomeos I Visits
Egypt, Syria and Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon - H.H. Patriarch
Bartholomeos I visited Egypt
yria
and Lebanon between April 24 and
May 4, 1993. Ordained prie t in 1969
he was elected unanimously Archbishop of ConstaI).tinople and Ecu-
menical Patriarch in 1991.
While in Egypt, he vi ited H.B. Patriarch Partheneo I of Alexandria and
H.H. Pope henouda III of the Coptic
Orthodox Church, a well a the
Prime Minister of Egypt Mr. Atef idki.
He also went to the Convent of t.
Catherine in the inai. During a r c ption given by H.H. Pope henouda III
the Ecumenical Patriarch empha iz d
the wish of the Oriental and Ea t rn
Orthodox Churche "to witne to th
one faith and to over ome all that
divides them in vie
of fulfilling
God's will that all be one."
In Syria, the Ecumenical Patriarch
was hosted at a reception given in hi
honor by H.B. Patriarch Ignatius I .
He also visited H.H. Patriarch Zacca I
of the Syrian Orthodox Church a
well as other head of churches in
Syria. His time in Damascu
wa
crowned by the visit to President
Hafez el-Assad who stressed that yria
is "attached to the spiritual value that
the religions have carried from our
land to the end of the world."
In an interview given to the pres
Patriarch Bartholomeos
I deplored
fanaticism as "an obstacle to peace."
He said "We spiritual leader
can
instruct and teach our faithful to avoid
religions fanaticism . . . Thi i the fir t
important step towards peace in the
region." He also called for genuine
cooperation between the world r ligious leaders in order to promote
unity among divided Christian and all
religions in order to create a better
world of the 21st century.
Under the sign of love unity and
peace the Ecumenical Patriarch arri d
in Lebanon on the econd tag of hi,
visit to the Church of Antioch. Th r
he was received by and met with all
Lebanese church and Mu lim lead r .
At the Mona tery and
ni er ity f
Balamand, welcoming p ch
r
delivered by Bi hop G. Abou Zakham
and by the univer ity pr id nt Dr.
Ghas an Tueini ho rev al d that an
institute of I lamic-Chri tian tudi ,
will be established in Balamand with
the aim of "promoting
a gr at r
knowledge of our plural cultur ." H
remarked, 'It i not forbidd n to h p
to contribute to the er ati
tion of the oth r dial gu on
will depend th future of our
- and
ho know - the futur
the Mediterranean
orld." The
Patriarch al o met with Lebane
Pre ident Elia Hra ui wh in hi
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�word of welcome emphasized that
'coexistence is the challenge to all
Lebanese. It is the model which leads
us to seek a world which is called to
safeguard all rights through peaceful
relations." President Hraoui added:
"We seek to rehabilitate the human
being who should become the image
of God."
While receiving the Ecumenical
Patriarch in his cathedral at Antelias,
Lebanon, H.H. Catholicose Karekin II
said in his words of welcome: "Your
visit to us in Lebanon in these decisive
days is a great contribution for the enhancement of the spirit of attachment
to our beloved country which is
touched by the feet of our Lord."
During his visit to Lebanon, the
Ecumenical Patriarch was the guest of
Metropolitan Elias Audeh who organized in his honor a special reception,
a liturgical celebration at St. George
Cathedral and a luncheon attended by
President and Mrs. Hraoui, the Apostolic Nuncio, the heads of churches
including Patriarch N. Sfeir of the
Maronite Church and other prominent
political and religious personalities.
In one of his many speeches, the
Ecumenical Patriarch underlined that
"Christian unity is directed against no
other religion or doctrine. It constitutes a step towards dialogue with
other religions in view of reaching
human harmony in a world in need of
peace ... " (MECC)
Arab Orthodox Executive
Committee Statement
Deploring Israeli Closure
of Occupied Territories
Jerusalem,
2 April 1993 - The
Executive Committee of the Arab
Orthodox Community condemns and
denounces the decision of the occupation authorities to impose a siege on
our people detaining them and isolating the city of Jerusalem, the cradle of
the three monotheistic religions, from
the other occupied territories.
These arbitrary and unjust actions
are creating great damage and constitute new obstacles on the road to
peace.
The continuation of the isolation of
the 1.8 million Palestinians will result
in the depletion of their food and
medical supp lies as well as needed
raw material. It will prevent our people from reaching the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to join
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the prayers at the end of Holy Week
in preparation for the celebration of
Easter.
We consider these actions as direct
violations of basic human rights and
call for their cessation, for the immediate lifting of the siege and for the full
commitment of the Israeli authorities
to the resolution of the present conflict through total withdrawal from the
occupied territories.
On the basis of our commitment to
the humanity of the human being we
appeal to all states and international
organizations to intervene to protect
people and enable them to enjoy their
basic human rights provided to them
by all the international conventions
and charters.
The Executive Committee of the
Arab Orthodox Community in Occupied Palestine
(translated by MECC News Report
from the original Arabic text.)
Declaration on
"Christians in the
Holy Land"
The following
declaration
on
"Christians in the Holy Land" was
unanimously adopted by an international s,eminar in Windsor, UK, over
Pentecost
weekend
(28[30 May).
Attending was an eighteen-member
delegation from Jerusalem, including
representatives
of the Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Latin Catholic
patriarchates and the Anglican Church,
as well as church leaders and academics from the Middle East Council of
Churches, International Christian Committee of Israel, the Lutheran Church
and the Society of Friends. Among the
forty participants
from outside the
Holy Land were representatives of the
Council of Churches for Britain and
Ireland, Christian Aid, the Conference
of European Churches and the European Ecumenical
Commission
for
Church and Society. Papers read at the
seminar will be published later this
year.
. ~e are conscious of the privilege of
hvmg, and keeping alive the Christian
faith where the church was born.
The Christian community in the land
of Jesus has witnessed to our Lord in
th~ ~idst of all the changing social,
rehg10us and political conditions over
a period of two millennia.
We reaffirm our responsibility and
constant determination on behalf of
the checkpoint, people were emotionally moved and spiritually stirred at its
sight. As usual, they st~rted to sing.
This displeased the soldiers. One soldier grabbed the candle of the Holy
Light from t~e han_d of a boy scout
and extinguished
1t on the ground
with his foot. Other soldiers were trying to confiscate all the lanterns from
the hands of the crowd preventing the
Holy Light from being carried to
Ramallah where more than 12 thousand worshippers
were awaiting its
arrival.
Orthodox Christians fervently revere Holy Light and its sanctimonious
connotation because it symbolizes the
Resurrection of Jesus Christ. This
belief is also shared by other Christian
denominations.
We, Clergy of Ramallah, who consider Jerusalem the heart of our religion, as do Muslims:
1. Repudiate the closure of Jerusalem to Palestinian
Muslim and
Christians, and demand that the Holy
City be kept open for all those who
believe in God.
2. Condemn the desecration of the
Holy Light by Israeli soldiers. This act
is against all principles of reconciliation, justice and peace that the church
advocates.
3. Request all people of good will to
raise up their voices to stop the violation of human rights of the Palestinian
people by closing
Jerusalem
to
Christian and Muslim worshippers,
and obstructing our right to worship.
(MECC)
Ramallah, 21 April 1993
Christians throughout
the world to
safeguard our sacred heritage, alon
with that of Muslims and Jews.
g
While we, in the main, are an Arab
Palestinian Christian community w
treasure in our midst the presen~e 0~
members of our churches from a great
variety of nations.
We _are sadde1:e~ by the ongoing
reduction of the md1genous Christians
in the land of Jesus, which requires
urgent attention.
We deplore the lack of access for
Palestinians from the Occupied Territories to the Holy City of Jerusalem
and urge that free access to it be guar~
anteed for all peoples at all times.
We urge our Christian Palestinian
sisters and brothers to stand firm in
their ancestral home in the land of
Jesus. We expect all Palestinians who
have emigrated,
or were forced to
leave, to come back. We request all
relevant
bodies to assist in their
return.
We have always welcomed the constant flow of Christian pilgrims to the
Holy Land from all over the world and
we encourage them to meet and pray
with the Living Stones.
As the church, living in a broadly
Arab and Muslim culture in the Middle
East, we witness to our Christian faith
in dialogue with our sisters and brothers of the Muslim and Jewish faiths.
We share the aspirations
of the
Palestinian people for an end to occupation and for national independence.
We therefore advocate and support a
just and lasting peace in the region.
We call on the international community to respect and protect the unique
historic nature of the Holy City of
Jerusalem, and all the Holy Land, as
being sacred to Jews, Christians and
Muslims. IEPS}
Signatures:
Archimandrite Dionysios
Greek Orthodox Convent
Marwan E. Toubassi
Arab Orthodox Conference
Father Louis Favra
Holy Family Roman Catholic Church
Rev. Salem Darwaji
St. Andrew Evangelical Church
Rev. Audeh Rantisi
Evangelical Home for Boys
Rev. Nicola Akel
Ein Greek Orthodox Church
Father Nazih Hayek
Greek Catholic Church
Rev. Munib A. Younan
Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Hope
Rev. George Makhlouf
Greek Orthodox Church
Statement by the Clergy
ofRamallah
On Holy Saturday (Easter Eve) every
year, Orthodox Christians in Jerusalem
deliver the Holy Light to every church
in Palestine and to many churches
abroad via the airport. The Holy Light
is traditionally
received
from the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
This year, contrary to the usual tradition, the clergy of Ramallah_ wer~
compelled to receive the Holy Lighta_
the checkpoint installed by the Israeli
Authorities to separate the two occupied cities of Ramallah and Jerusalem.
After the arrival of the Holy Light at
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Humanitarian Efforts
Cross Lines in
Yugoslavia
May 25, 1993 (Baltimore) - The
growing crisis in those areas of Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, accessible from Serbia is now exacerbated
by tighter sanctions. Despite adverse
conditions and continued resistance
Baltimore-based International Ortho~
dox Christian Charities (IOCC) is
expanding operations to provide humanitarian assistance to people of all
ethnic and religious groups displaced
or besieged by this civil war.
IOCC, one of the very few private
international relief organizations working through Belgrade, has provided
food and medical assistance worth
over $2 million to these areas affected
by the conflict since December 1992.
"Relief supplies and commitments
are falling dangerously short of needs,
and with the impact of sanctions, we
can anticipate a severe humanitarian
crisis in those areas of the former
Yugoslavia that are under Serbian control," reports Alexander Rondos, IOCC
Executive Director, who recently returned from an assessment trip to Belgrade.
Rondos added that, "We also offer
IOCC as an agency that may be able
to gain access through the Serbian
lines, now obstructing relief to primarily Muslim communities besieged in
Bosnia: an offer that we have held out
as an Orthodox Christian agency that
is appalled by the plight of so many
that are trapped in Bosnia."
To date, IOCC proposals to the U.S.
Government to support such initiatives
have received no response. The U.S.
Government and other governments
are the principle suppliers of assistance and, "It is saddening and unusual that the traditional role of a private
humanitarian organization has been
neglected
in this instance,"
said
Rondos.
Over half a million people are displaced and accessible
only from
Serbia and their conditions worsen as
sanctions tear apart the underpinnings
of the Serbian economy. Populations
in the newly designated protected
areas in Bosnia also have to pass
through Bosnian Serb military lines.
However, relief supplies committed
through Serbia have dwindled. The
United Nations appeals have not been
met and fears have been expressed
about need for the econd half of
1993.
IOCC has provided its a i tan e
through the Serbian Orthodox Church
and is expanding to support r li f
efforts to elderly urban population
orphanages and has committed a regular supply of food to the ou p
kitchen run by the Mu lim Mufti of
Belgrade.
IOCC is the international humanitarian organization of Orthodox Chri tians in the United tates and Canada
created by the Standing Conference of
Canonical Orthodox Bishop of the
Americas (SCOBA).
Wish List for Antiochian
Village Camp and
Conference Center
Luggage racks for 2
passenger vans @
$750 each
1,500.00
Back packing program
1,500.00
21,000.00
New 16 passenger van
40 gallon electric water
200.00 each
heaters (need 5)
600.00
Pressure washer
300.00
Two ton floor jack
100.00
Jack stands
2,500.00
Concrete bays at shop
Leaf and debris sweeper
for tractor
2,000.00
Two heavy duty weed eaters
700.00
Sears 600 piece tool set
2,200.00
with tool chest
1,200.00
Mig welder
300.00
Welding accessories
300.00
Torch kit
Mini golf program each
3,200.00
hole @ 200 (need 16)
20" Magnavox color TV
VHS/VCR combination
500.00
(need 2)
St. Thekla chapel renovation 2,000.00
5 000.00
Horse stable renovation
1 000.00
Portable generator
Vacuum sweepers
(need 10)
500.00 Each
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�LIFESTYLESX
He Keeps Going and Going
RECENT EVENTS AT THE ARCHDIOCESE
by Father Edward Pehanich
ike the rabbit in the television
commercial for Energizer batteries it seems that scarcely a week
ooes by without Dr. Jack Kevorkian
;iding another person in committing
suicide. Since 1980 eight women and
1 man have committed suicide with
his help. Even though the state of
Michigan recently passed a law making assisted suicide a felony, Kevorkian has promised
to ignore it.
According to his attorney Geoffrey
Fieger, "Dr. Kevorkian told me that he
is held to a higher standard."
While criticism of Dr. Kevorkian is
heard in all segments of society, he
also has a strong base of support
which is steadily growing. To see this,
one needs only to consider that last
year voters in Washington nearly approved Initiative 119 which would
have legalized physician assisted suicide. Further evidence of his support
is seen in a recent Boston Globe/
Harvard School of Public Health poll
showing strong support for physician
assisted suicide. While many condemn
the actions of a man often referred to
as a "madman," hardly anyone is asking why it is that he has struck an
obvious nerve among a large segment
of the general public. Something is
wrong with our health care system
and the way people die in North
America that causes people to think
that only a radical escape from the
process will bring peace. Proponents
of euthanasia and physician assisted
suicide see the options available to
the ill and the dying as being clear
cut: stay in the system and have a
merciless death or end it yourself and
have a merciful, peaceful death.
What's Wrong With Our System?
Part of the problem fueling this attitude equating the system with a merciless end is found in what should he
considered one of the strengths of our
society: a health care system that is
advanced, highly technical and efficient, and also expensive. Our system
of medicine is very good at maintaining life but sometimes
with little
regard for the expense involved or for
the psychological, emotional, and spir-
L
The Spring meeting of the Archdiocese Board of Trustees was held
in New Jersey on May 21 and 22, 1993. The above photo shows
only one of four tables of Trustees who came together with the
Metropolitan Primate to resolve Archdiocesan matters.
His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP hosted the Trustees at a dinner at his home in Englewood.
Honored guests included His
Excellency, Khalil Makkawi, Ambassador of Lebanon to the UN
The Honorable and Mrs. Antoine Chedid, Counsel General
Lebanon in New York, and The Honorable
and Mrs. Clovis
Maksood, former ambassador of the Arab League.
His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP hosted a luncheon for His
Beatitude, Metropolitan THEODOSIUS, Primate of the Orthodox
Church in America, on June 23, 1993 at the Archdiocesan
Headquarters, at which time, mutual concerns were discussed.
Als~ in ~ttendance were Archpriest George S. Corey, Vicar of the
Ant1och1an Archdiocese,
and Archpriest Robert Kondratick
Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America.
'
Construction of the new headquarters
at the Archdiocese has
been completed. The additions include the bishop's apartment at
the far left, the secretary's
office
at the far right, the
Metropolitan's new office next to it, and the new library and sitting room in front of the Metropolitan's office. The new additions
are in the rear of the main house. Funding for this construction
came from the reserve funds of the Archdiocese.
of
Archpriest John Hamatie of St. George Church in Orlando,
Florida presented an original portrait to His Eminenc_e,
Metropolitan
PHILIP at the Archdiocese
Convention 1fl
Pittsburgh, during the General Assembly.
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THE WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
itual needs of the patient and family. legislation- hut we can see to it that the
Our system attracts the attention and sick, the lderly, and the dying in our
praise of all for its expertise and life- communities are surrounded with the
saving skills in aiding those who are same kind of loving attention. Every
acutely ill but it is less than outstandparish could have some kind of a
ing in the care of those with long
"Caring Committee" which reaches out
term, chronic, progressive illnesses:
to those who are sick, alone, or d ing
people who must live for years with with friendly visits, giving transportaillnesses that debilitate them, people
tion to doctor's offices and shopping,
who need assistance in a dignified
and providing respite time for the
manner with the activities of daily liv- often stressed families. Sometimes it is
ing, people who need aggressive pain simply the presence of a truly caring
management.
Kevorkian often finds friend which can giv a sick person
support in our society because of the the will to go on living.
Meaning in Suffering
mistaken but common notion that
Another of the needs of the chronimost serious illnesses such as cancer
always cause tremendous
pain and cally and terminally ill is the need to
find meaning in their suffering. nee
that there is nothing that can he done
a person is receiving appropriate pain
to ease that pain. Meanwhile because
of the high cost of medical care, the and symptom control, has the necessubtle message reaching many chroni- sary medical equipment, and has the
cally and terminally ill people is "get support of a loving family and friends
out of the way," "don't be a burden to the fact remains that he is still facing a
your family," "do the right thing" and certain degree of debilitation and suffering. It is almost everyone who
end your life.
Thankfully within our health care sometimes in the midst of illness or
suffering cries out "Why?" "Why am T
system
hospice
programs
have
suffering so?" Unless we help the sick
emerged to answer many of these
problems for the terminally ill. But it is and suffering find a higher purpose
beyond the scope or intent of this arti- and meaning to their suffering they
cle to attempt to find solutions for our will have little desire or reason to go
health care system. Certainly if our on living and will fine.Ithe likes of Dr.
Kevorkian very attractive. Advocates
President and Congress are having
problems finding answers, how can of euthanasia and physician assisted
our small Orthodox Church he in any suicide find no higher meaning or
position to do the same? But what we purpose in suffering, hence for them
the most merciful way to aid those
can and must do is address the needs
of the chronically and terminally ill incurably ill is to dispose of the sufferwhich lead them to feel that death is er.
It is our Faith though, that teach,..,
the only solution.
us that while the devil is the source of
Harold Kushner, author of When
pain and suffering, Goe.I turn'> thi">
Bad Things
Happen
to Good
hack
on him and can use it for our
People described the terminal illness
good.
It is a symbol of pain and sufof his teenage son which hecame so
fering - a cross that is the n~ry symsevere that he sometimes had to sleep
in a near standing position in order to bol of this Faith . .'pace does not p 'rprevent his lungs from filling w'.th mit hut I could write paragraph"> on
fluid. Despite the severity of the ill- people who have told me how they
ness, Kushner reported that his son have been blessed through suffering-..
could not wait to get up in the morn- and difficulties of all kind'>. It c ·rtainly
ing and looked forward to each ~lay is not easy to belie e thi">while in the
midst of pain, such vision U">uall h ·because of the love, care and attenuon
comes
clear only with hind..,ight hut
he was surrounded with from his fampeople
ha,·e des -rihed a ne,-. intimaq
ily and friends. As a Church we may
not be ahle to help change health care among famil member">, appreciation
�for the simple things in life, conversion of life, a new closeness and reliance on God all as a result of their
experience of problems and suffering.
While people often think that problems and suffering in life are signs of
God's vengeance and punishment,
many of the sainted Fathers of our
Church teach just the opposite: problems and sufferings in life are a sign
of God's love and concern.
It is
through these difficulties that God is
working in our lives to perfect us, to
bring us into union with Him, and to
bring about what is most important to
Him - the salvation of our souls. If
our goal in life as Orthodox Christians
is salvation and union with God (theosis) how can this be possible unless
we imitate the life of Jesus and suffer
as He did? Jesus Himself instructs us:
If any man would come after me, let
him deny himself, and take up his
cross and follow me. (Matt. 16:24).
St. Theophan the Recluse, a 19th
century Russian bishop, in commenting on this passage wrote:
One cannot go after the Lord, the
Cross-bearer, without a cross: and all
who go after Him, without fail go with
a cross ... Such a cross is so united
with a Christian that where a Christian is there also is this cross, but
where' this cross is not, there also a
Christian is not . . . But rejoice, feeling
upon yourself the cross, /or that is the
sign that you are.following the Lord on
the path of salvation to Paradise.
Endure a little. Just ahead lies the end
and the crown.
Echoing these words, another 19th
century Russian bishop, St. Ignatius
Brianchaninov, agrees that problems
and suffering are really a sign of God's
DID YOU KNOW
... that the main feast days in September are
The Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year and
Environmental
Day (1st); The Birth of the
Theotokos (8th); The Elevation of the Cross and
a strict fast day (14th); The Conception of the
Prophet and Baptist John (23rd); The Repose of
St. John the Theologian (26th).
. . . that the Church of Cyprus is tenth in rank,
after the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria,
Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Georgia, Serbia,
Romania and Bulgaria. Orthodox Christianity was
introduced there by St. Barnabas the Apostle in
46 A.D. In 325 A.D. at the First Ecumenical
Council, it was placed under the jurisdiction of
the Church of Jerusalem. In 413 A.D., it became
autocephalous, and has remained such since that
time. It is presently headed by His Beatitude,
Archbishop CHRYSOSTOM,whose official title is
"Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus."
The seat of the Church is in Nicosia. Unfortunately the island is now divided, which places
a great strain on the Church and the people. The
Church of Cyprus has no jurisdiction in North
America nor the West in general.
. . . that the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch and
Synod of Bishops within the former Yugoslavia
have openly taken a stand against the Serbian
government and military and the various Serbian
militias, and the Church of Serbia has declared its
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love and concern:
A sorrowless earthly life is a true sign
that the Lord has turned His Jace from
a man, and that he is displeasing to
God, even though outwardly he may
seem reverent and virtuous.
Dr. Kevorkian has a growing base
of support in our land but it would be
foolish for us to condemn his actions
without determining
w_hy so many
people are attracted to his message. It
is our duty, as the Body of Christ in
this world to offer not only our comforting presence and help to the sick
and suffering but to bring to them this
vision that God is truly working with
them while they feel at their lowest
point.
Father Edward Pehanich is a priest
in the Carpatho-Russian Diocese and
Spiritual
Director
of Orthodox
Christians for Life.
?
opposition to "ethnic cleansing." The Church is
presently giving aid and comfort to ALL the people of the country: Orthodox, Roman Catholics,
Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and unbelievers as
well.
... that Orthodox Pascha (Easter) will be very
late in 1994. It falls on Sunday, May 1. Western
Easter is April 3, 1994.
... that on September 14, we celebrate the
ELEVATION OF THE CROSS. This feast is connected with the historical event of Emperor
Heracleios' recovering the Cross of Christ from
the Persians into whose hands it had fallen in
614 A.D. The Cross was raised in the Church of
the Resurrection in Jerusalem to be venerated by
the people. Since 628 when it was finally recovered, a special liturgy and procession has taken
place in all Orthodox churches. The day has
been specified as a fasting day of the magnitude
of the days of Holy Week. And since, according
to the narrative, St. Helena discovered the Cross
buried in a spot on which the herb basil had
grown, sprigs of blessed basil are distributed to
the faithful by the priest after they bow and venerate the Cross. (Source: N. Patrinacos).
. . . that Orthodoxy in North America will be
200 years old in 1994, and the Antiochian
Archdiocese will be 100 years old in 1995. We
are planning a grand celebration of these events!
THE WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
_
One Tasty Corner of Our Melting Pot
by Albert B. Southwick a/Worcester
Magazine
Emigration From Syria and the
place? Possibly because of Protestant
Syrian-Lebanese
Community
of missionaries in the Near East. Christian
Worcester, MA
Syrians had long felt oppressed by the
By Najib E. Saliba (Antakya Press)
Muslim Turks, and they may have lisIn our city of ethnic groups, some tened with interest to accounts about a
ethnic groups are more equal than
nation across the sea where Christians
others.
predominated.
We know quite a lot about the Irish,
Once the first Syrians arrived here,
the Swedes, the French-Canadians, the they probably sent back word that
Italians and the Jews who emigrated to Worcester was a place of opportunity.
Worcester. We don't
EMIGRATIONFROM SYRIA
Like other immigrant
know as much about
AND THE SYRIAN-LEBANESECOMMUNITY groups, they arrived,
OF WORCFSTER,tv1A
the Armenians,
Asa d apte d , su ff ere d
syrians, Finns, Poles,
hardships and, in the
Lithuanians,
Scots,
main, prospered.
Norwegians
and
Many of them beGreeks.
came peddlers, first
And most of us
with hand carts, later
know little at all
with horses and wagabout the Arabic peoons, finally with their
ple who began arrivown stores.
Some
ing here 100 years
who were trained as
ago. If it were not for
tanners went to work
the El Morocco Resfor
Graton
and
taurant, most WorKnight, just down the
cester people would
hill from the main
be astonished to learn
Syrian
settlement
that Worcester has a
along Wall Street,
thriving
SyrianNorfolk Street and
Orient Street. Others
Lebanese community
that had become the
worked
in various
fifth largest in the
Najib E. Saliba Worcester plants.
nation by 1930.
They were upwardProfessor Najib Saliba, who teaches
ly mobile, noted for their ability to
history at Worcester State College, has acquire property and for their entrefilled a large gap with this too-brief ac- preneurial talents. One example was
count of the Syrian emigration to Wor- Mitchell Maykel, who started out in th e
cester from 1890 on. The first Syrians 1890s with a dry-goods st0 re a nd
that he can identify were three who eventually established
the Maykel
lived at 94 Bloomingdale Rd., named
Automobile Company, one of the firSt
ehmon, Salim and Salim Gyz.
car dealerships in the city.
By 1905, one observer estimated that
Although the different ethnic groups
there were 350 foreign-born Syrians in shared similar experiences in WorWorcester. By 1930, Prof. Saliba esti- cester, no two were identical. The
mates that the Worcester Syrians num- Syrians were unusual i_n th ~t th ~y
bered 2,000. Census figures from early arrived with no st rong national identity
years are tricky, as Syrians were some- or loyalty. As oppressed subjects dof the
h
times listed as Turks. (Although Wor- Ottoman Empire, Syrians assume t at
cester people of Syrian descent some- government - any government times prefer to be called Lebanese,
was bad news. It meant taxes oppresProf. Saliba points out that Lebanon
sion, military impressment a nd graf~.
did not become a separate entity until
It took the Syrians here generation
the 1920s. Ethnically,
Syrians and
to learn that America was differe~t.
Lebanese are identical).
Wl)en they did, they responded_ ~1th
Why did they come here in the first an exaggerated patrioti m enli tmg
THE WORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
eagerly iri the .. arm d forces in
both World Wars.
The Syrians also had a complex religious background
di ided at least
three ways. Many of them were O11hodox, but in the 1920s the 'yrian Orthodox Church in America was divided on
whether it owed fealty to the Russian
Orthodox patriarch or the Greek patriarch at Antioch.
After a bruising controversy in which
Worcester Syrians played an important
part, the majority of Orthodox went
with Antioch. The other two , yrian
churches here are the Melkites and the
Maronites, both of which ar in communion with Rome, but with their o,vn
liturgies.
The Melkite church, Our Lady of
Perpetual Help, is on Hamilton , treet.
The Maronite Church is on Mulberry
Street. St. George Orthodox Cathedral,
originally on Wall Street, relocated to
its elegant new edifice on Anna ,'treet
in 1970. Although the Orthodox and
the Melkites often cooperate on various projects, the members of the Maronite Church seem to have little interaction with other Lebanese in
orcester, according to Prof. ,'aliba.
From the standpoint of th Greater
Worcester community the El Morocco
Restaurant is the most prominent
Syrian-Lebanese undertaking in the
city. It is also a prim example of th_e
conflict between old and new traditions. Run for many years as a friendly
family business by the late Paul
Aboody, it no
faces a test a., to
whether his eight children can continue it successfully in his patriar ·hal
style, or whether new managem ·nt
techniques are called for.
Prof. aliha horn in Lebanon and
with college degree: from th .. Cniversity of Miami and the niver-,ity of
Michigan has taught at or e<,ter, tate
College ince 19 1. Thi. hook is a valuable addition to the growing literatur •
about orcester immigrants.
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ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
A New Approach
many new publications,
programs
and conferences
have been planned
- each because
the Order continues to work you can do two
things: first, watch
for future written
and audio-visual
information,
and
by Father Joseph Allen) chaplain
This Chaplain's Corner marks the "overseers" of the Church. The truth is ers, teach our musicians? And what of
beginning of a new approach which that we can do things - practice our our parish councils, our missiona1y efthe Order of St. Ignatius will be tak- ministry - at that Archdiocesan level forts, our future plans? To get the
ing. It will alternate with other month- which simply cannot be clone as effec- "finest" in these efforts it takes not
only hiring quality personnel, but also
ly articles on the work and minist1y of tively on a regional or local level.
financing
quality technology. Does
Think
of
some
of
these
efforts:
helpthe Order.
our Church deserve less? Without the
The question which precipitates this ing hurricane victims, feeding starving
new approach is this: What is the people in places such as Ethiopia and Order of St. Ignatius, our efforts at
Somalia, taking a leading role in the providing the finest are greatly diminOrder? What is it not? Said in another
ished - if they would exist at all!
International
Orthodox
Christian
way: if the Order is the philanthropic
But as was pr viously mentioned, at
arm of the Antiochian Archdiocese, as Charities, helping the Moscow Patriarchate after the fall of the Iron Cur- this time in th history of the Order,
it does its work for the Orthodox
there is a need to
Church, what part
focus our commudoes the Order
ni ca ti on more on
actually
play?
the
local level
These questions where
effective
and others
like
dialogue and disthem - have been
cussion
can be
constantly raised to
held. As a result of
me as I have been
such "living room"
meeting with discussion
groups
meetings
in
held in various
places
such as
parishes
of our
Montreal,
PittsArchdiocese. They
burgh,
Detroit,
also have been disew Jersey, Los
cussed at meetings
Angeles, San Diego
at the regional
- we have discovParish Life Conered the strangest
At the Living Room Meeting at West Coast chancery, Los Angeles
ferences. The new
thing: despite all
approach, therefore, in order to ad- tain, helping to sponsor seminars our efforts to communicate
by the
dress such issues will include commuand publishing books and pamphlets
printed word, some of our own memnication, structural changes and hon- as a result - on the Christian re- bers still do not realize the great work
esty. The aforementioned parish dis- sponse to Bosnia and the Middle East. that we are doing. And if they do not
cussion groups - a type of "living And much more! Truly, could our
realize this, what could be the impresroom" meeting (see photos) - as well Church realize such humanitarian
sion of those who are not members?
as the recent national survey, can cer- goals if the Order failed to responJ to Our great st challenge
will be at
tainly give us some direction for the the call of our Hierarchy? Our commitchanging this condition.
future.
ment to the Order is at once a comThrough these various local, parish
To begin with, it is clear that the mitment to help our Archdiocese be meetings,
it was realized that not
"new frontier" of communication in the Church that it should be.
everybody relates best to the written
the (?rder is found at the local, parish
That can lead us to a second focus.
word; some respond better to verbal
level. The Order has now crossed the If we are to be the Church, how can presentations, some to visual commu1200 mark! This means that we are no that be clone effectively in today's
nication, some to person-to-person
longer a few hundred isolated individ- w?rlcl? Can we be satisfied with any- conversation. And so, we shall be takuals, but a true army of Orthodox
thing less than the finest administraing a more comprehensive approach
Christians. As such, we are dedicated
tion, the finest education, the finest
to our communication
efforts. These
not only to our home parishes, but to c_onferences, the finest library, the
will include
not only monthly
those activities and goals that can only fmest treatment for our clergy? But
Archdiocese-wide
articles through
be realized when as a national
how do we get the "finest"? How do 1HE WORD and the Order Quarterly,
group, we stand shoulder to shoulder
we educate our children, train our
as well as regional letters and local
with the efforts of our Hierarchy, the seminarians, prepare future lay leadnotes, but also dialogue will continue
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criticisms, and plan variou local a ti ities for their group. The e meeting
can be planned by peaking to your
pastor, the regional chairp r on or the
regional spiritual advi or. In turn, they
will contact our office directly.
Above all, however, our pari h
meetings have shown that wh n the
eyes and minds of our memb r ar
opened, they can then invite fellow
Orthodox Christians to join th Ord r
of St. Ignatius, and thus to work id
chaplain with Father James Barkett and parish representative Tom
Nassief, meeting at the home of Taisir and Rose Hanna, San Diego
parish.
through our "living room" meetings
and audio-visual programs. Furthermore, through these same gatherings
held in our parishes, we shall endeavor to close the gap between the local
chapters of the Order and the national
governing council.
And so, if you have been asking,
"What is the Order doing? Where are
our funds going?" Or if you ask more
specific questions: Exactly how many
new missions have started, how many
children have gone to camp, how
secondly,
begin
to plan a livingroom meeting for
the members of
your local chapter. We have seen
through this past
year that such
dialogues
have
opened
up the Chaplain with Father Joseph Antypas at the home of Walid and
eyes and minds Cheryl Khalife, Detroit parish.
of members who freely ask questions,
by side with them in the work to
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THEWORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
�INTRODUCING . . .
D AJLYDEVOTJONS by Archeriest George Alberts
October, 1993
icholas Papas is an Orthodox Christian and a liturgical artist who makes his
home in Western Pennsylvania. While a
student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Nicholas began this unique and
ancient career by studying with Reverend
John Osacky (now Bishop Job). After receiving his B.A. in painting, he further pursued iconography under Nicholas and
Basil Lepoura of Athens, Greece. This
post-graduate
study has been coupled
with eleven years of professional experience. These years of experience have allowed Mr. Papas the joy of creating icons
of all types and sizes from miniatures to
expansive murals. His work can be found
throughout the United States and in the churches of many jurisdictions.
His icons are marked by a recognizably Paschal joy, portrayed
through vivid yet sophisticated, not raw or gaudy, colors. The
themes, style and technique of these works are firmly rooted in
an extensive knowledge of the variety and diversity of expression
that is found in the Holy, Universal, Orthodox Church. Drawing
from this cornucopia of rich imagery that is the Iconographic
Tradition of the Orthodox Faith, Nicholas' work takes on a character historically grounded, yet possessing a feel and freshness
that speaks to the twentieth century American viewer's heart. And
through an interaction with these icons, that hopefully "sing to
the Lord a new song" (Ps. 33:3, Rev. 14:3), viewers can be taught,
aided in worship and guided in the path of salvation.
In a more specific or technical sense, Nicholas' work may be
described as attempting to combine the bold and regal elegance
of Greek, Bulgarian and Yugoslavian icons, the lyrical linearity
and dynamic flowing composition and movement of Russian
icons, and the abstraction, naivete and unpretentiousness
of
Coptic, Celtic and Sinai icons. In addition to all this, Nick keeps
an ongoing and sustained interest in the potential incorporation
of any other truly Orthodox prototypes.
Jesus calls the eye "the light of the body" (Mt. 6:22). Nicholas'
aspiration is to be guided by Christ in providing "light" for the
eyes of God's people.
Nicholas Papas can be reached at:
557 North Main Street • Greensburg, PA 15601 • (412) 832-5693
l.
HEBREWS 9:1-17; LUKE 10:38-42; 11:27-28
Protection of the Theotokos; SS.Ananias the
Apostle and Romanus the Melodist (FAST)
z.
1 CORINTHIANS 14:20-25; LUKE 5:17-26
Martyrs Cyprian and Justina; St. Andrew the foolfor-ChriSt
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3. 2 CORINTHIANS 6:16-7:1; LUKE 6:31-36
SS. Dionysius the Areopagite, Dionysius the
Recluse and John Chozebite
NICll~asP.
PcPaS
4. EPHESIANS 4:25-32; LUKE 6:24-30
SS. Hierotheus
5. EPHESIANS 5:20-26; LUKE 6:37-45
SS. Peter, Alexis, Jonah, Philip, Hermogenes and
Chari tine
6. EPHESIANS 5:25-33; LUKE 6:46-7:1
Apostle Thomas; St. Innocent; Martyr Heroteida
(FAST)
7. EPHESIANS 5:33-6:9; LUKE 7:17-30
Martyrs Sergius, Bacchus and Polychronius
8. EPHESIANS 6:18-24; LUKE 7:31-35
SS. Pelagia the Penitent, Pelagia of Antioch and
Ignatius of Bulgaria (FAST)
9.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:39-45; LUKE 5:27-32
Apostle James son of Alphaeus; St. Andronicus
10. 2 CORINTHIANS 9:6-11; LUKE 7:11-16
Martyrs Eulampas and Eulampia; 26 Martyrs of
Zograph
11. PHILIPPIANS 1:1-7; LUKE 7:36-50
SS. Philip the Deacon, Theophanes
Confessor and Euthymius
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Charter member of St. John of Damascus Society of Iconographers, Iconologists and Architects.
"Resurrection" icon featured on cover of The Messenger, April 1991
"Prodigal Son" icon featured on cover of The Word, February 1990
Featured iconographer in the Sacred Art journal, December 1988
Guest on_ To Teach as Christ cable television program with Bishop Anthony Bosco of Greensburg, PA, 1988
Guest artist at annual Christian Art exhibit, Calvary Lutheran Church, Murrysville, PA, 1988
Selected exhibitor at the premiere of St. Nicholas Cathedral Fine Arts Program, Pittsburgh, PA, 1987
Interviewee on Real to ReelWTAE-TV, 1985
Subsequent interview and release by national Real to Reel, 1985
13. PHILIPPIANS 1:15-20; LUKE 8:22-25
Martyrs Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and
Agathonice (FAST)
14. PHILIPPIANS 1:20-27; LUKE 9:7-11
Martyrs Nazarius, Gervase, Protasius, Celsus and
Parasceve
on this page have a gift to offer, such as iconography and sacred art.
lS. PHILIPPIANS 1:27-2:4; LUKE 9:12-18
Martyr Lucian of Antioch, SS. Euthymius and
John of Suzdal (FAST)
If you wish to be listed on this page, send a description of your work to:
THE EDITOR
52 78th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11209
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the
12. PHILIPPIANS 1:8-14; LUKE 8:1-3
Martyrs Probus, Tarachus and Andronicus; St.
Cosmas
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of Athens and Stephan Stiljanovic
1993
1 CORINTHIANS 15:58-16:3; LUKE 6:1-10
Martyr Longinus the Centurion; SS. Malus and
Eupraxia
THEWORD/SEPTEMBER 1993
17. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:31-12:9; LUKE 8:5-15
Prophet Hosea; St. Andrew of Crete
18. PHILIPPIANS 2:12-16; LUKE 9: 18-22
Apostle and Evangelist Luke; Martyr lata; t.
Peter Cetinje
19. PHILIPPIANS 2:17-23; LUKE 9:23-27
Prophet Joel; SS. Prochor Pcinja and John of Rila
20. PHILIPPIANS 2:24-30; LUKE 9:44-50
Martyr Artemius; SS. Gerasimus the ew and
Matrona (FAST)
21. PHILIPPIANS 3: 1-8; LUKE 9:49-56
SS. Hilarion the Great and Bessarion Saraj
22. PHILIPPIANS 3:8-19; LUKE 10:1-5
St. Abercius Equal-to-the-Apostles;
of Ephesus (FAST)
23.
even Youth
2 CORINTHIANS 1:8-11; LUKE 7:2-10
Apostle James, Brother of the Lord; t. Ignatiu
of Constantinople; Demetrius Soul aturday
24. GALATIANS1:11-19; LUKE 16:19-31
Martyrs Arethas (al-Harith) and his Companion
and Valentine
25. PHILIPPIANS 4:10-23; LUKE 10:22-24
Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius; St. Tabitha
26. 2 TIMOTHY 2:1-10; JOHN 15:17-16:2
Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh- xuding
27. COLOSSIANS 1:18-23; LUKE 11:9-13
Martyr Nestor of Salonica; S. estor th
Chronicler and Demetriu Basar (FA T)
28. COLOSSIANS 1:24-29; LUKE 11:14-23
Martyrs Terence, eonila and Para cev • t.
Arsenius of Srem
29. COLOSSIANS 2:1-7; LUKE 11:23-26
Martyr Anastasia; St. Abramiu th H rmit and
his niece, Mary (FAST)
30. 2 CORI THIANS 3:12-18· L KE :16-21
Martyrs Zenobiu and Z nobia· t. t phan
Milutin
31. GALATIANS2:16-20· L KE :26-39
SS. Stachus, Apell
Amplia
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THE PEOPLE SPEAK
THE WHITE HOUSE
WA HI GTO
June 10 1993
The Honorable Philip Saliba
Primate
Antiochian Orthodox Christian
Archdiocese of orth America
358 Mountain Road
Englewood, ew Jersey 07631
es and dioceses in traditional Orthodox countries? Rome believes that all
Christians must accept papal primacy
and infallibility. We are not prepared
to do that. It is contrary to Orthodox
ecclesiology.
Dear Editor:
I enjoy 1HE WORD and especially
the provocative views of Fr. Corey
and Fr. Keiser in the June issue. Both
Dear Archbishop Saliba:
Fr.
Corey and Fr. Keiser sited the
Thank you so much for your message. I've been touched by the many extremist forms of the fundamental
view and how it kills. In fact Fr. Corey
expressions of support and encournoted: the fundamental
extremist
agement from people who care deepview,
which
was
the
norm
for the
ly about my Presidency and about the
times were those that crucified Christ.
future of our country and the world.
The dangerous fundamentalist
is
I will do everything I can to live up
one
who
gets
into
a
law
or
tradition
to your high expectations and to meet
the crucial challenges that await us all and makes that his religion. The definition of a true fundamentalist is one
in the next four years.
Sincerely, that builds on the fundamental truths
of God, therefore upon a "sure foundation."
The basic faith of the Church of
Jesus Christ is to believe in the essenDear Editor,
tial truth that the church was built
I wa disheartened by the editorial
re ponse to the piece "Vatican admits upon. The belief is not in the church
Galileo was right, after 350 years,"
but in the truth which is "the way, the
which read "Well, so much for papal truth, and the life."
infallibility!" This misrepresentation of
The danger is that the twentieth
Roman Catholic doctrine does a dis- century Orthodox Faith has become
service to your readers. As I am sure fundamental believers in the walls of
the editor knows (but many readers
tradition that the church has become
may not), the RC dogma of papal
rather than the truth that the blocks
infallibility specifically applies only to are laid upon and represent. That is
ex cathedra statements made by the similar to reverencing the icon and
Pope, which most certainly was not forgetting the person which that icon
the case in Galileo's difficulties with reflects.
Rome. The editorial response was a
Christ is truth. As soon as truth is
cheap shot aimed at making Rome perceived and interpreted by man's
look bad at a time when it is trying to pe\spective, it becomes a traditional
correct past mi takes. The Ecumenical viewpoint.
In these congregations
Patriarch and the bishop of Rome
where this danger hibernates you behave made great strides the last three gin to hear ringing, "we don't do it
decades to bring East and West closer that way here" or, "we've been doing
together.
Rather than slander our
it that way all my life."
Catholic brothers and sisters we
Twentieth century Orthodoxy is terOrthodox need to support them ~hen
ribly guilty of sectarian separatist
they correct past errors and when
views especially evident among the
their doctrine moves in directions that ethnic clans. Who can accurately dismight help to bring about the unity of cern the truth from the traditional
faith.
viewJ?oint in our congregations today?
Sincerely, I believe that all congregations have
Thomas S. Buchanan, Ph.D. become mixed with both.
Chicago, IL
The walls of the Orthodox citadel of
Editorial Response:
faith_ have become so thick from preI Rome "moving in a direction that serving the faith mixed with traditional
might help to bring about the unity of views that the treasure of faith has bethe faith ' when it establishes Eastern come a protected
treasure
room
Rite and Western Rite Catholic church- locked within the confines of the
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ere indeed moving.
wfor some time we've all been anxiously awaiting the Orthodox Study
Bible. I'll confess that I have only
been mildly enthused about the pro. ct However, at the meeting each
ie .
.
.
participant received a gift of one of
the Bibles. This new Bible is excellent, far beyond my greatest expectations. The annotations,
articles, and
other aids are exceptional. It will be a
great help to any Orthodox Christian
who reads the Scriptures to any degree.
I want to personally thank you and
to commend you for your support of
each of the project/programs.
Both
willprove invaluable in spreading the
Gospel and following the commands
of our Lord.
Your son in Christ,
Rev. Fr. Troy Mashburn, Jr.
Memphis, TN
citadel. The Orthodox faithful seem t
have their faith and pass it on to the~
children (maybe their grandchildren)
by some hope of osmosis from having
them present in church on Sunday
and holy days.
It worked for the Jews in passing on
tradition only if mixed with the kosher
life at home. The problem is that
Sunday morning alone in the Orthodox Church cannot withstand the onslaught of the influence of nintendo
the T. V., and peer pressure of th~
nineties. The faith preserved in the
citadel will not be available enough to
the children and people of the 90's
unless it becomes
a relevant and
dynamic personal
faith alive and
working in their lives 24 hours per
day.
Stop preserving the faith in the pickle jar. Take it out and see if it is real
food, good to eat, relevant and filling.
Dr. Carol Bartholomew
Ocala, Fla.
Your Eminence:
Kindly grant your blessing!
Matushka and I wish to take this
occasion to express our great appreciation for the gift you gave to the
Orthodox Church in Ghana from the
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Arch-
Your Eminence:
We express to you and your faithful
flock our heartfelt thanks for your
generous gift which we recently received.
To this young Church struggling to
plant the good seed of Holy Orthodoxy in the West African nation of
Ghana, your gift of US $2,000 and the
promise of several boxes of Christian
Education materials brought much
encouragement.
We will notify you
when the latter arrive.
The faithful of the Orthodox Church
in Ghana thank you and pray that
Christ our God would richly bless
your generosity in return.
Yours in Christ,
Rev. Joseph Kwame Ayete Labi
Secretary-General
Orthodox Church, Ghana
diocese of North America. It is a satisfaction to us that a call for assistance
through our son Andrew should reach
to you and issue in such a generous
gift. From all the stories Andrew has
told us, they both need and highly
deserve help from sister churches
everywhere.
Please accept our thanks to you and
pray for us.
Your humble servant,
Priest John W. Anderson
South Canaan, PA
St. Tikhon's Seminary
Your Eminence,
Bless, Master!
With great joy and thanksgiving we
have received the news of your most
generous gifts to the Orthodox Church
in Ghana. All of us here at St. Tikhon's
who know of Andrew Anderson's
work there are deeply grateful for
your magnanimous response to his
letter detailing some of the needs of
our fellow Christians there.
We also rejoice in the ordination to
the holy diaconate of Dn. Alexander
(Fred) Younes, one of our finest students here at St. Tikhon's, which you
performed recent! in Tor nto
anada. We are all confid nt that' h., i
indeed "axio ' for a fruitful mini try in
the Antiochian Archdio e.
May our Lord gr atl bl • ou and
the whole Antiochian r hdio
your genera ity to th Chu r
Ghana.
Your
Da
t. Tikhon'
Your Eminence,
The Worce ter Area Interfaith oalition for the Hom le grat full acknowledges your contributi n in the
amount of 2000 from th "Food f r
Hungry People Program"
f our
Archdiocese. Thi money will b u ·ed
in our mini try with the home! s: in
the Worcester area with Oa i Hou •
Youville House and in conjunction
with Worcester Common Ground
(helping to provide affordabl hou. ing
for homeless familie ).
May God' ble ing abid
ith ou
and your congregation .
Mo t re p ctfully.
Donna E. Enberg Trea. urer
orce. ter, .
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. Joe Rahall, beloved father of
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ick Joe Rahall II of
West Virginia, died on April 1, 1993 at
his winter home in Deerfield, Florida.
Born in Beckley, WV to the late Nicholas and Daley Facuri Rahall, Mr. Rahall went on to study at Washington
and Lee University and later attended
Duke University where he earned a
degree in 1935. He was commissioned
in the U.S. aval Reserve in April
1942, and was a member of the Reerve Officers Association of the U.S.
and W.V., the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and the Retired Officers Association.
Mr. Rahall was also active in a number of organizations and associations
including the First Advisory Council of
BARH, Small Business Administrations,
ational Association of Broadcasters,
and the Raleigh County Mental Health
Association. He was a member of the
Beckley Lions Club, was instrumental
in the organization of the Beckley
Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1937,
headed the movement to organize the
Beckley Better Business Bureau and
served as its second president.
Survivors include his wife, Mary
Alice Rahall; two sons, Nick Joe Rahall
II and Edward George Rahall; two
daughters, Victoria Lynn Hassler and
Tanya Alice Tabet; two brothers, Farris
E. Rahall and Sam G. Rahall, one sister, Julienne
ewey, whose husband
Sam is an honorary member of the
Archdiocese Board of Trustees; and
eight grandchildren.
Honorary pallbearers included U.S.
Senators Robert C. Byrd, John D.
Rockefeller IV, Hulett C. Smith, Lewis
. McManus, Dallas Peters, Bob
Turner, James A. Joseph and Ogden R.
Davies. May his soul rest in eternal
peace!
Antonian Silver Medal
Awarded
Khoureeye Diane Shaheen of St.
icholas Church of Montreal was
awarded the Antonian Silver Medal of
Merit on May 30, 1993 at a lovely banquet in her honor. Over 400 people
attended. Following are the remarks of
Mabel ilva:
The older you are the more you
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have an unconscious drive to set the
record straight and act according to
your convictions and feelings. Let the
record show that during her 24 years
as Khoureeye of this parish, Diane
Shaheen has attended over 800 christenings, 420 marriages and 450 burials,
give or take a few. Like it or not, the
emotional consequences
are a wesome.
This unassuming woman would be
embarrassed
to hear these words.
However, within our group there is a
small number of individuals endowed
with an indefinable mark of outstanding decency, caring, civility, understanding, devotion and competence.
Diane Shaheen is one of this select
Vice Chairman of the Archdiocese
Board
Saykaly, presents award to Diane Shaheen.
group. And it is for this reason that we
are holding this tribute to Diane, our
Khoureeye and friend. She has been
an active member of the Ladies
Auxiliary and the Choir since she
arr,ived in August of 1968. In 1982 she
was elected President
of the Antiochian Christian Women for the CanAm Region and, has, continuously
been a member of its Executive Board
in one capacity or another. In 1985
she was elected to the National Board
of the Antiochian Women, which covers the United States and Canada and
is responsible for the projects and programs undertaken by the Women in
our Archdiocese. She was instrumental
in coordinating the first ever Women's
Pan Orthodox Meeting in Montreal in
1992, which was held at St. Nicholas
Church, and brought together over
100 Orthodox Christian Women of all
ethnic backgrounds in this Region.
However, it is through her association with the Cedar's Cancer Institute
at the Royal Victoria Hospital which
has made her invaluable to many who
have passed through its doors. With a
caring touch for others, who are either
in anguish or despair, she has shown
an inborn ability to provide counselling and practical advice. Because
of her rare sense of human needs and
values,
she has often been approached to help newcomers from
Lebanon, who are hospitalized and
who have no family or money. In
order to raise monies for them she
quietly canvassed many of her friends
and associates for the financial aid to
meet their needs. She was so successful that with the money that was left
over, she founded
the Charities
Mission of St. Nicholas, and as its president, has helped
many families who
are indebted to her
compassion and understanding.
Because
of her
outstanding achievements in both profess io na l and humanitarian pursuits,
we her friends do
her honour,
and
wish her all the satisfaction
of a life
of Trustees, Ernest that
has been of
great usefulness to
her community with her independent
devotion to Christian ideals and service.
St. George Church
Lowell, MA
Have you ever heard the expression
"Don't complain about getting old
1
not everyone
has that privilege"?
Well, we at St. George Church in
Lowell, Massachusetts
are far from
complaining as we get ready to celebrate our church's seventy-fifth anniversary on the weekend of October
29, 30 and 31. As a matter of fact,
we're not only announcing it, we're
proclaiming it and would shout it from
the roof-tops if we could. Why? _Because it promises to be an exceptionally memorable weekend for us and
for all who would join us.
You remember St. George in Lowell,
Massachusetts! We're that little church
which was dubbed by Sayedna Philip
THE WORD/SEPTEMBER l9 93
"The mouse that roared", after we
as nsored the highly successful 1985
spo
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Archdiocese Convention
m oston.
Now, marshalling all the forces and
ergies we expended for the Con~~ntion, we are putting all our effort
- to making our 75th year the most
:~emorable in the life of our parish.
How, you may ask? Well, for starters,
we are going to be honored by the
presence of His Err1:inence_, Metropolitan Philip, who ~111 be with us _for
the weekend and will be celebrating
Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Sunday,
October 31. Furthermore,
we have
completed the beautification
of our
church by installing the last of our
new icons. We will ask Sayadna Philip
to bless them at a special ceremony.
First, though, on Friday evening,
October 29, we will be treated to an
Arabic Concert performed
by Dr.
Simon Shaheen's
renowned
Near
Eastern Music Ensemble at the prestigious Durgin Hall at the University of
Massachusetts/Lowell. Then, Saturday
evening, October 30, we will dance
and "dubkee" the night away at the
Grand Hafle, again to the music of
Simon Shaheen and his group. This
will be at the Speare House along the
Merrimack in Lowell.
Following Sunday's Hierarchical
Divine Liturgy, we will be meeting
with Sayadna Philip at Brunch.
A Program Book is being prepared
and will be distributed as a souvenir
of this historical event. We plan to
keep all costs at a minimum: $20 for
the Concert and $20 for the Saturday
Hafle. More news about this exciting
weekend will be forthcoming. Meanwhile, those who want advance information can contact
The Rev. Fr.
George Sayaf, our pastor,
at 44
Bowers St., Lowell, MA 01854 [tel.
(508) 452-4816].
Under any circumstances, keep the
October 29-31 weekend open to be
with us. We promise you won't be
disappointed!
-Andrew W. Ansara
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This is on a sign in the hall of St. George
Cathedral in Toledo Ohio.
West Virginia Student
Recipient of Oxford
Scholarship
Alaina Noel Stout, daughter of Sam
Hourani-Stout
of
Vienna, WV, was awarded a full-paid
scholarship to study at Oxford Uni-
E. and Loraine
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versity in England this summer.
A junior at Parkersburg Catholic
High School, Alaina was selected from
a large number of applicants from the
United States and Canada, according
to Dr. James Basker, director of the
Oxford Academic Programs. He said
the Committee chose to a ward the
scholarship to Alaina based on her 4.3
grade
point
average,
academic
achievements
and her wide-range
extracurricular activities.
Alaina joined over 300 outstanding
high school students who attended
Alaina Noell Stout
Oxford from around the world including Czechoslovakia, Saudi Arabia and
Mexico. The students chose areas of
study which included: archaeology;
international stage, screen and film
studies· and medical science, which is
Alaina;s field. The faculties' credits
included Rhodes Scholars and Mellon
Fellowships who are experts in their
particular fields. Several of her pro~essors taught President Clinton dunng
his Rhodes Scholar years at Oxford.
Alaina's achievements include: 1993
Rhododendron
Girls State Repre-
sentative chosen by Junior League of
Parkersburg; Junior High -ational
Honor ociety; Chapter Pre:ident of
ational Honor
ociety ( ·he \\:ac.,
inducted as a ophomore);
erox
ational Humanitie Award; ·ational
Council of Teachers' Award; tudent
Council;
tudent Acti itie Coordinator; We t Virginia Chamber of
Commerce Essay Winner Award; 1992
and 1993 Grand Central Mall Teen
Board representative and model; High
Quiz Team· Hugh O Brian \var<l;
Academic
Excellence
ward in
French; Academic Excellence Av ard
in English; advance placement in
English, al-trig and chemistry; Knight
of Columbus Superior Academic
Recognition Awards - 1992 and 1993;
representative for tate's Model Tnitecl
ations in Roanoke,
· school's
news editor of an award winning
newspaper (two of the award· \Vere
for her own storie ); , chool' - representative to West Virginia Government
Seminar for three day ; Teens for
Teens retreat counselor; D.A.R.E.
(anti-drug) Program; varsity tennis
team; vacation Bible-school volunteer;
hospital volunteer; yearbook staff; and
she studies piano, modern dance and
jazz. Alaina has received numerous
writing awards and authored an economics primary reader for elementary
students which her chool principal,
upon the request of area elementary
teachers, arranged for her to teach to
local elementary school tudent .
Alaina and her brother,
am, a
junior high honors student, are the
grandchildren of Mr. and Mr . Eddy
Hourani of St. George Church of
Charleston, West irginia and lVi.
Jean Stout and the late amuel E. , tout
of Harrisville, WV.
She i the niece of Mr. and 1r . Elli..,
(Elaine alim) of Flu hing, 1ichigan,
and Dr. and ML. Jameel (Judy)
Hourani of Los Angele California.
Thank you, Fathers!
The members of The Metropolitan'
p cial Commi , i n
on HIV Infection and AIDS exp res their mo t inc r a ppr ciation to the clergy of the Archdioce e ho compl t
and
submitted the questionnaire sent to them by t~ C m~1 i n.
The response of the clergy wa mo _thelpful m pr pann for
the Commission's public forum which
a h ld at th L±l·t
Archdiocesan Convention in Pitt burgh thi pa t urnm r.
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Good Inter-Faith
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Says Bartholomeos I
The importance
of
good relations among
churches and between
Christians and persons
•
of other faiths was emphasized by Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomeos I during his weeklong
official visit to Egypt, Lebanon and
Syria at the end of April and beginning of May.
In Egypt, Bartholomeos met with
Parthenios, patriarch of Alexandria
and All Africa, and with Pope
Shenouda of the Coptic Orthodox
Church, and made a pilgrimage to the
monastery of Mt. Sinai. In Syria he
was the guest of Ignatius IV, patriarch
of Antioch and All the East, and also
met with Syrian Orthodox patriarch
Ignatios Zakka.
At the theological institute of the
Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
and All the East in Balamand, Lebanon, Bartholomeos paid special tribute to Antiochian patriarch Ignatios IV
Hazim for his support of higher education. It was announced during the
visit that the university is creating a
Higher Institute of Islamo-Christian
Studies. Bartholomeos said he hoped
that the seminary of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate on the island of Halki
near Istanbul, would reopen soon and
that academic exchanges between the
two institutions could resume.
oting the ancient ties between the
Antiochian Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Bartholomeos praised
Ignatios both for his representation of
Orthodoxy in Lebanon and for his
worldwide advocacy of the Lebanese
people. He emphasized the importance of promoting Christian unity in
both bilateral
relations
between
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churches and through effective participation in the work of the World Council of Churches.
When Bartholomeos, accompanied
by Ignatios, went to the headquarters
of the Armenian Apostolic catholicosate in Beirut, it was the first ever
such visit, according to the address of
welcome by Armenian Catholicos
Karekin II. "We are so accustomed to
remember
history," Kare kin said.
"Today I feel we are progressing in
history. Your visit ... gives a new
impetus to our growth in the depth of
our Christian integrity through our
common endeavors for the tangible
expression of the unity and the witness of the church."
Bartholomeos expressed hope for
"positive and concrete results" from
ongoing theological
conversations
between Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches. The Armenian church (along with Orthodox
churches in Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria and
India) is part of the Oriental Orthodox
family. Divided since the fifty-century
Council of Chalcedon, the two Orthodo.x groupings
have been moving
towards full communion since informal conversations
between Eastern
and Oriental Orthodox theologians
began in the mid-1960s.
During his visit to the Middle East
the patriarch also met with the presidents of Syria and Lebanon, the prime
minister of Egypt, and with leaders of
several other religious communities,
including the Maronite patriarch of
Lebanon, Sfeir, and the heads of the
Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities
there. Praising what the Lebanese
Orthodox community has contributed
to the preservation of national unity,
the Muslim leaders told the patriarch
that they want to pursue a dialogue
with Christians based on equality and
solidarity as fellow citizens. [EPS]
Religious Leaders Say
Nagorno-Karabagh War
"Appalling Blasphemy"
The head of the Muslim community
in Azerbaijan and the patriarch of the
Russian Orthodox Church declared at
a May meeting in Moscow that the
conflict
between
Azerbaijan
and
Armenia is "an appalling blasphemy to
be immediately stopped".
Sheikh-ul-Islam
Allahshukur Pashazade and Patriarch Alexy II insisted
that the fighting over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabagh, located in
Azerbaijan but largely populated by
Armenians, is not a Christian-Muslim
confrontation.
The two expressed regret that earlier joint appeals for a negotiated settlement by Armenian
Christian and
Azerbaijani Muslim religious leaders
have so far gone unheeded.
"Relying on the salutary help of one
God the Creator," said their joint declaration "we believe that it is our first
and for~most duty to take care of the
preservation of the sacred gift of life
and to seek to ensure peace and concord among people irrespective of
their nationality or religious belief."
Noting that there are sizeable
minorities of Azerbaijanis in Russia
and Russians in Azerbaijan, they underscored the need for dialogue and
mutual
support
among Muslim~,
Christians and adherents of other religions in the two countries. [EPS]
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<p>The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication <em>The Word</em> is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic <em>Al-Kalemat</em> appeared in 1933, and the English iteration <em>The Word</em> began anew in 1957.</p>
<p>The original copies of the periodical are housed at the Antiochian Heritage Library in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. The Antiochian Heritage Library was founded in 1987, and its collections focus on information about early Christianity, the theology of the Orthodox Church, and religious and cultural themes in Middle Eastern history. </p>
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<p>The periodical is written and published by The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and continues to be published monthly excluding July and August. Some years and issues are not included in the collection, and there are some years that the publication did not run.<br /><br />The collection also includes various parish commemorative booklets from Antiochian Orthodox churches in different regions of the United States, including but not limited to, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York.</p>
<p>The English-language volumes are located here on the KCLDS Archive's website. The Arabic-language volumes are located on the Khayrallah Center’s <a href="https://arabicsearch.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arabic Newspapers database</a>.</p>
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JUNE1993
SeeThatYouFulfill
TheMinistry
YouHaveReceived
InTheLord.
COLOS.SIANS
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415T ANTIOCHIANARCHDIOCESE
CONVENTION
■ JULY18-25,1993■ PITTSBURGH
HILTO ANDTOWERS
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-THE
The Most Reverend
Metropolitan PHILIP, D.H.L., D.D.
Primate
The Right Reverend
Bishop Antoun, Auxiliary
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Editorial ............
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Dangers of Orthodox
The Right Reverend
Bishop Basil, Auxiliary
EDITORIAL
D,-VOL.37-,N0.6
Fundamentalism
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5
by Father Michael Keiser
Delegation to the Middle East .....................
Founded in Arabic as
Al Kalimat in 1905
by Bishop Raphael Hawaweeny
Founded in English as
The Word in 1957
by Metropolitan Antony Bashir
by US. Interreligious
Prospects for Peace
7
Committee
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9
by Gbasan Rubeiz
Duties of Church Members ......................
11
Conclusion
Editor-in-Chief
Archpriest George S. Corey, D.Min.
Editorial Board
Joanne Abdalah, M.L.S.
The V. Rev.Joseph]. Allen, Th.D.
Anthony Bashir, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Elias Bitar, M.Div.
John L. Boojamra, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Antony Gabriel, Th.M.
The V. Rev. Peter Gillquist
Elaine G. Hanna, M.Div.
The V. Rev.James C. Meena
The Rev. John W. Morris, Ph.D.
Ronald Nicola
Najib E. Saliba, Ph.D.
The V. Rev. Paul Schneirla, M.Div.
The Rt. Rev. Stephen Upson, Ph.D.
Technical Advisor
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Meditation in Arabic ...........................
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FUNDAMENTALISM,
CULTS
AND THE LIKE.
The 41st Archdiocese Convention in Pittsburgh,
PA, from July 18 to 2 5, 1993. See you there!
Our conventions are designed to enlighten us
about our Orthodox Christian Faith and the eternal goals of our Archdiocese in North America
and The Church in the world.
D~ring the past decade or so, our society, especially in North America, has seen
a growing trend of fundam~ntalism within the Church and the State. This is really not
ne~ to _our cult_ure. It has exist_edfrom the beginning of time in various forms. We only
notice 1t when 1t becomes radical. On the one hand, we all begin as fundamentalists in
whatever state in which we find ourselves. As infants, a few months after birth, we learn
to crawl before we get up and walk. This is of central iIJ?.portance to our development.
In the same way, we learn the ABCs of our Faith before we sit down to write a theolo~ical treatise. So we all begin life as fundamentalists, but hopefully move on to a more ~ature expression of our humble beginnings.
History has shown us at times the very worst kinds of fundamentalists. If y Ju go
back through history far enough, you will remember that it was the fundamentalists
who feared that Jesus would somehow threaten the establishment, that had him cruci~
fied. Much later, it was the Crusaders who came to rescue the Holy Land from the infidels, that turned their swords on the Eastern Christians and tried to make of them Latins. It was the fundamentalists of the Inquisition, a Roman Catholic tribunal for the discovery and punishment of heretics, that brought many people to their deaths. In more
recent history, one could cite the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks, the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Europeans by Hitler and the Third Reich, the
"ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia by all parties concerned, the mass destruction of homes, the deportation of citizens and the wanton killing of Palestinians in their
own homeland by the Zionist State, all these are the bitter fruits of fundamentalists who
could not mature beyond their narrow minds. Even within the Western Christian
churches, the concept of papal primacy and infallibility in matters of faith are a form of
fundamentalism. In the 19th century, evangelical Protestants developed a form of fundamentalism, emphasizing the literal infallibility of the Scriptures. In Orthodox Christianity, we have seen some modern day fundamentalists who try to keep their constituents
living in ancient Byzantium or Tsarist Russia, rather than at the end of the 20th century.
They often claim that they, to the exclusion of the rest of us, are devoted members of
"The True Orthodox Church", and they refuse intercommunion and good brotherly
relations.
Very often some fundamentalists form cults in which they bring into their midst those
of like mind. These fundamentalists and cults are truly dangerous to society. The latest
classic example of religion gone sour is the infamous Branch Davidian sect, brainwashed
by David Koresh who led 86 men, women and children to their deaths in Waco, Texas.
They are no more! True religion does not drive people to kill and be killed. Christianity
teaches quite the opposite of such satanic cults. Our Messiah is Jesus Christ, our Lord
and Master the Son of God and Second Person of the Holy Trinity, not some evil personality who convinces people to follow him even unto death, who sleeps with many
of his women followers, who abuses the small children, and who builds up an arsenal,
capable of wiping out an entire village. He is the devil personified, not a man of God.
Thank God, in Orthodoxy, we have built in mechanisms that protect us from such
fundamentalists cults and the like. Scripture warns us of false prophets. The Church
Fathers and Mothers of piety, through their exemplary lives and their sacred writings,
teach us how to ward off those extremists among us. The Creed of our Church, the Symbol of our Faith was written precisely to defend the Faith against fundamentalists who
were sheep in ~olves clothing, trying to devour the faithful. The Holy Canons of the
Undivided Church of Christ are a written guarantee that no one among us can succeed
when he/she dares to take us from true faith and true practice. Some pious old grandmother in some remote village on the edge of the world will be heard by the Church.
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E 1993
�WILLSUCCESSSPOILJOHN CHRYSOSTOM?
OR THE DANGERSOF
ORTHODOX FUNDAMENTALISM
A St. Theckla, or a St. Nicholas, or a St.John ofDamascus,_or a St._Mark_ofEphes~s will
·
mong us to defend the Faith against those who wish to distort it. No patriarch,
nse up a
.
h'
k' d f
bishop, priest, deacon, or layman/woman can ~ver ~ucc~ed m 1 ormmg is own_ i_n _o
Orthodoxy. History has shown us that his cult dies with ~im. ~rue ?rthodox Chnstiarnty
lives forever and not even the gates of Hell shall prevail against it.
.
Unfortunately the attitudes of society often create the fundamentalists, the_cults
and the like. The "ethnic cleansing" in Yugoslavia - is it not the result of centuries of
age-old hostilities in that area of the world? Or "~slami_cfund~mentalis~" - is it not the
result of 45 years of Zionist, and perhaps American, mt,rans~gence with respect to the
Palestinian situation? We create monsters, and then don t quite know what to do about
them.
St. James in his Epistle has this to say to all of us:
"If anyone thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain. Religion that is pure and undefiled
before God and the Father is this: ... to keep oneself unstained from the
world" (1:26-27).
George S. Corey
Editor
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4
eing an Orthodox Christian is
dangerous. To stand for the truth
of the Apostolic Faith is to become a lightning rod that will receive
the bolts of all those whose approach to
Christianityis to find the least common
denominator upon which we can all
agree.Throughout history the Church
hashad to defend the "faith once delivered to the saints" from all who would
liketo combine the teachings of Jesus
with the spirit of the age. Many of the famous heresies, such as Arianism or
Iconoclasm, have resulted from the often well-meaning attempts of some to
makethe theology of the Church palatableto a broader audience than it might
otherwise have.
Attacks from without are often easy
to recognize and fend off. When we
hear people saying things like, "all you
reallyneed isJesus" or "Everybody really believes the same thing," the alarm
bellsshould start ringing. What is not as
easyto see are the attacks on the fullness
of the Orthodox Faith that come from
within, and which originate with the
very people who are concerned about
upholding Truth, with a capital T.
The danger I am referring to is the
fundamentalist attitude toward the
Church, her teachings and life, that so
frequently expresses itself among
American and Canadian Orthodox
faithful.In the long run, it may prove to
be more dangerous than any other attackthe Church has had to face.
Orthodox Christianity is gradually
breaking out of the traditional ethnic
ghettosthat have encompassed its life in
North America. Within the last twenty
yearsor more, people of non-traditional
backgrounds have united themselves to
the Orthodox Church as converts. In
addition, many native Orthodox have
~oved from a nominal faith to a dynam~c,growing relationship with God, and,
10
that sense, can be considered convertsas well. I happen to be one of the
~ormerand, although I still encounter
. Orn-Orthodox who question why I am
10
the Church at all, I am happy to dwell
THE WORD/JUNE i 99:1
Tl-IEWORD/JUNE 1993
within the fullness of the Apostolic
You are a hindrance to me . . .," (MatChurch, even if I cannot pass as one of thew 16:23).
the more obvious tribes.
Peter's problem is that of a convert.
Sometimes when we discover some- How can we possibly experience anything that is very precious to us and thing more wonderful than this? Let us
which adds a previously unknown
stay where we are.
dimension to our lives, our response is
Anyone who goes through a converto freeze-dry the experience so that we sion experience should have a change
may always have it just as it was when
of perspective, wLich in many cases
we discovered it. We have found some- means that we must broaden our viewthing that is warm and wonderful and point rather than narrow it. We forget
we do not want it to end or change in that our initial experience is just the first
any way. Our first experiences in the step on an eternal road which our exchurch are sometimes like that. I can perience with God should deepen and
grow as we seek to conform our life to
remember the first time that I attended
His. We are not just putting on a new suit
a church (which was not Orthodox)
that used incense, chants, candles and of clothes that we will never change or
vestments, expressing a living ex- relating to God in a different way, but
we need to alter the way in which we
perience of heaven.
That experience became the stand- look out at the world from the inside.
ard by which I judged everything that We think that we are growing when, in
happened to me spiritually. It was so fact, we are just swapping one set of externals for another.
marvelous and it was such a turning
Coming into the life of the Orthodox
point in my life that I did not want to
open myself to any other kind of ex- Church without "being renewed in the
perience. It also led me to a certain judg- spirit of our mind" can lead to imposing
mentalism by which I evaluated the ex- upon Holy Tradition a mind-set that i
perience of others by what had hap- alien to it. Because of the very natural
desire to preserve our experience we
pened to me.
The Apostles seemed to have had become Orthodox fundamentalists, dissimilar problems. We can get a glimpse tinct from the Protestant variety only by
of this at Caesarea Philippi when the the externals of our worship and the
Christ questions the disciples as to His way we may order the sacraments. This
identity. Peter gives the correct answer can happen for two reasons.
The first may be that our background
when he says, "You are the Christ, the
is
that of Protestant fundamentalism
Son of the living God," (Matthew 16:16).
with
its literalist approach to the ScripAfter that,Jesus tries to instruct His followers as to what His vocation as the tures. In this view, every word of the BiChrist really means. He will suffer and ble is literally true and must be accepted without any interpretation whatever.
die, and on the third day be raised.
Peter is horrified. Jesus die and have For example, the scientific theory of
the relationship between them change? evolution is unacceptable because the
No way, Jose. What they have is too Genesis account portrays creation a
wonderful to even think of ending it. taking place over a period of six days,
and that rules out (according to the literJesus must be wrong. "God forbid,
Lord! This shall never happen to you," alist) the evolution of species over mil(Matthew 16:22). Peter can not conceive lions of years.
This is not the approach to the Bible
of the present relationship that Jesus has
that
the Orthodox Church takes and, in
with the disciples going on in any other
fact
true literalism is impossible. Once
way than what has alrea<:fy been e~you'stop
reading the word of the Bible
perienced, and the result 1s the Lords
rebuke, " . . . Get behind me, Satan! and start talking about them, you are
5
�engaged in interpretation. The only
question is, what standard of interpretation will be used? I think I would be safe
in claiming that the entire Spirit-guided
life of the Church, which is called Tradition, provides the context within which
Orthodox interpretation of the Word of
God takes place.
When a person from this background comes into Orthodoxy they often transfer that literalist viewpoint
from the Bible to such things as the writings of the Church Fathers, the canons
or particular liturgical practices. The
writings of the Fathers (or perhaps one
or two fathers) are regarded as being almost verbally inerrant.
The Orthodox Church has never
held td any doctrine of personal infallibility for anyone in the Church. Individual Church fathers may be wrong
on a specific point. It is the entire witness of Tradition that proclaims the
teaching of the Church, not the
thoughts of one person. When we begin to view the writings of a father (or
certain canons, or our version of the
liturgy) as being the standard by which
everything is judged, we set up ourselves as judges against the Tradition instead of the reverse.
For example, there is a canon which
forbids Christians from seeking the
services of Jewish doctors, which in
some parts of this country may be well
nigh impossible to obey. The reason for
the canon is that at one time Jewish physicians included readings and prayers
from their own tradition as part of their
treatment, and this was felt to be unsuitable for Christians to participate in.
To insist that we still follow the strictures of that canon in a time and place
that is obviously different and when no
such problem exists, is to be a literalist.
(Given the secularization of contemporary religious life, a few prayers and
readings might be an improvement.)
Another reason that converts sometimes fall into the "Orthodoxy under
glas " mentality is that they are on a
denial trip. If Orthodoxy is true, then
other religious experience must be false,
or at best, incomplete. As a basic premise, there is nothing wrong with this
idea. When I embraced the Orthodox
Faith, I did so because I believed that
there was a fullness in the Church's
teaching and life that did not exist
where I was.
I al o know, however, that I had a relationship with God before He led me to
the fullness of the Orthodox Faith. My
6
U.S. INTERRELIGIOUS
LEADERSHIP
DELEGATIONTO THE MIDDLEEAST
prayers to Him were heard and my ex- m~~ical Councils, is _g~venby the Holy
perience of Him was real. It is not neces- Spmt. The Holy Spmt does not consary to pretend that nothing in my back- tradict itself, and what it taught the
ground had any validity in order to em- Church to believe about God in the
----------------=---=:___..=___:=-==~~~~~~~~~~--third century is the same for today. Holy
phasize the truth I now hold.
There are times when a convert feels Trad~tion, how~ver, is living and dyinsecure in his new home. There are namic, not stenle and dead. Tradition
those who question your right to be- does not contradict itself, but it does
long to a church in which the vast grow and change in the way that it
responds to the needs of proclaiming
majority of believers share a cultural
and ethnic experience which is differ- the faith for today. The content of the
We are twentymissed. While the fact that negotiations
ent from that of most converts, and faith does not change but the external
four Jewish, Christ- are continuing is itself a sign of hope,
who themselves cannot see that Or- packaging of the faith may, depending
ian and Muslim reli- particularly the Israeli-Palestinian talks
thodoxy can be proclaimed in any upon culture, people and historical cirgious and commuappear to have reached an impasse and
other form. We also may be stung by the cum stance.
nity leaders from may now seriously need third party
This article is not an attempt to be an
opinions of those with whom we used
the United States mediation.
in-depth study of the problem of singto share a religious life, and who cannot
who participated in a unique trip tounderstand how we could embrace this ing the Lord's song in a strange land. It
Leaders oflsrael, Egypt,Jordan, Syria
is meant to be a warning to all of us who
and the Palestinians all agreed that the
gether to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt,
thing called Orthodoxy.
For whatever reason, converts at claim to be Orthodox. With the best inJordan and Syria. We went to the Middle United States played a crucial role in
times feel that they must "prove" their
tentions of the world, we may begin to
Eastto listen and understand Arab and convening the Madrid Peace ConferOrthodoxy to both sides, and what bet- impose upon the life and teachings of
ence and bringing negotiations to this
Israeliviews concerning the possibility
point. All of the leaders emphasized that
ter way than being more Orthodox than the Church the same narrow attitudes
of peace and the role of the United
a more active United States' role, in supanyone else. This can be done by uncrit- that we challenge in others. We must be
Statesin the Peace Process.
ically accepting as our own the ethnic
port of the basic needs and rights of all
careful to preserve the doctrinal inWemet with religious leaders, schobackground of whichever community
the parties, is absolutely essential for the
heritage that is the truth of the Apostolic , lars, journalists, attorneys, ordinary
we find ourselves - becoming more
Faith, but we must also "test the spirit"
citizens,and with leaders of all the par- Peace Process to succeed. They believe
Russian than any Russian or more Arab when it comes to how we proclaim that
tiesin the negotiations, including Presi- the United States must actively enthan any Arab. Or, we may simply adopt
truth to the world in which we live. We
dent Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Dr. courage confidence building measures
the attitude, which is incorrect, that the must be certain that what we hold out to
by all sides, provide ideas to help break
Ahmed Esmat Abdel-Mcguid of the
way everything is done in the Church
others is, in fact, true teaching and not
Arab League, Foreign Minister Kamal deadlocks in the talks, and help the partoday is the way it has always been done
ties focus on the tremendous positive
just our favorite period of liturgical hisAbuJaber of Jordan, Foreign Minister
everywhere, and that any other ap- tory of our pet Church father. The
potential for all peoples in the region
Farouk al-Sharaa of Syria, Palestinian
proach is giving in to secularism, Pro- Church tends to be broader in its life
which peace will create. Indeed, withleadersFaisalHusseini and Nabil Shaath,
testantism, Roman Catholicism, etc. than we are sometimes willing to admit
and Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Bei- out a more active U.S. role, most people
(you can pick your own favorite boowe met agreed that the Peace Process
because it is the Body of Christ, " ... in
linofisrael. We were warmly welcomed
geyman).
Him the whole fullness of deity dwells
everywhere, and were informed on will inevitably fail; extremism on all
What we do by this, of course, is to ... ," (Colossians 2: 9). When we seek to
several occasions that this is the first sides will increase; and there will be
judge the entire experience of the Or- limit the life of the Church to our extimeever that Jews, Christians and Mus- more violence and very likely another
thodox Church by our individual im- perience of it, however valid that may
Arab-Israeli war.
limsmade such a visit together.
pression of it. The way the liturgy was be, we run the danger of limiting the •
AsJews, Christians and Muslims from
We are greatly encouraged by the
served at good old St. Boniface in the fullness of God, as well.
signsof change and genuine desire for the United States we were profoundly
Bushes, where I was chrismated, is the
humbled and inspired visiting the Midpeace we encountered in every place
way it must be done in every parish.
dle East together and discovering comFather Michael Keiser is pastor of St.
wevisited. Among leaders and ordinary
The music must be the same; the style Andrew Orthodox Church in Eustis,
people we discovered a sense of urgen- mon ground among ourselves in our reof vestments must be the same· the Florida.
cy that this may be the last chance for ligious faith and in our commitments to
places at which people kneel (or don't)
peace,that there is no real alternative to peace, despite our different backmust be the same.
grounds. We returned to the United
peace, and that peace is absolutely
All of this might sound silly if we did
necessary.
States pledged to work together and to
not encounter so much of it. There are
enlist
many others in our communities
Enjoying
At the same time, our visit increased
Orthodox who will break communion
our awareness of the continued suffer- to work together to encourage mutual
THE WORD?
with other Orthodox over calendar
i~gof so many people on all sides, espe- understanding and to mobilize an indates and kneeling on Sundays. Many of
terreligious climate of support for an ac' c_ially
Palestinians living under occupathem are converts who are completely
tion and Israelis living with deep fears. tive, creative United States' role in the
sincere in their desire to be in the "true"
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Wealso came to understand the need
Church. They cannot see that the
Mosts Arabs and Israelis we met share
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their fundamentalism they place every
rgencyand desperation people feel for the United States that the momentum of
I progress
aspect of church life on the same level.
THE WORD
in the Peace Process. The dan- the Peace Process be sustained and ad. This is not a plea for doctrinal pluralg_er,exacerbated by extremists on all vanced. We appreciate how everyone
358 Mountain Road
side
• that if there is not progress soon
ism. The truth of the Church's doctrine
we met agreed that President Bush and
. s, is
this
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proclaimed by the Creed and the Ecu~
1 1stonc
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could be Secretary of State Baker played crucial
November 29-December 11, 1992
Statement of the Delegation
THE WORD/JUNE 1993
THEWORD/JUNE 1993
roles in conceiving and launching the
Peace Process. We applaud the fact that
President Clinton has clearly affirmed
his commitment to sustain the Peace
Process. Recognizing the many pre sures on the incoming leadership, we
believe it is morally imperative in the
coming months that Jews, Christians
and Muslims join together to advocate
that peace in the Middle East be a very
high priority of the new Administration
and new Congress.
The U.S. Interreligious Committee
for Peace, which arranged our trip to the
Middle East, represents more than 1500
Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders
across the United States. Antiochian
members include His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP and Archpriest George
S. Corey. Founded in June 1987, the U.S.
Committee works to encourage the
United States to make peace in the Middle East a priority. As participants in the
Interreligious Leadership Delegation,
we plan to work with the U.S. Interreligious Committee, guided by the following principles we believe to be essential
for peace.
*Israel's right to secure borders and
peace with her neighbors, based on the
Jewish people's right of national selfdetermination;
*The Palestinian people's right of national self-determination, including the
right of full self-government, after an interim period; and
*Acomprehensive peace settlement
between Arab states, Israel and the
Palestinians based on U. . ecurity
Council Resolutions 242 and 338, with
their twin principles of Israeli withdrawal from occupied territorie and
peace and security arrangements for I rael and all states in the region.
At one level the achievement of thi
interreligious pilgrimage is mea ured by
our exposure to leaders of all ide and
factions, and our ability to empathize
with them. At a deeper level what ha
been accomplished i mea ured by the
bonding of friend hip between all the
participants, based on events experienced
7
�together, the trust and respect we developed for one another, the pain we felt for
one another, and yes, the love that displaced any residue of initial skepticism.
Do we now all agree on every point
of what should be a just and proper solution for all the intricate problems?
Probably not! But all ofus have become
convinced that the Peace Process must
continue, because only a just peace that
addresses the pains and apprehensions
of all the parties concerned is acceptable, and only that peace will bring harmony, and ultimately open the door to
prosperity based on regional economic,
cultural and religious cooperation.
Having discovered the nuances between optimism and hope, through our
discussions and deliberations and specifically through our interchange with
religious leaders we met, we are convinced that a peace agreement will be
the dawn of a new awareness of our
common Abrahamic heritage.
*****
Participants in the Interreligious
Leadership Delegation and Co-signers:
Reverend Said Ailabouni, Pastor,
Lutheran Church of the Atonement,
Barrington, IL
Seif Ashmawy, Editor & Publisher,
Voicefor Peace Newspaper, New Jersey
Dr. MianAshraf, President, Islamic
Center of New England
Dale Bishop, Director, Middle East
Office, National Council of Churches
Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor,
Director, Department of Interreligious
Affairs, UAHC
Reverend Joan B. Campbell, General Secretary, National Council of
Churches, USA
Rabbi Israel Dresner, Temple Beth
Tikvah, Wayne, New Jersey
Rabbi Joseph H. Ehrenkranz, Congregation Agudath Sholom, Stamford,
Connecticut
Sandra Ehrenkranz, Congregation
Agudath Sholom
Ahmad El-Hindi, Syracuse Area
Middle East Dialogue
Catherine Grosso, Pax Christi, USA
Professor Abdelwahab Hechiche,
Government & International Affairs,
USF, Tampa, FL
Reverend Raymond Helmick, S.j.,
Jesuit Community, Boston College
Judith M. Hertz, President, National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
Martin]. Hertz, Board Member, Un-
ion of American Hebrew Congregations
SamiM. Odeh, Arab-AmericanAntiDiscrimination
Committee, Orange
California
'
Jamel Shimpfky, Women for Mission
& Ministry, The Episcopal Church, USA
Evely-Laser Shlensky, Chairperson
Commission on Social Action, UAHc'
Robert Tiller, Director, Washington
Office, American Baptist Churches
Albert Vorspan, Senior Vice President (Emeritus), Union of American
Hebrew Congregations
Shirley Vorspan, Member Hevreh
Congregation, Great Barrington, MA
Rev. Dr. William D. Watley, Vice
President, Unity & Relations, National
Council of Churches
Rabbi David Wortman, Director
Jewish Community Relations Council
Philadelphia, PA
'
*Ronald]. Young, Executive Director, US. Interreligious Committee for
Peace
*Coordinator of tbe Trip
For more information, contact:
U.S. Committee for Peace
2920 Holme Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19136
(215) 333-7720
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_EROSPECTS
FOR PEACEIN THE MIDDLEEAST
by Ghassan Rubeiz
New regional realities favor the holding of peace talks between Arabs and
Jews.Last year, when Syria announced
its acceptance of the US initiative for
holding the peace conference, a new
momentum for peace in the area was
born. Then Israel declared its support
for Baker's plans; hope for a decisive
peace conference was boosted further.
A third crucial, courageous step was
taken by the PLO later that year. Other
Arab countries Gordan, Lebanon,
Egypt) had no hesitation in joining the
peace process.
The holding of the expected conference signifies change in the Middle East
geo-political scene. First, there seems to
be a new sense of realism in the Middle
East in the wake of the Gulf War. Second, there is a feeling in the region that
the USAmay now be influential enough
to start a peace process and to sustain it.
Baker's active diplomacy showed renewed confidence. The fragmentation
and demise of the Soviet world
strengthened the hands of the US in the
region.
Third, the balance of power in the
Middle East has drastically changed.
The Gulf crisis has made both Israel and
Syria feel that they need the United
States more than before. Syria has lost
the benefits of its previously powerful
ally, the Soviet Union. On the other
hand, Israel lost its status as the unique
strategic ally for the US in the region.
Through the Gulf crisis Saudi Arabia,
Egypt and Syria became partners in an
assault on Iraq. The military deployment on Arab and Turkish land is no
more a taboo. The political dependence
of Saudi Arabia and the oil Arab sheikdoms on US and other Western countries has become a reality. The recent
revelations of the UN inspection teams
about the chemical and nuclear involvement of Iraq will make foreign surveillance in the region habitual.
Nevertheless, the Americans now understand that the consequences of the
~ulf crisis in the region are not all posit~ve.It is true that they have won a deci~ive_war,mobilized world public opin~on_
m ~heir _direction and lined up the
igion s regimes behind them. But the
S leaders realize that the success
achieved in the Gulf cannot be main-
THE WORD/JUNE 199~
~. THEWORD/JUNE 1993
tained for long if the sentiments of the
Arab people on the Palestine issue are
ignored.
Furthermore,
the Americans are
aware of the social 'overkill' cost of the
Gulf War. Although the Arabs may have
registered the Gulf War as a tragedy of
madness of the Iraqi regime, they have
not approved of the costly assault on
the Iraqi people. The moral cost of the
destruction of Iraq by foreign forces is
not forgotten. Should the peace be derailed, despair and tension would flood
the region and the regimes may become
vulnerable to possible uprisings. It is
not surprising that the regimes of Egypt,
Syria and Turkey were paid handsome
amounts of money (through debt
reduction or grants) to contribute to the
stability of their societies. The American
government seems unwilling to close
the 'file' of the Gulf crisis before it rewards the region's people with a peace
dividend of some kind.
In the Middle East, peace is a fragile
bird; it is vulnerable to the point of extinction. The built-up momentum for
peace may dissipate.
A recent guest from Lebanon has
brought me a story which exemplifies
how suspicious the people in the region
are about peace prospects. He reported
that many Lebanese these days speak
seriously about the probability of a new
attack by Israel on Lebanon to acquire
more territories which would be bartered for peace in the future. While this
story seems unlikely today, Lebanon remains a target area for introducing instability in the region. Moreover, as Palestinians are pushed further and further to
offer compromises and to suffer in the
Occupied Territories and in the Arab
world, there is no guarantee against terror groups' action at any time. In times
of despair, terror elements often try to
register anger through bloody events. In
Israel, advocates of the status quo exploit terror also to justify the paralyzing
of the mechanisms of justice.
Arabs and Jews so far have fought five
wars, in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and
1982. In 1990 they almost went to war,
and at any time war is possible.
Arabs and Jews have different expectations of justice; the feelings on both
sides are so ingrained; the reading of the
history of each community is so subjective; the suffering of people is so immense and the political road blocks are
monumental. To talk about peace is to
have faith; it is to try for miracles; it is to
look forward to a new era of attitudes
and realities.
It may be helpful to point out where
each side stands on the issue of a just solution, in order to realize how distant
Arabs and Jews are politically. Arabs expect a just solution to bring them the
following: withdrawal of Israel from the
West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem to
allow creation of a Palestinian state; UNbased solution to Palestinian refugees;
withdrawal oflsrael from Syrian Golan
Heights; and withdrawal of Israel from
South Lebanon.
In return, the Arab states would be
willing to offer the following: recognition of Israel as a legitimate state; a peace
agreement which would open all borders in the region; allow for presence of
an international peace-keeping force in
the area for monitoring of stability and
prevention of future hostilities.
Despite deep differences among Israelis on what to offer Arabs for peace,
in the long run, the Israelis may offer the
following 'concessions': partial withdrawal from the West Bank, substantial
withdrawal from Gaza and no withdrawal from East Jerusalem; partial
withdrawal from Golan Height with
special border security arrangement •
and full withdrawal from Lebanon with
border security arrangement . Other
concessions may be no right of return
to Palestinian refugee but some ymbolic relaxation of rules for return, and
no Pale tinian tate, but ome expansion of Jordan to include part of the
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�released Occupied Territories over
stages of partial autonomy leading to independence.
The Israelis expect from Arabs: explicit recognition; peace and total normalization, including full economic relations; and security arrangements
which would give Israel future guarantees for peace and integration in the region.
The narrowing of differences will be
slow and painful. The United States,
which is orchestrating this peace process, will have to push both sides firmly,
yet gently, in order to gradually reach a
breakthrough. Of the many differences
between the Arabs and Jews, the Jerusalem question and the issue of the right
of return of Palestinian refugees to the
Occupied Territories stand out. Israel
has annexedJerusalem, but this annexation is illegal.
Some kind of a special status for
Jerusalem would have to be provided to
allow both Arabs and Jews to use this
city as a symbol of nationhood. Moreover, Jerusalem's interreligious status
implies the need to maintain access for
all communities as a centre for pilgrimage, peace and pluralism.
The right of Palestinian refugees to
return to their homeland may be solved
partially in aJordanian-Palestinian federation. Such a federation may be large
enough to absorb an extra million or
more Palestsinians from their diaspora
in the Arab World and elsewhere.
There are now about three million
Palestinians outside the Israeli-ruled
areas. However, as long as Israel maintains its rule over the Territories, this
state would be unwilling to allow Palestinians to return to their place of origin.
With Israel's current involvement in settlingJews from the Soviet Union, it sees
Palestinian returnees to homeland as a
threat to its own demographic expansion.
To talk now about the status of]erusalem and the right of return of Palestinians would be too provocative to Israelis. The ba ic breakthrough in exchange
of land for peace has to be achieved
first, before the right of refugees and the
status of]erusalem may be dealt with.
In the area of building trust and con-
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fidence between the two sides, the
churches and non-governmental
organizations must play a significant role.
This private sector can promote bridgemaking literature, literature about peace
and reconciliation.
There are several books available
which convey the urgency of peace and
expose moderate views of Israelis and
Arabs. There are ideas advanced by
peace workers which show how to
reconcile the national aspirations of Israelis, Palestinians and the wider Arab
world.
The ban on talks with the Palestine
Liberation Organization by Israel is unsound and counter-productive.
Prophetic speakers should be prompted to
spread the message of trust and cooperation. We have heard enough from political leaders who preach conflict and
separation of people.
The Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan
was in jail for meeting with Arafat. A
public campaign to free him became urgent. Other people, of his status, must
offer personal sacrifice for peace.
Criminalization of contact with the PLO
is tantamount to promotion of terrorism. People resort to terrorism when
they are in despair.
Abie Nathan's visit to Tunis is morally equivalent to Sadat's visit to Jerusalem. The Israeli threat to arrest the two
Palestinians who are negotiating procedures for the conference, on the basis
that they had alleged contact with the
PLO, is irrational. Such a move from Israel would backfire and turn Faisal Husseiny and Hanan Ashrawi into heroes.
These two personalities ought to be
given support for their honorable work
as brokers of peace.
Groups of women and youth from
Palestine and Israel ought to be hosted
to speak about peace and pluralism in
the region. Mixing groups from both
communities and challenging them to
offer new ideas about peace ought to be
tried more often through church programs of reconciliation.
Artists from the two sides should be
helped to tour the world and convey
their peace messages. On the local and
international level, concerts and theatre
can do wonders in shaping attitudes.
(This is a paper prepared for the
Christian A id/Middle East Council of
Churches' Department of Service ~o
Palestinian Refugees meeting. Ruhetz
is secretary on the Middle East desk of
the wee Commission on Jnter-Churcb
Aid, Refugee and World Service.)
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"BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS, FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD"
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THE DUTIES OF CHURCHMEMBERS
TO THE CHURCH
H~n:ianitari~n aid to agencies which
are givmg service to suffering people•
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th e O ccupie 1erntones and to refugees
elsewhere should be helped through increased funds and solidarity.
Money alone ca~not do solidarity
work. The supportmg agencies must
engage themselves in learning about the
causes of conflict in the Arab world, and
in the Third World.
They must explain the issues to their
public. The connection between the
suffering of the third world and the policies of the first world has not been sufficiently discussed. The private sector
can promote such discussion.
Post Script
In Madrid, the first pha e of the peace
process talks went well, particularly for
the Palestinian and Israeli negotiators.
The Palestinians have already shown
unusual flexibility. There is a start of an
agreement on giving autonomy to the
Palestinians for a transitional period.
The nature of this 'autonomy' is not
clear. Palestinians will argue for autonomy which would include control of
land, stopping settlements in the Occupied Territories and future full selfgoverning. The Israelis will be difficult
on these concessions.
Despite the initial negativism in the
Syrian and Israeli talks, it is easier to
negotiate on the Golan and South Lebanon than on the Occupied Territories.
The Occupied Territories are in the
'heart' of Israel, geographically, psychologically and strategically.
We remain hopeful but very cautious
about the outcome. The problem between Arabs andJews is so complex. It
is about land, security, peace, identity
and peoplehood.
The Arabs are emphasizing land, identity and peoplehood, but the Israelis are emphasizing
peace and security. Both will hopefully
converge on all five dimensions, comprehensively.
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Conclusion
1
Draw Others to the Church.
Your friends need the Church, and
your parish needs your. friends. In all
probability you have fnends who do
not belong to any church. There is a real
opportunity for you to do missionary
work by bringing these people into Orthodoxy. How many Orthodox Christians are there who have never invited a
non-Orthodox friend to visit their parish church for services? And yet the Orthodox Church of Christ offers what
millions are searching for. It is fundamentally designed out of ancient experience to express and meet the needs
of men in the fullest sense, to conserve
the great values of the past and to be
open to the demands of present and future. It reinforces its members where
they need strength and security, and in
doing so sets them free to serve. It lifts
them up always to God and keeps before them "the first and great commandment" to love God emotionally
with the whole heart, actively with all
strength, and intelligently with the
mind. In Orthodoxy we possess a great
treasure,and it is our duty to learn about
our Faith so that we can readily explain
it, and what it means to us, and why
others ought to share in it.
And you can appeal to the unchurched Christians about you with an
effectiveness which no one else can
have. The priest's words they discount
because it is his professional duty to
speak them. Here, then, is an open door
of service for you. You need not be able
to quote long passages of Scripture, or
argue the fine points of theology, or
preach a kind of sermon. Is it so difficult
to invite a neighbor to attend church
with you?
Christ's last command to the Apostles
places upon His Church and its members the obligation to make converts. Of
course every member of Christ should
st_riveto grow in grace and to develop
his personal spiritual life. But growth in
grace is greatly a matter of wanting to
share with others. Belief in Christ means
ever so much more than assent to the
Cre~d. Right belief(Orthodoxy) means
the Joyful will to make Christ and His
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Church known to our neighbors. The
chief chaplain at one of the Naval Training Schools during the last War interviewed a large share of eighty thousand
young Americans, and found that one
of the principal criticisms these young
men leveled at the Church was that of its
amazing muteness. They said if one of
their fellows found a good brand of cigars or a good entertainment he did not
keep the discovery a secret. They
thought that what we like to call our
"reverent reticence" was really our lack
of faith in our own religion. If God is
real and kind and near and helpful, if He
can make weak men strong and lonely
hearts glad and defeated lives victorious, how can we keep quiet about it?
Jesus still says, "Come ye after me, and
I will make you to become fishers of
men."
''Come ye
a/term~ and
I will make you to
become fishers
of men.''
Young people who are dating, or are
engaged to marry someone who is nonOrthodox, are in an excellent position
to bring in new members to the church.
It is not too much to believe that if
someone is interested enough in you as
a person to fall in love with you, he or
she must also be interested in your religious background, because it is one of
the things that makes you what you are.
You must be able to present your faith to
your possible life partner in such a way
as to set forth your ideals. Invite him or
her to attend church with you and join
you in your family devotions. Let your
future marriage partner know that you
love your church and that you will ~ot
be deprived of the comfort of its
sacramental life. In this way only is that
mutual understanding
possible on
which a happy, successful and durable
marriage can be founded.
Promote a Spirit of Love
Within the Church
''A new commandment I give unto
you, that you love one another; even as
I have loved you . . . By this shall all
men know that you are my disciples, if
you have love one to another.'' This is
one of the supreme tests. Not participating in the Sacraments, not listening to
sermons, nor engaging in Christian activities, nor even giving money, is the
final criterion. The hardest is that of
love. It has been pointed out that even
the Lord Himself could not, after years
of patient training, get twelve men to sit
down together at a table on the last
night of His life without an exhibition of
petty irritations and wounded vanity.
His supreme prayer for His followers
was that they might be one.
When St. Paul wrote to his converts at
Corinth, he was hurt by their idolatry,
their greediness, their drunkenness, and
their shocking immorality, but worst of
all to him was their wrangling within the
church. Some liked one presbyter better, some another. Some thought themselves more spiritual than others. Some
were lax in conduct; some were strict.
And each group despised the other. St.
Paul told them, "Though I could preach
with the tongue of men and of angels,
though I could pray with great fervency, though I knew all manner of Biblical
mysteries, though I had all faith, even to
remove mountains, and though I gave
away everything, even my life, and yet
had not love, I should have zero!"
And St.John said: "Ifa man say, Ilove
God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother whom
he hath seen, cannot love God whom
he hath not seen. And this commandment have we from Him, that he who
loveth God love his brother also."
It has been said that our immediate
task is not to Christianize the world, but
to Christianize the parish. It is useless to
preach the brotherhood of all men if we
have not realized the brotherhood of
Christians within our churches. Study
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�then, the peace of the parish. Refrainfrom
criticism of its priest or its members. Express your views in parochial m~etings,
but if the majority do not agree with you,
acquiesce in the will of the greater n~mber. Be tolerant. Every healthy organization exists in a state of reasonable tension
between enthusiasts for that which is new
and devotees to that which is old. Both
groups have their function, and each
needs the check of the other. Do not create dissension. For he who sins againSt
love within Christ's Church, however
faultless his conduct otherwise may be,
fails of Christlike spirit in the most important test of all, and deals the deadliest blow
of all to the life of the parish.
Loneliness is the major social evil, it has
been pointed out. People are enter tainect
enough and organized enough but in our
cities they become more and more friendless. Here is the parish church's great opportunity Help, then, to make new members at home. In every way possible promote the ~ar?1est fello_wship and unity
and love withm the pansh of which you
are a part.
ARCHDIOCESANOFFICE
ORDAINED:
DAVIS, DEACON THOMAS to
the holy priesthood at St. Paul
Church in Lynnwood, WA, on
April 3. Assigned to the assis~~! tant pastorate at that parish.
~ HAAS, MARK to the holy diaconate at St. George Cathedral in
Wichita, KS, on April 11.Assigned to St.
Luke Church in Boulder, CO.
i
ELEVATED:
MORRIS,PRIEST JOHN to the dignity
of Archpriest, at St. George Church in
Cedar Rapids, IA, on April 2 5.
CONSECRATED:
St. George Church in Cedar Rapids, IA,
where The Very Reverend John Morris
is pastor, on April 2 5.
1992 Pan Orthodox Missions and Evangelism Conference
Reserve September 2-7 for 1993 Missions and Evangelism Conference
Keynote speaker at this
Fall's Conference is Fr.
Thomas Hopko, dean, St.
Vladimir Seminary.
Other speakers include
1. How to effectively communicate the Orthodox Faith to
Fr. John Chakos, Fr. Gorothers.
d on Walker, Dr. Anne
2. How to bring growth to an existing parish.
Bourjaily Thomas. The
3. How to begin a new mission.
Conference will be held at
4. How to answer questions non-Orthodox ask about our
Antiochian Village, LigoChurch.
nier, PA. Encourage your
5. A strategy to bring Orthodoxy to North America.
friends to participate with
Fr. Peter Gi/lquist
you.
Antiochian Coordinator
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A Department of the
Archdiocese: Finance
''Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and
no one said that any of the things which
hepossessed was his own, but they had
everything in common,'' (Acts 4:32).
The gifts which are entrusted to the
care of the Archdiocese for the work of
the Lord, are carefully and wisely administered by the Department of Finance. It is the responsibility of this
Department to prepare the annual
budget of the Archdiocese, insuring that
alldepartments and commissions are allotted sufficient funding for their important work. You can rest assured that
the monies which you and your community generously contribute are invested and disbursed by very capable
and caring people.
TBEWORD/JUNE 1993
Leading American University
in Middle East Appoints
New President
positions in government, business,
medicine and engineering throughout
the Arab world.
"It is impossible to imagine the ecoSmith College Professor
nomic and political life of Lebanon or
Robert M. Haddad to Succeed
its neighbors without AUB graduates,"
Dr. Frederick P. Herter at
observed Dr. Haddad. "One cannot
American University of Beirut
have studied Middle Eastern history and
Dr. Robert M. Haddad has been elect- lived in the region, as I have, without an
ed President of American University of awareness of the central role AUB plays
Beirut, announced Dr. Robert F. Go- in educating future Arab leadership. The
heen, Chairman of the Board of Board's invitation to assume the
Trustees and former President of Presidency is a great honor indeed."
Princeton University. Dr. Haddad, curDr. Haddad is the first American of
rently Sophia Smith Professor of His- Arab descent to assume the University's
tory and Professor of Religion at Smith top post. Born in New York City, he
College, will succeed Dr. Frederic P. holds a B.S. degree in Psychology from
Herter, who is concluding his six-year the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in
term in office. The election was made Near-Eastern Studies from the Univerby the Board on March 19 and is effec- sity of Michigan, and a Ph.D. from Hartive July 1.
vard University in History and Middle
Dr. Haddad is a prominent scholar in Eastern Studies. He lived and traveled
Middle Eastern history and religion. In widely in the Arab world during the
his thirty years on the Smith faculty, he 1950s and 1960s as a Fulbright Scholar
has worked extensively with the Col- and Research Fellow under grants from
lege's administrators and trustees on a the Ford Foundation, Harvard's Center
variety of strategic projects. "Dr. Had- for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Sodad presents a rare combination of ta- cial Science Research Council.
After three years teaching at different
lents that is particularly suited to AUB,"
said Dr. Robert F. Goheen, Chairman of institutions of higher education, Dr.
the AUB Board and former President of Haddad was appointed Lecturer in HisPrinceton University. "He is an impres- tory at Smith College in 1963. Ten years
sive academician who is very familiar later, he was appointed Professor of Hiswith our region. He was deeply in- tory and of Religion. In 1982, he was
volved in general and financial planning awarded the Sophia Smith Chair in Hisat Smith. His concern for the welfare of tory which he occupies today. Dr. Haddad has written extensively on Islamic
students and faculty is well documentand Eastern Christian history, and has
ed. In all respects, he is an outstanding
served as speaker, reader, reviewer and
choice."
"I am very pleased with Bob Had- panelist. His wife, Smith alumna Helen
dad's appointment," Dr. Herter com- Rogerson Haddad, is a writer and illusmented. "He is a scholar of note who trator and former editor of the Smith
has contributed significantly to Smith's College Alumnae Quarterly. Dr. and
restructuring, refinancing and policy." Mrs. Haddad have three daughters, EmiMr. Robert A. Debs, Chairman of the ly, Leila andJosette, and a son, George.
Dr. Haddad's appointment to the
Selection Committee and retired PresiPresidency comes as Lebanon enters a
dent of Morgan Stanley International,
added, ''AUBis fortunate to have the ta- new era of peace initiated by the 1990
Taif Agreement. This stability contrast
lents of such a distinguished American
with the civil turmoil raging at the time
scholar, who also has a deep underof Dr. Herter's accession. "Fred Herter's
standing of the Middle East. His broad
greatest
achievement was keeping the
experience as a professor will enrich the
University's great heritage as center of University going during the harshe t
period in its history," said Dr. Goheen.
the liberal arts."
AUB has long been regarded as the "He held the faculty together, kept moMiddle East's premier university. Found- rale up, and provided exceptional
ed in 1866 and chartered by the State of leadership to the Board. His legacy to
New York, it enrolls 5,000 students in AUB is immeasurable."
"I have never worked with more
rigorous graduate and undergradu ...te
challenging, brilliant people than tho e
programs based on American m~dels.
in the AUB community or the friend I
Many of its alumni occupy prominent
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�how medicine, psychology and religion
bear on identity formation for the individual and professional from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
Sharon Chirban, Ph.D., planning
committee coordinator, states, "This
year's conference zeroes in on the heart
of our identity, literally, personally and
professionally. The expanded five-day
event will provide the needed time to
enable us to develop the conference
theme and to enjoy the excellent company of our participants.''
His Grace, Bishop Kallistos Ware of
Diokleia, a renowned Orthodox theologian, scholar and author, will deliver the keynote address for the Eighth
Annual Conference. Bishop Kallistos is
the author of several books on Orthodoxy, including
The Orthodox
Church and The Orthodox Way, and cotranslator of The Festal Menaion, The
Lenten Triodion, and the five-volume
Philokalia. He is currently the Spaulding Lecturer in Eastern Christianity at
Oxford University. In his address, "Personhood," Bishop Kallistos will discuss
the meaning of the Orthodox doctrine
for the life of the individual Christian today.
Dr. Christos Yannaras, whom Bishop
Kallistos describes as "the most creative
Editor's Note:
prophetic religious thinker at work in
Robert Haddad is a son of the Arabic Greece today," will present 'i\.chieving
author Nadra Haddad, a member of the Freedom Through Relationships" at the
celebrated "Pen Club," of the '20s and Conference. Bishop Kallistos and Dr.
'30s. Dr. Haddad has served on the Na- Yannaras will co-deliver "Integration of
tional Council of Churches dialogue Personhood." A prolific writer, Dr. Yanwith Muslims and is a member of the naras has contributed more than twenStanding Conference of Orthodox
ty books, including Person and Love
Bishops Theological Consultations
and The Freedom of Morality, and has
with Roman Catholics and Anglicans to written numerous articles for Athenian
which he has contributed a number of newspapers.
theological papers. He is a member and
Other themes for discussion and
past president of the Orthodox Theo- workshops at the Eighth Annual Conlogical Society in America. He is a ference will focus on the Orthodox
founding member of St. Mary's parish, identity, and how it affects personal and
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY. Congratula- professional life. Such urgent topics as
tions to Dr. Robert Haddad!
"Gender Identity," "Dynamic Elements
of Marriage," and "Orthodox Growth
and Development" will provoke discusEighth Conference to
sion for workshops, forums and case
Explore 'Personhood'
presentations.
The Eighth Annual National ConferThis year's conference is a five-day
ence of the Orthodox Christian Associ- event preceded by professional workation of Medicine, Psychology and Re- shops for physicians, psychologists, and
ligion (O.C.A.M.P.R.) will take place the clergy addressing such topics as
ovember 3-7, 1993 in cooperation
"The Identity of the Orthodox Physiwith Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek cian," "Toward an Orthodox PsycholoOrthodox School of Theology. This gy,'!'"The Priest in Modern Society;" and
year's Conference, entitled "Person"Clergy Sexual Misconduct."
'
hood: Deepening the Connections BeThe O.C.A.M.PR. Conference is open
tween Body, Mind & Soul," will examine to the general public and expects to
have made throughout the Middle East,"
said Dr. Herter. "My one major regret is
my absence from the campus and loss
of daily interaction with the students
and faculty." The ban on US travel to
Lebanon imposed in 1983 forced
American administrators to work out of
the University's New York office. "I look
forward to the ultimate repeal of the
ban, and the return of the Presidency to
Beirut," added Dr. Haddad. "With continued peace and the improving economic situation in Lebanon, that day
should not be too far off. It will do
much to facilitate university administration and to strengthen the international character of AUB'sfaculty and student
body."
"I think Dr. Haddad will find, as I did,
that AUB's greatest asset is its solid foundation; not just in its 127 years, but in its
graduates," Dr. Herter stated. "They
have a passionate love and dedication to
AUB's welfare that distinguishes them
from any other alumni family I've ever,
encountered. Now that the wounds of
conflict are healing, the University is
moving in new directions. As I look at
the future, I see the return of the intellectual excitement and cultural diversity of the days before the hostilities."
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offer continuing education credits t
~
.
0
healthcare pro1ess1ons. For the preliminary program of this year's Conference or more information
about
O.C.A.M.P.R., please write to the
O.C.A.M.P.R. National
Office at:
O.C.A.M.PR., PO. Box 958, Cambridge
MA 02238 or telephone (617) 868-6557.
Orthodox Scouts Needed to
Help Young People in Russia
The doors of Russia have opened for
American Orthodox scouts to take part
in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
help rejuvenate scouting in Russia. This
opportunity has been blessed by His
Eminence, Archbishop Theodosius of
Omsk, who expressed the hope that
many American Orthodox scouts will
take advantage of this opportunity to
spend part of the summer with Russia's
youth from Moscow and Omsk. Under
the guidance of Operation Helping
Hand, this group of adventurous scouts
will take part in an historic event joining
American and Russian youth in a common venture: the reestablishment of
scouting in Russia.
Presently, applications are being accepted to form a group which will depart from the United States onJuly 11,
1993 and travel to Omsk. The group will
return on August 1, 1993. During the
stay in Omsk, participants will help rebuild a monastery at a work site with local people. They will also take part in
classes about scouting activities, as well
as local and scouting history. This
would then be followed by visitationsto
local churches,
hospitals and orphanages. The experiences of this trip
will help participants to see and share
with others the life of fellow Christians
in another country. With this sharing of
friendship, American participants will
form new friends half way around the
world.
The group will consist of 20 to 25
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts with at least
one to two years experience in scouting. Participants must be active members of their local Orthodox Church. In
addition, a Boy Scoutmaster and Gi~l
Scout leader will be needed for this
group. To provide spiritual guidance, ~n
Orthodox priest who is fairly fluent 10
Russian is greatly needed.
. e
The complete cost of the trip ~ill~
$1600.00. This includes round-tnpat
fare from Washington, DC to oms •
Some of this amount will assist the ~ussian Orthodox Church in providing
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food local transportation, and sightsee·no ~~r the I:>
aroup.
Additionally, this
will
1 ol'
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Clinton Promises Ongoing
Dialoguewith Church Leaders
WASHINGTON,D.C., March 24, 1993
- President William Clinton welcomed
44 Protestant and Orthodox leaders to
the White House and promised that "we
will work together throughout my term
as President."
In a meeting punctuated with easy
humor and more than a few tears of
emotion, the President invited the principal officials of 14 Protestant and five
Orthodox bodies to "share your insights, and tell me what you think is important." He said that in addition to contributing to the moral and ethical dialogue of the nation, the churches possess experience both at home and overseas that the government needs as a resource.
According to a Columbus, Ind., industrialist, J. Irwin Miller, no president
since LyndonJohnson has met with so
many ranking church officials. Miller,
who was president of the NCC from
1960 to 1963, was the first lay person to
hold that post. Miller expressed pleasure with the hour-long session with
Clinton.
Questioned afterward about the significance of the meeting the Rev. Ben
Chavis of the United Church of Christ
Commission for Racial Justice said the
difference between this meeting and
those held by other chief executives was
"a matter of access." Chavis said, "This
president has made himself and his administration more available than any in
present memory." Chavis serves as the
ational Council of Churches Vice President for Prophetic Justice. He spoke at a
press conference on the White House
lawn following the meeting.
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THEWORD/JUNE 1993
Clinton told the church leaders that
they would find a welcome not only at
the White House but in every agency of
government. "We will arrange for appropriate contacts throughout this Administration, to be coordinated by the
National Council of Churches," the
President said.
The meeting was opened and closed
with prayers. The first was offered by
Archbishop Iakovos, primate of the
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North
and South America. The Archbishop is
the senior church leader in America and
a frequent visitor to Washington.
Tears came to the President's eyes
when the Archbishop prayed for Mr.
Clinton's father-in-law who was in critical condition in a Littie Rock hospital.
The President also was visibly moved
by the closing prayer for him, his Administration, the nation and the world
offered by Joan Brown Campbell, the
NCC's general secretary.
A remark typical of the friendly banter that Clinton exchanged with the
church officials came early in thesession when he quoted an aide as predicting, "They'll probably pray over you and you need it."
Following a brief opening statement
in which he urged the church leaders to
support his economic stimulus package
now before the Senate, Clinton turned
to Joan Brown Campbell for an opening
statement and to preside over the meeting. Campbell, who had arranged for
the session, asked the Rev. Syngman
Rhee, the Council's president, and
several of the church leaders to discuss
issues of concern to their churches.
Rhee expressed appreciation to the
President for his openness to listen to
the broad range of views represented by
the church officials.
The Rev. Charles Adams, president of
the Progressive National Baptist Convention, spoke of the needs of America's cities. "You couldn't imagine France
without Paris, Kenya without Nairobi or
Zimbabwe without Harare," Adams
said. 'i\.nd renewal will not come to the
United States unless our urban areas are
renewed." He said that only economic
incentives in inner cities like his own
Detroit "can end the violence on our
streets."
We are concerned about police brutality, he said, "But we would need fe~er police and fewer jails if we invested m
our youth - both through education
and job training and by small busin~~s
loans." Adams, who chairs the Council s
Ecumenical Urban trategy Committee,
presented copies of the strategy documents to the President. everal other
position papers were made available, a
well.
In a related comment, the Rev. Mac
Charles Jones of Kansas City, Mo.,
described an upcoming meeting of
gang leaders that will be spon ored by
his National Baptist congregation.
"These young men have seen enough
violence," Jones told the President.
"They want to organize for constructive
change. And we are prepared to give
them a chance."
The President broke in to the statement to tell of his own conver ations
with gang leaders in Los Angeles. "They
were smart," ClintJn said, "as smart as
any young people l 've seen. I agree that
we need to invest m their future."
The President then turned to the Rev.
Ricky Hicks, a young African Methodist
Episcopal Church pastor from Little
Rock. "Ricky,'' he said, "you should get
some of the gang leaders from Little
Rock to that meeting in Kansas City."
Clinton asked to be kept informed
about the gang leaders' summit.
Hicks was one of two young pastors
invited by the NCC to the meeting.
Three high school and college age
youth also were present. The young
people presented Bibles for the President and for Mrs. Clinton, and for Vice
President Albert Gore on behalf of the
NCC. The Vice President, who had
been scheduled to meet with the
church leaders, was pinch-hitting for
Hilary Clinton at a hearing on health
care costs. Mrs. Clinton was in Little
Rock with her father.
Belle Miller McMaster, director of the
Presbyterian Social Justice and Peacemaking Unit, spoke of the churches'
global concerns, notably for hungry
people in Africa, for peace in the Middle
East and the former Yugoslavia, and for
justice in Central America and parts of
Asia. "Our relationships are for decade ,
not for days," she asserted indicating
that "our churches have many resources
to offer the Government; we would like
to be in dialogue and to share our experiences." She i the CC Vice Pre ident for Church World Service and Witness.
As an example of the churches' global involvements, Campbell called on
Metropolitan Theodo iu , primate of
the Orthodox Church in America, a
body with historical ties to Russia. The
Metropolitan delivered a per onal letter
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�"we need to learn to see our diversity as
problems also are world issues. He mento President Clinton from Patriarch
a strength and not as a weakness."
tioned
"our
inability
to
feed
and
house
lexy of Moscow and all Russia, ex"These are problems of the spirit"
all our people at home and the poverty
pres ing appreciation for U.S. support
Clinton
said, that can be met be'
for the democratic movements in Russia. that plagues much of the world." He
through a partnership
_between tbs~
described
the
need
to
provide
meaningoting that there was talk of moving
churches
and
those
of
us
111public servful
work
for
persons
who
are
unemthe President's forthcoming summit
ice. I am therefore grateful for your presmeeting with Ru sian President Boris ployed or underemployed as "an almost
Yeltsin to Moscow, the Patriarch invited universal problem." And he said that ence today - and especially for the
presence of the young people."
both in the United States and elsewhere
Mr. Clinton to visit him in his residence
there. Again President Clinton interrupted, indicating that if he should go to
. TO THE WIVES OF OUR CLERGY
NOTICE.
Rus ia he would also want to worship
with the people there. He told of a movWednesday, July 21, 1993, during the Archdiocese
ing experience some years ago in Russia
MINISTRY
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when he attended a funeral service for
A day-long seminar has been planned for your welfare
a nun.
and edification. (The morning session will be adjourned at
Another example of the churches' innoon so that all may attend the 20th Anniversary Luncheon
ternational concerns was expressed by
of the Antiochian Women.)
the Rt. Rev. Edmond Browning, presidSPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER WILL BE PRESBYTERA
ing bishop of the Episcopal Church.
EMILYHARAKAS;and her topic will be "Our Clergy Wives
Browning spoke of his frequent trips to
and their Special Ministry of Love." Other interesting features are also
the Holy Lands and of the urgent need
planned.
to stimulate the Middle East peace talks
So that we may know your intentions in order to facilitate our plans,
by encouraging justice for Palestinians.
please send your positive response to the coordinators of the program:
He indicated that the deportations of
Diane Shaheen & Laila Corey
Palestinians into Southern Lebanon by
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the Israeli government was making it esBrooklyn, NY 11209
pecially difficult for moderate Palestinians to negotiate. Browning proposed
an Eminent Persons Group under the
sponsorship of the NCC that would
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THE
travel through the Middle East and reARCHDIOCESE CONVENTION:
port its findings to President Clinton.
If you have a Resolution to present on the floor of the General Assembly
Mr. Clinton acknowledged the delicaof the Convention in Pittsburgh, you must present it in writing to the Archcy of present nego_tiations,indicated his
diocese Office by July 1, 1993. No Resolutions will be accepted after that date
own involvement and that of Secretary
or in Pittsburgh. Send to: Resolutions, 358 Mountain Rd., Enolewood,
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of State Christopher, and agreed to con0
07631.
sider the Presiding Bishop's suggestion.
The rich diversity of the National
Council of Churches and its gift to the
nation was referred to by Metropolitan
Christopher, president of the Serbian
Orthodox Church in the United States
and Canada. He spoke of the constructive role that Americans of Serbian descent could play in the search for peace
in the former Yugoslavia.
Bishop Melvin Talbert, secretary of
the United Methodist Council of
Bishops, presented one of the concluding statements, recalling that the President had been elected on a platform of
change. "For that change to take place,
all of us will need to be involved," Talbert said, "and we pledge the support of
the churches - support that can play a
significant ethical and moral role. Together we can rebuild our country," the
an Francisco bishop said. Talbert
erves as the CC Vice President for ~iritual Ad:isors of the Fellowship of St. John this year include (left to right) Father Anthony Sola,
nity and Relationships.
eSrer~ ~egi~n; Fa th er Peter ~eigh, Southwest Region; Father John Abdalah, North American couocil:
In a concluding statement the Presi- ::h1:r Eltas ~ttar, Eastern Region; Father Michael Ellias, Midwest Region; Father Edward Hughes, e\\
g ncdRegion; a1:1dFath er Stephen Hardie, Southeast Region. Not pictured is Father Joseph Sha·
dent noted that three central domestic
h een, an-Am Region.
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coordinators of the North American Council of the Fellowship of St. John this year include (left to
right) Sue Shawah, Coordinator-at-Large;
Alexandra Mamary, Coordinator-at-Large; Father Michael
Evans, Credentials and Finance; Edna Deeb, Legal; and Julie Dakdouk, Youth & Young Adult Ministry. Not pictured are Robin Nicholas, Humanitarian Ministry; Chuck Nassif, At-Large; and Carol Laham,
Legal.
SCOBAMeeting of Hierarchs
Focuses on Aid to the Needy
NEW YORK, NY - At the recent
meeting of the Standing Conference of
the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the
Americas, the member hierarchs reaffirmed their support to the newly created organization of the International Orthodox Christian Charities, as immediate plans and current programs in former Yugoslavia and other areas were outlined by Alexander Rondos, the Executive Director of IOCC, and attorney
Charles Ajalat, Vice Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
Both Rondos and Ajalat reported on
the thousands of tons
of food and medical
supplies that were
delivered
to the
needy in former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Reports
were given on the
delicate and dangerous efforts to provide
relief
to
those
trapped in the ongoing conflicts in Yugoslavia. IOCC provides aid in the face IOCC executives reporting on international charities: Alex Rondos and
of many obstacles to John Rangos.
Fr. Efthimiou reported that the
people regardless of their religious or
Metropolitan Orthodox/Roman Catholic Dialogue is presently in suspen ion
until a clarification of the Johnstown
Statement is made relative to Orthodox/
Roman Catholic interfaith marriage ;
also, the various tensions that exi t in
the Orthodox/Roman
Catholic Dialogues over the problem of niati m.
He also reported on the Orthodox/
Anglican Dialogue which i in u pension over the issue of the ordination of
women into the prie thood and the ordination of gays and le bian ; and the
recent meeting of the Anglican Comm union in Capetown,
outh Africa
where this is ue wa di cus ed. Reporting on the Orthodox/Lutheran
Dialogue, he aid that a ummit meeting i
being prepared for 1994.
The hierarchs al o di cu ed the initial draft of the Common Engli h Tran -
Hierarchs of SCOBA hear reports.
THE WORD/JUNE 1993
ethnic affiliation.
SCOBA has received more than $1
million in contributions from the various jurisdictions and from the faithful.
The Sunday of Orthodoxy on March
7th was designated as the beginning of
the 1993 IOCC campaign and Archbishop Iakovos urged "all our congregations, clergy and laity alike, to renew our
commitment to Christ and His suffering
Orthodox followers, so that they may
regain their faith and hope."
Other Topics of Discussion
In other matters on the SCOBA agenda, the hierarchs were advised by Rev.
Dr. Milton B. Efthimiou on the various
ecumenical dialogues in which the Orthodox participate: a) Tile Orthodox/
Roman Catholic Theological Consultation; b) the Metre politan Orthodox/
Roman Catholic Dialogue; c) the Joint
Committee of Orthodox/Roman Catholic Bishops Consultation; d) the Orthodox/Lutheran Dialogue; and e) the Orthodox/Anglican Dialogue.
�lat ion of the Divine Liturgy. The text of
the fir t draft ill be available to scholar and prie t for their review and critique.
B cau e of the mounting problems
relating to clergy sexual misconduct
and child exual abu e, the SCOBA hierarch appointed a ta k force to deal with
thi topic and turn in a report at the next
meeting. Fr. Efthimiou will conduct a
one-day ympo ium on this matter.
Plan were also formulated for a Pan
Orthodox Divine Liturgy to be celebrated in Chicago in July 1994 in conjunction ith the Clergy-Laity Congress
of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese.
Archbishop Iakovos called for a
meeting of all the deans of the various
theological seminaries throughout the
country to di cuss a common curriculum of courses which would ensure a
uniform program for prospective candidate for the priesthood.
LIFESTYLES''X'' by ArchpriestJames
"Can You Be Trusted?"
ome time ago, on a TV. Quiz
Show, this question was asked:
"Do most people tell the truth
nearly all of the time?" The answer from
the contestant was, "Yes," but the answer from the pollsters was, "No." Only
some 32 to 38 percent considered
themselves to be truthful practically all
of the time. A shocking 60 to 68 percent
answered that they lied most of the
time. A fantastic and shocking revelation!
I wonder what St. Paul's reaction
would have been had the poll been taken in his time, or even if the answer
might not have been pretty much the
same. His statement in II Timothy,
(4:5-8) "I have kept the faith," is of utmost importance to us for it means always maintaining the trust of God.
Our trustworthiness must never be
doubted. "Be careful always to choose
the right course and to be brave under
trials. Make preaching of the Good
News your life's work in thoroughgoing service." St. Paul was writing to
Timothy, yet not to Timothy alone, but
to everyone who is called a disciple of
Christ.
"Trials and tribulations" immediately conjure up images - tied to a stake,
nailed to a cross, whipped, cast into a
dungeon or into fire - but there are
more subtle trials than these which you
and I face all the time and it is those subtleties that cause many to fall. It has
been proven that psychological assaults
S
SCOBAmeeting a~t~e Antiochian Archdiocese on April 27, 1993.Members present were (I. tor.): Bisho
VSE~OL?D (Ukram1,_m),
Father Gregory Havrilak (OC~), MetropoLitanJ?SEPH (Bulgarian), Bishop BASii
(Anttochian), Archbishop PETER (OCA), Metropolttan PHILIP (Ant10chian), Archbishop IAKOVO
(Greek), Father_Paul Schneirl_a (Antiochian), Archbishop VICTORIN (Romanian), Bishop NICHOLAS
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on one's emotional and intellectual integrity can utterly destroy one while
physical torture can build up stubborn
resistance.
After hundreds of years of attempts
by conquerors to wipe out the Christian
Church, the Turks discovered that the
best way to diminish us was to give us a
limited amount of freedom, to make the
Church responsible to the Government
for her people.
The Soviet Union was a modern example of a government's attempts to
wipe out religion by every means possible. Churches had been closed,
burned, turned into museums and
warehouses. Priests, Imams and rabbis
were murdered. Nuns were raped.
Seminaries were closed. Monasteries
were sealed up. But the Church resisted
and grew stronger, not numerically but
spiritually. Christianity suffers much in
the United States and Canada, where we
are allegedly free, as much as it did in the
Soviet Union, because we don't seem to
need to be brave in the face of trials and
tribulations which we do not recognize.
We see no imperatives for truthfulness. We care less and less about expressing our fidelity to God. We cannot
run the good course when we don't
know who it is against whom we are
running. We are intellectually restrained
from acknowledging that the battle we
wage, and that we have waged since the
beginning of man's memory, is against
Satan who would make us as vile and
evil as himself. For thi rea on t. Paul
cautions us to "always choo e the right
course," the course of total, ab olute
commitment to Christ and a willingnes
to say, "Lord, I am your ! Come into my
life! Restrain me from my corruptibility!" And if you really believe and really
surrender to Christ, He will change you
and make your life more meaningful
and of value.
Then your Christianity will indeed
be Orthodox. Reading the cripture
won't be laborious. It will be a joy! Exposing yourself to the pious literature of
the Church will be ab olute ecstasy and
not merely a scholastic chore. Wor hipping, confessing, repenting, ministering, preaching the Good ew all become natural things for you becau e
that is the only way one can go who i
committed to Christ's Love.
When we baptize, the sponsor reject
Satan on behalf of the child, repudiate
him and spits upon him to show ab olute contempt for him. Thi is not merely a symbolic act. It is a witne s that atan shall not defeat us and that Chri t,
Who was victorious in His battle with
satanic death, so fills our lives that we
are emboldened with sure hope of victory.
We choose the right cour e, the wa
of truth, because we can be tru ted!
FatherJames is a retiredprie tof thi
Archdiocese, living in Parma, Ohio. He
originated this column 16 year ago.
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�ANTIOCHIAN WOMEN OF NORTH AMERICA
Honoring Women's Work
My name is Martha Mowery.
My husband, Andrew, and our
children, Sarah and Daniel, and
I became Orthodox less than
three years ago.
I believe that preaching is
like prophecy, that is, delivering a message from God. And since God
hadn't revealed any messages to me
directly, I thought I would talk to some
older women in the Church, hoping
that He would teach me something
through them. I talked to women from
Lebanon, Syria, Greece, Palestine, Russia, and Ethiopia, and I asked them what
women did to serve the Church in the
old country.
It was discouraging at first, because
many of them said the women weren't
allowed to do anything. But I prodded
them a little, and I got a little list. Other
women I asked told me women did do
important work for the Church. Ironically, some of the women who felt important to the Church came from the
same place as those women who felt
un-important to the Church.
So what was the role of women in the
old country? They did almost everything that was not reserved for the clergy. By clergy I mean the bishop, the
priest and his helpers at the altar. I expected to find a division of responsibility in the Church between men and
women. But what I heard was a division
of responsibility between clergy and laity. And the people doing most of the
work of the laity were women.
I'd like to share with you a list of some
of the responsibilities in the Church
where women traditionally take the
lead.
Teaching Sunday School
Caring for the elderly
Raising money for good causes
Caring for the sick
Baking Holy Bread
Caring for children in the home
Keeping the feasts and fasts of the
Church (If the mamma does not cook
by the Church guidelines, the rest of the
family are not likely to keep it either.)
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Feeding and clothing the poor.
St. James writes in his letter to the
Church: ''Religion that is pure and
undefiled before God and the Father is
this: to visit orphans and widows in
their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.''
These are jobs that are done behind
the scenes, without position titles or
vestments. But without the good works
of the laity, that's what you and I do,
what our priest does at the altar is incomplete.
The very word "liturgy" means "the
work of the people." It includes Holy
Communion, through the Body and
Blood of Christ. But it also includes the
Holy Works that Christ is able to do
through us, when we offer our talents
and gifts in service to Him.
I want to describe for you an Ethiopian Church, close, I hope, to the way it
was told to me. In the center is the
Church temple, surrounded
by the
church yard and the cemetery. And
right outside the cemetery, the beggars
(the very poor) live. They live so near
the church for a reason. Every Sunday
when families come to worship, the
women bring food. After the Divine
Liturgy, the women offer bread to
everyone as they leave, to break their
fast. Then they serve a meal for the
poor. Every day the women come to
church to feed and clothe and care for
the poor, who are dependent upon the
Church's care, Worship, communion,
and service. They are inseparable holy
acts.
. .''For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is
dead,'' also from St. James.
When I was a catechumen, I struggled with the idea of priests, especially
that of the priest representing Christ to
us. But I thought I had gotten a handle
~n it., So_I ask~d my priest, Fr. James,
You re like an icon of Christ, is that it?
1:-s
a pr~est, you're like a walking, talking
icon, nght?" And he said "Yes, I am. But
so are you."
On Orthodoxy Sunday we remem-
ber the triumph of the Church over the
great theological and political battles
that were fought over whether or not
we could have icons. And God blessed
us with bishops who could defend the
Faith with scholarly arguments about
the doctrines of the Church. We were
also blessed by the courage of powerful
women, the Empresses Irene and Theodosia, who fought and succeeded in
saving the icons.
During this turmoil, the people of the
Church knew what the communion of
the saints meant to them. They experienced a living relationship with
those whose bodies had died, but who
were alive in Christ. Put as simply as I
know how, we talk to the saints, and we
get answers. And we have seen God do
Holy Works through them.
We younger Orthodox have much
we can learn also from women who
have kept the Faith for so many years.
The Orthodox traditions they brought
with them from many "old countries"
are valuable, even if the women can't
give scholarly explanations for them.
These traditions are valuable to us if the
women experienced
Goel through
them. In this way, they can be living
icons of Christ to us.
What can we learn from women who
have carried a life within them and were
part of the miracle of birth? What can
women teach us about God, the Creator
of Life? What can women teach us about
trusting God?
It seems to me that to attempt to
honor Orthodox women for their service to the Church by giving them the
month of March to do responsibilities
usually done by men, simply misses the
mark. May we humble ourselves to
learn from women what their service to
the Church has taught them about God.
And may we all offer our own talents
and gifts to God throughout our lives,
that He might do good works through
us, to be a blessing to all people.
"O Christ our God
We all are pledged 'to serve Thee with
our whole being.
THE WORD/JUNE 1993
H Ip us to continue to work for Thee
ethrough our Church without seeking
praise. . . without seeking personal
gain ...
without judging others
without a feeling that we have
~~rked hard enough and now must
allow ourselves rest.
Giveus strength to do what is right and
help us to go on striving and to
remember that ACTIVITIES are not
the MAIN thing in life.
The most important thing is to have our
hearts directed and attuned to Thee.
Amen."
(Official prayer of AOCWNA)
Martha Mowery is a member of St.
Elias Church in Austin, Texas. This was
her sermon which she delivered on The
Feast of Orthodoxy.
A NOTE FROM AOCWNA
A donation
of $100. 00 wa
received from St. Michael Church of
Monessen, PA, for the AOCW A
1992 Project. This amount was not
included in the financial report listed in the February 1993 issue of THE
WORD.
Great Role Models from the Ancient Past
by Khouria Joanne Abdalah
As contemporary
women in the
Church, many of us often feel unsure
about what our "role" should be. Are
we to be teachers in the Church? or
leaders? Are we to minister to those in
need? The answer to all of these questions is a resounding "yes"! As women,
we are each called to use our unique
gifts and talents to be all of these things
in the Church today. But if we are to fulfill a "role", don't we need "role
models"? I believe that we do. And
there are many women among the
saints who can serve as those role
models, or witnesses, as we explore our
individual vocations. We can find examples to live by if we look at the lives and
missions of some of these women
saints, keeping in mind the themes of
teaching and leadership, ministering to
others, and remaining steadfast in our
faith.
Perhaps the earliest examples of
women teaching the Gospel of Christ
are the ointment-bearing women who
went to Christ's tomb to anoint His
body. (The memory of these holy women is commemorated on the second
Sunday after Pas cha.) This courageous
and pious group of women, which included Mary Magdalene, Salome, Susanna, Mary the mother of]ames, andJoanna, had left their homes and their families to follow Christ in His travels, and to
minister to Him and to His Apostles.
They accompanied Christ to Jerusalem
and were wit1Lesses to His crucifixion.
When they found the tomb empty, it
was these women disciples who took
the news of Christ's Resurrection to the
Apostles (Luke 8:3, 24:10; Mark 15:40,
16:1).
The Great Martyr Thekla (September
24) was another woman who spread the
Gospel and assumed a position of
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leadership in the early Church. Thekla,
when she was only eighteen years old,
left her mother and the man she was to
marry, because she had heard the Apostle Paul teaching about Christ and decided to follow him. Defying her family
and her culture, Thekla began to dress
like a man (in order to be accepted as a
teacher) and accompanied Paul to Antioch. She lived an ascetic life for
seventy-two years, teaching aboutJesus
Christ, healing, and baptizing. Thekla
suffered many persecutions for her
Christian teachings, and was miraculously delivered from death several
times. Because of these miracles, many
other women were converted to Christianity, and some women of wealth even
renounced their fortunes and the world
to live an ascetic life as Thekla did.
Thekla who was the first woman martyr, is h~ld in such high esteem that she
was given the rank "Equal to the Apostles.''
Yet another woman showed such
strong leadership that she changed the
course of Church history. Theodora was
the wife of the Byzantine Emperor Theophilos in the mid-ninth century, a period during which the Christians had
been ordered to remove the icons from
their churches. Like his father before
him, Theophilos did not allow his subjects to venerate icons, and persecuted
those who wanted the icons restored to
their place in Christian worship.
Nevertheless, his wife Theodora supported those who called for the restoration of icons in the churches, and continued herself to venerate icons in secret. When Theophilos died, the Empress Theodora saw an opportunity to
have the icons returned to the churches.
She convened a synod of patriarchs and
bishops, and chose a new patriarch of
Constantinople, Methodios, whom she
knew was sympathetic to this cause. In
843 the icons were restored to the
churches. Because of her courage and
leadership in this matter, and because of
her pious devotion to the Church in the
three decades of her reign over the
Byzantine Empire, Theodora is venerated as Saint Theodora, "who restored
Orthodoxy." Saint Theodora is remembered by the Church on February 11.
Among those who cared for the
needs of others, several women are
mentioned in the New Testament, but
only briefly. St. Paul mentions the deaconess Phoebe, who "has been a helper of many" including himself (Romans
16:1-2); and Luke, in the Book of Acts,
refers to Dorcas, or Tabitha, as a woman
of good works (9:36), and to Lydia, who
showed hospitality to Paul and others
when they preached in Philippi (16:14).
Perhaps the most visible of these
ministers in the New Testament are Mary
and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus. It was
at their house in Bethany that Jesu
would stay, and it was this Mary who
anointed Him with expensive ointments before His crucifixion.
A more recent example of one who
cared for the needs of others is Juliana
the Merciful, who lived in sixteenth
century Russia. As a young child,Juliana
would sell her handwork and give the
money to the poor. Although
he
wished to become a nun, Juliana wa
married to a wealthy man when he wa
sixteen. Nevertheless, she refused to allow the household servants to care for
her and instead cared for them, teaching' them about God's love ju t a she
taught her own children.Juliana lived a
life of prayer and contemplation of
God's love. During a famine, she continued to feed the poor, although he
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on rant in our prayer, putting Chri t
before our, elv in e crything that we
do. Their ·toric arc trikingly imilar.
Tatiana Oanuary L), ho lived in Rome
in the lat fir ·t and arl econd centuric , and Katherin ( ovember 25), who
lived in le andria one hundred years
later, w re both tortured and eventually martyred becau e they refused to
mak acrifice to pagan gods. Barbara
(Dec mber ➔) and Chri tina Ouly 24)
were both very young women, probably t enager , who were persecuted and
tortured at the hands of their own
father for their refusals to renounce
th ir Christian beliefs. All of these
young women were ministered to by
angel , then suffered more excruciating
torture and still remained steadfast to
Christ, praying to receive their deaths
joyfully. Through the witness of these
four martyrs, many were converted to
Christianity.
Without doubt, these women saints
are shining examples to us of how we
can live our lives as contemporary
Chri tian women. Nevertheless, there is
one above all whose example we are
called to follow. Mary, the Mother of
God, is perhaps the best witness to us,
for her unquestioning love and obedience to God's will. In the Annunciation we see no thought of Mary refusing
God's role for her in the salvation of
mankind. We see instead her simple,
eloquent proclamation: "Behold, I am
the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me
according to your word" (Luke 1:38).
References
Fochios, Michael James. For the Glory of
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit: A
History of Eastern Orthodox Saints.
Holy Apostles Convent. The Lives of the
Holy Women Martyrs.
Topping, Eva Catafygiotu. Saints and
Sisterhood: The Lives of Forty-eight
Holy Women.
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Meditation in Arabic
Certainly, when our eyes and hearts
are open, we can see that we are being
called, some of us to be teachers, some
to be leaders, some to be the ministers
to the needy, and all of us to be steadfast
in faith. The one thing which unites all
of us as sisters in the faith is the love of
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song. It is a pleasing combination of
rrong message, good harmony and
;reat melody. This is indeed where we
hall find shelter from the storm.
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I WILL REMEMBER YOU will move
you. Anyone who has lost or is absent
from a dear friend or family member
will relate to this lovely tune and the
emotion-filled lyric. Hopefully, the listener will also appreciate the nearness
and dearness of any loved one who is
remembered Eucharistically. This is a
most thoughtful composition.
HOME AGAIN will make you cry. It
willespecially tug the heartstrings of all
mothers. It has a beautiful, mournfully
loving message, and is a touching story.
But,love is victorious and you can smile
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In A NEW COMMANDMENT, we
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proper simplicity of music, child-like innocence and vocal accompaniment.
This will catch on with our children at
The Village (it already has!)_ OCA Bishop JOB set this Carpatho-Russian
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Allof the above are my own personal
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Archdeacon Lawrence; Martyr Sixtus;
Laurence the Fool-for-Christ (FAST)
11. I CORINTHIANS 16:4-12; MATTHEW 21:28-32
Martyrs Faius, Gabinus, Archdeacon Euplus,
Basil and Theodore (FAST)
12. II CORINTHIANS 1:1-7;MATTHEW 21:43-46
SS. Photius, Anicetus, Alexander, Pamphilus
and Capito (FAST)
13. II CORINTHIANS 1:12-20; MATTHEW
22:23-33
Leavetaking of the Transfiguration; St. Tikhon
of Zadonsk (FAST)
14. ROMANS 15:30-33; MATTHEW 17:24-18:4
Forefeast of the Dormition; Prophet Micah
(FAST)
15. PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11; LUKE 10:38-42, 11:27-38
Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos (NO
FAST)
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DAILYDEVOTIONS by Archpriest George Albert
Septembe~ 1993
George Alberts
16. II CORINTHIANS 2:4-15; MATTHEW 23:13-22
Translation of the Image of Christ, Not Made
By Hands, from Edessa to Constantinople;
Martyr Diomedes
17. II CORINTHIANS 2:14-3:3; MATTHEW
23:23-28
Martyrs Myron, Paul, and Juliana; St. Alypius
the Iconographer
18. II CORINTHIANS 3:4-11; MATTHEW 23:29-39
Martyrs Florus and Laurus; SS. John of Ryla
and Arsenius of Paros (FAST)
19. II CORINTHIANS 4:1-6; MATTHEW 24:13-28
Martyr Andrew the General; SS. Pitrim and
Theophanes
20. II CORINTHIANS 4:13-18; MATTHEW24:27-33,
42-51A
Prophet Samuel; Martyr Heliodore; 3 7 Martyrs
of Plovdiv (FAST)
21. II CORINTHIANS 1:3-9; MATTHEW 19:3-12
Apostle Thaddeus of the 70; Martyr Passa and
her Three Children
22. I CORINTHIANS 9:2-12; MATTHEW 18:23-35
Martyrs Agathonicus and Companions,
Athanasius and Eulalia
23. II CORINTHIANS 5:10-15; MARK 1:9-15
Leavetaking of the Dormition; Martyrs Lupus
and lrenaeus
24. II CORINTHIANS 5:15-21; MARK 16-22
Martyr Eutychius; Neomartyr Cosmas
25. II CORINTHIANS 6:11-16; MARK 1:23-28
Return of the relics of the Apostle
Bartholomew; St. Titus Bishop of Crete (FAST)
26. II CORINTHIANS 12:10-19; MARK 4:10-23
Martyrs Adrian, Natalia and their 33
Companions
27. II CORINTHIANS 7:10-16; MARK 2:18-22
SS. Peoman the Great, Sabbas, Benephali,
Hosios, Cordova (FAST)
28. I CORINTHIANS 1:26-29; MATTHEW 20:29-34
St. Moses the Ethiopian, Fathers of Pechersk
29. ACTS 13:25-32; MARK 6:14-30
Beheading of the Glorius Prophet and
Forerunner John the Baptist (STRICT FAST)
30. II CORINTHIANS 8:7-15; MARK 3:6-12
SS. Alexander, John and Paul the New of
Constantinople
31. II CORINTHIANS 8:16-9:5; MARK 3:13-19
Placing of the Sash of the Theotokos; Martyr
Cyprian
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II CORINTHIANS 9:12-10:7; MARK 3:20-27
ss. Simeon the Stylite and Aithalas of Persia,
Synaxis of the Theotokos in Miasena; New
Church Year Begins (FAST)
2. II CORINTHIANS 10:7-18; MARK 3:28-35
Martyrs Mamas and his Parents, Theodotus
and Rufina
3. II CORINTHIANS 11:5-21; MARK 4:1-9
Martyr Anthimus and Basilissa; St. Joannicius
of Serbia
4. I CORINTHIANS 2:6-9; MATTHEW 22:15-22
Prophet Moses; Martyr Babylas of Antioch
5. I CORINTHIANS 16:13-24; MATTHEW
21:33-42
Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth;
Abdias of Persia
6. II CORINTHIANS 12:10-19; MARK 4:10-23
Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae;
St. Archipas
7. II CORINTHIANS 12:20-13:2; MARK 4:24-34
Forefeast of the Birth of the Theotokos; Martyr
Sozon
8. PHILIPPIANS 2:5-11; LUKE 10:38-42, 11:27-28
Feast of the Birth of the Theotokos (FAST)
9. GALATIANS 1:1-10, 20-2:5; MARK 5:1-20
SS. Joachim and Anna; Martyr Severianus
10. GALATIANS 2:6-10; MARK 5:22-24, 35-6:1
Martyrs Mendora, Metrodora, and
Nymphodora (FAST)
11. I CORINTHIANS 2:6-9; MATTHEW 10:27-11:1
SS. Theodora of Alexandria and Euphrosynus
12. II CORINTHIANS 1:21-2:4; MATTHEW
21:33-42
Leavetaking of the Feast of the Birth of the
Theotokos
13. GALATIANS 2:11-16; MARK 5:24-34
Forefeast of the Elevation of the Cross; St.
Cornelius
14. I CORINTHIANS 1:18-24; JOHN 19:6-11, 13-20,
25-35
Feast of the Elevation of the Cross (STRICT
FAST)
15. GALATIANS 3:15-22; MARK 6:7-13
Martyrs Nicetas and Porphyrius the Actor; St.
Philotheus (FAST)
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16. I CORINTHIANS 1:26-29; JOH 8:21-31
Martyrs Euphemia and Melitina; St. eba tiana
17. GALATIANS4:8-21; MARK 6:45-53
Martyr Sophia and her daughters: Faith, Hope
and Love (FAST)
18. I CORINTHIANS 1:26-29; JOH 8:21-30
Martyrs Ariadna, Sophia and Irene; t.
Eumenes
19. II CORINTHIANS 4:6-15; MATTHEW 22:35-47
Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius and
Dorymedone
20. GALATIANS4:28-5:10; LUKE 3:19-22
Martyrs Eustathius and Family, Michael and
Theodore
21. GALATIANS 5:11-21; LUKE 3:23-4:1
Leavetaking of the Elevation of the Cross;
Apostle Quadratus
22. GALATIANS6:2-10; LUKE 4:1-15
Prophet Jonah; Martyr Phocas of Sinope; St.
Cosmas (FAST)
23. EPHESIANS 1:1-9; LUKE 4:16-22
Conception of the Forerunner and Baptist
John; Neomartyr Nicolas
24. EPHESIANS 1:7-17; LUKE 4:22-30
Protomartyr Theda; SS. Juvenaly and Peter the
Aleut (FAST)
25. I CORINTHIANS 10:23-38; L KE 4:31-36
St. Euphrosyne the Righteous; Martyr
Paphnutius of Egypt
26. II CORINTHIA S 6:1-10; L KE 5:1-11
Repose of St. John the Theologian; t.
Ephraim
27. EPHESIA S 1:22-2:3; L KE 4:37-44
Martyr Callistratu and hi 49 Companion
Neomartyr Aquilina
;
28. EPHESIA S 2:19-3:7; L KE 5:12-16
h
St. Chariton the Cont
or; Prophet Barne ;
Prince Wenceslaus
3:8-21· L KE 5:33-39
29. EPHESIA
ss.Cyriacu the Hermit and The phan
Merciful (FA T)
the
30. EPHE IA 4:14-19· L KE 6:12-19
Martyr Gregory the Illuminator of rmenia
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�D JALQGUE
I read recently in The Word that the
Antiochian Orthodox Church and the
Syrian Orthodox Church are very close
to reuniting. This is good news indeed!
But how did this all happen? How did
they become separated in the first
place, and how did they decide to come
together again? -A.P., CA
(A number of questions like the above
arrived after the article entitled ''On
the Unity of the Eastern and Syriac
Orthodox Churches'' appeared in the
April 1992 issue of The Word. This
reader's question raises a number of issues - too many to be addressed at one
time. I have therefore divided my response into five parts, of which this is
the last.)
The Final Steps - II
In 1988, significant steps were taken
toward effecting a reunion of the Chalcedonians (Greek Orthodox) in the
patriarchate
of Antioch. From 17
through 23 August of that year, a meeting was convened in Geneva at which,
under the direction of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius IV, a
number of clergy and laity discussed
issues of concern to the patriarchate in
particular and world Orthodoxy in
general. Metropolitan Philip attended
and, upon his return, granted an interview to the editor of The Word, in
which he discussed, among other
things, the desirability of a regional
union between Chalcedonians and
non-Chalcedonians. In the course of
the interview he stated:
The question arose whether issues should be resolved in an ecumenical council or can be resolved by an autocephalous
church alone. We felt that since
the problem was an Antiochian
problem in origin, a clear theological position should be articulated
by Antiochian theologians after
this unity is restored and presented to all sister autocephalous
Orthodox churches.
The Metropolitan recognized that certain practical problems would have to
be addressed but felt that none of these
were "monumental" enough to preclude reunion.
However, if the Greek and Syrian Orthodox of Antioch did unite, there
would be two patriarchs in full communion with each other occupying the
same see, each with his own synod.
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by Father Theodore Pulcini
Their bishops would be presiding over
overlapping dioceses. Such a situation
would certainly be irregular, but would
it be intolerable? I believe the traditional
Orthodox ecclesiology (teaching regarding the Church) was articulated to
avoid the establishment of parallel or
overlapping jurisdictions.
From an
Orthodox perspective it would be unacceptable for different Orthodox
groups to go into a territory, establish
the church there, and then set up competing bishops in the same locale - or
for one Orthodox church to "invade"
the territory of another and set up a parallel hierarchy. This would clearly not
be the situation in a "reunited Antioch."
Because of centuries of separation, it is
simply a fact that where there was once
one united church there are now two
distinct, highly developed, legitimate
churches. Having a parallel hierarchy in
Orthodox Antioch, therefore, would
not be the result of the deliberate establishment of competing canonical jurisdictions but of the simple recognition
of a historical reality that cannot be denied or forcibly changed. Besides, although the Greek and Syrian Orthodox
would have their own patriarchs and
synods for matters of administration,
would it not be possible also to have a
"united synod" which met on a regular
basis and over which the two patriarchs
would preside in alternation? This
group would consider issues of mutual
concern to the sister-churches
and
would serve as a highly visible sign of
their unity in a common faith.
The fact is that the traditions of the
Greek and Syrian churches have, over
the centuries, become distinct from
each other; both are equally valid expressions of the same Gospel, and it
would be wrong to attempt to reduce
one to the other. The main manifestation of this irreducibility is the distinctive liturgical rites that have crystallized
in the two churches. A number of lessons, both positive and negative, can be
learned from the multi-ritual structure
presently obtaining in the Roman
Church. As a concession to pastoral
necessity, Rome has accepted the existence of parallel Catholic hierarchies in
the same territory for the purpose of
better serving the needs of the various
"rites," or "particular churches," that coexist there. In a reunited Orthodox Antioch, the pastoral welfare of the church
would necessitate the same sort of
multi-ritual co-existence between the
Greek and Syrian churches. There
should be no attempt to "homogenize"
the two traditions. In fact, multi-ritual
co-existence would probably work
much better between these two Orthodox groups than it has in the Catholic
context. In the Catholic system, because the touchstone of unity is affiliation with the Pope of Rome, the Roman
rite has always enjoyed a de facto predominance;
the minority
"rites,"
though theoretically equal in canonical
standing within the Catholic communion, have undergone much "Latinization" in matters of liturgy, theology,
spirituality, and administration. Because
there is no such centralization in Orthodoxy, the tendency toward "hybridization" would be much less pronounced. The two traditions, by maintaining the fullness of their particularity, could be mutually enriching.
Indeed it seems that such an attitude
of mutuality prevailed at a meeting between the leadership of the Eastern and
Oriental Orthodox churches of Antioch
held in Damascus inJ uly 1991. A policy
statement drafted at this meeting defines future relations between the two
churches. It calls for "complete and
mutual respect" in all matters ofliturgy,
spirituality, and heritage. The patristic
legacy of both traditions
is to be
respected and included in catechetical
materials and theological school curricula. Neither church will convert members from the other. The administrative
independence of each is to be maintained in all matters pertaining to marriage, divorce, adoption, etc. The synods of the two churches will meet in
conjunction whenever necessary. Perhaps most significant is that the document foresees full sacramental intercommunion in that it provides guidelines for liturgical concelebration of the
clergy of both churches, most notably
at the Eucharistic liturgy and marriage
services. Godparents and marriage witnesses can now be chosen from either
church without discrimination. Organizations from both churches are to
cooperate fully in educational, cultural,
and social matters. The bishops close
the document with a promise "to co~tinue strengthening our relationship
with the sister church."
In many ways the dialogue between
'
Chalcedonians and
non-Chalcedoniar• 1S
over the past three decades provides an
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"ideal type" of ecumenical encounter.
Through careful study, scholarly openss and mutual respect, two churches
ne ,
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hat had been separate 1or centunes
tame to recognize their common faith.
tistorical misunderstanding and theologicalcaricature were_ove~come, and a
strong desire for organic unity emerged.
For Eastern and Oriental Orthodox to
balk at taking the last steps toward this
unity would be a disservice not only to
themselves but to the entire ecumenical
enterprise. Since it is highly unlikely that
a Great Council of all Eastern Orthodox
will meet in the foreseeable future to
promulgate an act of union, it would be
far better for the leaders of world Orthodoxy to encourage the Eastern and
Oriental Orthodox of the Antiochian
patriarchate- both in their Middle Eastern homelands and throughout their "diasporas" - to establish full intercom-
munion immediate! . A wider union
could then be affirmed. The theological
groundwork ha been laid, and ay of
overcoming the practical ob tacle to reunion have been creatively addre ed.
Fortunately it appear that the hierarchies of the Greek and yrian Orthodox
churche of Antioch do not intend to ignore this historic opportunity to heal a
breach that has vexed Chri tianity for
over a millennium and a half.
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THE PEOPLESPEAK.
Dear Sayidna:
The following is a final report of the
Hurricane Relief Fund which Your Eminence and the members of our beloved
Archdiocese so generously and lovingly gave to the people of South Florida.
Per your request, I formed a special
committee to help _in distributing the
funds. It consisted of every priest of the
Deanery and two lay people from every
parish. Dr. Eugene Sayfie represented
the Archdiocese Board of Trustees. As I
mentioned to Your Eminence on the
phone, the parishes of Davie and West
PalmBeach felt that it was not necessary
for them to meet with us whenever we
meet because it did not concern their
parishes; however, they were informed
of our meetings.
Sayidna, we have tried our best to be
faithful stewards in distributing your
generous gift. At our first meeting, with
the help of the guidelines and criteria
from FEMA, the Red Cross, and Catholic Charities, we established our own
guidelines for distribution.
We met numerous times and at our
first meeting we decided that the funds
should be distributed first to our Antiochian parishes, second, to nonAntiochian Orthodox parishes in the
area, and, third, to non-Orthodox. Each
priest presented his cases to the committee anonymously, and the committee. studied each case separately and
awarded the funds accordingly.
The following is a breakdown of the
distribution of funds.
The Cathedral of Saint George,
Coral Gables
$27,000.00
Saint Lazarus Church,
Miami
21,500.00
Saint Peter Church,
Miami
8,500.00
Shrine of Regla,
Miami
8,500.00
Non-parishioners
2,000.00
Cammillus House
(Home for the Homeless)
Miami
1,000.00
Miami Rescue Mission
(Home for the Homeless)
Miami
1,000.00
TOTAL
69,500.00
The committee unanimously
decided to distribute $30,000.00 in the
form of $100.00 food certificates to the
people who live in Tent City in Homestead. We have purchased the certificates and were able to receive $1,500.00
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worth of certificates from the place of
purchase as a gift.
On Thursday, March 4th, we distributed $31,500.00 worth of food certificates to the hurricane victims in Homestead in the name of the Archdiocese.
Once again, Sayidna, please accept
our thanks and gratitude for this gesture
of love which you have shown us during our time of need. Our prayers and
hopes that the Lord will protect you for
many years to continue leading us in
this God-protected Archdiocese for His
glory and the prosperity of His people.
Your spiritual son,
Archimandrite Demetri M. Khoury
Dean, South Florida Deanery
Your Eminence:
I hope that you had a joyous holiday,
and I pray that this letter finds you well.
I wanted to express my gratitude, once
again, for your support for my studies
here at Holy Cross. I especially appreciate your support for the Antiochian
Studies Program, which I found very
helpful and informative. It was very
good to be able to get to know all of our
seminarians and some of our archpriests at Antiochian Village. The teaching, especially in Antiochian patristics,
history, missions, youth ministry, and
music, proved invaluable. I do hope you
will consider this program worth repeating next year. Thank you for making this experience and instruction possible.
I also want to express my gratitude
for your vision and drive in providing
Antiochian Village for not only the use
of our Archdiocese, but for all Orthodox. When I told some of my fellow students here that we would be going to
Antiochian Village for this program,
they all commented on the caliber of
the place. After I first arrived there, I can
now understand the comment of a
Greek Orthodox priest, who upon seeing it for the first time exclaimed, "Final1y, Orthodox with common sense."
May God continue to bless our Archdiocese through your leadership and
may He grant you many, many, many
years. Thanks again for your direct~on
and help with our priestly formation
and education.
Your,
John Reimann
Seminarian, Holy Cross
Brookline, MA
Dear Father George:
I realize that I am extremely late in
writing thi letter but have been searching for an answer to my query since it
arose in October, 1991. I will elaborate
now.
I am a faithful reader of The Word
magazine and find your "trivia' type
column entitled "Did you kno ... ?"
quite interesting. I wa however more
than a little upset after reading in the
September, 1991 i ue that no churches
were established in 1951 and 1952. Having been born in 1951 and one of the
first to be baptized by the Very Reverend
Stephen Upson in the church of t.
George, Toronto, (now relocated in
Richmond Hill, Ontario), I would really like to know the status of its establishment.
I believe it must have been established in eithe1' 1950 or 1951 and yet you
only mention the founding of t.
George Church in El Paso, Texa in
1950. Perhaps I am not clear on the
meaning of the words "established" and
"founded."
Please clarify this for me and ifl am in
error in any way please accept my apology in advance.
Yours in Orthodoxy,
Christine (Habib) Pickering
Willowdale, Ontario
Editorial Response:
Our Archdiocesan records indicate
that St. George Church of Toronto
(Richmond Hill) was founded in 1918.
Dear Editor:
The January issue of The Word is outstanding. I'm not sure if I have ever read
anything as intense and as convin ing a
the article on abortion. John and
Valerie Protopapa
are to be commended for their work.
It is exciting to see Orthodox hri tians along side believers from other fellowships in the battle to ave human life.
All Christians who hold to the fundamental of the faith, need to et a ide
difference and join together in the fight
again t abortion.
It seem to me that the pro-abortion
mind set i a product of a pre ailing
world view that i diametricall
oppo ed to Chri tian ab olute . During th
recent political convention one pre idential candidate poke to hi convention and aid that e are in a "cultural
�war for the heart and oul of America."
Incle d w ar .
Th
ultural war i a war between
t\\'O world ie -- the Chri tian world
view based on the ab olutes of God and
the prevailing relativi tic world view.
harle: Col on in hi book, "The
Body" write , ' ... the only table virtu , left in thi relati vi tic world is unbridled tolerance: the modern broadmindedne Lwhich purport that any and all
alue if inc rely held, are equally
valid (ex ept a value that claims allegian e to ab olute truth, of course.)"
ne need only to watch the evening
new-, an
ituation comedy, most
mo ieL, ore pecially shows geared to
children to ee this r lativistic world
view being jammed down our throats.
But the most frightening development
i - the almo t total control relativism has
in the public chools, through the bitterly nti-Christian ational Education
: ·ociation. Christian parents must
fight again t "new" curriculums such as
"The Rainbow Curriculum" in New
York and Pennsylvania's "Outcomes
Based Education."
Although, anti-Christian forces are in
control of media, government and education, he that is in u , still remains
greater than he that is in the world.Jesus
hrist is till Lord. He reigns, and one
day every knee will bow and every
tongue will confess thatJesus Christ is
Lord.
In Christ,
Alan Assad
Monongahela, PA
Your Eminence:
The purpose of this letter is to offer
my ongratulations and observations
regarding the recently completed Antiochian tudie Program. Each of the
. tudent (and faculty) commented on
the fact that this type of program was
long over-due.
One thing which was evident was the
genuine interaction between students
and faculty. ince the group was a
"manageable" ize each participant had
the opportunity to develop per onal
relation, hip with the other . Another
was the -incere intere tin learning more
about the ntiochian Church. Though
I am confident that you are already
planning for next year, I would just like
to add my ote.
We arc glad that Antiochian Village
wa. able to do it part to make this a suecc ful program. Plea e let us know
'4
how we can continue to support you
and this program.
Sincerely,
Mike Hamwey
Director of Sales and Marketing
Antiochian Village
Saidna PHILIP:
I wanted to take just a moment to express my thanks and appreciati?n f~r
the Antiochian Studies Week earlier this
year at the Antiochian Village.
The preparation and thought, not to
mention time and expense, that was
given this program was obvious. I am
sure that I would not be speaking
unilaterally if I stated that it was very
much appreciated by all who took part.
In fact, the sole general reservation that
the majority expressed was that we
would have enjoyed staying even
longer!
Please also extend my appreciation to
all the faculty participants. Once again,
and simply, be assured of my sincere appreciation. I remain, through Our Lord,
Your obedient son,
Shane Roberts
Seminarian, Holy Cross
Brookline, MA
Dear Father:
I am a student of Arabic. A priest
friend of mine always sends me your
magazine with the Meditation in Arabic.
I try to read it and translate it. I may even
get some benefit from it.
In this February issue, it was next to
a column entitled: DID YOU KNOW
... ? I don't know much about the top
part, but, as a historian, the bottom part
caught my eye. For at least 3500 years,
there has been a civilized human presence in what is now known as Ukraine.
The area and peoples, for at least 1500
years have had a Rus', Rusyn and, if you
will, Ukrainian identity. The Rossiyani,
or northern tribes in the region of modern Moscow, are an ethnic amalgam of
Sinitic, Mongol, Slav and Finnish peoples. They did not develop a real national identity until comparatively recently,
whereas the Ukrainians and the Rusyns
have had one for many more times
longer. In the year 103 7, there was no
Russia. This came along some 500 years
later, mainly as an opportunistic result
of a power vacuum. The Ukraine is like
Mexico - too close to Russia, or in the
case of Mexico, to the U.S. and too far
from God. The struggles of the Ukrain-
ians against the Poles, Russians, Germans and others are legendary.
Your information is a part of the old
communist re-writing of western history and is inaccurate. It runs contrarv
to historical and scientific fact as well a~
archeologic evidence. I am told that
your group and the Ukrainians have a
political problem between you. Don't
let that cloud the truth.
I like your magazine and love the
Arabic peoples, their language and their
culture.
Sincerelv
Leo Kell):
Clearwater Beach, FL
Editorial Response:
The information we gave about the
Church of Russia is historical fact. Sorry
you do not agree with it. Our "group''
and the Ukrainians do not have a political problem among us. If you know
something that I do not know about us,
let me know please!
Dear Editor:
My name is Albert Joseph and I am a
Lieutenant with the Rochester, New
York Police Department and I have been
a Police Officer for 28 years. I grew up
in New Castle, PA and I was very active
with St. Elias Church, being an Altar
Server, Sunday School Teacher and
Choir Member. I moved to Rochester,
New York and I belong to St. John's
Orthodox Church along with my family, and I have been very active with this
O.C.A. Church for the past 30 years.
When I read your guest editorial by
Valerie Protopapas referring to "MA Y
INSTANCES OF SICKENING BRUTALITY INFLICTED BY THE POLICE ON
MEN AND WOMEN, etc.", I became very
angry. To set the record straight • · •
There are many Police Officers that are
against abortion and I am one of them. I
I voted for Bush and tried to get manyof
my friends to vote for Bush because of
the Abortion issue. When we are called
upon to ENFORCE THE LAWSSE!
DOWN BY OUR COURTS, not byus, H
puts us in a very difficult position 311d
we do the best we can. In all the proteSr
that I and my Department are invo_lved
in we advise the protesters several ume
that they are in violation of the LAWL
. an d w 11 en the\',
and they must desist
.
. . MUSTthen
don't we as Police Officers
'
use the force necessary to have th e Pro•
testers comply with the LAW• The
d'
majority of the protests h ave Me ia
coverage and I have NEVER seen or
been involved in any situation where I
would describe our actions as SICKENI G BRUTALITY, where Valerie mentions MANY INSTANCES. I think she
should put the blame where it belongs
and it certainly is not with the POLICE.
Sincerely,
Al Joseph
Rochester, NY
Editorial Response:
Orthodox Christians for Life have
written Aljoseph but their letter is too
lengthy to include here. We hope he is
satisfied with their response.
Dear Editor:
Where do I begin to sing praises for
the good news wrought by the successful "1st National Youth Seminar" held at
Antiochian Village,January 21st to 24th?
I am certain that I speak for many when
I express my deep appreciation for the
solid organizing efforts of the Greek,
Antiochian, and OCA jurisdictional
youth offices, especially Mike Anderson
(OCA),Mike Pappas and Fathers Angelo
Artemas and Jim Gravilos (GOA), and
Father Joseph Purpura (AOA). Their
hard work and steadfast spirit provided
great rewards. Why? . . .
SKILL . . . Firstly, because the organizers adeptly answered a real need in
our Church: equipping youth-workers
with the skills and confidence to do
their work effectively. Of course, attending this seminar does not a youthworker make. But it is a progressive step
in the right direction. The commitment
of the youth departments to this work
of education provides youth-workers
with a sense of relevance and vision for
the future. A need was recognized - developing skills in you th leaders - and
was answered with commitment, energy, and excellence. Bravo! Axios! Thanx!
FAITH ...
Secondly, the seminar
created a springboard of promise and
optimistic opportunity for the future of
our Church, since how we address the
needs of our youth today bears immensely on how we face the issues of tomorrow.
If I had to choose one word to describe
the spirit of this seminar it would be "E TH SIASM," since it fueled all present
with an overwhelming confidence, in tandem with competence. While enthusiasm
is intangible, it is also indispensable in
youth work . . . And, for that matter,
what is any work in the Church without
necessary faith and love?
TIIE WORD/JU E 1993
UNITY . . . Lastly, though perhap
most significantly,
a spirit of PanOrthodox unity pervaded our gathering. Indeed, what was most remarkable
about this occurrence was that it a
wholly natural and unplanned, a if it
were the underlying though un poken
agenda held in common by all. And yet,
this unity was not our directive but our
cooperation, for it most certainly had to
be the work of the Holy Spirit. Sharing
in God's will, our unity gave u an exhiliration of power, of dynamism, of joy
in the vitality of our Holy Orthodox
Faith, our common treasure. There wa
nothing wooden or artificial about our
togetherness, nothing formalized or
pretended. We formed a body, an organism, and dispensed with the facades of
organizations.
Neither Greek nor
American nor Russian nor Antiochian
. . . We were one and all in Christ,
Orthodox in Faith, jubilant in praise
(Though with many accents!).
One final note in this long-winded
missive ... If you ever happen to have
the opportunity to hear the contemporary Orthodox musical duo, "Kerygma,"
please do so. Why? Imagine the harmonies and repartee when eals and Crofts
meets Saints Cyril and Methodios meets
the Smothers Brothers, and I think you
will share in my delight.
Kudos (I just wanted to use tl)at word)
to the organizers of this event! Wonderworking is apparently not left to the relics of the past. Certainly, glory and
praise are due always to the grace of the
Holy Spirit!
Joyfully,
John Manuel
Lay Assi tant
Holy Trinity (GOA)
Wilmington DE
Dear Father George:
Warm greetings in the ame of our
Saviour, who declared I Iim elf to be
"The Way,the Truth and the Life,"Je. u ,
the Christ.
I wish to exp re incere gratitude for,
and appreciation of, THE
RD, and
congratulate you on the xcellent work
and progre
being made. Goe.I blc.
you and keep you all in Hi care.
This letter wa prompted by the enclosed new item of gay and le bian
clergy. A copy of my Letter to the Editor
about it i al o en lo ed.
In vie of the criptural teaching
referenced in my letter the creation b)
God of the complete man, male and fc-
male and the pra 'tice of pric:t ,
prophet and apo -ric in prcL·erving the
anctity of od-in tinned marriage,
when will th hurch ha\'e the moral integrity and courage to convene and deal
with thi ital, o er-long delayed e::, cntial i ue?
It wa preci ly to bring thi about,
aft r the r peat d po tponemcnrs, that
Arch bi hop ftimio - fie -h made the
monum ntal lka rifi e of marriage.
Hi hope were that heel be -ummonccl
to a trial by hi p ers, a mandated b)
Church anon Law and the i - uc would
b d alt with, leading to a re ·toration of
mandated marriage of the clergy in a cordanc
with
ripture -. To the
Church' hame it ha yet to reap the
benefit of hi noble and , clfle. act.
Think of the tremcndou
in alculabk
rewards which would n -uc!
Mariam
(Mr . Aftimio
Dear Metropolitan PHILIP:
In behalf of the pari hioner: of the
Shrine of Regla, I would like to exp re
our gratitude to you and to the rchc.lioce e for making fund a ailable to help
the victim of Hurricane ndre"-' in our
community.
Our church ha di tributed 8. -ooin
as i tance to needy familie and individual . It ha meant a lot to them to
experience that the hurch care· for
them in their time of need.
Thank you again, and may od grant
you many year .
Faithfully.
(The Rev.) Michael F. Lobo
Rector, . hrinc of Ikgla
~liami. FL
Dear Father ore\:
an a per. on (;>r per on...,)who 1 of
the Mclkite Faith participatL' tn thL' a<.ra
ment. of the Onhodo,· Jrnrch. u ha .
the Euchari t, 'n tion, L't', \\ ithout b ~corning nhodox fir t-;,If o, 1 th rl.'
anything \\ rittcn in thL' <..inons or
chur h J;rw"that tatt: it 1 .tlright to r ·ce i ve u h a -r.1mt:n t .rn d remain
~1clkite?If not, i thL'rt:an) thing written
in the anon or drnrch law that tat·
a J\klkite crnnot take communion or
other a ram ·nt • unit:
u ·h I ·lkit •
per on or pt:r on \\ ould b
rthodo ·? I havc.=been told
rthodox pri • t that ' y • ' a
�an indeed be considered the same as
an rthodox Chri tian o as to receive
the acrament without changing from
~lelkite to Orthodox. I need to know
our practice!
Respectfully,
ame and City withheld by the Editor
Editorial Response:
The Melkite (Greek Catholic) church
left the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of
Antioch in 1724 and united themselves
with the hurch of Rome. Many attempts
were made to bring them "home", but as
of thi date, to no avail. Rome supposedly allowed the Melkites to retain all their
Orthodox traditions. All that was needed v..'a to be in communion with Rome.
In practice, this is not always the case.
For example, their priests in the Western
world (the A, Canada and elsewhere)
must be celibate. Also they must celebrate Ea ter on the Western calendar,
not the Eastern one. In their liturgics,
they are very similar to us. However
most of them have adopted many "Latin" practice and disciplines, such as
purgatory, indulgences and merits, the
"Filioque" in the Creed, feasts of Corpu, Christi, Ash Wednesday, etc. They
believe in the infallibility and primacy of
the Pope of Rome and their Patriarch
and Holy Synod cannot elect their own
bishops. Rome does it! In addition to
the above, the Melkites have gone into
many Orthodox villages throughout the
Middle East and taken Orthodox Christians away from their Mother Church,
making of them "rice" Christians.
In answer to your question about intcrcomm union, the Orthodox and
Mclkites are OT in communion with
each other. We arc in constant dialogue
and have friendly relations. Our people
socialize quite often and the clergy are
u. ually on very good terms with each
other. The Ecumenical Guidelines of
the Orthodox Church forbid intercommunion until such time as the churches
maintain the same Faith, Creed, dogmas
anc.ldoctrines. That is not the case now.
They cannot receive our sacraments
and we cannot receive theirs! The Sacred anons of the undivided Christian
hurch, written by the Fathers of the
E umcnicaJ and Local Councils, forbid
inter-communion when there is no unity in Faith.
We rthodox Jong for the day when
our 1clkite brethren return to the fold
of their Mother Church. However until
they do, there can be no sharing of the
(jacramental life.
'-1)
the
of the WORD a clari·f·
Very Reverend Editor:
. readership
.
1caIn the January 1991 issue of THE t1on of bis or ~1erL~nderstanding of the
facts, along with his
WORD in the DID YOU KNOW column
. or .her sources , £or
statements o f serious implication. \Y/e
the reader is told "that only the clergy
begin prayers with 'In the name of the should know whether we are dealin
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy with a local (e.g. jurisdictional) peculiat~
Spirit.'" This seems to contradict a near- ity of custom or perhaps an opinion of
a Church Father. There should be room
ly universal custom in the Orthodox
Church. For example, the Greek Syn- for the laity to question the Orthodoxv
ekdemos of the Orthodox Christian es- of assertions, so that the catholicity of
the Faith may not be compromised. We
sentially begins by directing the reader
to say "In the name of the Father . . ." should remember how careful St. Paul
to begin the Morning Prayers. This is ex- was to use the expressions "I, not the
actly the arrangement in A Manual of Lord, say ... " (1 Cor. 7:12) to leavehis
readers some freedom of decisionEastern Orthodox Prayers pu blisbed
making in religious matters.
by St. Vladimir's Press with a foreward
by Fr. Alexander Schmemann, as well as
Yours in Christ
A Pocket Prayer Book published by the
Albert G. Fadell, Ph.o'.
Antiochian Archdiocese with a foreBuffalo, NY.
ward by Metropolitan Bashir. In each
case the prayers are to begin with the Editorial Response:
Sign of the Cross while invoking the
Thank you Dr. Fadel! for your interName of the Persons of the Allholy
esting letter. I am happy to know that
Trinity. Indeed, it would seem that since our laity arc serious about their Faith
most private praying would begin with
and that you are as knowledgeable as
the Sign of the Cross in Orthodox usage, you are. Thank God for educated faiththe invocation of the Name is always ap- ful! I should begin my response with St.
propriate, if not normal. Perhaps, what
Paul's expression "I, not the Lord, say
the writer bad in mind was the restric. . .". I attended two Orthodox the;tion of liturgical blessings or benediclogical schools, Holy Cross in Brookline
tions, along with liturgical ekpboneses
and St. Vladimir's in New York. Father
(as in the Lord's Prayer) in which the Alexander Scbmernann was my liturgitraditional replacement (for liturgical
cal theology professor. In both schools
blessings) is "Through the prayers of I can remember that whenever we recitour holy Fathers, ... ". Even so, it is not ed our prayers with a priest present, our
clear that all ekpboneses are to be omit- prayers began by him with "In the
ted, although it certainly is customary
Name of the Father, etc." When we
for laity to hesitate to say them. For prayed alone, we began with "Glory to
example, in the case of the Lord's Pray- the Father, etc." This stuck out in my
er, some manuscripts have the ekphomind over the years and was the reason
nesis "For Thine is the Kingdom . . .", I made my observation in the January
which then certainly should be said as 1991 issue. I receive many copies of let- I
part of a scriptural reading.
ters from the laity in our Archdiocese to
The further admonition in the article bishops, priests and other laity. Manyof
that "The laity never speak in the Name them beoin their letters "Greetings in
of the Lord Jesus Christ" needs at least the Nam~ of our Lord Jesus Christ". I
further clarification. After all, in the have always been taught that clergy
Liturgy it is the Laity that respond "In could use "In the Name of our Lord
the name of the Lord" after the Priest's Jesus Christ", but that the laity should
"Let us depart in peace." Then there is not presume to speak in His Name. They
the instance in the New Testament (Luke could say "Greetings in the ~ordJesL~~
9:49-50) in which the Disciples tried to Christ", not speaking "In Hts Name·
prevent a man from using the Lord's
The "function" of the bierarch or the
ame to cast out demons, but the Lord clergy is to stand in the place of Ch_ri~t
said, "Do not prevent him." If the
in his relationship to the faithful. Thisis
People of God are called a "royal priestan awesome "function"
which we
hood" (1 Peter 2 :9), their role as such
should not take lightly. It is a judgement
should have substance. It might be well upon us! Of course I may very well be
to point out that St.John Chrysostom in wron° because I cannot document my
a sermon about Laity versus Priesthood
argu1;ent. The liturgical books in Engcl~arly asserts that the difference is only lish do indeed state otherwise. But allof
with regard to function. I think that the these books were printed at a time
author of DID YOU KNOW THAT owes when we were starving for books on thc
I
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THE WORD/JUNE 199
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Faith in English, and often they were
printed without proper translations of
the liturgical texts. I wonder what the
originals say? Maybe our liturgical experts can enlighten us!
Dear Editor:
It is not surprising in North America
that even some Orthodox Christians
would question the truth in my article
(April, 1993) about the impossibility of
ordaining women to the Sacred Ministry of Orthodox Christian Churches,
even though I thought I had made the
point that the Church was simply being
obedient to the discipline that Christ
prescribed for His Church in only ordaining men. I thought I had explained
that while men and women are spiritually equal in the eyes of God, and are
equal in the sight of our human law, and
should share equally in their pursuit of
professional and material goals, they
are, nevertheless, different in their function. I thought I would be completely
understood when I said that a woman
can no more be an Orthodox Christian
priest than a man can be a mother.
In discussing these important issues,
what one must never forget is that we
live in a society in which it is believed
that everything must be voted upon before it can be considered, accepted or
believed. What I want to emphasize
much more emphatically is the fact that
the Church is not a human organization.
She is not a democracy. She is not a human institution. She is a Divine Society.
Her law and truth are not subject to the
pressures and changes that occur in human history. She is unchanging. She is
an absolute monarchy, over which
Christ is King. Christ laid down the
plans for the ministry of His Church
when He called only men to be His
apostles and bishops. He did not consider political, economic, psychological, sociological or gender factors when
He founded His Church. He did not
need to consider these things. He is God
and He did what He wanted to do
knowing that it was always best for us'.
We in North America have a difficult
t~mein accepting authority because we
l~~ein the world's oldest democratic poltt_icalsociety. We believe that every intitution is subject to majority vote. It
would therefore seem to follow that if
the majority wanted women to be
priests, they could be made priests. It is
even more difficult today for us to accept authority, and especially the
THEWORD/JUNE 1993
authority of the Church, becau e of the
~nsidious spread of secular humani t
ideas :Which have persuaded people to
question the truth and value of thing
that are absolute. Secular humani t believe that nothing, not even God if
there_isa God, is absolute. Everything i
relative and relational.
It can be
changed and be voted in or out a one
chooses.
When someone says to me that he or
she disagrees with what I say about
women being ordained to the Sacred
Ministry, I will tell him or her that you
do not disagree with me, but rather you
disagree with our Eastern Orthodox
Christian Church. This means that he or
she disagrees with our Lord, the Apostles, the Holy Bible and the Holy Tradition which the Church has preserved
intact and expounded in God's Holy
Name for two thousand years.
"And it came to pass, whenJesus had
ended these sayings [the Sermon on the
Mount], the people were astonished at
His doctrine: For He taught them as one
having authority, and not as the scribes,"
St. Matthew: 7:28f.
-Father Alister C. Anderson
Washington, DC
Dear Editor:
I received much spiritual benefit
from Father Alexy Young's article, "Orthodox Lent, A Feast for the Soul." Who
would not be stirred to take up our cross
daily and follow the Lord as we give
heed to the great cloud of witnesses
calling us to fast and pray?
I also noted an error in reference to
Moses' fasting. The article stated, "Call
to mind the incredible reward Mo e
received after his fast: the Lord God Almighty revealed Himself to Moses in the
mystical burning bush and even gave
the prophet His unutterable and all holy
Name: "I Am That I Am." Actually, thi
initial revelation came to Mo es prior to
his great fast, as recorded in Exodu 3.
The "reward of grace" which came to
him after his great fast wa that "the kin
of his face shone" (with the light of
God's presence) as recorded in Exodu
34, not ch. 24 as printed.
Fortunately, these error do not affect
any of the substance of the excellent
spiritual direction given in the article.
Thanks again for an edifying piece of
work!
In Chri t' Mercy,
tanford E pedal
an Diego, CA
Dear ord:
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tional authority of Patriarch Di
stopped at the city limit of Jeru ale
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the Patriarchate of ntioch. The Gre
in Jeru alem could then d vot their
energie and full attention to th ir chief
interest and omething that the ha e
proved them elve pretty good at: taking care of the holy place .
incerel ,
Father Patrick Reardon
Butler, P
Your Eminence:
I hope thi letter find ou in good
health and peace during thi ea on of
spiritual renewal.
I am writing thi letter to expre
ome things that I have not communicated to you a one of the pri t that
erve under your hand in thi Archdioce e.
Fir t of all I ould like t thank
for bringing u (E.O. .) int the rth dox Church. I al o ould like to thank
you for bringing m into th fold of
Orthodoxy. Word annot
pre the
gratitude that I feel fi r th bold mo e
that you made in ordaining me and the
other into Orthodox . Thank } ou,
Your Emin nee for laying your hand
upon me and allo ing me to erve '\:·ith
you in thi great and h ly vineyard.
Each and very time I erve the liturgy
I am aware that I w uld not he participating in fullne of piritual life had
you not ordained me to the mini try f
life and faith.
The e ond thing I w uld like t relate i that I hope that ) u know that
your mini try and life i a light f vi "ion
and larity in re ard to evan eli ·m in
�orth America. I can only hope that I
live up to the challenge that you have
given to me and others. I thank God for
the trust that you had in us (and me) and
I know had it not been for you bringing
us into the canonical Orthodox Church,
Pascha would be a far different day.
Thank you for bringing us home!
-Father David Ogan
Lompoc, California
Dear Editor:
The imminent peace meeting in
Washington, D.C. is of significant importance to the ethos of power in world
politics and to the ethos of reason and
faith to which we all are loyal. In the history of power which the Heads of
Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, the
Palestinians, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria
and the USA represent, peace has eluded the Middle East since 1948 and before. Peace will again fail this time
around, and war will be resumed for
years, unless and/or until, in the following order:
• All of you have learned from history
that allegiance to power alone, has
failed to give comfort to all inhabitants of your countries.
• Israel feels confident that it is at home
in the Middle East despite the fact
that it was implanted there by force,
more than by discourse with the
Palestinians. The issue is primarily a
Palestinian-Israeli conflict more than
an Arab-Israeli conflict.
• The Palestinians who were dislocated, as a result, from Palestine are
reinstated in a national home called
Palestine, with appropriate accommodation, in space and geography, to
neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Israel,
Jordan and Syria. Towards this end
the following steps are needed:
a. You worship, as you are expected
this time, at the altar of faith and
reason and not only at the altar of
power as you have done in the
past.
b. All expulsions of Palestinians from
Israel stop and recent deportees to
Lebanon returned to Israel.
c. Lebanon's recent refusal to rescue
the 400 + Palestinian deportees
from Israel, is recognized as a paradigm, of a generic model of all
the strategic and tactical processes to be utilized in addressing the
underlying concept of the conflict since 1948. The Israelis now
realize, with their morality-laden
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principles of freedom and justice in·
a. The ongoing process of confiic~
resolution between the Arabs and
Israel.
b. The subsequent new procedures
to be jointly established by Israel
and the Arabs for the regional development of the whole area.
During the twentieth century, J as an
individual, like many other individu~ls, suffered poignantly over the plight,
zn Europe, of the fews under Hitler and
of the Russians under Stalin and Lenin
and in the Middle East since 1948, ove~
the dislocation of the Palestinians and
the later de-democratization
of Lebanon. No other country, save perhaps
Iraq, has paid as heavy a price in the
Arab world. I have no power to affect
change. But my suffering encouraged
me to write to the Heads of State mentioned above directly, not that they
need my advice but that it is time to
conduct power, with more moral rectitude than political expediency. I pray to
God that this time they will.
Sincerely,
Zekin A. Shakhashiri
College Park, MD
conscience, that they ought to be
the last people in the world to inflict upon the Palestinians the
kind of torture and persecution
that they themselves
had
suffered, in Europe. Likewise the
Palestinians as well as the Lebanese, after years of internal strife
and embarrassingly counterproductive regional and international ugly mis-behavior, realize
now that it is in their long range
interest to forgive, and to help the
western graft of Israel, acquire a
successful take on the Arab tree,
in the Middle East, for the benefit
of all concerned.
d. Palestine is reestablished, and like
Israel, is equally accepted in the
region.
• All territories occupied in Lebanon
by the non-Lebanese and in Syria by
the non-Syrians,
are freed and
returned.
• Adequate attention is given, not only
to short-sighted political interests and
the dictates of power which have
dominated diplomacy thus far, but
also to the desiderata of long range
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�COMMUNITIESIN ACTION
Kahlil Gibran
Early Childhood School
Dedicated in Yonkers
Over two hundred Yonkers, New
York residents gathered at the Dedication Ceremony of the Kahlil Gib ran Early Childhood School, 18 Rosedale Roaq
in Yonkers. The capacity crowd had the
opportunity to celebrate the literary
contributions of the Immortal Prophet
of Lebanon, enjoy ethnic delicacies and
revel in the oratorical and dance presentations done by students.
Board of Education, introduced His Excellency Antoine G. Chedid ~nd welcomed the many Arab-Amencan and
community residents who ~ttend~d the
ceremony. In addition to his service t?
the Board of Education, Dr. Sayegh is
the president of The Kahlil Gi?,ra?
Educational Fund, Inc. in Yonkers. It is
a proud moment for Lebanon and ~rabAmericans to have this school dedicated in honor of Kahlil Gibran," said Dr.
Sayegh. "It stands as a symbol ~f the
many contributions he has made m ~~e
name of world peace and harmony.
recent departure from the Episcopal
Church. They were chrismated and
received into the Orthodox Church by
Father Gregory Cooke, priest of St.
George, who serves also as priest of the
new Mission.
Using the Divine Liturgy of St.
Tikhon (an Orthodox-corrected
form
of the Book of Common Prayer of the
Episcopal Church, and first authorized
for use in the United States in 1907),
Christ the King (which meets inAHEPA
Hall, N.E. 31st and Glisan, Portland)
offers an entry into Eastern Orthodox
community, theology and history for
those seekers more familiar with Western Christian (i.e., Episcopal or Roman
Catholic) forms of liturgical worship.
Both Christ the King and St. George
are in the Antiochian Archdiocese of
North America, under the Patriarchate
of Antioch, the second oldest patriarchate of the Christian Church.
AAMA Elects Hamati
National President
L. to R. Consul General of Lebanon, Antoine G. Chedid; Dr. Baker,Jr., Principal; Dr. Sayegh, Trus-
tee; Mr. Robert Beane, President, Board of Education.
The dedication of the Kahlil Gibran
Early Childhood School was one of five
chool dedications planned this year by
the Yonkers Board of Education. These
schools are being named after deceased
persons who have local, national or international recognition; and have made
positive and significant contributions to
education, history, human rights, the
arts, science, politics, law or civil rights.
In commemorating Gibran's contributions to history, the school district
was honored to have as the evening's
keynote speaker, Consul General of
Lebanon, His Excellency Antoine G.
Chedid. In his inspiring address, the
Con ul General spoke of Lebanon as a
proud land of peace, and peace loving
people. He also provided a brief overview of Gibran's distinguished life and
contributions.
Dr. Joseph F. Sayegh, trustee of the
50
Yousif I. Hamati, MD, FACS,an orthopedic surgeon from Muskegon, MI,has
been elected 1993 president of the
National Arab American Medical Association, Inc. (AAMA), a 1,000-member
national organization of medical professionals of Arab descent.
The AAMA is a nonprofit, non-political organization devoted to educational and charitable goals. It is fully accredited by the ACCME. Twenty local
The evening was completed with an
address by school principal,
Dr.
Roosevelt Baker, Jr., which focused on
the school's reading and writing magnet
theme, and, the donation of literary
works by Kahlil Gibran from Joseph
Slater and Suzanne Williams.
Western Orthodox
Mission Formed
In Portland, Oregon on February 28,
1993, there occurred an event unique in
Oregon (and relatively-new, but increasingly common, in the United States): a
Western Rite mission of the Orthodox
Church celebrated its first Liturgy.
Christ the King Orthodox Mission,
an outreach of St. George Orthodox
Church (Byzantine Rite), has at its core
nine former Episcopalians who left the
Parish of St. Mark, Portland, before its
tion in Amman, Jordan, in June 1~93.
Medical professionals from the Urnted
Stateswill join colleagues from the Middle East for five days of medical sessions
and cultural programs. The convention
is co-sponsored by the University of Jordan King Hussein Medical Center, the
Ministry of Health and Jordan Medical
Association.
Dr. Hamati is a member of St. Nicholas Church in Grand Rapids, MI, and a
member of the Order of St. Ignatius of
Antioch.
St. Anthony Bergenfield, NJ
On St. Anthony's Day, January 21,
1993, Bishop Antoun inducted 18 new
members from St. Anthony Church,
Bergenfield, NJ, into the Order of St.
Ignatius of Antioch.
This induction breaks down the old
cliche about the Order being an "old
rich man's" organization, as more than
half of the inductees are women, all are
ing, and tuition for seminarians are
among the many projects funded by the
Order.
The Order has a ministry to the Archdiocese and through this service can
reach the larger community as a whole.
The Order has made it possible,
through the Archdiocese, to contribute
to the victims of Hurricane Andrew and
those stricken with famine in Somalia.
Without the collective conscience and
donations of the members of the Order
of St. Ignatius these charitable and
philanthropic contributions may not be
possible on a grand scale.
After a brief introduction by Edward
Assile, vice chairman of Eastern Region,
the inductees and their sponsors were
introduced and then the inductees were
sworn in by Bishop Antoun. The new
members of the Order of St. Ignatius of
Antioch from St. Anthony, Bergenfield,
are: Valerie Allen,James Bach, Cathryn
Banu, Thelma Dacales, Dennis Deeb,
Jerry Delaportas, Don Di Novi, Lisa
Fares, Gabriel Hakim, Lindsey Hakim,
Mr. David was buried in the family plot.
Allan was so well known to mo t
everyone in the then OYO Mo ement
throughout the nited tate and anada, particularly in the Mid We t, Ea, tern
and Canadian American Region ,
wherein he had resided during hi. lifetime and wherein he was active in the
movement.
Allan was born on May 15 19~3 in
Timmins, Ontario, Canada, where he
grew up. He served in the Royal anadian Air Force from 19"±1through 19"±5in
Canada, the Briti h I le and France. He
subsequently attended the L niversity of
Toronto where he earned hi. Bachelor
of Science Degree a well a his Ma ter
of Science Degree a a Chemical Engineer. After a short working period he
attended Oklahoma A and M where he
completed hi work for and received his
Doctoral Degree in Chemical EngineerNational Chaplain ArchpriestJoseph
Allan and 14 of the new inductees of the Order from st _Aning. Dr. David had achie ed member• l Daly , were absent from the photo.
thony, Bergenfield. , Four inductees and the pastor, Fat l1er D a111e
ship in many Honorary and Frater_nal
of various ages & all are of different eco- Donna Harris, Dolores Atallo Hazel- societies related to the field of hcmical
nomic means and professions. This was green, Gary Hazelgreen, Mary Mabar- Engineering a well a having been an
Honor tudent while at ollege.
one of the largest inductions at the local die, Stephanie Mehler, Eve Meyer,Jame,
Allan wa employed by International
Pallas and Klaus Weischenberg. Pastor
parish level bringing National MemberBu
ine Machines Corporation for
of
St.
Anthony
Church
i
Father
Daniel
ship in the Order to over 1450. St. Anthony Parish now has a total of 36 mem- Daly. May God grant them many year ! over Twenty-Five (25) year., retiring in
1991 from hi managerial po..,iLion.
bers and St. Anthony is not a large parWhile with IBM he wa a,, igned to varish.
ALLAN PHILIP DAVID
ious managerial po, itions in BinghamWord of the collective good works of
ton, .Y., Pough keep ic, 1 .Y., Mane">">a,
Allan Philip David, of Binghamton,
the members of the Order are reaching
irginia a well a, other ar~a- of the
ew York died on October 26, 1992 at
every person of this Archdiocese, thus
country.
He aL o, er ed IB~l in a~ada,
a
hospital
in
Binghamton,
where
he
ha
encouraging more and more to join. ToJapan and Germany while holdmg a
lived for most of the year that he ha
gether the members support and
managerial po ition.
resided in the nited tate . Mr. David',
encourage many projects throughout
Allan a, a long time supporter and
Funeral
services
were
conducted
by
the
the Archdiocese. The Antiochian Vilacti
e in the
Y movement parucuVery
Rev.
Elia
Shalhoub,
Pastor
of
the
t.
lage Camp, Special Olympics, Clergy
larly
in
tho
e
areas
of the ountry where
Retirement Fund, Food for the Hungry, George Antiochian Orthodo~ Church
he
will
be
well
remembered
for hi
of
Toronto,
in
Trenton,
Ontario,
where
missions, evangelism, radio broadcast-
t
Dr. Yousif I. Hamati
chapters of the AAMA have b e en estab-1
lished throughout
the United States
since 1974.
..
A}.Mf.s
Dr. Hamati is also chamng the
Eleventh International Medical ConvenTHE WORD/JUNE 199
:\
Allan Philip David
THE WORD/JUNE 1993
t
�He then presented the group with
wooden cross as a gift from his parish 0~
St. Andrew's Church, Eustis, FL.
_Fo_llowingth~ service, a provisional
m1ss1on council was appointed. Arrang~mcn~s were made to have a Typica
service, with Holy Communion on th
first and third Sundays of each monthe
The time and location of the service~
will be announced shortly. All services
and prayers are in English.
Area residents of the Eastern OrthoAntiochian Mission Founded dox Faith, including Russian, Armenian
DAYTONABEACH - An Orthodox
Greek, Slav, Lebanese, Syrian and all
St. Michael Church,
mission has been founded under the other nationalities, are invited to attend.
VanNuys, CA
auspices of the Antiochian Orthodox
Information is available by calling 253We at St. Michael Church, under the Christian Archdiocese of North Ameri- 1815 or 677-5755.
direction of Fr. Timothy Baclig, in Van ca by a group of people residing in the
The founders want to determine who
Nuys, California, feel very fortunate to greater Daytona Beach, Florida area.
in Volusia and Flagler counties want to
The group met recently at the Dayto- join in the effort to establish this
have a unique cultural program in our
church, chaired by Carrie Deeb Skaff. na Beach home of]an Ajluni, with The English-language Orthodox mission.
Originally, Carrie was appointThe mission is made up of
ed Cultural Chairman in 1991,
people who live in the East
for the Ladies Guild, according
Central Florida area. . . mainto the AOCWNA guidelines.
ly from Daytona Beach, OrShe started the program and it
mond Beach, and South Daytobrought such delight to the lana. Within 30 minutes proximidies that the men wanted to go
l ty lie the communities of Port
too. Now, the Cultural Program
Orange, Deland, New Smyrna
is open to the entire parish and
Beach and Palm Coast. The
we have an overabundance of
• group is actively pursuing
people.
potential members from these
There is a great deal of felareas.
lowship felt by us all when we
First row (from left): Yvonne
make these trips together. The
Haddad, Daytona Beach; Falove for one another and enjoyther Michael Keiser, St. Anment of each other is earned by t
drew's Church in Eustis, FL;
the work we put into our trips. Carrie Skaff (middle) and friends at the Getty Museum, Malibu, Ca. Mrs. Helen Barham, Detroit,
Starting in 1991,we visited
MI; Louise Hamway, Boston,
such places as The Armand Hammer V. Rev. Michael Keiser, director of mis- MA and Daytona Beach, FL; Isabel YanMuseum, The Dorothy Chandler Pavil- sions of the Southeast United States at- ni, Daytona Beach, FL; Second row
lion and Music Center, The Crystal Ca- tending.
'
(from left); Soroya Farrah, Ormond
thedral, Catalina Island, Descanso
Fr. Keiser conducted a Vespers serv- Beach, FL; Sanoma Robertson, South
Gardens, and many, many more places. ice in celebration of Holy Cross Sunday.
Daytona, FL;JanAjluni, Daytona Beach,
ot only did we visit these places but
the ladies would get together and plan
traditional meals, picnics or go to a restaurant afterwards.
In 1992, we toured a total of nine
places, which also included musical
play , ethnic exhibits and religious
how . One of the highlights of our
1992trips was to the Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters. Forty people signed
up. We chartered a bus, went together
and made a day-long trip out of it. The
ladies planned a lenten meal which was
partially-devoured on the way there
then we finished the rest of the food be~
fore the pageant performance. The Pageant of the Masters is noted as one of the
b~st art shows around. Real people depict the arti t's scenes. Some of our
accompli hments on a local, regional
and Archdiocesan level. He was not
married and is survived by his sister
udrey Aziz, the wife of Louis Aziz of
Trenton, Ontario, as well as his two
niece Donna and Laurel (Aziz).
Allan had many friends and distant
relative in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal, a well as in Syracuse and Binghamton, .Y., who will miss his friendship and devotion to the Orthodox
Faith. May his memory be eternal!
52
events have to be booked six months in
advance.
So far for 1993,we have already visited two very interesting places. The attendance is growing and the trips are
educational, cultural, and enjoyed by
all. We thank Carrie Skaff for taking time
out of her very busy schedule to plan
these events for us.
-Carolyn Sadd
Daytona Beach Mission members
THE WORD/JUNE l993
FL;Michael Farrah, Ormond Beach, FL;
Sybil Ajalat, Daytona Beach, FL; Fred
Homsey, Omaha, NE; Bob Hamway,
Boston and Daytona Beach; Dr. Dick
Ajalat, Daytona Beach, FL.
St. Michael's -
Las Vegas
The parish of St. Michael's in Las
Vegas,Nevada experienced a very warm
and wonderful weekend January 23 &
24 with the visit of our newest hierarch,
Bishop BASIL.This was Bishop BASIL's
firstvisit to Las Vegas since his consecration.
A banquet and hafli in his honor was
held on Saturday evening at the Sands
Hotel.
An overflow crowd attended the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. Michael's
on Sunday, January 24th. Assisting Bishop BASILwere Protopresbyter Ilia Katre
of St.John's Greek Orthodox Church in
Las Vegas, our pastor Archpriest Paul
Eyler, Archdeacon George Shishim of
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Los Angeles,
and our two subdeacons, Jesse Eyler
and Kevin Gagliardi.
Immediately following the liturgy,
Bishop BASIL visited with our Sunday
School children. Afterwards an informal
Bishop BASILwith Las Vegas pastor and children.
luncheon was held in our church hall.
Our local newspaper, the Las Vegas
Review-Journal, featured his visit with
an interview entitled "Orthodox Bishop Shares Experiences with Las Vegas
Parishioners." The interview emphasized the time he spent in Lebanon,
and was accented by a color photo of
"A Super Priest goes to the Super Bowl."
Archpriest Jehad Michael, the energetic and charismatic pastor of St. George Church in El Paso, Texas,
was the guest of former parishioners to the Super
Bowl this past January. Who said priests aren't
human?
THE WORD/JUNE 1993
Bishop BASILwith our unday chool
children.
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bur h Bodi Criticize
I ra li D portation
f Pal tinian
S
Follm, mg the deportation of t 15 Pale tinians by
rhe 1 r,1eligm·ernment to
Leb.inon I.He December,
C\
era! church
bodie:
prnrc ced the I r,1el1de i ion and called
ti.>rthe rcwrn of the deportee"i to their
home
In .1ubk
enc co braeli Prime Mini cer Yitzh:ik R.tbin (22 December) then\'\' , :1cring general ecretary Todor
.tht.::vde. c nbed the deportation - a a
, 101:nionof the Fourth ,ene\·a Conveneion. and al o a ked the I raeli go\'crnmem to life ic: order clo:ing the Occupied krricork .md called for protection ol cht: Pale"itini.m ci\'ilian population undt:r occupation in compliance
with cht: ,l:'ne\ .1 Com·ention.
"\'\'l' bl.'lil.'\'l' that collective puni hmcnt '" gravel) detrimental to the puruil of pe,ICl.'.md even~!) compromL e
the concinuauon of the peace negotiation:-. ,1be, \ me age concluded.
A pie'> relea"ie from the lie.Idle Ea t
,ounul of Churches also criticized the
c.kpon~1tio11'-i ignecl by general, ccretary Gabriel I labib. the message said the
deportation",, ere in defiance of international la\\ .md .1 direct violation of
Lchanest: ovcreignty and territorial inll'.grity.
"In tt:ad of adopting pmitive step
t >\\ ard n:conciliation ,, ith the Pale tinian , lsrad ha once more revealed
through this acuon. it ob"itructive polic k lo pcact: in the ~lie.le.lieEast".
The me .1ge appealed
"to
all
and related organization. to
1tht.::immediate afe return of all
ian to their land in accordance
i human nght and the
,· e olutton 7 99 . . .".
\\orld \lethodi. t
joil1(:d 111crill izing
In a ktter to Prime
d by \X'~l , gc.:neral
1e lethoc.11t hoc.Iv
·cl" and '·rroublec.1:.
el.
kr lood how great
·n onc.:sole.lier.one
child in a countrv
killed. I al o ca;
ne r~1ge,felt when
Id
n • unarmc.:d
l'. r c r father i
hot
dead bv an I raeli soldier. Both losses
are ·ig1~ificant, and in the eyes of God,
both ar the ame".
The letter added that when Israel, or
any other country, acts in a manner that
ay "one death counts much, and the
other count for nothing", such an act
and attitude i , by definition, racist.
"Your recent deportation is a case in
point: Five Israelis are killed, these
death mu t be avenged, and massive,
indi criminate and punitive retaliation
follow , with innocent people hurt and
killed".
The letter, which was also copied to
. . Pre iclent Bill Clinton and Secretary
of tate Warren Christopher, concluded
that the WMC is "supportive of an Israel
that is open to all, welcoming to all, and
afe for all", adding that "we cannot,
however turn a blind eye to what is happening in your country, for it effects us
all ... ". [EP ]
Albanian Church
''Coming to Life''
Despite Hard Times,
Says WCC Report
Against the backdrop of deep uncertaintie in Albania - political confusion
and disarray in society, severe economic
hard hip and threats that the war in the
former Yugoslavia may spread to Kosovo, whose population is largely ethnic
Albanian- the Orthodox Church there
"i an amazing example of a Christian
community coming to life again", according to the report of a wee team
who went to the country in December.
During a visit to Tirana and several
other citie , Huibert van Beek, wee executive ecretary for church and ecumenical relation , and Peter Lodberg,
Europe secretary for Danchurchaid
( opcnhagen) and a member of the
\J C Central Committee, met with
rchbi hop Anastasios and other
Orthodox leaders Muslim and Roman
Catholic repre entatives and government official .
, tati tic. oft n cited say 70 per cent of
lbanian, arc Mu lim, 20 per cent Orthodox and 10 per cent Roman Catholic. But many ob ervers question these
figure~, noting that they elate from 1938
and that the former hard-line Communi t regime vigorously repres ed religion and in fact outlawed all religious
activity after 196 declaring Albania the
world' fir t atheist tate.
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After the downfall of Communi 01
the new government set up a secretariat for religion. There have been effort
to enact a law on religion complying
with internationally recognized human
rights standards. A first draft was withdrawn after protests from international
Protestant evangelical organization
over its provision that religion other
than the country's three traditional one.
must be recognized by parliament. A
second draft, which specifies that the
leadership of the religious communitie
should be Albanian is now being cli _
cussed. Both the Catholic and Orthodox churches, depleted of clergy during
the years under Communism, are currently headed by expatriates.
Some fifty church buildings taken
over by the government and usecl as
gymnasiums, cinemas, bars and restaurants have now been renovated and reopened by the Orthodox Church. The
return of many other church propertie
continues to create disagreement between church and state. Attendance at
services is large and growing, the wee
report says. Many Albanians grew up
during the period when religion was
forbidden, but interest in catechism and
Bible study groups among young people and students is high and the arch- 1
bishop has recently begun a month!~ l
newspaper, Ngjallja ("Resurrection'')
The church has also elected pari h
councils, reorganized its four diocese·
and formed a clergy-laity council made
up of a priest and layperson from each
diocese. Its general secretary is Aleko
Dhima, an Albanian layman; but the
wee report notes that there are not y<.:t
any Albanian bishops, "and it will tak<.:
some time before the local episcopate is
reconstituted". Anastasios him elf is •
Greek. Appoirlted exarch by the Ecu- I
menical Patriarch in September 1991,he
was enthroned as primate in Augu.t
1992.
A former missionary in Africa, he told
the wee visitors that his mission and
ecumenical experience (he wa moder
1
a tor of the wee 's Commission
World Mission and Evangelism from
1983-91) are a great asset in hi pre. cnt
task, as "slogans like 'solidarity wit!~the
poor' and 'mission in Christ's way 1:c·
come concrete reality". His staff u~cludes several sisters one of them Afn·
can, who worked with him in Africa
The absence of Albanian leader hq
has made the training of clergy an urgent
I
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priority. Anastasios :ias begun a seminary in an unoccupied, rundown, unheated hotel in Durres. Despite the ab·ence of a library, teaching materials and
equipment, there are eighty students,
mo tin their 30s and 40s. Courses are
I given by the archbishop, an Albanian
Jay theologian in his 80s and visiting
monks and theologians from Greece
and the U.S. Eighteen priests and 17 deacon have been consecrated; they travel to parishes over the weekend and
continue their studies during the week.
9 Million Aid
I Includes Medicine, Food,
Blankets, Shelter
Church World Service is responding
to the humanitarian needs of persons
caught in the conflict in former Yugosla\ ia with a material aid package current!) at S9 million.
That aid package includes $2,330,000
in medicines sent from November 1992
through mid-February 1993, along with
about $69,000 worth of drugs currently being purchased in Europe for immediate shipment.
CWS also has sent along foodstuffs,
including flour, in cooperation with the
I
International Orthodox Christian Charities, and $1,441,000 worth of blankets.
a~er:icy to di tribute in ho pica! ~me.I
clm1c erving refugee from the ci vii
r~
war. "That church ha promi ed to
.. li
make the medicine available for all.
e righ
regardle of ethnicity" Thurber aid.
e 'ni
Some of the medicine al o arc ent
d rel)l
to the Lutheran \'?orld F clcration. t~1ff
LI Jim
in Zagreb for di tribution, he aid. The giou
food and hou ing grant arc for both ocry.'
Muslim and Croatian in Bo. nia.
NCC Head Urges Chri tian
''Get to Know Your
Muslim Neighbor ''
EW YORK ational ouncil of
Churches General ecretar\' Joan B.
Campbell recentlv called on • l~ri tian
to "get to know ,your :\lu lim neighbors" and to re i t generalization and
stereotypes about any people, including
Muslims in light of the arrc t of cveral
so-called "Mu Jim fundamentali"its" in
connection with the bomb bla, tat. C\\
York's World Trade Center.
"We don't deny there arc ext re mi ts,"
said Campbell, noting that "there are
extremi ts of many different faith , including Christian. But we mu:t be clear
thatthe problem i the xtremi m, not
the faith group."
The General ecretar expre sec.Iher
concern about the "very erious danger" that in the wake of the \X'orld Trac.le
Center bombing, "Mu lim will become
characterized a terrori t . It could lead
to violence again t people who ha,·e
nothing to do with uch e\·ent . \\'e
must never take the action of a few and
attribute them to a whole group of
people."
Campbell remind
hrhtian that
"the root ofl lam Ch
anity,Juc.lai m
and many other faith
ovc of neighbor. Welcoming the tranger, the
foreigner, al o i ba i tO these faiths If
we capegoat we violate the ten<.:t of
the e faith . The people of the rapid!)
growing 1u, Jim community in chi
country are our neighbor and \\e nee I
to extend our elvc to kncm them.
live in a plurali tic so iet}. I urge I
ian congregation to eek out and g
know their i\1u lim ne
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And in March, CWS will receive three
gm·crnment grants that it is being asked
to administer: $2 million in grain (coming through the Red Cross), $1,125,000
for housing assistance for refugees and
I million for purchase of high energy
toods.
C\X'Sis in the process of hiring staff,
o be based in Bosnia, to coordinate dis' 1bution of that $4,125,000 aid package (That sum is exclusive of administrati \'e co ts, which also are being
c >vered by the U.S. government.)
hurch World Service works in more
than O countries around the world inc.luding the United States in relief, de\'Clopment and refugee assistance work.
It is a ministry of the Church World
crvicc and Witnes Unit of the ational ,ouncil of Churches.
The Rev. ewt Thurber
interim
clircctor of the CW Europ~ Department ')aid "Church World Service is being even-handed in its distribution of
this aid package, providing one-third
•1 h in Bo nia, Croatia and
erbia."
~lo t of the medicine are ent by air
frl'.ightto Hungarian Interchurch
id in
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Budapc t then forwarded to Belgrade
on hri ua
for the crbian Orthodox Church relief
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�conflicts; all this makes life unbearable",
the statement said.
The statement added that instead of
concentrating on reconciling and unifying the different forces in the country,
the government is preoccupied with
"an internal conflict "fraught with the
most dangerous consequences, which
could destroy Russia".
"We join our pastoral voice to the
voice of the Almighty and say to the rulers: 'Stop this! If the ~ountry collapses
totally and falls into the abyss, every one
of you is responsible before God and
history", the statement said.
The statement urged the political
leaders to "renounce all your personal
ambitions" and to sacrifice their political ambitions "for the sake of the common good".
It added: "We do not appeal for a political peace which is simply a compromise of immoral and destructive
points of view. A 'negative peace' that
would lead to the paralysis of the
government and render it incapable of
action is unacceptable".
The statement said the people of Russia need a government which will be
able to legislate as well as apply the laws
it creates. "We need a State authority
which is capable of defending the people against anarchy and total disintegration. We need a State which will not allow the return of the past dictatorship
which had crushed personal and general
freedom. We need structures of government which would help to resolve the
key problems of Russia's new era".
The statement welcomed the neutral
position of the army in the political impasse and urged it "to be wise and not to
give in to the influence of the political
extremists, but to protect the life and
dignity of the citizens of the nation".
[EPS]
Russia: Churches Organize
Bank, Schools
The German Protestant press service
EPD reports that the Russian Orthodox
Church is planning to found a bank,
with the assistance of the Greek credit
institute Egnatia.
According to EPD, a spokesperson
for the Moscow Patriarchate said the
bank, to be called "Orthodoxia", would
have an initial capital of US $10 million.
It would open eight branches in its first
year, with plans for eventual expansion
to a network of 100.
Besides supporting Russian Ortho56
dox health, education and welfare activities, the bank would finance investments in the private sector as well as the
restoration of church buildings. The
spokesperson noted that 3500 buildings had been returned to the church by
the state during 1992 alone, many of
them in serious need of repair.
EPD says there are no precedents in
Orthodoxy for a church-owned bank. A
representative of Egnatia in Athens said
a large part of the investors in the bank
would be Greeks and Greek-Cypriots.
One of the projects to be supported by
the bank, according to Orthodox Press
Service will be the Orthodox University in
Moscow, opened on 24 February
Rector Ioann Ekonomtsev described
the new institution, the first church university in Russian history, as "a synthesis of church tradition and sciences"
which will "return spiritual values to
our very rich culture".
Courses in the first semester will be
offered in history, philosophy and biblical studies. Departments in economics, medicine and art will be added later.
Much of the teaching staff will come
from Moscow State University
Meanwhile, European Baptist Press
Service reports that the first classes at a
Baptist Seminary in Moscow will begin in
October. Twenty students are expected.
Construction of a US $ 1.5 million
campus for the seminary - an idea for
which Baptists began collecting money
in the early twentieth century - is
scheduled to start some time in 1993.
[EPS]
Greece: Orthodox Society of
Ecumenical Studies Founded
At a mid-March meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece, thirty-six Orthodox theologians and hierarchs formed a Society
of Ecumenical Studies and Orthodox
Information,
whose goals include
promoting the Orthodox presence in
the ecumenical movement and creating
an ecumenical consciousness
in the
Orthodox world. According to George
Testsis, representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the WCC in Geneva
and one of the founders of the new society, the group hopes to publish a periodical and studies of ecumenical interest and to establish an Orthodox Ecumenical Institute in Thessaloniki. [EPS]
}NTIOCHIANARCHDIOCESE
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Vatican Admits Galileo Was
Right, after 350 Years
In 1633 the Roman Catholic Church
condemned astronomer and physicist
Galileo as a heretic for contending that
the earth was round and orbited the
sun. According to a report in the Episcopal Press Service of 18 November,
Pope John Paul II is now ready to admit
the church erred and was "imprudently opposed." After undergoing trial by
the Inquisition in Rome and threatened
with torture, Galileo recanted and was
placed under house arrest for eight
years until his death in 1642 at the age of
77. [EPS]
Editorial Response: Well, so much
for papal infallability!
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Qerusalem) Israeli troops prevented Orthodox Christian Arabs from entering Jerusalem April 15, 1993 to celebrate the traditional Liturgy of the Lord's
Supper on Great and Holy Thursday Two Arab priests from the Greek Orthodox
church led some 30 worshippers in prayer at a checkpoint separating the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem after soldiers told them only people with
army-issued permits could enter. "Right now, our brothers are celebrating the
Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and we are hoping to be able
to join them in prayer," said Fr. George Makhlouf of the Ramallah parish. Israel
sealed off the occupied lands two weeks ago after a spat of Palestinian attacks
againstJews. The closure cut off Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from
Jerusalem, their economic, spiritual and cultural center. The army has said permits issued by the military would be required for all territories Arabs are trying
to enter in Israel and Arab EastJerusalem, which was annexed by the Jewish state
after it was captured in the 1967 Middle East War. Christians petitioned the
Israel High Court to lift the closure and allow them entry to Jerusalem. Fr. Nic~la
Akel said Christians did not want to suffer the humiliation of requesting perrr:its
to reach holy sites. Fr. Makhlouf said the closure was discriminatory, allowing
Jews free movement to take part in recent Passover celebrations while restricting Christian celebrations. (OPS)
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<h4>Biographical/historical note</h4>
<p>The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCA), headquartered in Englewood, New Jersey, oversees seven dioceses with over 250 parishes in the United States and Canada. </p>
<p>The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication <em>The Word</em> is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic <em>Al-Kalemat</em> appeared in 1933, and the English iteration <em>The Word</em> began anew in 1957.</p>
<p>The original copies of the periodical are housed at the Antiochian Heritage Library in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. The Antiochian Heritage Library was founded in 1987, and its collections focus on information about early Christianity, the theology of the Orthodox Church, and religious and cultural themes in Middle Eastern history. </p>
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<p>The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection includes both Arabic-language volumes of Al-Kalemat and English-language volumes of <em>The Word</em> (also called Al-Kalemat, Al Kalimat, Al Kalimah, and الكلمة), covering the years 1905-1993. The periodical focuses on current events and debates from an Antiochian Orthodox perspective. </p>
<p>The periodical is written and published by The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and continues to be published monthly excluding July and August. Some years and issues are not included in the collection, and there are some years that the publication did not run.<br /><br />The collection also includes various parish commemorative booklets from Antiochian Orthodox churches in different regions of the United States, including but not limited to, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York.</p>
<p>The English-language volumes are located here on the KCLDS Archive's website. The Arabic-language volumes are located on the Khayrallah Center’s <a href="https://arabicsearch.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arabic Newspapers database</a>.</p>
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The Twain Meet
What is Western-Rite Orthodoxy
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Many of us were b~rn in~o a Christia~ wor!d where traditional churches were using wor hip service~ t~at had de_veloped m~~ tightly organized ntuals over the centuries. Believers frequently identifi d
so intimately with the familiar forms that the slightest, even inadvertent, variation from the norm could
provoke comment, even distress or a parish revolution. The climate has changed both because of greater
ease_of_travel ar:id co~1municatio? and as the result of over a century of scholarly study of "liturgy," the
discipline that investigates the history and meaning of the inherited customs of worship.
Local Rites Evolve
The earliest Christian worship was evidently extemporaneous but following a well-understood general
pattern with the result that the many surviving "liturgies" are broadly the same in outline and intent. A
the Church expanded over the known world, the outward form of the eucharist and other services took
on local characteristics of mood, language, music and ceremony, and different "rites" evolved. Probably
the oldest to crystallize was the West Syrian usage which lies behind the Byzantine, and the nonChalcedonian "Syrian", the Coptic and Armenian were originally in use in the Orthodox Church. But the
anti-Chalcedonian movement of the fifth century and the subsequent Arab Islamic domination of the ancient Patriarchates of Antioch and Alexandria, while the Crusaders so reduced the number of local Orthodox inJerusalem that a Greek Patriarch of Antioch, Theodore Balsamon ( + 1214)decreed that ''All the
Churches of God must follow the custom of New Rome (i.e. Constantinople) and celebrate the liturgy according to the tradition of those great Church Fathers and beacons of piety, SSJohn Chrysostom and Basil."
So we Antiochians lost our Syriac liturgy which still exists among the non-Chalcedonians and Maronites
but was replaced for us by the Greek rite. This later followed the spread of the Orthodox Church to the
north and across Asia so that until today, in many local variations, it continues as the almost universal rite
of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Except for a tiny foothold in southern Italy, the Greek rite never replaced the local Western rites and
when the Papacy fell away from the Orthodox Church in the eleventh century, the Western rites were lost
to the Church for somewhat different reasons but just as the Syrian, Armenian, Coptic and Nestorian (West
Syrian) rites continued only outside of the Church.
The Western Rite
Because the Western Roman Empire lacked the centralization of Byzantium, a great many local rites
developed in Orthodox Western Europe. In the sixteenth century there were five separate diocesan "uses"
in England alone: Salisbury, Hereford, Bangor, York and Lincoln, and whole families of rites evolved around
great cities, e.g. Milan, Braga, Lyons and a Mozarabic rite in Spain under the Arab conquerors, as well as
others for some religious orders. When the Papacy convoked the Council of Trent to resist the Protestant
Reformation, any rite with a long history was allowed to survive, some did so until the Second Vatican
Council and some still survive, for example, the particular rite of the Archdiocese of Milan. (The Mozarabic
rite continues in one church in Spain as a sort of antique.)
If you have followed this far you know that "rites" are local reflections of the faith and that no one
of them is "the one and only." Only with the invention of printing did rites attain uniformity.
Why An Orthodox Western Rite?
The Papacy monolithic and highly centralized, never lost the understanding that unity in faith and
communion did,not require absolute uniformity in worship and discipline. Hence the "~niate" ea te_rn
churches: Armenian, Ukrainian and our cousins the Melkites, etc. Substantially eastern 111the wor hip,
customs and discipline, they differ from the Orthodox only in their allegiance to the Pope and Roman doctrine. Any church that claims to be the one, holy universal Church of the Creed - a b~th Ro_meand Orthodoxy do - cannot be confined to a limited local vision of Christianity. The problem with mates, utterly
anathema to many Orthodox, is not that they exist but the fact that they were_often u ed a a ~alse front
to proselytize Orthodox faithful by unworthy means, either by civil persecution or by appealing to the
faithful in such a way as to produce "rice Christians."
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It was inevitable that sooner or later some western converts would approach
e Orthodox Church
and a k to be permitted to retain the rites used in the west bef~re the b_reak between Rome and Constantinople. The likelihood was all the greater because in the past 1t someti~es app_eared that to become Orthodox, one must also become a Levantine or a Slav and not every Occidental is able to shed the culture
he or he wa born in and adopt an exotic one.
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The fir t major approach was made in the late nineteenth century by a Roman Cat_~oll~ pnest,John
Joseph Overbeck, who revised the Roman rite to conf~rm to Orthodox standards, a fa11ly simple operation at that time. His proposal was accepted by the Russian Orthodox H_olySyn~d and h~ was e?couraged
and supported by interested missionary-minded Russians, but by the tune of his death m the ~irst decade
of the Twentieth Century, his movement had not succeeded and his converts were absorbed mto Byzantine communities.
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At the turn of the century, the only Orthodox bishop in North America, the later Russi~n Patriarch
Tikhon (Belavin) wa approached by a group ofEpiscopalians who a~ked_to b~ allowe? to contu:~e the use
of the American "Book of Common Prayer" rather than the Byzant111erite. Bis~op Tikh~n pet1tio1:ed ~he
Holy Synod of Moscow and a commission of theologians was directed to provide a_detai~ed exammation
and revision of the Prayer Book to be approved for the converts. (The ~epor~ was pnnte? 111the J?urnal of
the Theological Academy of St. Petersburg, a summary in English was printed 111The_Russian American Messenger, a critical review by two Anglican scholars appeared as Tract XII_of the Alcum_Clu~ and a ful_lerverion with notes appeared in The Orthodox Catholic Review, a publication of the Antiochian Archdiocese.)
Metropolitan Gerassimos (Messarah)of Beirut received a Western ~te movement in Eng~and bef~re_World
War I, and Metropolitan Germanos (Shehadi), while resident in the Umted States, engaged 111negotiations to
receive a Roman Catholic movement in Mexico in the 1920s. Neither of these projects resulted in a continuing community. They are noticed here to demonstrate that an Orthodox Western Rite is not a recent project.
Our present Western Rite Vicariate began with the return of a few parishes of converts that had
dropped out of our diocese in the difficult days after World War I. It was approved by the late Patriarch
Alexander III and was finally received in the early 1950's. There are presently some twenty centers. There
are no "invented" services: the parishes use either the form approved for Overbeck or for Patriarch Tikhon,
now a saint of the Church.
The laity are persons of traditional Orthodox Faith, disillusioned by the progressive liberal stance of
some mainline traditional churches; that is, communities that have a fixed, historic form of Worship. We
do not mount a proselytizing program, but provide an option for those who have already rejected changes
in their former denomination. Our stance is utterly different from the campaign that tore the Uniates out
of Orthodoxy.
With the current tendency of traditional Christian churches to bless homosexual marriages, trash
familiar worship patterns, ordain women, tolerate the neglect of family values, deny Biblical revelation
and otherwise follow secular leadership, our \X1estern Rite has become the most successful missionary
enterprise of the Archdiocese. Its outreach is far different from that of the Evangelical Movement which
is directed at a very special audience.
In the last century there were cradle Orthodox who viewed the Western Rite, not as the restoration
of a long-lost part of the Church, but as a dangerous intrusion. For them Overbeck wrote in 1866:
"My dear Eastern friends, I conjure you not to undervalue the difference of the Eastern and Western minds, and their different forms of thinking and worshipping . . . it is a requisite of paramount importance, not to lose the Western ground, not to attempt to assimilate, extrinsically
the Eastern and Western Orthodox Church. Both, through having the same faith and fundamental
constitution of the Catholic Church, must keep their formal peculiarities, which have become
a part of their inmost life, and which cannot be changed like a dress. Divine Providence formed
the Western Church on the Western Mind; therefore our Western form is inalienable from our
Western minds. Our difference from the East is only formal; but I venture to maintain that often
formal obstacles were a more serious bar to unity than even material ones."
But the apostolate of the Western Rite is not alone a means to make Orthodox truth available to those
who lost it, or never had it, and now want it. A major thrust is to witness to the claim of Orthodoxy to
~e the unique representative of the early universal Church, not a collection of local ethnic religions. It
l.ifts our eyes beyond our limited horizons to our mandate to bring all people to the Church.
by Father Patrick McCauley
By A.D. 2000, approximately 1.433
billion persons, or slightly less than one
third of the world's population, will be
Christian, according to David Barrett's
WorldChristian Encyclopedia. In spite
of these millions of adherents, the percentage of the globe's population that
calls itself Christian will have fallen
slightly since 1900.
Sadly, these statistics include folk
who claim to be Christian but who are
not necessarily active in local congregations. Even more
startling for most
Americans is the decline in influence of •
Christian institutions and values on
contemporary life
in terms of ethical
standards and prac- ••
tice, political and
economic policies,
and popular culture, such as movies, music, the
press, and so forth.
As a consequence of this diminution of Christianity's impact on
society at large,
historians,
both
Christian and secular, call this a postChristian age. Martin Marty, a faculty
member at the University of Chicago
and author of The Modern Schism
notes that industrialization and urban/zation which swept through Western
Europe and North America in the latter
1alf of the nineteenth century resulted
111a society in which religion
if acknowledged at all, has been releoated
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to
t~e private concerns of most citizens'
lives where it has less and less importance for each passing generation.
. Therefore, it is not surprising that
Bishop Leslie Newbigin a long-time
Ch·nstian
• missionary in India
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and auth·orof Foolishness to the Greeks maintams that th e cu 1ture most impervious
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to · e Christian Gospel is not Africa,
Asia,or Oceania, but the industrialized
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Western Rite
Antiochian Archdiocese
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West (Western Europe, North America,
Australia, and New Zealand).
Newbigin's observations are manifested in the decline of mainstream
American churches since the 1960s
when, a~cording to Christianity Today;
Met~1od1sts,Presbyterians, Disciples of
C~r~st, and Episcopalians lost literally
m1ll1ons of members. While mainline
churches are on a condition of re-··
trenchment for a multiplicity of rea-
Sanctuary of St. Augustine's, Denver, CO.
sons, conservative Christian bodies
continue to grow.
Among those groups that are growing are Christians known as Orthodox
or Eastern Orthodox. Orthodoxy in
North America claims somewhere between 5 to 6 million adherents. Worldwide, the Orthodox Church has a membership of about 2 50 million persons,
which makes it the second largest
Christian body on the globe, with Roman Catholicism's having a membership of somewhat less than 1 billion.
In the United States, Orthodoxy,
which was first brought to North America through Alaska by colonizers from
czarist Russia in 1794, has been, until the
last few years, a church primarily of immigrants and their descendents from
Eastern Europe and the Ea tern Mediterranean. With these new arrivals came
their clergy from the old country· o today in the nited States and Can~da
there are 14 Orthodox jurisdictions that
reflect the ethnic make-up of those who
originally brought the ancient Christian
Faith to these shores.
Among those juri dictions are at least
four groups that came out of czarist Russia (the largest being the Orthodox
Church in America); the Greek Orthodox,
Serbian
Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, Albanian Orthodox, and
the Antiochian Orthodox. While each
of these groups has
its own hierarchy of
bishops and administrative
responsibilities, all of
these churches are a
part of the ancient
Church of Christ
known as Orthodoxy or Eastern Orthoct'oxy and are in
communfon
with
each other.
Allof these bodies
believe in the triune
God, Father, Son,
and Holy pirit, who
has always existed as one God in three
divine Persons. Orthodox Chri tians believe that Almighty God created all that
is, and that He is the Lord of all hi tory.
These Christians affirm that Je us
Christ is fully God and fully man, that
He died for the sins of mankind, that He
was raised from the grave by the power
of the Father on Ea ter morning, that He
ascended into heaven, that He i the
head of His body, the Church, and that
He sent God the Holy pirit to guide the
Church into afl truth. The ummary of
the faith is proclaimed each unday,
when the faithful recite the icene
Creed during the Divine Liturgy.
To the casual observer, the Orthodox
Church appears to have much in common with the Roman Catholic Church.
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�Thi i f course true in many ways.
How er Rome began the process of
breaking ith the Eastern expression of
the catholic faith, i.e. Orthodoxy, in the
leventh century.
P rhap the most obvious difference
betw en the Roman Catholic Church
and Orthodoxy, laying aside differences
in r gard to the role of the Pope in the
life of the universal Church and
c rtain other doctrinal disagr ement , is the form ofworhip followed by most Orthodox Chri tians.
More specifically, the worhi p of the overwhelming
majority of Orthodox congregations i called Eastern-Rite or
Byzantine. This last term comes
from the name of the eastern
capital of the Roman Empire,
Byzantium. Byzantine liturgies
(forms of worship) are gloriously beautiful, complex, mostly
ung, and quite repetitive from
the perspective of contemporary Americans. Depending
on the parish, liturgies in American and
Canadian-Orthodox congregations are
sometimes even conducted at least partially in the native tongue of the jurisdiction. But many now use English almost
exclusively.
ot all Orthodox Christians use the
Ea tern or Byzantine liturgical forms. At
lea t two branches of Orthodoxy in
America also include congregation that use Western liturgies.
The Antiochian Orthodox
Christian Archdiocese is the ~
larger body that sanctions the
u e of forms of worship that
mo t Americans and Canadians
would perhaps find more familiar.
This liturgical form is known
as the Western Rite. More specifically, the Western Rite is a
pecified form of worship that
wa used by Christians in Western Europe before the Roman
Catholic Church broke with
the Orthodox Church.
The Western Rite, when
compared to Byzantine liturgical forms,
is impler, less redundant, obviously
hoqer, and employs a hymnody (the
hymp u ed) that are familiar to a great
many American Christians. More preci ely, the Western Rite, as approved by
the Antiochian Archdiocese is a theologically corrected form of worship formerly used by either the Roman Catha-
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lie Church or the Anglican Communion.
In most Western-Rite Orthodox parishes, this means the liturgy is based on
the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
In other Western-Rite congregations,
the liturgy may be a Latin or English
form of pre-Vatican-II Roman Catholic
worship. In fact, all native French Or-
St. Lazarus, Miami, FL.
thodox Christians, who number in the
thousands, use this form in Orthodox
Churches in France.
For those Western-Rite Christians
who use a theologically corrected Anglican liturgy, the modifications, while
important, would not be terribly noticeable to even the most regular worshippers from a traditional Episcopal con-
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Liturgy at St. Michael's, Whittier, CA.
gregation. Two of these alterations include the deletion of the filioque clause
in the Nicene Creed and the addition of
a stronger epiclesis in the eucharistic
prayer said by the priest at the consecration of the bread and wine as the Body
and Blood of Christ.
Filioque is the Latin word for "and
the Son" in the third section of the Ni-
cene Creed that affirms the church's belief that the Holy Spirit is one of the
three persons of the triune Godhead.
Orthodox Christians insist that the
phrase "and the Son" in speaking of the
procession of the Holy Spirit from the
Father is an addition by a meeting of
Western bishops that was never universally accepted by the Church. Even the
papacy, which now accepts the
phrase, originally rejected it.
Moreover, this phrase causes a
blurring of the roles of each of
the three Divine Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in
the Godhead. It is from the Father that the Son is "begotten"
and from the Father that the
Spirit "proceeds."
Besides the removal of the
filioque in the Creed, the Orthodox version of the Western
Rite in its Anglican form requires the priest specifically to
petition God the Holy Spirit to
act in changing the gifts of
bread and wine into God's gift
of the life-giving Body and Blood of the
Incarnate Son.
In addition to these two changes, the
Orthodox Church's Western Rite includes other indiscernible changes that
most Anglo-Catholics (old-fashioned,
High-Church Episcopalians) would find
to be either familiar or certainly acceptable.
Finally, as mainstream Anglicanism and other mainline
Protestant Churches continue
their decline and denial of basic
catholic faith, doctrine, and
worship, and turn to inclusive
language liturgies, which refer
to God as Mother (to name only
one alteration of traditional
worship), many traditional catholic Christians of both the Roman and the Anglican Churches
are turning to the Orthodox
Church. In fact, a goodly number of those who are doing so,
have joined congregations that
employ the Western Rite.
By doing so, these Christians haveretained familiar forms of worship and at
the same time insured themselves of remaining within an ecclesiastical communion, and under Godly, Orthodox
bishops, who attempt to teach and pr~ctice the ancient Gospel of]e~us Chns\
Father Patrick McCauley is pastor01
the Orthodox Church of the Apostles in
Ft. Worth, Texas.
THE WORD/MAY1993
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 of American Christianity"
and the "Chevis Regal of Protestantism."
These attempts at humor, based on
social and intellectual snobbery, have
grown a bit stale in the ensuing years, as
the stately and venerable
American version
of the
Church of England has experienced wide-spread decline
in numbers, theological conviction, and social and political
influence. The church that
once was called "the Republican Party at prayer" has now
become little more than a coalition of special interests and
would probably be more accurately termed the "Democratic Convention in 1988 at
prayer."
With bishops who declare
the Bible to be little more than
the prejudices of a group of misogynist, homophobic males,
the Apostle Paul to have been
nothing but a frustrated homosexual, and the Resurrection of
Jesus Christ to be nothing but
the rattling of old bones, it is little wonder that the Episcopal
Church in the United States has
lost over a million members
since 1970. As if these "profound theological insights"
were not enough, the American branch of Anglicanism
now has liturgies for the marriage of two persons of the
same gender and refuses to expect clergy ~olive morally pure lives.
This sad state of affairs has prompted
some Episcopalians to seek a safe har0 r outside the Anglican Communion
m which to live out their faith. Not surprisingly, some have elected to leave the
denomination for other more conserva~~ve,Protestant groups. Still others have
swam the Tiber" for membership in
the Roman Catholic Church. A few
Others have formed "independent Epis-
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copal" congregations, and yet more
have formed new ''Anglican Churches"
that are in communion with neither
Canterbury or the Episcopal Church in
the U.S.A. Sadly, some have simply
dropped their practice of the faith altogether.
Fortunately, however, an increasing
number ofEpiscopalians have looked to
the historic Church of Christ known as
St. Peter's Sanctuary, Miami, FL.
the Eastern Orthodox Church as a place
of refuge. In fact, many Episcopalians,
especially those who come out of
Anglo-Catholic backgrounds,
were
taught that the church catholic exists in
three historic branches: Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Eastern Orthodoxy.
Sharing a Common Faith
Old fashioned, high-church Episcopalians have long held a close affini-
ty with Eastern Orthodoxy. In fact, the
late Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael
Ramsay, said as long ago as the sixties
that Anglicans should be working toward union with Orthodoxy because of
the commonality of faith. Other Anglicans have said that historic Anglicanism
is simply a Western (meaning Western
European) expression of Orthodoxy.
Several recent converts in my own
parish have observed that Orthodoxy in no way is a denial of
what they have always believed
as catholics in the Anglican
Church. Rather, say these good
folk, Orthodoxy is simply a
fuller, richer expression of the
ancient faith of Jesus Christ.
The same creeds, the same
Scriptures, the same seven
Sacraments, and the same understanding of the apostolic
ministry of Deacons, Priests,
and Bishops are all valued and
affirmed as the foundations of
the catholic faith in Orthodoxy
as in the traditional Epi copal
Church of days gone by.
Forms of Worship
Even more fortuitous for
Episcopalians who come out
of the high church tradition are
the liturgical expressions found
in Orthodoxy. While the great
majority of Orthodox Christians worship using the Eastern
or Byzantine Rite, a growing
percentage of Orthodox Christians worship according to the
Western Rite.
The Western Rite is an approved adaptation of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
At least two Orthodox jurisdictions, the Romanians and the Antiochians, have Western-Rite congregations in North America. The latter, in
fact, has a growing Western-Rite Vicariate, which has provided a safe haven for
traditional Episcopalian . We tern-Rite
congregations in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of orth
America exi ts in California, Illinois
Texa , Florida,
ebraska,
olorado,
Michigan and other state . A each ear
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�pastoral care enough, as does any good
parent, to say "no" when a course of action, a lifestyle, or a pernicious belief
would be harmful to the faithful.
As one of my own parishioners, an attorney with three sons, said, "I want my
boys to have been reared in a Church
that has some standards and gives them
direction and guidance by which to live
their lives. They can't get that in the
Episcopal Church as it now exists."
For Christians, whose bodies and
Jiveswere purchased wit? t~1ebody and
life of Jesus Christ, Chnst1an freedom
has limits and offers direction, guidance
and purpose to life. Orthodox Christianity offers reconciliation
between
God and man, between human fellow
beings, and direction and purpose for
living beyond the thrill of the movement, the vacuous chimera of materialism, hedonism, narcissism and individualism. One may indeed be a
thinking woman or man and still be a
faithful catholic Christian within the an-
cient Church of]esus Christ known as
Eastern Orthodoxy.
Father Patrick McCauley is pastor of
the Orthodox Church of the Apostles in
Ft. Worth, Texas.
A Final Word
Interior of Incarnation, Detroit, MI.
pas es, more and more congregations
of former Episcopalians are forming under the banner of the Western-Rite
icariate.
A Church that Affirms the Gospel and is
Willing to say "No"
The Orthodox Church of God continues to proclaim the refreshing Good
ews that God through His Incarnate
on Jesus Christ is reconciling sinful
men and women to Himself (II Corinthian 7). In so doing, she acknowledges that the new humanity created
through Christ's death and Resurrection
is the Bride of Christ or the Church.
And, it is in the Church that Christians
are to work out their salvation by
regularity of worship, living lives of
moral rectitude, sharing the Christian
Go pel with nonbelievers, building a
Chri tian community, and extending a
hand of help in the ame of Christ to
tho e in need.
All the while, Orthodox Christians,
unlike their counterparts in the Episcopal Church as it now exists in many
places in the United State , have the assurance of a leadership of Bishops and
Prie ts who acknowledge the centrality of Holy cripture, the divinely-given
Tradition of the Church of the Apostles,
and the need of clearly defined teaching
and in truction for the faithful.
Episcopalian , who have been received
into the Orthodox Church, no longer
have· to wonder what their Church believes or dread to ee the morning newspaper to learn of the latest scandal that if
not officially taught, i at least sanction~d
by the leader hip of the national church's
Bi hops.
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Orthodox Bishops, while not claiming for themselves individual infallibility, do indeed act in presenting the
Christian message in clear, understandable terms. Moreover, Orthodox clergy,
with the support of the entire Orthodox
Episcopate from the office of the Ecumenical Patriarch through the Patriarchates of each jurisdiction to local hierarchs, stand as one united witness to the
faith of Jesus Christ.
In spite of the anti-authoritarian age
in which we all live, Orthodox Bishops,
in other words, can and do say "no"
when necessary, to their people. This
does not mean that Orthodox Bishops
are capricious, arbitrary, or not pastoral. It does mean, on the other hand, that
Orthodox hierarchs love those in their
Sociologist Robert N. Bellah and
several colleagues, in Habits of the
Heart, have noted that contemporary
American culture places such an enormous value on individual freedom that
many Americans find commitment to
home, family, the nation or even the
church to be marginal at best. In fact
Bellah, who is an Episcopal layman, say~
that most of us do a "cost-benefits
analysis" of nearly every situation we
confront. So, if a marriage, citizenship,
a relationship with employees or employers or friends, or whatever costs
more in terms of effort, time, and commitment than it produces, then many of
us feel free to terminate the relationship.
This sort of individualism-gone-toseed is not only destructive on an individual basis but for the nation as well.
Unlimited human freedom, without
parameters, is lethal. As a nation, we are
not burying people, in fact, who
declared that what they did in their
bedrooms in the 1960s and 1970s was
nobody else's business. Tragic as the result of that mindset is, Christian people
need to look anew at the concept of
freedom in Christ.
A Hispanic Western Rite Procession in Miami, FL.
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�Archpriest Paul W.S. Sch~eirla Celebrates
50 Years in the Priesthood
A Pictorial Review
A grand celebration was held at St. Mary Chu~ch in Br?oklyn) New York in November, 1992) to celebrate the 5 0th anniversary zn the priesthood of Father Paul W S.
Schneirla) 40 of those years as pastor of St. Mary.
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ARCHDIOCESAN OFFICE
ELEVATED:
The Priest PETER DEMRO, pastor of St. Basil Church in Silver
Spring, FL, to the dignity of
Archpriest, on February 28,
~~! 1993.
'~
NEW MISSION:
Christ the King Mission in Portland, OR,
an outreach of St. George Church in
Portland, whose pastor is Father
GREGORY COOKE.
Synod Meeting of the
Antiochian Orthodox
Church Addresses Pastoral
and Social Issues
Edmund Nahas, co-chairman, Robert Sabbagh, journal chairman and Shamseh Dalack, chairman of the Parish Council, congratulate Father Paul.
The Schneirla
Schneirla.
children:
Dorothy
S. Hover and Peter C.
Father George S. Corey presents a pectoral cross as
a gift from St. Nicholas Cathedral of Brooklyn.
Charles Sahadi, co-chairman of the Anniversary, presents
a gift from the faithful of St. Mary's.
MANY YEARS FATHER PAUL SCHNEIRLA!
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Damascus, Syria - The Holy Synod
of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch held its regular meeting at Balamand Monastery in Lebanon from January 25-28, 1993. Presiding was His
Beatitude Patriarch Ignatios IV and attending were the member bishops from
Lebanon and Syria.
Pastoral and internal concerns of the
Church dealt with included regulations
for the disciplinary ecclesiastical council, amending the status of the parish
councils, adopting new texts for prayers
to be distributed during Lent, and the
preparation of research towards the
eventual canonization of Antiochian
saints by future synod meetings. It was
also decided to convene an enlarged
session of the Holy Synod in October
1993 to include bishops, all vicars
abroad, priests, monks and lay experts.
The purpose would be to seek the people'sopinion with regard to the church's
pastoral responsibilities and service to
all in an increasingly complex and developing society. It was announced that
after Easter, His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I would visit the See of Antioch.
The Synod affirmed its commitment
to multilateral and bilateral dialogue
Withother churches on the national and
international levels. Particular concern
was expressed
over the broken
Orthodox-Catholic dialogue and the situation in Eastern Europe and the
Ba_lk_ans.
The wish was expressed that
this inter-church dialogue be resumed.
With regard to Christian-Muslim dialogue,the Synod declared the churches'
Openness to meet with Muslims "in a dialogue of life, which aims within each
n •
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ation, at strengthening social peace
ancthuman development." In this con-
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text, they deplored all forms of violence
Dr. Sam Kouri
and violations prevailing in these times
Wichita, KS
of war.
Mr. George Faris
On the situation in Lebanon, the Synod
New York, NY
reflected on the "need for the emergence
Dr. Alan Matook
of a 'new citizen' who could demonstrate
Cedar Grove, NJ
that the Lebanese nation should be built Mr. Hafiz Nassar
on personal and collective moral values."
Toledo, OH
They called for the restoration of the "dig- Mr. Sam Newey
nity and prosperity" of the displaced.
Jacksonville, FL
They reaffirmed their commitment to Mr. Adeeb Saad
Lebanon as an experience of common livEncino, CA
ing based on the convergence of various Mr. Ralph Abercia
heritages, on common respect for truth
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and on the recognition of each other's
Mr. Raymond Chammas
uniqueness and gifts.
San Mateo, CA
In closing, the declaration issued af- Mrs. Nancy Cohlmia
ter the Synod meeting called on all
Wichita, KS
those living outside the Arab Middle Mr. George Elias
East to remain in touch with their mothNorwood, MA
er church of Antioch. (MECC)
Mr. Rudy George
Parma, OH
Mr. Theodore Mackoul
INDIVIDUAL
Hillsdale, NJ
CONTRIBUTIONS TO
Miss Jean Sam
ARCHDIOCESEFUNDS
Duluth, GA
Dr. Eugene Sayfie
January 31, 1993
Miami, FL
GENERAL FUND
Mr. Anthony Thomas
$ 2,000
Metropolitan PHILIP
Louisville, KY
10,000
Anonymous
Mr. Robert Bethoney
Mr. Ernest Saykaly
Norwood, MA
7,000
Montreal, Quebec
Dr. David Bojrab
Mr. Naseeb Saliba
Ft. Wayne, IN
5,000
Encino, CA
Dr. John Dalack
Mrs. Adele Soffa
Staten Island, NY
5,000
San Marino, CA
Dr. Paul Massad
5,000
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Oklahoma City, OK
Mr. Abe Abraham
Mr.
Monsour Rayan
3,000
Grand Rapids, MI
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3,000 Mr. Carl Shaheen
Grand Rapids, MI
Canton, OH
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(In Memory of Samuel,
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4,000
Chestnut Hill, MA
Lucy Nelson
Mr. Ernest Younes
(In Memory of V. Rev.
4,000
Willowdale, Ontario
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Mr. Edward Kassab
2,500
Deerfield Beach, FL
FOR AND WITH! THE
Mr. George Nassor
PATRIARCHATE OF A TIOCH
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Wyckoff, NJ
Mr. George N. Jabbour
Dr. George Farha
(Dhour Chewier Hospital)
2,300
Wichita, KS
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(Balamand Academy)
2,000
Troy, MI
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Dearborn, MI
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25.00
Bronxville, NY
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Mi ions and Evangelism
25.00
Wakefield, MA
120
Conference
Gorden & Minerva Cohlmia
ACOR
25.00
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5,000
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CHILDRE 'S RELIEF FUND
25.00
Atlanta, GA
8,000
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Laurice
K.
Henry
5,000
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25.00
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ST. ATHANASIUS ACADEMY
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Kapeluck
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25.00
Pittsburgh, PA
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J
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Montreal, Quebec
20.00
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St.
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Newton Falls, OH
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Eva
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436
Dr. Sam Kouri
Morgantown, WV
200
Mr. icola Antakli
(in memory of her deceased
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Mr. Philip Haddad
25.00
family members)
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Zraikat
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25.00
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100
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Sandra M. Arida
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15.00
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4017
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Marja & Nathaniel Tensen
(in memory of her
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500.00
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Walid Khalife
200 Fredrick Porter
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15.00
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10,000
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Touffic H. Allen
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100.00
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5,000
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ARCHDIOCESE SEMI ARIANS FUND
MISSIONARY FUND
Jeannie Sabb
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Joseph Sabb
Hillsboro Beach, FL
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Wichita, Kansas
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Toronto, Ontario
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A Department of
the Archdiocese:
Lay Ministries
''His gifts were that some should be
apostles, some prophets, some evan1,000 gelists, some pastors and teachers, to
equip the saints for the work of minis200 try, for building up the body of Christ,''
(Ephesians 4:11-12).
200
Each and every Christian has been
called to some form of service and
ministry in the Church, the Body of
Christ. Not all of us have the same gifts,
but all of us do have gifts to offer. The
DO ATIO S FOR THE WORD,
Department of Lay Ministries, through
gratefully received:
national, regional and local workshops
Violet amay Salem
and conferences, helps each ofus (1)dis. Grafton, MA
$ 15.00 cern his or her particular gift from God,
Mrs. Mike Thabit
and (2) discover ways by which these
Huntington, WV
100.00 gifts can be used for His glory. Some
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sing, some work with their hands, some
teach, etc. Are you offering your gift to
God?
Department of Christian
Education Coordinators
The members of the Department of
Christian Education include Dr. John L.
Boojamra, Director, regional and AEOM
representatives,
and the Orthodox
Christian Education Commission trustee from the Archdiocese. Listed below
are the names, addresses, and phone
numbers of these people.
The regional representatives are available to do teacher training by invitation.
Since each of these people is a volunteer
and receives no remuneration from the
Archdiocese, they should be offered a
minimum of $200.00 honorarium, in
addition to their expenses.
In the case where I, as Archdiocesan
Department Director, cannot attend a
Regional Parish Life Conference and I
appoint one of these regional representatives in my stead, their transportation
expenses and room and board must be
covered for one night as per the Conference Planning Manual. Please follow the
guidelines in the Conference Planning
Manual when either I or one of my
Department members, representing
me, attends a Conference.
-John L. Boojamra, Chairman
Eastern
Very Rev. George Alberts
141 Pennsylvania Blvd.
Monessen, PA 15062
(412) 684-5472
New England
Joan Teebagy
17 Briar Lane
Westwood, MA 02090
(617) 551-0974
Midwest
-Eastern PortionRobert Snyder
4029 Croydon Dr. N .W.
Canton, OH 44 718
(216) 493-4029
-Western PortionJo Anne C. Droubie
5 5 Langer Circle
West St. Paul, MN 55118
(612) 457-4218
Can-Am (vacant)
Southwest (vacant)
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western
Joseph Tershay
6575Meadow Creek Way
CitrusHts., CA 95721
(408)258-6244 (work-days)
(408)353-1156 (evenings)
(916)721-7654 (weekends)
southeast
MaryJo Wright
200 Drusilla Lane
Vicksburg, MS 39180
(601)638-8307
AEOM
VeryRev.Jack Sparks
855Fortuna Lane
Goleta, CA 93117
(805)968-4 765
(805)685-3111 (academy)
OCECTrustee
Rev.Daniel Daly
39Columbus Rd.
Demarest, NJ 06727
(201)568-8840
Indigenous Canadian Church
Celebrates75th Anniversary
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of
Canada, an indigenous religious community, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of
Canada dates its beginning to 1918 in
Western Canada. There, a gathering of
150lay delegates in Saskatoon inJuly of
that year, organized the "Ukrainian
Greek Orthodox Brotherhood of Canada," which solemnly vowed to: "incorporate the newly-formed Church in
Canada,establish a Ukrainian Greek Orthodox seminary; organize Ukrainian
Greek Orthodox congregations; provide priests for each and every congregation; and prepare and call a general
Sobor of members and followers of the
new Ukrainian
Greek Orthodox
Church of Canada to complete its org~nization" [Vistnyk (The Herald), Winnipeg, July, 1928].
This resolution was followed by the
Church's First Sobor (Church Council),
held in Saskatoon on December 28,
1918- a Sobor at which there were no
clergy.Two Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church had recognized and
a~reedto help the new Church community become established as an autonomo~s body, but political pressure from
the1r community led to their distancing
themselves from the Ukrainian Church.
nmWORD/MAY 1993
It was not until the Second Sobor
held in Winnipeg in November, 1919
that the Church found spiritual leadership under Metropolitan Germanos of
the Patriarchate of Antioch. By then,
several priests had come to serve the
Church from other jurisdictions and a
seminary was formed to train new candidates for the priesthood. The Church
remained under the leadership of
Metropolitan Germanos until 1924,
when Bishop John (Theodorovich) arrived from Ukraine to lead the Church.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of
Canada became a "Metropolia" in 1951
with the arrival from post-war Europe
of the distinguished scholar and academician, Metropolitan Ilarion.
The 75th anniversary celebrations
will take place in Winnipeg onJuly 2-4,
1993, with a Special Commemorative
Sobor. A Ukrainian Orthodox Youth
Rally is scheduled from June 30 to July
1 in Winnipeg with noted speakers from
Canada, U.S.A. and Africa. An AllCanada Clergy Conference onJune 30,
and a Scholarly Conference at the seminary, St. Andrew's College in Winnipeg,
on July 1, are also on the program of
events.
The Church born in Saskatoon in
1918 has become full-grown. It has over
120,000 faithful gathered in 275 parishes served by 100 clergy, under the
leadership of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Wasyly. Three university student
residences are Church-affiliated Institutes, besides the Seminary, which is affiliated with the University of Manitoba.
In 1990 the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church of Canada was received into Eucharistic communion by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, held to be the
"first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion throughout the
world. Its faithful are an integral part of
the multi-cultural fabric of Canada, and
one of the founding nations of Western
Canada.
Anglican/Orthodox
Pilgrim Being Published
Especially with recent events, many
Anglicans are interested in learni~g
more about Orthodox Christianity. In
response to this, with the permission of
Metropolitan PHILIP of the Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, the
Anglican/Orthodox Pilgrim is again being published. Fr. William Olnhausen, a
former Episcopal priest, is editor in
chief and Franklin Billerbeck, also a
former Episcopalian, is editor.
The AOP will be a quarterly publication aimed primarily at Anglican questions and concerns about Orthodoxy.
Addressed to both the lay and clerical
reader, it will address both theological
and practical questions and provide stories of converts, commentary, sources
for more information, and serve as a forum for questions. Suggested donation
is $0.60 per copy. Donations are not tax
deductible.
To be placed on the mailing list please
write to:
The Anglican/Orthodox Pilgrim
c/o Fr. William Olnhausen
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Greek Orthodox Crisis
Persists in Holy Land
As Greek Orthodox community
leaders attempt to dethrone their Patriarch Diodorus I and Arabize the
Church, another section of the community has split off and formed a new
denomination.
The list of charges is long and many
of the complaints stretch back decades
and even centuries. They entail a critique of Greek hegemony over the
Church that many privately believe
hides a corruption at the expense of the
Palestinian Christian locals. Thousands
of Greek Orthodox have converted to
Catholicism and different Protestant
denominations in Israel to avoid being
subject to a clergy largely imported
from Greece.
His opponents maintain that Diodorus has acted against his community's
interests by thwarting the promotion of
local Palestinian clergy; selling off
Church land in Jaffa, including an old
cemetery, to Israeli developers; misusing funds on lavish living; and backing
the sale of St.John's Hospice to a group
of ultra-nationalistic IsraeliJews bent on
settling the Moslem and Christian
Quarters of]erusalem. The patriarch has
also rejected approaches to inculturate
the Church by the use of Arabic Liturgy
and promoting Palestinian political
aspirations. His critics seek a measure of
control over Church finances and have
proposed a joint committee of priests
and community members to oversee
the distribution of funds.
The patriarch stated, "This patriarchate has a history since A.D. 135. Every
day we find archaeological excavations,
and all the inscriptions are written in the
13
�reek language. That pro e the pmtu- men ts on the Mount of Olives in Jerusaal authority ~va reek.
poke man lem and that it had plans for building a
new Jewish neighborhood in that holy
~aid the ·urrent patriarch ha - spent
place, consisting of 2700 residential
more money on the local community
units. It added that this project was
than any other.
Reportedly with the help of the Cath- related to the confiscation of dozens of
oli comrnunit • in the Galilee, a group dunums of the lands of the Greek Orof reek rthodox who gave up ef- thodox Church.
On reading this news item, a delegafort, tor form their Church from withtion
from the Patriarchate of] erusalem
in are trying to tart their own sect,
made
inquiries at the Jerusalem Munic\Vhich will rnpha ·ize the Church's Arab
ipality to learn the truth about what was
dimen·ion.
ailed Arab Orthodox, the defectors published. On the 3rd of February, the
recently pa ed re olutions to celebrate Patriarchate saw a plan issued by the
Municipality showing that it intended to
hri tma on Dec. 25 and to appoint
rabbi hop . The group also made Ar- open a new road in that place, leading to
abic the official language for all Church the loss of vast areas of land belonging
ritual recognized the Palestine Libera- to the Patriarchate in that holy site.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of
tion Organization andJerusalem as the
capital of Pale tine. ( ational Catholic Jerusalem, being the registered owner
of these lands and having had alone the
Regi ter)
right to administer them and dispose of
them for hundreds of years, and having
A Declaration Issued
preserved and still continuing to preBy the Greek Orthodox
serve the Holy Places and the lands bePatriarchate of Jerusalem
longing to them by virtue of the efforts
of the Holy Sepulchre Brotherhood
On the fir t page of its 8406 number
of January 23, 1993, Al-Quds newspa- that has the duty of preserving them,
per published a news item taken from warns the Jerusalem Municipality of the
the I raeli weekly Kol Ha-Ir of the 22nd consequences of this deed which is
of last month, saying that the Jerusalem considered to be a clear aggression on
Municipality was preparing for settle- the Holy Places and the properties be-
Minutes of the Arab Orthodox Conference in Jerusalem
October 10, 1992:
'
longing to them, contravening the rul
.
.
II
es
o f mternat10na
aw and the Fourth
Geneva Convention of 1949 and the
Agreement of The Hague of 1907. Our
people are hereby called upon insid
and ?utside t~e country to stand by th~
Patriarchate m order to prevent th
Municipality from achieving this deecte
The Islamic and Christian worlds anct
public opinion are also called upon as
well as all the international organizations and the Secretary-General of the
United Nations, the consuls of the foreign countries in the city of]erusalem
in order to intervene to stop this deed
which touches on its existence. The
Patriarchate affirms that it will do all it
can and use all the legal ways and means
and take whatever measures necessary
to preserve all its lands wherever they lie
and not to give up one single foot of
them.
-The Office of the Secretary-General
of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate
in Jerusalem
Translated from Arabic in the Jerusalem weekly Al-Bayader Assiyasi, No.
533, Year 12, February 13, 1993, page
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a safe, enjoyable and growth-oriented program for our children. Our Morning program Director, Mark Maymon, has
createdan outstanding interactive Christian Education Program.To our delight Edward Joseph, fondly known as "Uncle Eddie" by our campers will be this year's afternoon
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The horses will be
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year!As of this writing
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contract to bring the
horses back on site
thatwe had two years
ago, which the campersenjoyed so much
and offered a safe
ride for new and experienced riders.
Overnight camping will return. Last year's overnight
camping program for the older campers was a highlight of
our program and will return this year with a complement of
newcamping gear. Camping will take place on our own updated camp site .
THE WORD/MAY 1993
Many applications have been received for camp counselors, life guards, camp nurse, arts and craft director and
evening program director. These positions will be filled by
May 15 from the number of applications already received .
Additionally we are still accepting applications for camp
nurse. The person serving in this capacity must be a RN either certified in Pennsylvania or able to obtain reciprocal
licensing from Pennsylvania and available for the entire
camp program, including counselor training week. If you are
a RN and interested in volunteering or being hired as a
Camp nurse and can fulfill the above requirements, please
send your resume with references to the Antiochian Village
Camp, R.D. #1 Box 307, Bolivar, PA 15923.
Pending the hiring of a Red Cross certified
water safety instructor, we plan to offer a Red
Cross "Learn to Swim Program" for our campers from Level I (Beginners) to Level VII (Advanced Skills). Participating Campers will receive their red cross certificate for the level they complete
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swim.
Also added this year is our Volunteer Director, Jackie
Fadel who will oversee our adult volunteers working at the
camp~ Volunteers will be accepted upon receip! of the i~dividual's written request and the recommendation of their
pastor. Limited positions are available for those wishi~g to
help with the day-to-day needs of ou~ program. Wntt~n
volunteer policies will be sent upon receipt of the above written request and recommendation.
.
.
A special addition to our program will be our increased
clergy staff. In addition to our Camp Director, Fr.Joseph Purpura, one of our Archdiocese priests will be present to meet
the pastoral needs during each session. We welcome to our
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staff this year during session one Fr. Anthony Yazge, our
Midwest Region Teen Advisor; during our second session,
Fr.Jim King, our Western Region Teen Advisor; and during
our third session Fr. Alexis Kouri, our New England Region
Teen Advisor. These clergy will be present to celebrate the
Church Services, hear confessions and hold discussions
with our campers and staff.
The 1993 Camp season is shaping up to be an exciting
year. By the time you read this we will be fully staffed and
awaiting this year's campers. Applications for campers will
be accepted until May 1. Applications after that date will be
accepted on a space available basis.
Young people between the ages of nine (9) or entering
the fourth grade in the fall and sixteen (16)are welcomed to
what promises to be an exciting and rewarding summer.
Session #1: July 4-16, 1993
Session #2: July 18-30, 1993
Session #3: August 1-13, 1993
Cost per two week session is $385.00.
Each parish has one two week scholarship available
from the Order of St. Ignatius; please see your pastor for further information and applications. Applications may also be
obtained by writing: Antiochian Village Camp, R.D. #1, Box
307, Bolivar, PA 15923 or by calling the Camp at 1-412-2389565, or the village center at 1-412-238-3677.
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North
American
Council
TeenSOVO
Special
Olympics
SportsCamp
This 4-week course is designed to help teenagers
develop healthy relationships with their parents. It will
help them meet their goals of having a healthy home
life and making their parents proud, two of the leading
desires of our teens as identified in a recent study of
our Archdiocese Youth.
This course designed for High School Youth
Group Teens may also be used with Junior High Teens
in the same Youth Group.
This publication is the first in what we hope will be
a series of teen materials on contemporary issues for
YouthGroup discussion. This active curriculum leads
students in doing things that help them understand
important principles, messages and ideas. It is a discovery process that helps teens internalize what they
learn.
Publication to be ready for distribution by the Archdiocese Convention. Special Pre-Publication price of
$6.99 each, plus $3.00 postage & handling per order,
available until June 15. Order one or two per group;
permission included to copy handouts.
Order from: The Department of Youth & Parish
Ministries, P.O. Box 2598, Westwood, MA 02090.
Please make checks payable to the Department of
Youth & Parish Ministries.
. Applications are being accepted for Teen Special Olympic Coaches t?serve at this year's program August 15-21,
!993._Teens s1~teen(16) years of age and older interested
in being considered for this unique opportunity are encouraged to apply for a position at this year's Camp. All expenses at the camp will be covered by our program. A
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limited amount of grant money is available to thqse needing help with some of their transportation costs.
Interested in joining our staff?
Fill out the Special Olympics
Sports Camp application
and send it in today!
It can be found in the March '93
issue of THE WORD, p. 24.
Suggested
Reading
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pecial
Olympics
a,,
GettingAlong With Parents
forOrthodoxChristianTeens
.. ...
YoungAdult Labor Day
Discovery Weekend Dates Set.
September3-6, 1993.
by Matt Swagerty,
Chai_rman, North American Student Board
of Campus Ministry
As of February, Campus Ministry has moved under the
Department of Youth & Parish Ministries. The winter meeting in Dallas served as our initiation. Our executive board
was able to meet with the Teen SOYO and Fellowship of St.
John the Divine officers and delegates. At these two meetings we had the chance to express our excitement in becoming a part of the department. We also shared our eagerness with these two organizations, to assist the Department
in keeping college aged men and women connected and involved with the Orthodox Church. At this meeting we formulated the following missions statement:
Campus Ministry seeks to facilitate the Department
of Youth & Parish Ministries by creating a peer
specific group for college age men and women and
by assisting both Teen SOYO and the Fellowship of
St. John the Divine in the task of keeping this age
group involved with the Orthodox Church.
Not only did we meet with Teen SOYO,The Fellowship
of St. John the Divine and amongst ourselves for hours
upon hours, we also took downtown Dallas by storm. After
a tour of The Sixth Floor Museum (the building from which
Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy) and a dinner at
Chuy's Mexican Restaurant, the board got a true taste of the
South. We all went to a country western place, called Stampedes, where Donna Haddad saw her first two-step. Jason
Klatt, Susie Hunter and Samira Bitar all felt at home as they
are all from the South and I pretendedto know what I was doing because my parents take country dancing lessons.
New Publication from the Department of Youth, at
the Printers!
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Antiochian Village Camp is accredited by the American Camping Association.
WinterMeetingin Dallas
Youthworker:
The Contemporary
Journal for
Youth Ministry
Published by
Youth Specialties
A Quarterly journal with various in-depth articles on current youth ministry issues for
the youthworker. Focus is
placed both on the youthworker and teens. A good re-
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source filled with ideas and
good advice for the person
entrusted with the care of our
youth.
Published four times a year.
Yearly Subscription $25.95.
Write:
Youthworker
P.O. Box 17017
N. Hollywood, CA
91615-9937
or call 1-800-769-7624.
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Campus MinistryNews
Keep a Look out!
I
Orthodox Campus Fellowship Manuals available from
the Department of Youth & Parish Ministries:
• Staff Manual
• Clergy Supplement
• Student Supplement
for starting and running an Orthodox Campus Fellowship
pr~gram on Campus and in the parish.
•
All three manuals available in soft bound form: $15.00
including postage.
fD . Manual available on 3½ or 5¼
lri.1Windows format available for
Campus Ministry hopes by October to have a quarterly newsletter entitled, "Word on Campus" sent to every college age person on our College database starting in October, pending funds for this project. Plans are to send this
newsletter out every quarter, along with the Youth Ministry
insert sent to all college age men and women.
Campus Ministry looks forward to incredible growth as
we attempt to keep as many "CAMAW" (College Age Men
and Women) involved with the Church and serving the Lord
Jesus Christ as we possibly can.
CampusMinistryPresents:
HOMECOMING1993
by Matt Swagerty
disk, MSdos or
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�Campus Ministry wants
to offer all "CAMAW" (College Age Men and Women) a chance to experience
the excitement of a traditional college homecoming in the middle of the
summer, the week before
the Archdiocese Convention. The only differences are: you will be "coming home"
to the Church and its traditions. There is a lot more than just
a football game for you to
enjoy, and everyone at
your school will be Orthodox! That's right, it is our
.......,,......,.
.. annual summer college
conference!
Imagine waking up in
the morning, after a solid
three hours of sleep, in a
beautifu I hotel style
room. You stagger into
the shower, still dreaming
of the gorgeous, whitewater river that you rafted
Wow! You had quite
a day. _Don't be late for
Complme! Nothing sets
Y?Ur heart right like evening prayers before
~!e~p. After Compline
It s time to talk with all of
your new friends until
you can't keep your
eyes open. Remember
to put in at least three
solid hours of sleep so
that you have enough
energy for tomorrow
Don't forget, the Con~
vention is only a few
days away!
Fr. Peter Gillquist
Interested! Join us!
Cost: Only $95.00 per person
Thanks to a generous grant from the
Order of St. Ignatius.
Anthony S. Bashir
down the previous day. The Village water comes shooting, okay, dripping, out
of the shower nozzle and slaps you in
H\VEA
BATt
Rick Michaels of Kerygma
Speakers:
Anthony S. Bashir, Fr. Jon Braun,
Fr. Peter Gillquist, Fr. Ted Pulcini,
Alan Shanbour.
Fr. Jon Braun
the face. Suddenly,you can't wait tor the
new day to start.
You finish your shower in seconds
throw on a pair of sweats and run dow~
to the dining hall for breakfast. When
your tummy is nice and full, you walk
?own the hall with 200 Orthodox Christ~ans,your age, to worship God in Matins. After a wonderful service you are
forced to listen to one of the best speakers the Archdiocese has to offer. When
the talk is finished you want food, so you
do lunch. After a quick nap, you are
ready to learn more about your Faith.
P~rfect, th~ ,se?ond talk is just begin~r~g. No~ rt s time for the evening actI~Ity! Let s see, is tonight Kerygma, the
?inner dance, Crazy Olympics IV,or fun
rn the pool? Better go check your
schedule.
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Fromrollercoastersto submarinesto
baseball... youngpeoplewill haveso
muchfunwhentheycometo Pittsburgh.
A ride on KennywoodPark's Steel
P~antom
... a visitto the newCarnegie
ScienceCenterfeaturingan Omnimax
The~treand a tourof a USNavysubmarine
...waterslides
at Sandcastle
...and
cheersfor.their_base-MINISTRY
ballfavonte--Puates
vs. Astros.And the
best day of all--an
outingto Antiochian
Village.
Signup today!
Location:
Antiochian Village Heritage &
Learning Center
Bolivar, Pennsylvania (One and a
half hours from Pittsburgh and the
Archdiocese Convention Site).
Dates:
Thursday, July 15-Tuesday, July 20
(of the Archdiocese Convention).
Registration:
Send your name, address, phone
number and a $95.00 check (payable
to: The Department of Youth & Parish
Ministries) to: Conference ChairNINETY.THREE
woman, Donna Haddad, 1870 Berry
Lane, Des Plaines, IL 60018.
THE WORD/MAY 1993
the First Annual Antiochian
studies Program
semester left before graduating, another who had but one semester beneath
his belt; most fell somewhere
inbetween, some were "cradle Orthodox," others converts to the Faith. Some
were paying their first visit to the Vil~age; others were veterans of the Campmg program, on both sides of the counselor's whistle. None knew precisely
what to expect - "something Antiochian, I guess!" - but all were open
and enthusiastic. Most did not know
each other well, even those who attend
the same seminary, but by week's end
the experience was likened to "a family
reunion - of family that haven't yet
n1et!"
From St. Vladimir's Seminary in Crestwood, NY, came: Fr. Timothy Cremeens,
accompanied by wife Tammy, and infant
dinner. Monday and Wednesday evenings an additional hour of classroom
work was scheduled. Off-nights feaby Paul D. Garrett
tured recreation calculated to further
''It is a good thing to confess unto the
"bond" the seminarians among themLord, to sing praises to thy name, O
selves, with the Faculty, the Village, and
Most High, to declare thy mercy in the
the Archdiocese. Tuesday's viewing of
morning and thy truth by night'' (Ps.
the Al Pacino film, Scent of a Woman,
92.1-2, used as Orthros prayer).
stimulated a day and a half of discussion
Twice a day, every day, during the
of its themes - cynicism converted to
week of]anuary 10-15, 1993, the Archhope, conscience victorious over expediocesan seminarians and a faculty of
diency and greed. During Thursday's
eight fulfilled these words of the Psalmformal outing to near-by Latrobe, the
ist in the beautiful Chapel of SS. Peter
elaborately-restored railway car of Diand Paul in the Antiochian Village HerSalvo's Station Restaurant echoed with
itage and Learning Center. In the hours
stories: the shared reminiscences of two
generations of seminarians about their
spent outside of services, all learned to
experiences in America and the Middle
appreciate anew God's goodness and
East - memories of professors and colmercy shown through the gift of His Orleagues; of things that were, are, and
thodox Church in it specifically Ancould be. There were stories of
tiochian "incarnation."
Lecthe trials, tribulations, andfaux
tures, discussions, sumptious
pas along the rocky road from
meals, social outings, and
Campus Crusade to the Orthofriendly games interwove to fill
dox Faith. There were stories of
- and over-fill - the time
Ireland and the Balamand, and
available,and to make of the inmore somber discussions of
augural Antiochian
Studies
what the fighter jets over BaghProgram a great success.
dad might mean, although no
For years, His Eminence,
one had really had the time to
Metropolitan PHILIP, has been
follow unfolding events adeconcerned that the full riches
quately.
of the Antiochian legacy Indeed, informal discusspiritual, theological, methodsions,
serious and light, filled
ological, and practical - has
almost
every free minute, with
not been available to our stustudents and faculty grouping
dents, no matter how high the
and re-grouping in individual
general quality of theological
rooms, hallways, the Library,
education in the established
and recreation areas, often into
seminaries in the United States.
the wee hours of the morning.
To begin remedying this shortThey proved an invaluable adfall, Sayedna directed his Ad- Faculty and Students. Back row (left to right): Rt. Rev. George Geha, V.
junct
to the formal instruction,
ministrative Assistant, the V. Rev.Joseph Antypas, Paul Garrett, v. Rev. Peter Gillquist, V. Rev.Joseph
Rev.Joseph Allen, to design a Allen, v. Rev. Michael Najim, V. Rev. Elias Bitar, and V. Rev. Joseph Pur- which focused on the following subjects:
one-week intensive course to pura. Middle row: Rev. Timothy Cremeens, Timothy Blumentritt,John
run during th
.
. , Reimann, Thomas Zain, and On. Stephen Ziton. Front row: Shane Roberts,
• "Spiritual Direction and
.
e seminaries
Jayson Post, Jack Salem, and Brian Nasser.
Guidance"
by Fr.Joseph Allen.
Chnstmas break. Prospective
Basing
himself
in
outline
on the content
faculty members were assigned sub- son Gabriel; Deacon Stephen Ziton,
of
his
forthcoming
book,
The Inner
jects. Invitations were extended to the whose family was unable to make the
Way (due out - not soon enough trip;
and
Timothy
Blumentritt,
accomseminarians, their wives, and children.
from Wm. B. Eerdmans), Fr.Joe emphaFr.George Geha, Executive Director of panied by wife Carol and son Alexander. sized those concrete, human factors that
the Antiochian Village, was instructed to From Holy Cross Greek Orthodox
allow one person to direct another
extend his very best hospitality, and, as School of Theology in Brookline, MA, spiritually. Modern psychological and
came:
Brian
Nasser,
Jayson
Post,
John
usual, the Village Staff rose splendidly to
Reimann, Shane Roberts, Jack Salem, sociological categories were balanced
the task. The comfortable and immacuagainst the insights of the ancient
lately-kept guest rooms, the Library, and Thomas Zain.
Elders, and showed how "contemThe
schedule
planned
for
them
was
Museum, Icon Studio, television
porary"
their counsel remain today.
rigorous. Following Orthros and breaklounges, game room, exercise room
•
"The
Antiochian Patristic Legacy"
fast, two ninety-minute classroom ses(and its nemesis, the Dining Hall)
by
Fr.
Michel
ajim of Los Angele , CA.
provided an atmosphere that could not sions were held back-to-back each
Fr.
Michel
emphasized
that much of
morning. After lunch there was anothbe surpassed at any price.
what
is
termed
"early
Chri
tian" or
er hour of lectures, followed immediSunday night and Monday morning
"Byzantine"
is,
in
fact
Antiochian.
ately by an hour of instruction and practhe guests arrived, a very varied group.
Seminarian emerge from Patri tic
Included was one who had but a single tice in liturgical chant, then Vespers and
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THE WORD/MAY 1993
�cour es believing that t. John of
Dama cus wa a Byzantine exiled in
Dama cus rather than a true son of Antioch whose writings are in Greek.
cholar hip until recently has overlooked the yriac-writing fathers, and
only a handful of specialists would be
le than hocked to learn that over
30,000 Christian authors wrote in
resources available - the what, why,
and how. Particularly lively discussions
marked these sessions, since several
seminarians have already worked with
young people, and all realize that it :'ill
inevitably form a major concentration
of their future ministry.
• "The American Experience" by
Paul D. Garrett, Director of Information
Daily Orthros in SS. Peter and Paul Chapel.
Arabic! The Syriac and Arabic contributions must be resurrected in order to
promote proper biblicism, apologetics,
and Christian reunion.
• "Antiochian Pedagogy" by Fr.
Joseph Antypas of Detroit, MI. Fr.
Joseph expanded on his work in mentoring St. Stephen's Course students in
the area of Systematic Theology. He emphasized the methodology of pursuing
the knowledge of God, maintaining that
studying the Antiochian fathers' confrontation with Islam enriched the understanding of God as a Trinity of Perons with one nature, as defined earlier
by the Greek-speaking fathers in terms
borrowed from classical philosophy.
• "Evangelism and Missiology" by
Fr. Peter Gillquist, Chairman of the
Archdiocesan Department of Missions
and Evangelism. Fr. Peter sought to arm
the seminarians with a "combatknowledge" of the ew Testament, surveying typical Protestant objections to
Orthodox Faith and recommending
practice and the most effective ways to
re pond. He emphasized above all the
importance of sound preaching in the
American arena.
• ,"Youth Ministry" by Fr. Joseph
Purpura, Chairman of the Department
of Youth and Pari h Ministries. Fr. Joe
very imply outlined the new platform
for youth mini, try and described the
programs in existence and planned, the
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Services at the Village. Most of the seminarians had heard little or nothing
about Bp. RAPHAEL(Hawaweeny) and
the establishment of the Syro-Arab Mission. His saga and legacy were placed
within the framework of the more
general immigration
and churchformation of the 1880's-1920's and beyond. A mini-pilgrimage to his gravesite
Elias Bitar of Little Falls, NJ, served as
Chaplain and mentor in liturgical chant.
All had been introduced in the course of
their formal studies to "Byzantine
Chant" (a misnomer, since both the
chant and the rite called "Byzantine"
arose in the Levant rather than the
Bosporus), but were in need of additional instruction and practice in this
most integral part of the liturgical tradition. The fruits of Fr. Elias' work were
evident in the beautiful daily services
that began and ended each day.
In order to coordinate efforts and
make the mid-course corrections that
are inevitable whenever a new program
is first attempted, the Faculty met nightly at 9:00 P.M., following the lastscheduled class or social event. Sunday
night began tentatively, with a sharing of
each member's topics, emphases, and
expectations. The atmosphere was one
of flexibility and openness and genuine
concern
for the students.
Such
"mechanical"
considerations
could
have been handled in less than an hour
a night, but the Faculty rarely left the Library Reading Room before 11:30, because it undertook to discuss and debate how best to integrate the present
program with the broader needs of the
Archdiocese and its clergy.
The pattern was set by a "think tank"
held Sunday night. Fr. Allen began by
summarizing the salient points in several recent publications on the subject of
clergy burn-out. Amazing similarities
Final w~rking lunch offers opportunity for frank criticism, suggestions for improvement, and over-all
sense of the program's worth.
in the Camp for Trisagion prayers prepared minds and bodies for the discussion - as freezing temperatures do
wonders in removing after-lunch sleepiness.
• Last, but by no means least, Fr.
exist across denominational and religious boundaries; clergy of all stripes
seem to face crisis periods in their third
and eighth years after ordination. What
factors are involved? Have other ecclesiastical bodies discovered remedies
THE WORD/MAY l993
_ or at least effecti e therapies? What
reventsclergy and laity from better un~erstanding one another? Wh_at prevents clergy from better supporting
. one
another in crisis? Can anyt 11mg be
done?Such questions were mulled over
for hours, with a view not only towards
helping the current seminarians eventually cope as well as ~an ~e expected
with this reality of thetr callmg, but also
rowardsfinding workable solutions for
those already suffering "in the field."
The first meeting dissolved with little
resolved, just a few minutes shy of midnight.
Seeds had been deeply planted, however.Between classes th y were watered
and fed in informal discussion , and
burst into bloom in the Wednesday
"think tank" which focused on criticism in the Church. A Ii t of practical
how-tos and whys was formulated, and
recommendation forwarded to Metropolitan PHILIP. everal deal with
modifications to the Antiochian Studies
Programs in future years. Others seek to
interlock the A.S.P. with and thereby
extend, such existing Archdiocesan
programs as the St. Stephen's Course.
Still others look am hitiously beyond
current horizons toward projects like
the publication of occasional papers or
a journal aimed at making more widelyknown the legacy of Antioch; towards
running programs for established clergy
timed to reinforce and refresh them just
before crises typically hit. Indeed, the
Antiochian Village setting suggests no
end of possibilities for providing "additional" education and Christian fellowship. As these are fleshed out, authorized, ftinded, and announced by the
Metropolitan it will become fully evident just how creative and fruitful this
week was for the Faculty.
By the time it opened its last formal
meeting around 10:00 P.M. Thursday
evening, the Faculty had figured out
how to obtain feedback from the seminarians without overburdening their final hours. Each would be asked to submit in writing independent critiques of
each subject area and over-all comments and recommendations
for program improvements. In addition, an extended working lunch on Friday would
encourage free and open dialog. By
then confidence was running high that
the program had been well-received,
appreciated, and deemed truly useful.
Far too much had been invested, however, to rely on impressions alone.
Their evaluations are being collated
THEWORD/MAY 1993
and carefully studied, and will form an
integral part in planning next year's program. For instance, their unanimous
opinion will certainly guarantee that the
differing needs of first-, second-, and
third-year students will be better
differentiated
and addressed. The
Faculty is committed to preparing a
three-year rotation of programs to guarantee freshness every year. The howsand-whats of serving in the Antiochian
Archdiocese will be squarely and concretely addressed, such that by the time
they are called to lead a parish, they will
know "standard procedures"
for
reporting, petitioning, inviting, visiting,
meeting, electing, etc. - and certainly,
for serving and chanting liturgically.
They will have studied the Priest's
Guide, the Constitution, the Leiturgikon, the Kazan music books, the conference manuals, and other documents
too practical and far too particular to
find a place in any other formal educational setting. They will certainly be
granted "standard" breaks every fortyfive minutes - omitting these was a major oversight! More "general knowledge" on their part in Orthodox dogmatics, patristics, and history will be
presumed, in order to stress the Syriac
and Arabic eras more heavily. Islam and
post-crusader church history will be
better covered. So will Middle Eastern
culture, in order to equip Americanborn priests to understand the mindset
and minister more effectively to immigrants. They will sing more, and
those with "musical defects" will receive remedial training. Something better organized must be provided for their
wives and children, since their absence
at this time of year would be burdensome, and because future clergy fami-
lies need to discuss the unique problems they will face. earby parishes can
be tapped for babysitting, and the week
can be made far less stressful and more
profitable and enjoyable for the poor
moms while the dads sit safely in class!
Everyone certainly enjoyed watching
the little ones in action.
In the end, no one - seminarian or
staff member - judged the week's experiment to have been anything but
most rewarding (despite the fact that the
students would, three days hence, face
the beginning of a new semester). All
left fairly well exhausted- but exhilerated. "Imagine if we hadn't had this
week!" was a typical remark.
Only two "down" notes were sounded, and both focused on unavoidable
absences. The first was that of Fr. Antony Gabriel of Montreal, Canada, scheduled to discuss the kind of nuts-andbolts workings of the Archdiocese for
which all hoped. His restoration to
health following major surgery was entreated at every liturgical service - and
in between. The other physical absence
was that of our host, Sayedna PHILIP.
Everyone - seminarian and staff member alike - sensed his spirit behind every aspect of the program, and Fr. Allen
assured the students that this week had
been wholly the product of his love and
concern for them.
In the weeks and months ahead, critiques, debriefings, reports, proposals,
and cost analyses galore will cross
Sayedna's desk as a follow-up to the
maiden flight of the Antiochian Studies
Program, interspersed, no doubt, with
short notes of individual gratitude from
his spiritual children for having been allowed to participate in his intense and
fulfilling week.
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THEORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE
-NEW. TESTAMENT AND PSALMS-
The Dangers of Fortune-Telling
It's Here!
What You will find in the Orthodox Study Bible:
ffi Extensive annotations providing background information,
y dear brothers and sisters in could read coffee grounds, and dreams.
Christ, I was asked by my There were countless people who told
spiritual Father to write this in me if I only place a certain wedding fathe hopes that it might help a struggling vor candy under my pillow, I would
oul. In my life I have experienced many dream of my future husband. (I can't tell
ble ings from God. The greatest one is you how much agony that little trick
gave me.)
Hi mercy. I was baptized an Orthodox
So I began my journey into what I
Christian a an infant and my family did
their be t to raise me as one also. Like know NOW could have been spiritual
many ofus, I valued education and like death. I began studying coffee grounds
most Americans, I tried to be "open for long periods of time. I would ask
minded" about everything that I learned; people to turn their coffee cups over
and like many Cradle Orthodox I had a and I would look hard for some kind of
trong appreciation for tradition. What figure to appear. Friends and relatives
a dangerous mix that must have been. I coached me on what I should look for
believed that I could choose the best of and with their encouragement I kept at
both cultures and be the wiser for it. I it. But I wasn't very knowledgeable.
eventually learned to rely so much on
Then one day it happened. I was
my own mind that I decided that God vacationing in my family's country of
was not providing a rich enough life for origin with my family. We were staying
me. So in no uncertain terms, I told God in a small village where all the people
that I could live well enough without
knew each other. My younger sister beHim and I removed all my icons and my came very popular and I became jealous
Holy Bible from my room. I felt relaxed and wanted to steal some attention for
but not free, not really. I had no idea myself. So I began to boast of my "talwhat was to come ahead.
ent" of reading coffee grounds one day
There was no immediate repercus- at a cafe. My companions all ordered
ion. I thought all was well, yet slowly coffee and drank and then asked me to
I began to sink into a pit of despair. It read. I pretended like I knew what I was
happened so gradually that I could not talking about, hoping to impress them
relate it to any action of my own. I tried with my creativity and I began telling
to nap out of it. I tried psychotherapy
them things which I could not have
which was only partially helpful. I known through my own experience. I
looked desperately for something to was surprised but I pretended to have
give me worth, to make me feel vital and had this fake gift all along, so as not to realive and intelligent.
veal my farce.
I started to pretend that I never rejectWithin weeks I began to read anyed God and that all was well. But still I thing people would give me. A deck of
wanted to be special and have the world cards, their palms, coffee grounds. I
know it. I wanted people to respect me even claimed I could gain knowledge of
more than anyone and I wanted to be a girl by simply drinking out of her glass
sophisticated. I thought that if I could of water.
somehow tell people more about themI knew all along that my fake gift was
elves than even they knew, they would not my own and I knew that the things
re pect me. My open-mindedness af- I told people about themselves weren't
!orded me the foolishness of looking so miraculous. I mostly told them of
mto what I thought was a real ethnic tra- th_eirpasts and I struggled to come up
dition: fortune telling.
with a true forecast of things to come.
The roots of these things which in- Although at times, I did tell their future
volved fortune telling were with me and it came true.
from my childhood. I knew and heard
I continued this even after I came
of everal women who claimed they home to America and little by little it
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took its toll on me. I tried to act sophisticated but on the inside I became more
depressed, crying and lamenting nearly every day. Until one day I was gently
reprimanded by an Orthodox Priest
who clearly pointed out to me that it
was none of my business to know of
anyone, let alone interfere with that person's hope in God.
You see, fortune telling causes a person to abandon God for a made up story. How I will have to pay for deceiving
these souls only God knows. Instead of
leading them to their Savior, I acted like
a devil and misdirected these people,
tempting them to turn their eyes away
from the truth.
So where did the false gift come
from? Well, I call it a false gift because it
did not com from God. Gifts that
come from the Lord lead us back to Him
and they give comfort to all, not despair.
I involved myself in that darkness to win
the love and respect of people. But now
that I have rejected these things, I have
remembered that I have the love of
Jesus Christ, which is more comforting
than the love of any man. Brothers and
sisters, if you have become entangled in
the darkness of fortune telling, for the
sake of your soul, abandon it. You are
sailing in a boat which will sink and you
will drown, and possibly bring others
with you.
The love of God is greater than anything we can imagine and cannot compare with the law of 10,000 men. Instead of leading others into our own
traps, let us lead them to our Lord, King
and Savior Jesus Christ. And let us be
like the saints who loved Him and are
now loved in the world as well.
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�DIALOGUE
41stAntiochianArchdiocesan
Convention
by Father Theodore Pulcini
of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox do not
I read recently in The Word that the for years, and yet an actual date for such really coexist in the home territories of
a
meeting
has
yet
to
be
determined.
To
Antiochian Orthodox Church and the
the Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, or Inyrian Orthodox Church are very close be sure, the fact that the Ottoman and dian churches. In only one context
Communist
yokes
for
centuries
seriousto reuniting. This is good news indeed!
could a regional union prove meaningful
But how did this all happen? How did ly hindered the internal life and external
and effective: the Patriarchate of Antioch.
relations
of
most
of
the
Eastern
Orthothey become separated in the first
The Chalcedonian dispute was particplace, and how did they decide to come dox Churches accounts in large part for
ularly disruptive in the Church of Anthe
failure
of
the
long-desired
pantogether again? - A.P., CA
(A number of questions like the above Orthodox gathering to materialize. Re- tioch, where long-standing tensions
had existed between Christians of Greek
arrizied after the article entitled "On the cent developments in world politics,
bent and those of more Semitic, specifihowever,
especially
in
eastern
Europe,
Unity of the Eastern and Syriac Orthocally
Syriac, orientation. Chalccdon conmake
it
clear
that
a
new
day
has
dawned
dox Churches'' appeared in the April,
1992 issue of The Word. This reader's for world Orthodoxy. Being freed from firmed their mutual alienation, pitting
the Greek Orthodox against the "Jacoits various bondages, the Eastern Orthoquestion raises a nurnber of issues bites," as the Syrian Orthodox came to
dox
Church
may
indeed
be
able
to
contoo many to be addressed at one time.
be called, after their founder Jacob Baravoke
a
"Great
Council."
My response, therefore, will consist of
But must reunion between Chalcedo- daeus. As the years passed, the former
fiue parts, of which this is the fourth.)
nians and non-Chalcedonians
be became ever more influenced by the
delayed
until
such
a
council
renders
an Church of Constantinople, gradually
The Final Steps - I
adopting its liturgical rite, with only miofficial
decision
on
the
matter?
The
late
Despite the theological agreement
and all of the enthusiasm and good will Father John Meyendorff recognized an- nor variations, in its entirety; indeed
generated by the unofficial and official other possibility. Even though he clear- they came to be derided as ''Melkites,"or
meetings described in the previous parts ly considered formal proclamation at a "emperor's men," by thcJacobites, who,
in turn, were branded as "Monophyof the response to this question, one Great Council to be the most proper
very critical problem remains: how actu- means of achieving the union, he admit- sites" by their opponents. During the
ally to effect the desired reunion of the ted that "the history of the Church has period of Byzantine ascendancy, the
also known precedents for initiatives Jacobite community became ever more
Eastern and Oriental Orthodox
marginalized.
churches. The momentum that has taken regionally." Even while recognizDespite undeniable animosity begathered over the past forty years could ing the dangerous obstacles that such
well degenerate into ponderous inertia regional efforts could present to a gener- tween the two churches over the centuby too long a delay in institutional action al union, he provided a description of a ries, the Greek and Syrian Orthodox of
on the part of either Church. And yet regional union properly conceived and the See of Antioch never completely lost
sight of their primordial unity. Events of
one wonders whether either is present- executed:
ly capable of the kind of structural moveA union, solemnly proclaimed on
the past few years, in particular, have
ment required for reunion.
a regional basis, would be commuspawned hopes that their reunion is imUnlike the Roman Catholic Church,
nicated officially to all churches on
minent.
the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox
the Chalcedonian
and nonAccording to the World Christian EnChurches have no "central office" which
Chalcedonian sides, and their apcyclopedia (1982), the Eastern Orthodox
can make binding decisions and issue
proval would be formally asked. A
patri:lrchate of that historic city has jurisdefinitive directives. On the contrary,
positive reaction should logically
diction over some million souls worldtheir processes of decision-making are
lead to further union steps. A negawide; the Syrian Orthodox patriarchate,
painstakingly collegial, requiring contive reply would place before the
over some 243,000. (In Syria, they numsensus among federated
"sister
church involved a clear option: it
ber some 200,000 and 81,000, respectivechurches" united in faith and practice
would have to decide which "comly.) Their numbers are therefore quite
but not bound together by any overm union" it considers to be the
comparable; and in their Middle Eastern
arching administrative structure. How
communion of the One, Holy,
homelands
members
of the two
indeed could either Church definitively
Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Churches int~ract frequently in day-to-day
"approve" reunion?
[SVTO 33 (1989): 328]
life. Could not Chalcedonians and nonThe process might well be easier for
But where could even such a regional Chalcedonians of this patriarchate be rethe Oriental Orthodox Church in that it union be realized? Comparable numbers
united by means of a regional union?
is numerically smaller and less far-flung
than its Eastern Orthodox counterpart.
Leaders of the Oriental sister-churches
15th Annual St. Thekla Pilgrimage
could, with relative ease, meet and issue
September 10-11-12, 1993
a common "act of reunion." lt would not
be so simple for leaders of the various
His Grace Bishop BASIL, Presiding
autocephalous
Eastern Orthodox
V. Rev. Joseph Shaheen, Featured Speaker
Churche to do the same. They have not
Dr. Robert A. Abodeely, Guest Presentor
come together in an ecumenical council
For more information contact The Antiochian Villaoe Conference Center,
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<p>The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication <em>The Word</em> is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic <em>Al-Kalemat</em> appeared in 1933, and the English iteration <em>The Word</em> began anew in 1957.</p>
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The Word in 1957
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Editor-in-Chief
Archprie t George S. Corey, D.Min.
of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas
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by Bishop Isaiah of Denver
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of Christian Education
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Lifestyles X ..................................
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26
Introducing
28
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Daily Devotions ..............................
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29
Fellowship Footnotes
30
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To all the clergy and laity of the Holy Orthodox
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Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
This hymn that we sing today in worship of the one true God proclaims the central Christian message of reconciliation, hope and
joy.This is in sharp contrast to a world that often appears fragmented and without hope. We Christians are called, through the witness
of our life and work, to take an active part in this reconciliation so that everyone may participate in this joy.
We learn from the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that reconciliation requires sacrifice. He "being in very nature God, did
not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness ...
and became obedient to death even death on a cross" (Phil. 2:6-8). He did this gladly and willingly for us "while
we were still sinners" (Rm. 5:8) out of his great love.
During Great Lent we set out on a journey that has as its end the Lord's Pascha. We concentrate on ridding ourselves of all forms
of"selfish ambition or vain conceit" (Phil. 2:3) and try to take on ourselves the Lord's humility. We hope by doing this we can become
agents of reconciliation and God's peace.
This first thing before us is to take full advantage of the healing and salvation that God has offered us in the death and resurrection of his Son (Rm. 5:10). We must strive to become Christians in every aspect of our lives. The tools that the Church offers us: prayer,
fasting, and almsgiving, can assist us greatly in this regard.
The second thing we must do is to become agents of reconciliation within our own households and families. The stresses and
strains on the modern family can be overwhelming. We tend to take out our frustrations and disappointments on the ones who are
closest to us. But a kind and encouraging word, especially in the face of tremendous pressure, can be a source of strength and hope.
We can do this if we have as our anchor God's self-effacing love.
The third thing that we can do is to become active members within our Church communities, reaching out to our brothers and
sisters with whom we share the same faith in our Lord and Savior. God offers us the Church as a refuge, a safe harbor, from a world
confused and lost. The fellowship that we find with other Christians can strengthen and nourish us.
And finally, our parishes themselves must become active in promoting reconciliation in the society at large, becoming agents of
love and understanding in a world torn apart. Too often we close in on ourselves. However, we are called to be "the light of the world"
(Mt. 5:14). We should let our light shine before others, that they may see our good deeds and praise our Father in heaven (cf Mt. 5:16).
Therefore, in response to this call, we, the Hierarchs of the Standing Conference, formed the International Orthodox Christian
Charities (IOCC), a professionally staffed non-profit corporation. In the past year the IOCC has, with our blessings, distributed over
twenty five million dollars of food and medical supplies throughout the world, as well as provided technical support to strengthen
the charitable activities of Orthodox Churches in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. We ask you to support this holy work of our Church
when you hear the call during Great Lent.
The Lord said "by this all will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another" CTn.13:35). We urge you then to pick up
your crosses, follow the Lord, and proclaim to the world his reconciliation.
With Archpastoral blessings, and prayers for a spiritual Lent and a blessed Pascha,
i~~~
i tArchbishop
IAKOVOS, Chairman
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
of North and South America
tBishop NICHOLAS of Amissos, Treasurer
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox
Greek Catholic Diocese in the U.S.A.
tArchbishop VICTORIN
Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese
in America and Canada
tArchbishop PETER
Orthodox Church in America
tMetropolitan CHRISTOPHER
Serbian Orthodox Church
in the United States and Canada
tMetropolitan WASYLY
Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada
tBishop V EVOLOD
krainian Orthodox Church in America
~~-[l();/e:)
tMetropolitan PHILIP, Vice Chairman
Antiochian Orthodox Christian
Archdiocese of North America
~~c::~
CHRIST IS RISEN
tMetropolitan JOSEPH, Secretary
Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church
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�THE SACRAMENTOF HOLYORDERS
EDITORIAL
Endow Your Church for Tomorrow
Thank God for insurance! I don't know what I would do without it. I have all kinds of
in urance now. I guess we all do! I have health insurance, life insurance on myself, my wife
and all my sons. I have car insurance, homeowners insurance, credit card insurance, and insurance to cover me in case I cannot make a payment on something. I have disability insurance and I have social security, another kind of insurance. Insurance is the name of the game
in this society in which we live. What would we do without it? Who can afford to pay the
staggering costs of things, without insurance? What all this insurance means is this - we are
protecting ourselves against terribly high costs that come to us when there is an emergency.
And, we are endowing the future! In other words, we are furnishing funds for support when
needed.
It's the North American way to survive in our democratic societies. It is part of the system in which we live. So, if it is good for Americans and Canadians on a day to day basis, why
not apply it to the Church as well? WHY NOT ENDOW YOUR CHURCH FOR TOMORROW?
That is to say, why cannot we take out insurance today, that will generate funds for the Church
tomorrow? In fact, we can!
Our beloved Antiochian Archdiocese, through its Department of Gifts, Trusts and Legacies, chaired by Archdiocesan Trustee Robert Bethoney, has presented a simple but effective
program to insure the future of our ministries in North America. This commitment to the future of our Church can be individually made without making an equally major outlay of cash.
No agents are required, no medical examinations are needed, no insurance applications are
filled out, no professional consultations or trust documents are used. One simply decides
that he/she wants to endow the Church for tomorrow, completes a simple form, and makes
the first of five payments (or pays one lump sum), and the program goes into effect. Who are
the beneficiaries? In this plan, the Archdiocese will receive 50% (or more if you desire), and
your local parish or any other church ministry will receive the balance. Just think of it! You
will live on in the memory of the Church through an endowment fund, created in your name,
for the purpose for which YOU intended. New missions can be created with your endowme~t. Christian education and Sacred Music programs can be developed with your gifts. Evangelism, here and_ab:oad, can be taught. The good work of the Antiochian Village can be increased. Monastic life c~n be developed and perpetuated. And in your local parish, all the
programs that are set aside year after year because of a lack of commitment and funds can
now be developed because you cared enough to think of the future!
'
Endowments from $5000.00_ to $100,000.00 can be established in your name, or the
name of a loved one. Larger commitments are also available upon request. The amount each
y_earthat you pay _topa~ticipate in the program depends on your age. A very handsome and
simple_brochure _isava_tlablefrom the Archdiocese upon request. It would be worth your
wh~le, if you ~re financially able and are willing to make a sacrifice for your Archdiocese and
pansh, to wnte fo~ ~ne. It does not commit you in any way.
If we are so willmg_and ~eem it so necessary to insure this body of ours, and our house,
an? our_car, and our maJor pnzed possessions, and our health, etc., etc., etc., why not think
of msunng the future of the Church? Future generations will bless us for this decision! Write:
Antiochian Archdiocese
Dept. of Gifts, Trusts & Legacies
358 Mountain Road
Englewood, NJ 07631
-George
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S. Corey
Editor
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Introduction
It is the conviction of the Orthodox
thatChrist is the only Priest, Pastor and
Teacher of His Body, th~ Church. He
alone guides and rules His people. He
aloneforgives sins and offers communion with God, His Father. The sacramentof holy orders in the Church is the
objective guarantee of the perpetual
presence of Christ with His people. The
bishops, priests and deacons of the
Church have no other function or service than to manifest the presence and
action of Christ to Hi people. In this
sense, the clergy do not act in behalf of
Christor instead of Christ as though He
Himself were absent. Christ is present
now,always, and forever in His Church.
The sacramental ministry of the Church
- the bishops, priests and deacons receive the gift of the Holy Spirit to
manifestChrist in the Spirit to mankind.
The sacrament of holy orders takes
its name from the fact that the bishops,
priests and deacons give order to the
Church. They guarantee the continuity
and unity of the Church from age to age
and from place to place from the time of
Christ and the apostles until the establishment of God's Kingdom in eternity.
As the apostles received the special
giftof God to go forth and make Christ
present to mankind in all of the manifold aspects of His person and work, so
the clergy of the Church receive the gift
of God's Spirit to maintain and to manifestChrist's presence and action in the
churches.
The Three Ranks of
the Ordained Ministry
DEACON
Our English word
deacon comes from
the Greek word diaconos
which
means ''one who
serves." The deacons of the Church
originally assisted
the bishops in good
deeds and works of
charity. Today the
deacon also assists
the priest and bishop in liturgical services and will often
head educational
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groups, do hospital
visitation and missionary work, and conduct projects of
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social welfare. Some deacons have an
honorific title: e.g. protodeacon (reserved for married deacons) which
means a first deacon, or archdeacon (reserved for celibate deacons) which
means a leading deacon.
PRIEST
Our English word
priest comes from
the Greek word
presbyteros which
means "an elder."
The priests exercise
the function of pastors of the local parishes. The priests in
the Church are assigned by the bishop
and belong to the
specific congregations which they
serve. Some priests
have an honorific title: e.g. archpriest
(reserved for married
priests) which means
a leading elder, or archimandrite (reserved for celibate priests) which means
the leader of a flock.
BISHOP
Our English word
bishop comes from
the Greek word
episcopos which
means "one who
oversees." The bishops are the leading
members
of the
clergy in the sense
that they have the
responsibility and
the service of maintaining the unity of
the Church throughout the world by insuring the truth and
unity of the faith
and practice
of
their respective churches with all of the
others. A titular bishop is one who
does not head a diocese, but rather
serves as an assistant or auxiliary to a diocesan bishop. While a diocesan bishop
heads an actual see (e.g., Metropolitan
PHILIP is the head of our Archdiocese
of North America), a titular bishop has
the title of a city which once was a diocesan see but no longer functions as
such (e.g., Bishop Antoun's titular see is
Selefkia, which in ancient times was the
port city of Antioch and the see of a
diocese).
Some bishops have an
honorific title: e.g. Archbishop which
means a leading bishop in a particular
locale, metropolitan which means the
bishop of a metropolis (major city) in a
particular area, or patriarch which
means the bishop of the capital city of
a region or nation.
The Rite of Ordination
An ordination is always celebrated
during the Divine Liturgy: a bishop is
ordained (or consecrated) after the
Thrice-holy Hymn, a priest after the
Great Entrance, and a deacon after the
Anaphora. In each instance, the candidate is first presented by his sponsors to
the ordaining bishop. He is then led
through the holy doors into the sanctuary and in procession thrice around the
holy table, each time kissing the corners
of the holy table. During these processions, three hymns are chanted (the
same ones which are chanted as the
bride and groom thrice process around
the table at a marriage service).
The candidate then kneels before the
holy table and the bishop lays his hands
upon the candidate's head and prays. (In
the case of the consecration of a bishop,
multiple bishops must take part in the
laying on of hands.) At the conclusion of
the ordination prayers the candidate
rises and is presented to the people so
that they might voice their approval of
his worthiness with their shouts of "He
is worthy" (axios in Greek; moostahik
in Arabic). The candidate is then
clothed in the vestments of his rank.
The primary vestment for all three ranks
is called the sticharion; in fact it is one
which belongs to all baptized Orthodox
Christians, being symbolic of the robe
of our baptism by which we were all ordained to the "royal priesthood" (cf. I
Peter 2:9).
The deacon is vested in the sticharion, the orarion (stole) is placed over his
left shoulder (when he prepares to receive holy communion, the deacon will
cross the orarion over his breast), and
the epimanikia
(cuffs) are placed
around his wrists. The priest is vested in
the sticharion,
the epitrachelion
(priest's stole) is placed around his neck,
the zone (belt) is tied around his waist,
the epimanikia are placed around his
wrists, the epigonation (sword of the
Spirit) is hung at his right side, and then
the phelonion is placed over all. The
bishop is vested in the sticharion, the
epitrachelion is placed around his neck,
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�the zone i tied around hi wai t, the
epimanikia ar pla ed around his
~Hi ·t , th epigonation i hung at his
right ide, the ·akko i placed over all,
the omopborion (bi hop' tole) is laid
on his shoulders, and a pectoral cross
and engolpion (pectoral icon) are
placed around his neck; later in the Divine Liturgy the mitre (crown) is placed
upon the head of the newly-conse-
crated bishop and he is presented the
pastoral staff
Reprinted from the bulletin of St.
George Cathedral in Wichita, Kansas.
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THE PRIESTIN THE PARISHSETTING
THE WORD/APRIL 1993
by Bishop ISAIAH of Denver
we are living at a time in human history in which many long standing teachingsand traditions have been distorted,
not to say changed. It is not inaccurate
to believe that in our day men are lovers
of themselves,
lovers of money,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of
good, traitors, headstrong,
haughty, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God, having the form of godliness but
denying its power (2 Tim. 3 :25).They are always learning but
are never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth (2 Tim.
3:7). This condition
is all
around us and tends to influence, if possible, even the
teachings of our Holy Faith.
Because it is to this society,
to this kind of world into
which our priests enter, it is imperative that we be reminded
and to know with certainty
what the priesthood is, what its
focus should be, and how it can
be applied to the parish setting,
that is, to our people. Even
now, there is a confusion and
even a conflict in the minds of
our people as to the identity
and the purpose of the holy
priesthood. We, ourselves, may
havean improper and an incorrect understanding of what it is
to be a priest of God today.
We know from the history
and the living tradition of our
Church that the priesthood was established by Christ according to the order
ofMelchizedek. The old Aaronic or Levitical priesthood had served its purpose and fulfilled its objectives. There
was no further need for sacrifices, for
the spotless Lamb of God had been
sacrificed on the Cross. A New Covenant was written in the hearts of the believers, as Jeremiah had prophesied.
The veil in the Temple, concealing the
Holy of Holies, mysteriously was ripped
apart from top to bottom and God's
h~Iy presence departed. The bread and
wine which Melchizedek offered to
Abraham after the battle of the kings
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was manifested on the Cross as our Lord
offered His flesh and blood for the sins
of the world, giving Himself up for the
life of the world. On the great day of
Pentecost the presence of God returned
as tongues of fire establishing the New
Israel and Christ's holy priesthood after
the order of Melchizedek.
From the Book of Acts we learn of the
establishment of the clergy, the Apostles
Bishop Isaiah of Denver
as bishops, the presbyters, and the deacons. They were called by the Holy
Spirit for the gathering of God's people.
They are the servants of the parable
who run out to the streets and lanes, the
highways and hedges to invite people to
the eternal banquet. We read in one part
of Acts, ''As they ministered to the Lord
and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, 'Now
separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the
work to which I have called them' (Acts
13:2)." It is the Holy Spirit Who calls us.
We describe this as a calling from God,
a vocation.
Yet in the history of the Church many
have entered the ranks of the clergy
without this calling. Simon wanted to
buy it and not a few bishops in the
course of history have sold it (Acts 8:18).
How do we know this? The Lord tells
us. He says, "Many will say to Me in that
day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in
Your name, and done many wonders in
Your name?' And then I will declare to
them, 'I never knew you; depart from
Me .. .' (Matt. 7:23).''
We enter the holy priesthood not as "free agents," as it
were, but as obedient hearers
of the voice of the Holy Spirit.
In the Book of Acts we read,
"So being sent by the Holy
Spirit, they went . . . (Acts
13:4)." We are called by Christ
to go, not where we wish to go,
but where the Holy Spirit
sends us. I do not know if it is
because of my vantage point at
the Archdiocese or my thirty
years in the clergy, but it seems
to me that more and more
priests are involved in where
they wish to be assigned. The
reasons given are invariably
personal ones. Of the five
graduating classes I have interviewed at the Archdiocese
these past five years, I believe
only two seniors told me that
they would go wherever the
Church sent them. And they
are converts. If our priests are
going to be successful in their
parish ministries, it will be only
because they believe that the
Holy Spirit placed them there.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only
Priest of the order of Melchizedek. The
bishops of the Church are His personal
representatives, and the presbyters and
the deacons are the personal extensions
of the bishops. There is only one purpose for this new prie thood: the
gathering of God's people so that the
full number of those who are to be
saved will be completed (Rom. 11:25,
Heb. 11:40). There is only one message:
"Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven i
at hand." This message receives it
authority from the death and resurrection of Christ and His coming again.
The priest of the Church cannot be a
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changing liturgical practices. This type
proponent of current philo ophies or
of license can certainly lead to equal
f liberation theology a we ee it exrights for all life styles as we see happenpre ed in the political arena. We pray
ing in other churches and denomi_naf r peace in the world; we work for
peac in the orld. But we are realistic tions. There is only one way for a pnest
to serve God's people and that is
enough to know that we will not bring
it about by ourselves. If we could, our Christ's Way. He is the Way, the Truth,
Lord ould not call Him elf the Prince and the Life, and no clergyman has the
of Peace; for then, it would be an emp- right to compete with this doctrine.
A priest who enters the parish life for
t title. hen we preach the Kingdom
the
first time can have a kind of traumatf Heaven being at hand, we teach and
ic
experience,
for he will realize that in
proclaim Chri t crucified; Christ resurseminary
he
learned
to be a teacher, a
rected· and Christ coming again.
It i important to stress this again and preacher, and a liturgist, but in the paragain even though we know it. For we ish he finds himself to be an office
are al ays tempted co preach our own worker, a maintenance supervisor, and
me age from the pulpit, rather than an administrator, to mention just a few
Chri t' . Even now there are priests in areas of responsibility. One can conthe Church who take liberties in order veniently accept this reality by saying
to demon crate that they are capable of that in the seminary he was mostly ininterpreting the Faith and who consider volved with theoretical and theological
their innovations correct. They abbrevi- studies, while in the parish setting the
ate services and even change the words demands are toward the material, especially the physical needs and expectaof cripture. In the marriage sacrament,
for example, they do not read in one of tions. There is truth to this. I recall that
thirty years ago when I first started out
the prayers to "keep their bed in purity"
o that the bridegroom and the bride as an assistant priest, my pastor, in a mowould want their bed undefiled. By do- ment of frustration, said that he was so
ing this, those priests erase the Scriptur- much involved in administrative affairs
al reference which we see in the Epistle that he had no time to be a priest.
The size of the parish in most cases
to the Hebrews where it says, "Marriage
is honorable among all, and the bed un- determines whether the priest is a Mary
or a Martha. In today's parish setting, a
defiled (Heb. 13:4)." It is not surprising
therefore to see such priests allow non- priest must be both and must be able to
Orthodox to be sponsors at baptisms balance them. Too many priests in the
and to offer Holy Communion to non- past have been far more concerned with
Orthodox individuals. For a priest to the physical and material side of parish
compromise his calling in such ways life than the spiritual. This can be readand in many others, one day he must ily seen from parish bulletins which
come to the realization that he has show on red letter days no liturgies.
betrayed the priesthood, that is, if he However the social and athletic activiknow what the priesthood is in the first ties are in full swing. In this regard many
of our priests want to feel that they are
place.
The sad reality with our faithful in the the immediate overseers of all expressions of parish life and they are offendparishes i that they do not comprehend the Divine Liturgy as it is; and for ed when the parish council does not
a priest to change or add something is agree with them. Probably it is here in
the area of chief responsibility or, rather,
considered most confusing, if not
offensive to them. In Corinth in the days authority, which is the real cause of a
of aint Paul, the Christians were being breakdown in a harmonious operation
baptized in behalf of the dead (1 Corin. of a parish in all its expressions.
The reason for this breakdown,
15:29). But we certainly would not think
of bringing this practice back today.
which is commonplace among our parBecause of these things, it is most vi- ishes, is seen in the type of parish regutal for the priest to believe himself to be lations our Church in North America
ent by the Holy Spirit and to be obe- followed in the early days, in the way
dient to the way of the Church. His per- the laity view the bishops and priests,
onal feeling with history or nostalgia and thirdly in the way the clergy sees itmust never interfere with how the self.
Church is today. either should he conIn regard to the regulations that were
ider himself a having the right to be in- used to administrate our parishes, they
novative by trying to demonstrate equal had been prepared chiefly by attorneys
right of the sexes, for example, by who did not fully understand the ad8
ministrative role of the priest in the parish. One example suffices to prove the
point: In many situations of parish life in
the parish or in the greater society, the
chairman of the parish council is introduced and recognized as "the president of the community." Far too many
times I have heard bishops recognize
the council chairman in this way. Here
we have a real dichotomy in the leadership of a parish. The priest is the head of
the parish and the chairman is supposedly the head of the parish council.
Within this contradictory recognition
of priest and chairman, the laity comes
forth to support the one interpretation
or the other. This, naturally, puts the
bishop in a serious dilemma. If he supports the priest, the parish council may
hold back its commitment
to the
Church. If he supports the chairman
and the council, he loses the trust of his
priest.
If some priests have no faith in their
bishops today, however, they have no
strong argument to support this, due to
the way they view themselves. Although theological training is paramount regarding a bishop and a priest in
today's world, the spirit of secularism
which literally permeates
the atmosphere of our Church, convinces the
clergyman to see himself as more of a
professional, such as a professor or a
counseling agent, or a psychologist,
rather than as God's servant who is
responsible for leading the people of
God toward redemption and salvation.
In this regard the "professional" priest
appears to consider his excellent sermon to be on a higher order than holy
communion. As long as the priest allows his people to attend the Divine
Liturgy after the Epistle and Gospel
readings, and in some cases, even after
the Holy Eucharist is offered, then the
highlight of the Liturgy in the minds of
these people will continue to be the sermon which often comes at the very
end. Sadly, the priest erroneously sees
his homily as fulfilling his role as priest.
Yet earlier in the Liturgy he minimizes
his priestly role as teacher and sacrificial
offerer by his apparent lack of concern
for the number of people in attendance.
To stretch the point, the late comers at
a Divine Liturgy identify the priest not
with the Altar, but with the Pulpit. Sermons should be given in their proper
place in the Liturgy: after the Gospel
reading.
One of the areas in which a priest d~means himself and his priesthood is
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with his remuneration.
Considering
himself a "professional" with degrees
afterhis name, he prepares a curriculum
vitae for parish councils to see. In the
past few years I have seen an increasing
number of new graduates of our school
with prepared curricula vitae. This
document gives the wrong message to
the parish councils and to the Church,
and exposes the graduate to the probability that he does not know what the
priesthood is. He gives the impression
that he is a free agent of sorts; that it is
his document which makes all the
difference in his assignment, rather than
his bishop; that even the Holy Spirit is
not necessarily involved. Unknowingly
he falls into the hands of the parish
council members who see him as a
potential employee. To make matters
worse, he auditions for them by chanting and even celebrating a service or
two, thereby making a divine service
simply a kind of rehearsal for the eyes
and ears of council members.
Afew years ago I was trying to find an
assignment for a graduate of our Seminary. He showed me what he had prepared, including curriculum vitae and
even financial statistics as to the cost of
living in that part of the country, and
other such documents. This was after
he had returned from a parish to which
I had sent him. He told me that they
could not meet his figures. Then I
reminded him that he had never served
anywhere as a clergyman. He had established no "track record" whatsoever.
Andthen I asked him why he expected
such a remuneration when he himself
did not know how well he would do
and if he would succeed in his ministry.
Needless to say, I received no answer. I
wanted to tell him to save his curriculum
vitaeand to present it to the Lord on the
Day of Judgment; but I did not think
that he would understand.
A priest can look at himself as a
professional, but never in the light of
se:~larism. He is an organizer, and ad~mistrator, a counsellor, a psycholo~1st,a community leader, a public relations person - all of these and more,
~ut only in the light of Christ, only in
he same sense as Saint Paul was when
he wrote, "I have become all things to all
men, that I might by all means save
some (1 Cor. 9:22)." All these roles must
co_meunder the first and chief role: a
PneScof God, the priest who is sent by
the Holy Spirit as a small Christ to find
and to save souls for the Kingdom.
Moreover, in regard to academic
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degrees, there is no doubt that they are
ne_cessary. If Saint Paul lived today, or
Same_Gregory the Theologian, Saint
Phot1os or Saint Gregory Palamas, they
would have as many, if not more earned
and honorary degrees as the most highly
educated scholars of today But all of them
would see themselves first and foremost
as servants of Christ Who had called
them into His soul-saving ministry.
For one to be a successful priest in
continuity of Christ's holy mandate is
most difficult in today's parishes. The
priest must see the parish as God's
workshop for the saving of souls, even
though the cultural, social, fraternal and
athletic programs may abound. The
parishioners must begin to view the
priest as the source of their spiritual development and edification. Our sacraments have taken on an air of societal
prestige. The outer trappings involving
baptisms and weddings have gone to
the point of being ludicrous. You begin
to wonder how many of our faithful at
a baptism realize that the child was
claimed in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, having being separated from Satan's claim and ownership by the sacrament? You see four foot tall candles at
weddings attired in lace like human
mannequins and you wonder why. The
concept that Christ enters the marriage
in partnership
with the bride and
groom seems not to be understood.
Even at funerals there seem to be more
and more requests for relatives and
friends of the deceased to read a poem
or sing a favorite song or offer a eulogy
that never speaks of one's eternal condition. The priest's sermon on the resurrection is not considered of importance
in the service.
The condition of our parishes must
change in order for the priest to fulfill
the expectations of his ministry. For example Saturday night vespers can be instituted in all parishes, even though ten
people may attend. The rest of the parish family will soon realize that Saturday
evening is the beginning of one's preparation for the Sunday Liturgy. All parish
council meetings must begin with a
Scripture reading and a small meditation so that they who say that a parish is
a business and who consider the treasurer's report the most important part of
the meeting, may somehow be awakened
to the reality of their error. Those individuals who consider the financial report in any parish setting as the most important, should be taken to visit a local
heavily endowed Protestant church
which has only a few elderly members
or which is closed.
Many former graduates of the seminary, including myself, in their zeal to
teach the Faith established an excellent
Sunday School system from the 1950's
on. They produced their own materials
initially because the Archdiocese had
only Greek language materials. Forty
years later the programs and materials
have greatly increased and professionally improved. However, in a substantial
number of parishes, the major mistake
we made is being continued. We taught
our children many things in the classroom setting. But we also taught them,
not by word, but by example, that they
did not have to attend the Divine Liturgy. The simultaneous time of Sunday
School with the Divine Liturgy told
them that they did not have to be there.
And now as adults, they are still not
there except for baptisms, weddings,
and funerals.
There is no question that all of us
have been influenced to one degree or
another by our secular world in our
education, in our professionalism, and
in our leadership capabilities. We believe that we speak from the vantage
point of Christian leaders, but somehow we are not getting across. Our parish councils look upon themselves as
stewards of the church, but act more
like safety deposit boxes. A good steward uses the money. He does not bury it
as the sinful servant in the parable. Our
people seem to want their leaders to be
more of the Martha-type than of the
Mary-type. They want their physical and
secular needs addressed to the point of
being more interested in how the liturgy is conducted than why they attend
the liturgy.
Yes, it is most difficult to be Christ's
kind of priest in today's society. The
priest's leadership qualities and preparation must be effective in his role as a
servant of Christ. For him to be a servant
of Christ, he must first and always be a
man of prayer. Whether he has administrative qualities or a good voice, whether he is a praiseworthy intellectual or a
public relations expert, whether his talents are superior or even inferior, they
become secondary in the eyes of our
people when they see him as a man of
prayer.
Being a person of prayer is best
manifested in caring for his parishioners, all of them, including all people. He
can never allow himself to see his
parishioners in two camps. Being a per9
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When his people see him as a man of
on f pray r i be t manife ted in h 1s
h
r oular i it t the ho pitals and to the prayer and a vessel of God's grace, t en
/k per on b d herev r it may be, he will guide them to their first love
which must always be his first love.
and t place hi hand of hea 1ing upon
1
him/h r anointing
ith holy oil and Then he will be able to function simu ho! water. B ing a per on of prayer is taneously as a servant and as a leader in
be t manife ted in offering the Holy all facets and expressions of parish and
B d and Preciou Blood of our Lord at community life. And he will then be
a man Divine Liturgie as he can successful in making all people see that
chedule. He, fir t, as a communicant of his is a Eucharistic Community, identithe Lord need this more than anyone cal with the ones in the Apostolic age.
1 e. It i hi piritual life-line. His minis- "Therefore take heed to yourselves and
tr mu t be identified more with his to all the flock, among which the Holy
altar and the ick bed, than with the Spirit has made you overseers, to shepoffice and his other activities. For these herd the Church of God which He purtwo place tell you what he is all about chased with His own blood (Acts
and tell other that he cares. For the altar 20:28)."
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dination to
i the depo itory of God's love and the
Ont h e d ay o f h· 1s od'Y 0t r1 fter the
ick bed is the recipient of that love, the priest h oo d , 1mme 1a e Y a
moreso than any other recipient.
consecration of the gifts the ordaining
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bishop placed the Lamb in his hands,
the consecrated Body of Christ to hold
for a few moments. He will say to the
priest, "Receive this deposit and guard
it until the second coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ at which time it will be
demanded from you." The priesthood
is an awesome calling. But it is also the
richest and most joyful blessing. For He
Who calls the priest is always ready to
sustain him at all times to do His will,
which He has promised will be done
until He returns to gather in His people
and to complete the number of them
who are to be saved.
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Diocese o-r Denver, Greek Orthodox
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THE ORTHODOX PRIEST
AN IKON OF CHRIST
by Father Alister Anderson
n this holy season you could have a
child ask you, "why was Jesus born
as a boy? Why couldn't St. Mary
havehad a baby girl to be our saviour?"
How would you answer these questions?I would say this because the Bible
says it: God wanted to be born of St.
Mary as a baby boy because it was His
intention to be a perfect man. God
made that choice. God can do and will
do what He wants to do.
Now suppose a little later an adult
person asked you, "Why don't the Orthodox Christian Churches allow women to be ordained as deacons, priests or
bishops?" The Church of England just
voted to permit women to be ordained
to the sacred ministry. Many other
Christian denominations have been ordaining women to the ministry for
many years. The question is answered
in the Christmas story recorded in the
Bible.God took the form of a man when
by the power of His Holy Spirit He was
born of the Virgin Mary, the Theotokos.
That provides our Orthodox Christian
Churches' answer. Only a man can be
ordained as a deacon, priest or bishop
because Jesus the perfect Man chose
only men to be His disciples and apostles.God made that choice. God can do
and will do what He wants to do.
Sadly many people do not believe
that the Christmas story about the Incarnation and Holy Nativity is true.
They don't believe that God became
man in Jesus Christ. Quite naturally,
then, they don't believe that God made
the choice to become a man and not a
~oman. Unfortunately, no Biblical, rational or historical answer can be given
to those who choose not to believe.
ManyChristian people, however, need
some kind of rational explanation in order to discuss God's Incarnation as a
man with other Christians or with their
feministor "politically correct" friends.
Fortunately, our Orthodox Christian
Churches have experienced
and
preserved some rational theological reasons why only men can be ordained to
the Sacred Ministry. I want to present
three of the most compelling reasons.
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We need to understand them in order to
be faithful to our Biblical Doctrine and
Holy Tradition. We need to believe in
these reasons in order to continue worshipping in the same way Jesus Christ
told our ancestors to worship God for
our salvation. We need to hold fast to
these reasons in order to resist the
devil's unrelenting attempts to destroy
our faith in Christ and the Orthodox
Church He founded.
The first reason for a male priesthood
has to do with the foundation and tradition of the Christian religion. When
Christ was living in human flesh, He
deliberately selected twelve men to be
His Apostles. These men were the beginning of a priesthood of men who
were prepared to follow Him as the ordained leaders of His Church down
through the centuries to this moment.
The Christian churches that chose to remain within the apostolic and catholic
tradition have therefore only ordained
men to be bishops, priests and deacons.
Now, some two thousand years later, in
the supposedly greater wisdom of our
twentieth century, many leaders have
decided that all the Christian churches
should allow the ordination of women.
They claim to know the mind of Christ
in arguing that it was for sociological,
political and economic reasons that
Jesus decided not to select and ordain
women to be among His disciples. The
arrogant presumption of those people
who say that they know whatJesus had
to do or had not to do, hardly deserves
an answer, but we can try to do so anyway. Christ is God and He will do what
He wants to do and when He wants to
do it. God did what He did because
what He does is always right and the
best for us. To argue that Jesus did not
ordain women because women were
not considered worthy enough and
would be a liability to His ministry in a
male-dominated culture is illogical. It
begs the question. After all Christ is God
and He could have brought women into
the apostolic ministry at that time if He
thought it was necessary. He did not
think it was necessary because He chose
not to do it. Instead He honored His Virgin Mother to be the Theotokos, our
God-bearer, thereby elevating her to be
first among the saints. Through St. Mary,
Jesus has raised the status of all women
everywhere and for all time. They were
no longer to be regarded as chattel but
to be treated as being equally precious
as men in the eyes of God. Christ hallowed the state of marriage which was
much abused in those days to the detriment of women.
He taught the spiritual equality of
men and women and blessed that
equality by saying, "for this cause shall
a man leave father and mother, and shall
cleave to his wife and they shall be one
flesh." But while Christ taught that men
and women are equal in their human
nature, they are blessedly and entirely
different in their human function. I intend to say more about their human
function in a moment.
Those people who advocate the ordination of women to the Sacred Ministry
of our Orthodox Church disregard history - both church history and Holy
Tradition - and they misinterpret the
Bible. They want us to believe that the
Bible allows the ordination of women.
While they claim that there is no specific verse in the Bible prohibiting women
from being ordained, we Orthodox
Christians know that you can not argue
justifiably that point from mere scriptural silence. There are many specific
things about which the Bible is silent.
There are many things the Bible does
not explicitly prohibit but which we
know we should not do. It is obvious in
the study of church history that the idea
of female priests never developed in the
religious and spiritual experience of our
Christian ancestors. They struggled
desperately against all those pagan
religions which had a plethora and
panoply of male and female gods and
goddesses. Our Christian ancestors saw
that priestesses were frequently involved in the performance of fertility
rites which glorified sexual deviance
and promiscuity. They knew that such
obsession with sex was destructive of
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�m ralitv and th life and afety of the
human famil . The kne thi because
the\' under to d the Hol
criprures
pr 'claim d b the Hebrew proph~t
and od Him elf throughJe u Chn t.
, hat emu tr member i that while
th Bibl may n t contain aver e pecifi all prohibiting women to be ordained it doe contain much pecific
t a hing about the neces ity for a male
prie thood. There i no indication
hat oe r that any women were part
of the ordained mini try in the time of
the apo tle . There i , however, in the
Bibi
t. Paul' teaching that women
hould not lead in the wor hip of the
church.
In the 1 tter to the Ephesians and
orinthians,
t. Paul peaks of the
ordained man as being a presbyter,
hich means an older man or elder or
ruler. He believe that only men should
lead or rule in the Christian family. He
b lieve that equal rulership with men
would eventually cause confusion in
the human family as well as in the
church by preventing singleness of purpo e in decision-making. There is, however, no argument from St. Paul about
the fact that women have the right to
rule in the political and vocational
order. There have always been queens
and princesses, and now there are
female prime ministers and presidents.
Women are active now in all the profesional vocation and in all the trades
known to mankind. We Christians who
advocate only a male priesthood as
being the only valid apostolic ministry
of the Church do not in any way deny
that women have equal rights and
opportunities to work. We believe that
women hould be paid commensurately with men for their labor and skill. But
certain leaders deprecate the male
prie thood as being a bastion of male
chauvini m and a violation of civil and
equal right for women. onsense! The
Church i not a ecular institution
governed by democratic processes. The
Church i a spiritual organism and not
ju t a ecular organization. She is a
piritual and supernatural monarchy
with God as Her king and supreme
judge. We Orthodox Christians declare
that while men and women are equal in
the eyes of God and under the secular
law, they are very different in their
human nature becau e God has created
them for different functions. A bishop,
prie t and deacon have a pecific function within the family of the Church. To
ordain women to the sacred ministry
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would only confuse and destroy that
function. In terms of human function a
woman can no more be a priest than a
man can be a mother.
What has happened in many protestant churches since the Reformation has
been the supplanting of the doctrine of
Apostolic Succession by the protestant
idea of the priesthood of all believers.
Protestant churches have no problem
with ordaining women because they
believe that all the people in the church
are ministers to one another. But to say
that all people are priests before God is
to deny the apostolic and Biblical teaching that there are certain men in every
time and place who will be selected by
the consent of the people and given
Grace by God to carry out special functions for the Church. God gave this
function to men. Men did not, nor
could they, secure it for themselves.
There is a second reason why we
Orthodox Christians have only a male
priesthood. It rests on the fact that we
have always had a catholic and apostolic understanding of the priesthood and
not just that of a protestant ministry. We
have a priesthood of all believers like the
protestants because we do minister
individually to each other through our
love and prayers and mutual support.
But our Orthodox priesthood goes far
beyond a protestant ministry. We have a
sacerdotal priesthood. Bishops and
priests are not only presbyters as I said
earlier, they are also individually a sacerdos. Sacerdos is a Latin word which
means "an offerer of God's gifts." An
Orthodox priest therefore is one who
offers God's gifts to His people as well as
being set aside as being the people's gift
to God. We believe that God comes to
us in a very special way through the
sacraments. We believe that only a priest
who has been given the authority by the
Church through Christ can administer
those sacraments. Only a priest and a
bishop have the function and the
authority to consecrate the elements of
bread and wine to become the Body
and Blood of Christ. Only the priest and
the bishop have the function and the
authority to bless water and oil in Holy
Baptism and Holy Unction and to sanctify material objects for devotional and
spiritual purposes. Only a priest and a
bishop have the function and the
authority to absolve people from their
sins. Only a priest or bishop who is a
man can exercise this function and
authority because Christ ordained only
men to have this kind of function. No
protestant minister, male or female,
claims or even wants to be a sacerdos
and a part of a sacerdotal ministry.
Now there is a third compelling
reason for the male priesthood. Orthodox Christians
believe that their
bishops, priests and deacons are Ikons
of Christ and therefore must be male
becauseJesus Christ is male. To understand this we must think about what an
Ikon is. An Ikon is a religious symbol
but yet much more than a symbol. It i~
an instrument of Divine reality. It is a
picture and a vision for the eyes which
conveys a spiritual reality to the worshipper. We can say that an Ikon is an
image of the Divine, but we must say at
the same time that an Ikon has no divine
power of its own. That would make an
Ikon an idol and idols belong to pagan
worship. An Ikon has the spiritual function to help us receive into our souls the
spiritual awareness of what it depicts.
For example; when we look at an Ikon
depicting the crucifixion,
the Ikon
helps us to participate more spiritually
in the wonder of Christ's love for us and
the efficacious power of His sacrifice on
the cross. Looking at an Ikon in our
worship is the most direct way we can
visually represent Christ's atoning death
for the forgiveness of our sins. Looking
at an Ikon strengthens the spiritual reality of our worship.
The same thing should happen when
we look at our clergy. When we are at
worship our priest or bishop becomes
an Ikon of Christ. Christ is God but He
is also a fully perfect human man. That
means that a priest, as His Ikon or most
true symbol, must also be a man. A
priest must be male because Jesus is a
man. In the Incarnation God became
man not woman. The male priesthood
is a supernatural concept. In that sense
it is a mystery just as the Incarnation or
Resurrection is a mystery. Reason and
logic can not fully explain it, or define
it, or detract from the truth of it, any
more than you and I can explain it as
being the way of God.
We can say that God has no particular sex, male or female. But in the Revelation of God through Christ, God
chose to become a man because He
wanted to take to Himself a bride which
is the Church, the Family of God. In like
manner, God also chose men to represent Him as the head of the human
Church family. God decided that the
function of consecrating, blessing and
absolving is the role of man to do in our
human existence on earth. Men have
not made this their role. God made it
mens' role. As individuals we believe
God's Word about this or we choose
not to. But as members of the family of
Orthodox Christian Churches we have
no choice. The Church belongs to God
and God has made His cho_ice.God will
do what He wants to do and what He
wants is always right and best for us.
God has chosen and blessed us with a
male priesthood. Let us rejoice and be
glad and thankful for it.
Father Alister Anderson is attached
to Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Bethesda
Maryland.
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THE ORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE
-NEW TESTAMENT AND PSALMS-
It's Here!
I read recently in The Word that the
AntiochianOrthodox Church and the
SyrianOrthodo~ ~hurch are ve:y close
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But how did this all happen? How did
they become separated in the first
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(A number of questions like the
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theApril 1992 issue of The Word. This
reader'squestion raises a number of issues- too many to be addressed at one
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third).
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Recent Developments
Afterrapid progress toward reunion of
the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox
Churchesin the 1960s and the early 1970s,
the pace toward reconciliation seemed to
slowsomewhat, perhaps because of politicalinstabilityin the homelands of the various Oriental Orthodox
churches.
Nevertheless, friendly contacts between
the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian
churches did continue to occur.
For example, from 16 through 21 September 1975, representatives of both
groupsmet in Etchmiadzin, Armenia. The
gathering,initiated by the Commission of
WorldEvangelism of the World Council of
Churches (WCC), and hosted by the
Patriarch-Catholicos of the Armenian
Church, focused on the theme "Confessing Christ Through Liturgical Life." Both
Churches considered the implications of
their common conviction that liturgical
life is central to ecclesiastical life and
shapesthe whole of Christian experience
and witness in the world.
The 1980ssaw a resurgence in dialogue
between the two churches. In December
1985 an official dialogue was held in
Chambesy,Switzerland, at which mutual
:'misunderstandingsand differences in the
interpretation of historical facts" were
challenged.Five such erroneous historical
positionswere noted: (1)that the Council
of Chalcedon condemned Dioscorus; (2)
that_theCouncil of Chalcedon rejected the
Chnstology of St. Cyril of Alexandria; (3)
tha~it was national and ethnic feelings
which drove the non-Chalcedonians to
~reakwith the Byzantine Church; (4) that
he Byzantine Church was a puppet of the
emperor; and (5) that relations between
the Eastern and Oriental churches have
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by Father Theodore Pulcini
always been hostile. It was emphasized, on
the other hand, that the two churches
enjoy a bond in that "they are both
nourished spiritually by the unfathomable
riches of the same ecclesiastical arid patristic tradition."
During the meeting of the Middle East
Council of Churches (MECC) Executive
Committee meeting, hosted by Patriarch
Shenouda at the Anba Bishoy Monastery
outside Cairo from 16 through 19 November 1987, four Eastern and Oriental patriarchs acknowledged that "fundamentally
and essentially we on both sides have
preserved the same faith in our Lord Jesus
Christ in spite of diverse formulations and
resulting controversies." Recognizing that
"ancient controversies and rivalries have
given way to a new era of sincere and
open dialogue and communal brotherhood," they called for restoration of full
communion.
Then, from 20 through 24June 1989,
the Joint Commission of the Theological
Dialogue between the Orthodox Church
and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, involving twenty-three participants from
thirteen countries representing thirteen
churches, gathered at Anba Bishoy Monastery. They approved a long-awaited
common statement of faith expressing the
"common apostolic faith of the undivided
church of the first centuries":
The four adverbs used to qualify the
mystery of the hypostatic union belong to our common tradition without co-mingling or confusion
(asynchytos), without change
(atreptos), without separation
(achoristos), and without division
(adiairetos).Those among us who
speak of two natures in Christ do
not thereby deny their inseparable
indivisible union; those among us
who speak of one united divinehuman nature in Christ do not
thereby deny the continuing dynamic presence in Christ of the divine and human, without change,
without confusion.
As one author observed, in effect this
common statement "put a formal end to
a centuries-old dispute on Christology
which had broken communion between
two families of Eastern churches for 1500
years."
This healing of the Chalcedonian
breach was confirmed a year later, when
the Joint Commission, meeting from 2 3
through 28 September 1990 in Chambesy,
produced a second, more extensive
agreed statement. In it they reviewed their
Christological consensus and called for
the reciprocal lifting of all anathemas and
condemnations. (Each church, the Commission ·recommended, should be left to
decide the manner in which this would be
done within its own jurisdiction.) A number of other practical issues were also considered. Participants recommended:
reciprocal visits (by bishops, priests, and
laypeople) among the various churches,
exchange of students and professors
among theological institutions, joint worship, joint publications designed to explain the histories of the various churches
and their common faith (including Joint
Commission documents), mutual recognition of baptism, bilateral agreements
regarding inter-church marriage and childrearing, revision of instructional materials
to reflect the unity between the two traditions, and programs of education for clergy and laypeople on questions relating to
reunion. Participants also discussed their
relations with the other churches of the
Christian world, their ministry in the
world at large, and their cqmmitment to
evangelization.
An indication that enthusiasm for reunion of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox had spread beyond elite theological
circles to the rank and file of the faithful
was the consultation held by the World
Fellowship of Orthodox Youth (Syndesmos) at the Anba Bishoy Monastery from
20 through 26 May 1991.At this meeting
twenty-five youth leaders from Lebanon,
France, England, Finland, the United
States, India, Syria, Ethiopia, Sweden,
Great Britain, and Australiaexamined how
young people from the two traditions
might work to promote reunion. Their
final document called for making "the
official theological agreed statements an
ecclesial reality" To this end, all Eastern
Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox youth
movements were called to prepare their
members for the imminent reunion
through education, common educational and social activities, and multi-level
cooperation. Syndesmos also resolved to
welcome Oriental Orthodox youth movements and theological schools into full
participation in its programs, to undertake
publication projects to provide information about the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches and the dialogues that led to
discernment of their common faith, and
to organize exchange programs for theological students and teacher .
(to be continued)
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themes. The theme I am fond of encouraging during the
summer months is the Bible and the development of Bible
skills. While the Orthodox Christian Education Commission
(OCEC) will soon have summer programs available, the
inter-denominational Vacation Bible School (VBS) is often
verysound and very useful for Bible centered materials. The
summer is an ideal time to focus our childrens' attention on
what is perhaps the weakest aspect of our Christian Education curriculum - Bible Study and Bible Skills.
Finally, taking up the theme of the last Newsletter, I
would like to remind you that the summer is also an ideal
time for teacher education and program planning for the
new year. The Department of Christian Education plans
meetings at each of the Parish Life Conferences. Any parish or group of parishes seeking more individualized assistance can contact Dr. Boojamra and schedule a local or
regional meeting during July or at the Archdiocese Convention. All these meetings must be arranged, however, before
the end of May.
The summer is indeed a time for recreation. It is to be
used wisely and profitably. The Department of Christian
Education has the personnel, the materials, and the skills
to help you get ready for a new school year. While you are
planning your Christian Education program for the summer,
and the new school year, please do not forget to set aside
October 14-17, 1993, for the Orthodox Teacher Education
Program at the Antiochian Village, whose themes are Family Programming and the Role of Storytelling in Christian
Education. More information will be available on this meeting shortly.
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The following article has been sent in by Fr. George Alberts
in response to a request which the OCEC office issued for programs for laypeople which might be used for teacher certification. Teacher certification has become an important issue as
parishes and even whole dioceses seek to provide a minimum
training in the Orthodox faith and practice for church school
teachers. If you use a certification program, please send us an
outline of its content.
-John L. Boojamra
The adult Christian education program of the Western
Pennsylvania Deanery of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian
Arc_hdiocesewas begun in September 1990. The program is
entitled"Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies." The basis for
the program was taken from an adapted version of a typical
seminary course. We felt that it was necessary to study the
b~sics of the faith and relate it to our people's lives. In doing
this, we focused on the two sources of our Faith: Holy Scriptureand Holy Tradition. The courses were planned accordingly.
Wehave courses in the Old and New Testament as our scripture studies and courses on the Festal Cycle of the Orthodox
Churchfeaturing the iconography of the feasts as well as scripturaland liturgical references; Contemporary Moral Issues facTHE WORD/APRIL 1993
ing the Orthodox; Spirituality and the Eucharist which draw on
the Holy Tradition of the church as well as Holy S_cripture.The
V. Rev. George Alberts and the V. Rev. Jason Del Vitto are the
course instructors.
The program is designed as a three-year certificate granting program. The courses are taught in three-year cycles of two
six-week courses each year. Our course begins in September
and runs from 7:00 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. every Monday evening
for six weeks. We then break until January when we begin another six week session on a different topic. The fee for the
course is $25 a semester. Registration forms are sent to all Orthodox parishes in the Pittsburgh area. We encourage each
church to send at least one person, especially a teacher or
church school director. We also encourage those who are planning to convert to the Orthodox Faith to attend, along with
Church School teachers and all interested individuals.
Anyone may enter at any point and will receive a certificate
after they have completed all of the courses. Those who do not
want a certificate may also attend any one or more of the
courses. The following is a list of courses with a breakdown of
the courses on Contemporary Moral Issues as an example of
how we deal with a topic.
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�Storiesfor Pre-Schoolers
Towarda New Appreciationof Volunteers
by Violet Tomi
by Richard Walsh
seems too difficult. The children will tell you if they don't underAs a church school t~acher of pre-schoolers (3-5 yea_rol?s),
stand. If your story is more suitable for an older group, use the picyou are aware of the energy that comes from thes_esquirming,
tures and retell the story in simpler language as you go along, asklaughing, constantly moving little bundles of energy.The story preing the children questions also.
pared for the children usually gives the main idea of th~ lesson for
YOU ARE A FACILITATOR.You have prepared everything and
each Sunday. If this age group is unable to pay attent1_on
to yo~r
now you are ready to present the story._~e so familiar with the story
lesson, they will miss out on the main idea and al~o hinder their
that you can tell it from memory. A facilitator gets all the materials
peers from hearing the story. By using a few techniques and sugready, presents the story, and helps the children to learn from the
gestions - geared particularly for this age level - that e~courage
activity. He/she does NOT spoon-feed the children with a ready.
good listening, behavior, and conversation, you can direct that
made, step-by-step, word-for-word dialogue. KNOW THE STORY
energy towards good results in your room.
. ..
Generally, pre-schoolers can concentrate on actIvIt1esf~r a BY HEART. Hold the book or pictures to the left, to the right, or in
maximum of ten (10)minutes. Stories should be planned for a time front of you at the children's eye level. Begin the story with an experiod following an activity that allows the children to m_ovea~out citing comment or question. '' I have a nice story today about Jesus.
the room. Expecting this age group to sit for a longer period of time Guess what happened when He went to a city called Jerusalem?
The people were so happy to see Him that they waved palm
is unrealistic and can cause confusion and frustration.
The physical environment (the room) should be ~sed to th~ branches. Who knows what a palm branch looks like? Here is one
most advantage. Can you provide a story rug for the children to sit like the branch in the story. You may each look at it - wait for your
on comfortably? Can you move to another area of the room for the turn - and hold it very carefully.''
As you read, glance at the children to be sure they are listenstory? Where is there the least distraction? Will you sit in chairs or
on the floor? Most children do well if they can sit on the floor in a ing. Children's questions or comments should be answered when
circle. (Important Note: If your group is more than six (6) pre- they are made, on the spot, if they do not interfere with the story.
"That's a good question, Michael. Yes, it is a donkey that Jesus
schoolers, have a helper during story time to plan an activity with
the other half of the group while you tell the story to one group. is riding on." For the inattentive child, you might ask a question like,
Then they can move to the activity while you repeat the story for "Look, Debby, can you find a little boy in this picture?" or "Where
the others.) Remember: the younger the children are, the smaller are the palms, David?" or "What kind of sound does a donkey
the group should be, and the shorter the length of time you should make, Joey?''
YOU ENCOURAGE PROBLEM-SOLVING. Ask the children
expect them to sit quietly.
for their comments that will encourage them to think about the stoAnExample . ..
Let's take the story about Jesus coming into Jerusalem on ry. "Paul, did you think the people were happy or sad to see
Jesus?" or "Annie, do we have palm trees here? Let's look out the
Palm Sunday as an example in planning a lesson. The following
will be general things you can consider when presenting this story window." Questions can help pre-schoolers to think about the story
and by asking the children to tell you the story while you turn the
to pre-schoolers:
YOU ARE A MODEL. What you do, the children will imitate. pages, you will give them a chance to repeat what they have learnSpeak slowly, clearly, and include "Please" and "Thank-you" in ed. Further, by repeating the story, they might think of new quesyour comments and questions. Use the child's name when tions. After the story is finished, leave the book out on a table. Give
responding to each child. For example, "Thank you, John, for be- the children a chance to look at it again in their own time, or to bring
ing such a good listener,'' or ''Please, Susan, let's give Jim a turn their parents in after church to show them the book and story.
to talk." When a child hears his own name spoken, he is apt to be
YOU ARE A FOLLOWER. You can follow the methods and
more attentive.
techniques of the greatest story-teller - Jesus Christ. He was
YOUARE AN INTERACTOR.Show interest in the children's
known to:
questions and comments. "You've seen a donkey before, Mary?
-use many examples
What did he look like?" or "Yes, George, those are big leaves. We
-speak on the listeners' level
call them PALMS. Can you all say that word - PALMS?" En-talk in an informal atmosphere
courage children to ask questions, look at pictures, and make any
-use eye contact
comments they wish about the story. If a child begins monopoliz-ask questions to be sure His ideas were understood andto
ing the time you can say, "Thank you, Peter,for sharing with us, involve His listeners
but now it's Mary's turn to tell us something about the donkey.''
-listen to questions and comments posed by His listeners
YOU ARE ENTHUSIASTIC.Show concern, caring, and en-answer all questions simply and truthfully
thusiasm in telling your story. Encourage the children to help figFollow Christ's example, and ask for His help. Add a hug, a pat
ure out the pictures and story. "Why are all the people holding on the shoulder, a smile, and a loving reply - OFTEN.
palm branches?" "Who is the person in white on the donkey?" "I
YOU ARE IMPORTANT.You are the link to the Church anda
wonder what will happen next. Let's turn the page and see . . ." good experience for the child who leaves his parents to cometo
Use a variety of inflection and tone in your voice and look at the chil- your room. What you do and say counts and will be remembered.
dren's faces.
Little children don't remember because they are too young? Non·
YOU ARE AN ATTENTION-GETTER.If the children seem to sense! We can all think back to the pleasant early experiencesof
be drifting, quickly review the situation. Do you need more en- our lives. Make the most of the time you have with these little ones.
thusiasm in your voice? Is the story too long? Are you losing eye Prepare, present, and expect good results. You are God's giftto
contact with the children? Using words that are too large or com- them ... and they are God's gift to you. The best way to "send
plicated, story plots that are too distracting and involved, or stories them on their way" to meet Christ is to walk with them!
that have too many details are confusing to children. A preschool
child cannot understand words like "journey," "transportation"
• -from the NEWSLETTER of the DRE Romanian Orthodox
"truth," or "freedom." Ask questions about vocabulary whi~h Episcopate of OCA. Spring, 1979.
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j
It's getting tight. At the same time as our parishes are working toward collaborative leadership and an expanded role for
lay community members, the PO?I of volunteers is beginning
to dwindle. Persons who could fill our volunteer ranks today
face many demands on their time. Double-income families and
single-parent families are becoming the norm. People are trying to balance their uncommitted hours between quality time
with their families and the fitful pursuit of leisure. Also, competition for volunteers' hours is heightening from other community organizations such as public schools, social service agencies, and hospitals. We can expect that it will become increasingly more difficult to find and keep capable volunteers in our
parishes. This squeeze, if left unaddressed, will mean a gradual lessening in the number and quality of ministerial options our
parishes can offer. That will hurt.
The Needs of Volunteers
Parish professionals have been assuming that a more than
adequate reserve of volunteers exists-volunteers
capable of
filling in around the efforts of professional staff members - and
that these volunteers provide an inexpensive ministerial alternative. But in reality, as mentioned above, willing and capable
volunteers are hard to find and even harder to keep working in
our parishes, and not surprisingly, the person who would make
the best volunteers have the most options on how to commit
their time.
Fresh insight into the nature of ministry keeps us mindful
that no one fills in around the efforts of another, because all of
the baptized have gifts unique to themselves. Parish leaders
are beginning to realize that volunteers, far from being an inexpensive resource for getting the work done, will need to be
educated, enabled, and developed and that this will be a timeconsuming and costly process. It is hoped that a new attitude
toward volunteerism in our parishes will generate a new appreciation of the distinct value of each person's gifts and a rich
response to what motivates volunteers' efforts. In parishes with
this attitude, leaders take on a new role.
The Role of Parish leadership
Tremendous growth in parish leadership has taken place
in recent years. In previous times, priests, religious, and a few
laypeople working professionally in parish ministry had been
set apart, not only by their special roles but also by their specific
training. This distinction left a deep and definite gap between
those who lead and those who were led. But today, in the midst
of rapid social change -the rising tide of affluence, the wider
availability of higher education, the expansion of professional social services - this gap has become very shallow and
much less definite. The distinction between the leaders and
those being led is becoming blurred. Leaders are becoming effective not only because of their personal intellectual strength
and skill but also because of their ability to share this strength
and skill with others. Those who would lead the Church will see
the care and development of their working force as their primary mission.
Fostering Motivations
The word volunteer is defined as a person who contributes
services without financial remuneration. That is true; it is rare
i~deed to find anyone serving in the Church who has a financial motivation. Still, people do work for something, and understanding what that something is makes it possible for leaders
to serve their volunteer work force. The following are some of
the motivators for volunteers:
1) enjoying the work
THE WORD/APRIL 1993
2) cultivating relationships
3) being recognized
4) seeing the work from a faith perspective
5) receiving perks
Each of these motivators is already present in a successful volunteer force. Obstacles to these key motivations keep our
volunteers from sharing their gifts and our parishes from realizing their potential for clearly proclaiming the gospel.
Enjoying the Work
To enjoy the work that needs to be done in the parish - be
it as a religion teacher, a lector, or a parish council president
- people need a clear definition of the work, adequate preparation for it, and continued development of the skills needed
to carry it out. A clear definition of the work allows people the
freedom of knowing what is expected of them, where their
responsibility begins and where it ends. Preparation to undertake the work offers people the understanding and skills they
will need to do the work entrusted to them and enables them
to find the resources that they will need to do their work well.
Continued development of the workers' skills provides individuals and groups with the opportunity to review progress, to learn
from mistakes, to gather resources, and to take a larger part in
defining their work. People who enjoy their work make parishes
fruitful and full of possibilities.
The obstacles to enjoying one's work are hassles - those
little problems, frustrations, and blind spots that rob the work
of its joy. Although some hassles are unavoidable, the vast
majority of them can be left behind. Many of you may have had
hassles like the following in your parish, but note what simple
solutions all of them have: The catechist who made an unapproved expenditure did not know where his responsibility ended. That lector who butchered the word may not have known
that a pronunciation guide is in the sacristy. The parish council president who resigned midyear might simply have needed someone to tell her that we move forward, knowing some
individuals will never be satisfied.
Our volunteers deserve the best training and development
our resources can afford. Removing hassles - wherever they
show themselves - makes a clear statement of support for the
efforts of volunteers and leaves the way clear for people to enjoy the work to be done.
Cultivating Relationships
Volunteers also find motivation in the people with whom
they work. Volunteers are people who value relationships and
involvement; we should make the opportunities for these as
available as possible. Directories, name tags, introductions encourage people to build relationships. Make sure that meetings include time for socialization and that the newcomers receive an extra bit of attention.
A bit of pastoral wisdom states that the Eucharist becomes
more central to the life of a Christian community each time that
people share an ordinary meal. A meal can provide groups with
needed incentive to keep community buildings as part of their
task. All work and no play makes for bad volunteers, angry
spouses, and jealous children. Families are the volunteers'
volunteers, and they deserve some measure of resonse to their
contribution, such as special times and dinners that include the
families.
Possibly the most important relationship to be built and developed are those between staff and volunteers. Quite often
volunteers are more attracted to the staff person working in a
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given area than to the work itself. Staff ~em~ers n~rtu~e_volunteers with time and presence. As relat1onshIpsbuild, 1t1spossible for the vision of the work to be shared, and in that sharing process volunteers will naturally want a l_argerrole in shaping the work itself. This desire is the foundation of true collaboration and real vitality.
The primary obstacle to collaboration is isolation. One can
become rigidly task centered, seeing people not for who they
are but for what they do. Isolation is characterized by people
who share space but not life; individuals each have a piece of
the work, but they are not doing it together. Isolation is uncomfortable and will be fought covertly by cliques, gossip, and dependence. It is a much brighter alternative to overtly choose for
collaboration and its benefits.
Being Recognized
Recognition is the most inexpensive form of motivation.
Volunteers do not seek recognition, but they do appreciate the
gift when it is given by staff members and the community.
Recognition can be quite general - staff presence at special
events, names mentioned in the parish bulletin or newsletter,
announcements in local papers, certificates and awards- or
very specific - personal thank-you notes, phone calls, visits.
Recognition assures people that they are doing fine work, that
they are part of a bigger picture, and that they do count. Moreover,by recognizing volunteers, we teach the community about
the work of the parish and how it gets done, and we remind the
entire community that all of the parishioners have a responsibility to contribute their gifts. In effect, we carry out an ongoing volunteer recruitment campaign. Thank you is just about
the most powerful phrase we can use, not only in prayer but
also in the building up of the Kingdom. The obstacle to recognition would be a policy of anonymity, usually supported by the
premise that someone will be forgotten and therefore hurt. Go
ahead and recognize your workers. If someone is forgotten,
remember that the second most powerful phrase in prayer and
in Kingdom building is I am sorry. Recognition is revitalizing.
Seeing the Work from a Faith Perspective
Leaders need to support one another and their volunteers
by remembering the great importance of the work done in our
parishes. We are living the prayer the Master gave us, ''thy will
be done, thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven." No
~ork is more important and no motivation is higher than knowing that we are taking an active part in God's plan of salvation.
Our efforts accomplish more than we can see, hear, or understand. The spiritual dimension of our work needs always to be
emphasized in prayer and reflection. It assures that we will be
constantly refreshed in spirit. The obstacle to knowing the importance of our work is a pervasive sense of the mundane: falling into the grind of a maintenance pattern. Prayer infuses life
into the work of the Church and allows the Lord to remind us
of God's favor.
Receiving Perks
Perks, or perquisites, are the expected and unexpected
privileges that remind volunteers that their contributions are
appreciated by the parish. Christmas parties, appreciation dinners, coffee and cake or wine and cheese, a luncheon with a
speaker - these are all perks that people come to value. The
possibilities for offering perks to volunteers that benefit all involved are many:
• parish sponsorship of volunteers' involvement in workshops and seminars (these expenses directly increase the
quality of the volunteers' gift of service to the parish)
• parish sponsorship of continuing education on the collegiate and graduate level and at regional and national
ministerial gatherings
• establishment of new projects and experiments
The obstacle to such perks tend to be shortsightedness. In
an effort to save a few dollars today, we may be failing to see
the long-range benefits of investing in our volunteers. Their
skills are the parish's skills; their happiness is the parish's happiness; their future involvement is the hope of tomorrow.
Summary
We are developing a new appreciation of our volunteers,
and the continued progress of this revelation is vital. As leaders grow in their role of developing leadership in others, motivation will be a key factor. Parish staff members will help determine whether volunteers enjoy their work or flee from hassles,
seek collaboration or work in isolation, garner recognition or
serve in anonymity. The choices of the parish will lead to volunteers with a faith perspective on their wo"rk of volunteers
bogged down in a sense of the mundane, to volunteers encouraged by perks or hindered by the staff's shortsightedness.
It is the responsibility of those working with volunteers in today's parishes to begin making the difference.
Richard Walsh is director of religious education at Saint
James the Apostle Catholic Church, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
AdultChristianEducationInstitute
YEAR ONE -
SEMESTER 1: FESTAL CYCLE OF
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
SEMESTER 2: NEW TESTAMENT
INTRODUCTION
YEAR TWO SEMESTER 3: CONTEMPORARY
MORAL ISSUES FACING THE
ORTHODOX
SEMESTER 4: OLD TESTAMENT
INTRODUCTION
YEAR THREE - SEMESTER 5: SPIRITUALITY
SEMESTER 6: THE EUCHARIST
(Continued from Page 17)
Contemporary Moral Issues - Week One -An Introduction to Understanding Contemporary Moral Issues; Week Two
- Death, Dying and Euthanasia; Week Three - Abortion;
~eek Four-_- Suicide; Week Five - Sexuality and AIDS: Week
Six - Medical Issues. Reference books used for this course
are Contemporary Moral Issues by Fr. Stanley Harakas and the
~etreat and Study Guide by Fr. George Alberts which is published and available through the bookstore of the Antiochian
Arch~iocese _(358Mountain Rd., Englewood, NJ 07631)and
contains outlines and resource material used in most of the
courses.
The DEPARTMENTOF CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONis published quarter! du • th
diocese. Volumes 1:1 t~r?ugh 14:2 w~re published solely by this Depart~en~'.~ie t~school year by the Department of Christian Education, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Arch·
the Department of Religious Education of the Orthodox Church in America W'th V r~e year~ 1984-1987,Volumes 1:1 through 3:4, were published jointly by this Department and
correspondence to Dr. John L. Boojamra, 4 Evergreen Place, Demarest, NJ 0;627.o ume 17.3 it resumed sole publication by the DCE of the Antiochian Archdiocese. Direct all
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A
ORDAINED:
STEPHEN WALINSKI, to the
Diaconate
on February
3,
1993, and to the Priesthood on
February 4, 1993, and assigned
to the pastorate at St. Vincent of
Lerins Church
in Omaha,
Nebraska.
STEPHAN SWEDBERG, to the Diaconate on February 4, 1993, and assigned to the St. Vincent of Lerins
Church in Omaha, NE.
FADI AOUFAN, to the Diaconate- on
February 27, 1993, and assigned to the
Church of the Redeemer in Los Altos
Hills, California.
ELEVATED:
The Priest KURT SPEIER, pastor of St.
Athanasius Church in Goleta, California, to the dignity of Archpriest, onJanuary 17, 1993.
ASSIGNED:
The Archpriest MICHAEL KHOURY,
former pastor of Virgin Mary Church in
Yonkers, New York, and on a leave of absence, to the pastorate of St. George
Church in Albany, NY, effective immediately.
APPOINTED:
EDWARD KASSAB, of St. George
Church in Detroit, MI, and St. Philip
Church in Davie, FL, as an honorary
member of the Archdiocese Board of
Trustees.
GEORGE O.JOSEPH, of St. George Cathedral of Toledo, Ohio, to the Archdiocese Board of Trustees effective immediately.
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Donation~ for THE WORD, gratefully received:
Charles and Arlene Marge
Somerville, MA
$
2 5. 00
Selma, Bob & Franklin Naifeh
Oklahoma City, OK
(in memory of Rose &
Zeak Naifeh)
2 00. 00
Bessie J. Caley
Canton, OH
(for the good health of her
twin great grandchildren)
5.00
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Wilkes-Barre PA
(in memory ~f Elias Hakim) 20.00
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Houston, TX
20.00
Edward & Beatrice Lotfy
Westboro MA
20.00
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W. Roxbury, MA
100. 00
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Whittier, CA
Gladys H. Mena
Glendale, CA
Joyce Serventi
Wayne, NJ
10.00
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25.00
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Laham
Chestnut Hill, MA
1,000.00
James Rihbany
Boston, MA
50.00
Gaby Mouacdie
Bros ard, Quebec
50.00
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�received after this date will not be
considered.)
Carmel Boo amra
5.
The Department of Convention and
25.00
Otta a, Ontario
Conference Planning Chairman will
Jean ndeel
visit each potential hotel property to
Brooklyn
Y
achieve the following:
(in memory of Omar K. Andeel
• Approve site
&Jameel]. Farhood)
100.00
• Negotiate final parameters of bid
F. e rallah
20.00
to be presented to the ArchdioOttawa Ontario
cese General Assembly.
John and Kathleen Callesen
10.00
6.
Acceptable
bids are presented to the
Irving, TX
DONATIONS FROM ORGANIZATIONS:
General Assembly at the ArchdioceMissions & Evang.,
san Convention four years prior to
AEOM Goleta, CA
25.00
the convention being bid.
SE Region,
Archbishop Michael
Any questions pertaining
to the
100.00
Fellowship of St. John
Memorial Fund
above convention
bid procedures
SW Region,
100.00 should be directed to the Department of
as of Feb. 26, 1993
Fellowship of St. John
Convention and Conference Planning
$ St. Michael Ladies,
Chairman.
100.00
7,650
NV - Las Vegas
PARI HE
Respectfully Submitted,
150.00
14,413
Teen
SOYO,
CAN-AM
Region
Toledo, Ohio Memorials
V.
Rev.
Gabriel
M. Ashie, Chairman
100.00
6,395 Teen SOYO, Eastern Region
Individuals
Procedures above prepared by
150.00
725
Teen SOYO, NAC
Organizations
David Slaman
725.00
29,183
TOTAL
(All the above is subject to the approval of the Metropolitan
and the
DO ATIO S FROM PARISHES:
Department of Conventions Board of Trustees of the Archdiocese.)
AK- Eagle River, St. John
200.00
& Conference Planning
CA- Garden Grove, St. Luke 500.00
V. Rev. Gabriel M. Ashie, Chairman
Thirteen New Graduates
DC- Washington, St. George 500.00
13261 Dunklee Avenue
FL- Jacksonville, St. George 300.00
of St. Stephen's Studies
Garden Grove, CA 92640
FLilver Springs, St. Basil
50.00
Metropolitan PHILIP has announced
(714) 971-2244
K - Wichita, St. George
1000.00
the graduation of thirteen more stuPROCEDURES
FOR
MA- Worcester, St. George
500.00
dents in the latest class of St. Stephen's
ARCHDIOCESE CONVENTION
MI- Detroit, St. George
500.00
Course of Studies in Orthodox TheoloBIDDING
M -W. St. Paul, St. George
100.00
gy. The largest and most comprehen1. It must be understood that this procM - Vicksburg, St. George
250.00
sive correspondence
course in the
ess
should
begin
five
(5)
years
prior
J- Bergenfield, St. Anthony 200.00
Western
World,
St.
Stephen's
Studies
to the convention date. Any parish
V- Las Vega , St. Michael
550.00
currently
has
enrolled
13
5
students,
wishing to bid must contact the
Y- Brooklyn, St. Nicholas
100.00
Archdiocese office (Englewood, NJ) working in the various tracts of studies.
Y- Geneva, St. Michael
500.00
to obtain permission to pursue a bid. Although there are three such tracts,
Y. Glen Falls, St. George 1000.00
Y- yracuse, St. Elias
300.00 2. Chairman of the Department of geared for the varied educational backConvention and Conference Plan- ground of the student, His Eminence
OH-Canton, Holy Cross
100.00
has just announced
that for all Anning should, in writing, be informed
OH-Sylvania, St. Elias
300.00
tiochian
students
the
regular
three year
of
the
parish's
intentions.
At
this
PAew Kensington,
time, an updated Convention Plan- course will be required for ordination to
St. George
200.00
ning Manual will be mailed by the the Holy Diaconate. The areas of c~nPA- Greensburg, St. Michael 500.00
Chairman to the prospective host centration in this program are in scrip7650.00
ture, liturgics, patristics, history, pastoral
parish.
3. Prospective host parish should ap- and spirituality studies. Each follo~s a
DO ATIO S FROM INDIVIDUALS
proach hotel properties being con- syllabus of guided reading, examinaAntakli, Mr. & Mrs. Nicola
600.00
sidered and secure a first option sta- tions and field projects in various setBethoney, Robert & Elizabeth 500.00
tus on required sleeping rooms and tings.
Cohlmia, ancy
100.00
This year's graduates include seven
function space. No second option
Corey, Fr. George & Laila
50.00
students
in the three year program:
hotel properties will be considered.
David, Fr. Samuel &Janet
25.00
Michael
Bassett
of Owosso, Ml; Dn.
4.
Formal
bid
with
hotel
proposals
are
Ebeling, Paul P.
25.00
to be submitted to the Chairman of Michael Clancy of Parkersburg, W.VA;
Farha, Mr. & Mrs. William F.
200.00
the Department of Convention and David Fritz of Wilkes-Barre, PA;Joseph
Freije, Evon
50.00
Conference Planning by no later Mackoul of Holden, MA; Donald Peters
George, Delore F.
10.00
than four and one half (4 ½) years of Worcester, MA; Rev. David Randolp~
Gillqui t, Fr. Peter & Marilyn
10.00
0
prior to the convention date being_ of Tuares, FL; and Rev. James Rohrer
Jo eph, Mr. & Mrs. George,
Urbana,
OH.
The
other
six
graduates
bid for (i.e., if the 1997 convention is
Mr. 0 car, Mrs. Helen
being bid, the bid proposals must be finished the Alternate Program for those
2000.00
& Richard, Jr.
received by March 1, 1993. Any bids holding M.Div. degrees from non100.00
Mabbett, Arthur & Beverly
Massad, Dr. Paul & Zinia
Meena, Fr. James & Ruth
Nassar, Hafiz &Julia
Nassar, George & Elsie
Newey, Sam & Julienne
Rihbany, James
Sayfie, Dr. Eugene & Susan
Shaheen, Janet E.
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500.00
50.00
100.00
1000.00
500.00
50.00
500.00
25.00
6395.00
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Orthodox schools: Rev. David Mustian,
a mission pastor; David Patton of Chula
Vista, CA; Rev. David Shank of Seattle,
WA;Rev.Seraphim Stephens of Virginia
Beach, VA;Wyatt Sutherland of Greensville, SC; and Mark Karban of Perkinsville, VT.
Although there are students studying
in the program who reside in countries
outside North America (especially in
South Africa, Europe and Australia), all
the current graduates are from the United States and are members of the Antiochian Archdiocese, the Greek Archdiocese or the OCA.
Along with the certificate of graduation, His Eminence wrote a special letter to each graduating student congratulating each on the completion of
the program.
Applications and catalogs can be acquired by writing to the Antiochian
Archdiocese, 358 Mountain Road, Englewood, NJ 07631, Attention:
St.
Stephen's Course of Studies.
Orthodox Christian
Education Commission
The Board of Trustees of the Orthodox Christian Education Commission
held its annual meeting onJanuary 22,
1993at St. Anthony's Orthodox Church
in Bergenfield, NJ. Dr. John Boojamra
delivered the greetings of Metropolitan
PHILIP, president of the commission.
The OCEC, which is the educational
agency of the Standing Conference of
Orthodox Bishops in America (SCOBA),
publishes a complete curriculum for
church schools, as well as supplementary materials for adult education and
home use. Newly appointed to the
Trustees and representing the Serbian
Orthodox Diocese of New Gracanica,
Fr.Thomas Kazich, an old friend of the
OCEC,was welcomed back after twelve
years of service in Australia. Metropolitan Theodosius has appointed Dr. Constance Tarasar, head of the newly organized Family Unit in the Orthodox
Church in America as the OCA Trustee.
The Board of Trustees heard reports
from all the departments and received
Withdeep regret the resignation of Mrs.
Anita Lazar as chairman of the Curriculum Department. The Board appointed
Fr.Don Freude chairman of the Curriculum Department.
The Curriculum
~epartment will produce two new
Items in the Spring, 1993: a Summer
School Program and a thirty page teen
st udy program entitled "Film and
THEWORD/APRIL 1993
Values." The budget for OCEC for 1993,
submitted by Fr. Paul Kucynda, Treasurer, was approved at $146,000. Fr. Don
Freude, the new Curriculum Department Chairman, promised to continue
with the complete revision of the OCEC
curriculum which had been initiated by
Mrs. Lazar. Dr. Boojamra urged the various trustees to make use of the ancillary
services of the OCEC, such as its comprehensive teacher training program.
He also pointed out that the OCEC will
develop education programs for small
parishes, as well as for home schooling,
both of which are becoming a prominent feature in Orthodox life in North
America. The Board of Trustees elected
the following officers for 1993: Dr.John
Boojamra, Chairman; Fr. Paul Kucynda,
Treasurer; Fr. Dan Daly, Recording
Secretary; Fr. Alexander Warnecke,
Bookstore Manager; and Eleana Silk,
Corresponding Secretary. For further information regarding the OCEC and its
work, please contact the chairman, Dr.
John L. Boojamra (201) 768-7966. Catalogs are available.
Antiochian Village Camp
Earns ACA Accredited
Camp Status
BOLIVAR, PENNSYLVANIA- The
American Camping Association (ACA)
announced recently that Antiochian
Village Camp has received ACA Accredited Camp status for 1993.
''An independent evaluation by camp
experts is very important," emphasized
Dr. Margery Scanlin, Director of ACN.s
standards program. "By being ACA accredited, Antiochian Village Camp
demonstrates that they care about their
campers and comply with the highest
quality standards designed specifically
for camps."
"Parents expect their children to attend accredited schools. They also deserve a camp experience that is reviewed and accredited by an expert, independent organization," stated Scanlin.
''ACAaccreditation is very important
to our camp," said Archpriest Joseph
Purpura, Camp Director. "While the
program is strictly voluntary, we owe it
to our campers and parents to have the
best operation that we possibly can.
ACA accreditation demonstrates our
commitment to quality camp programming.''
Antiochian Village Camp was found-_
ed in 1978 and is located near Ligonier.
The camp is in operation from June to
August and offers sessions lasting from
1 week to 2 weeks. For more information, parents can contact the camp at
(412) 238-9565.
The American Camping Association
is the only independent accrediting organization reviewing camp operations
in the country. Their nationallyrecognized standards program focuses
primarily on the program quality and
health and safety aspects of a camp's
operation. The standards are continually reviewed, refined and updated.
The accreditation process is quite
comprehensive and thorough. Currently, ACA accreditation is held by 25 percent of day and resident camps.
At least once every three years, two
or more trained camp professionals, not
affiliated with the camp seeking accreditation, review the camp's operations and procedures while the camp is
in session.
The American Camping Association,
founded in 1910, is a 5,000-member
not-for-profit organization committed
to the continuing values and benefits
the camp experience offers. Its membership encompasses all segments of
the camp movement including nonprofit agencies, independent operations, religiously-affiliated organizations
and public-municipal agencies.
AmericanJewish, Christian
and Muslim Leaders Return
from First Tri-Faith Visit
to Middle East; Urge More
Active United States Role
in the Peace Process
From November 29 to December 11,
1992 twenty-four American Jewish,
Christian and Muslim leaders made the
first tri-faith visit to Israel, the West
Bank, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. They
returned encouraged by the possibility
for peace, warning of the dangers if
there is not progress in the negotiations
soon, and urging the United States to
play a more active role in the Peace
Process.
The U.S. Interreligious Delegation
met with Arab and Israeli religious leaders, scholars, journalists, lawyers, ordinary citizens, and with leaders of all the
parties in the negotiations, including
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt,
Secretary General Dr. Ahmed Esmat
Abdel-Meguid of the Arab League, Foreign Minister Kamal Abu Jaber of Jordan, Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa
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�a joint council, consisting of eight local
During the next several weeks the Inlaymen and six clergy, required under
of yria Pale tinian leaders Faisal Husterreligious Delegation pla?s to 'meet
eini and abil haath, and Deputy For- members of President Clinton s ad- Jordanian law. The group, claiming to
eign ini ter Yo i Beilin and Knesset ministration, as well as senior Sta~e represent a majority of Orthodox Christians in the territories, also accused the
m mb r of I rael.
Department officials and key leaders m
Patriarchate of conducting land deals
Th Re erendJoan Brown Campbell, the Congress. The U.S. Interreligious
n ral ecretar of the ational Counwhich are against Palestinian interests
Committee for Peace, which arranged
cil of Churche
aid, "We were told
refusing to promote Palestinian clergy~
this trip to the Middle East, represents
again and again that peace is the only
men, and neglecting local schools and
more than 1500 American Jewish,
option ofl rael, the Arab states and the
churches.
Christian and Muslim leaders. Founded
Pale tinian and that without a more acIn an interview following the press
in 1987, the Committee works to enti e .. role in the Peace Process this
conference,
Diodorus, patriarch since
courage mutual understanding among
hi tori opportunity for peace could be
1981,
told
the
Post: "We respect JordaChristians, Jews and Muslims, and to
nian
law,
but
no
one ever suggested immi ed."
mobilize an interreligious climate of
According to Albert Vorspan, Senior
plementing
the
law.
The first we heard
public support for an active and creative
ic Pre ident (Emeritus) of the Union
of
this
claim
was
from
the newspaper."
United States role for peace in the Midof American Hebrew Congregations,
He
said
the
council
had
been discon"The nited tates made an historic dle East. The committee includes
tinued
in
1967
because
"Jerusalem
and
contribution by initiating the Peace Metropolitan PHILIP and the V. Rev. the West Bank became occupied, and
George
S.
Corey
of
the
Antiochian
OrProce s; but carrying this fragile underno one had come to consider the implitaking to a ucces ful conclusion will re- thodox Archdiocese.
cations of such regulations.''
quire inten e, creative and active enDiodorus dismissed the title ''Arab
gagement by the United States in the Greek Patriarch Rejects Arab Orthodox" as an invention of "people
coming months to bridge the conflicts Attempt to Palestinize Church who never entered a church,"' and who
which inevitably arise."
number no more than 10 % of the
by Jon Immanuel
'A a result of this extraordinary trip,"
30,000 Orthodox Christians in JerusaHaim Shapiro
aid Dr. Mian Ashraf, President of the
lem
and the territories.
Greek Spiritual supremacy will be
ew England Islamic Center, "we are
"This patriarchate has a history since
maintained
in
the
face
of
calls
to
Arabize
pledged to work together to urge that
135 AD. Every day we find archeologiMiddle East peace be a high priority of the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Greek cal excavations, and all the inscriptions
the new Administration and Congress." Orthodox Church, Patriarch Diodorus
are written in Greek. That proves the
I said last Wednesday.
Orthodox RabbiJoseph Ehrenkranz
spiritual authority was Greek," he said.
The
previous
day,
a
group
of
Palestinsaid, "I am absolutely persuaded that all
"We don't know [the committee's] moian
members
of
the
church
launched
a
of the parties genuinely need peace and
tives,
but they are not religious."
campaign to Arabize the Patriarchate,
want peace, but I'm equally persuaded
In response to the Patriarch's statewhich
they
accused
of
acting
against
they are incapable of achieving it withments, the committee said it had letters
out an active, strong U.S. role, like the Palestinian national interests.
and documents to back up its charges
Calling themselves the. Arab Orthoone President Carter played with Israel
dox Initiative Committee, they held a that in 1967 and 1981 the re-establishand Egypt."
ment of the joint council was raised
According to Fr. Raymond Helmick, press conference and issued a statement
with the former patriarch and with the
saying
that
they
"regard
the
Orthodox
.J.,who represented the United States
Catholic Conference on the trip, "The issue as part of the national and just prime minister of Jordan.
Disputing claims of the Greek spiriturecent assassinations by Palestinian ex- cause of the Arab Palestinian people.''
al
heritage
of the church, Ya'acoub alThe
previous
week
three
members
of
tremi ts opposed to the Peace Process
and the deportation of 400 Palestinians the committee visited Amman and met Yousef, a committee member, said:
by the Israeli government underline the with government ministers and lay Or- "from the year 400 to 1534, almost all
fragility of the Peace Process, the thodox leaders to press their case patriarchs were Arab. The Ottomans
wanted to de-Arabize the area for politdangers during this time of transition in against Diodorus.
They accused the partriarch of keep- ical reasons, and since then the patriU. . leadership, and the urgent need for
President Clinton to signal U.S.determi- ing lay Palestinian Orthodox out of the archs have been Greek."
The highest-ranking Palestinian in
nation to engage more actively in help- church's budget decisions, and thwartthe Jerusalem Patriarchate was Arching the parties reach a negotiated agree- ing the promotion of local Palestinian
clergy, but their main purpose was po- bishop Simeon, who died in Moscow in
ment."
1982 undet mysterious circumstances.
litical.
Ahmad El-Hindi, a PalestinianBut the hierarchy is entirely Greek.
American Muslim participant said, "U.S.
"We are trying to Arabize the Church
Many of the lands leased or sold to Ishelp is needed not only to encourage
in the long term. We are the only patrithe compromises necessary for peace, archate among seven in the world in raelis have particularly jarred Palestinian
but also to focus on the tremendous
which the patriarch is not a local citi- sensitivities, includingJaffa land sold to
positive potential for all peoples which zen," Marwan Toubasi, a Ramallah phar- developers they say contains an 1~
peace will create. I believe peace be- macist, told the Post. Toubasi says the Orthodox cemetery, the St. Johns
tween the Palestinian people, Israel and name "Greek Orthodox" is a misnomer
Hospice in Jerusalem's Old City, and
Arab states will be the dawn of a new preferring to speak of ''Arab Orthodox_,: land near the Mar Elias Monastery fora
awareness of our common Abrahamic
The group charged that, since 1967, road to the new Givat Hamatos mobile
heritage."
home site, that houses new immigrants.
the Patriarchate had refused to convene
°
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THE WORD/APRIL 1993
Diodorus has denied complicity in
the St. John's sale, and said the Patriarchate was fighting the municipality in
court over the land near Mar Elias. The
committee claims the file was closed.
_Arc?bishop Timothy, his spokesman,
said D1odorus had spent more time and
money on local Palestinian needs than
any recent patriarch, and that it was perfectly reasonable to lease or sell property to raise money for community purposes. Oerusalem Po t, 9/19/92).
International Orthodox Christian Charities
~
March, 1992-February 15, 1993
IOCC
Analysis of Unrestricted Funds
Donor Category
Amount
Unsolicited
14,790
SCOBA
40,000
Greek Orthodox Churches
2,667
Greek Orthodox Organizations
26,325
Greek Orthodox Individual
$10M
40,000
Greek Orthodox Individual
$IM
26,500
$IM
Greek Orthodox Individual
3,509
Greek Leadership 100
100,000
Orthodox Church of America (OCA)
2,831
OCA Organizations
400
$IM
OCA Individual
1,000
$IM
OCA Individual
320
Serbian Orthodox Churches
45,550
Serbian Orthodox Individual
$1M
1,000
Serbian Orthodox Individual
$IM
2,155
Antiochian Orthodox Churches
100,100
Antiochian Individual
$10M
10,000
Antiochian Individual
$IM
17,000
Antiochian Individual
$1M
1,700
Patriarchal Russian Orthodox
1,300
Foundations/Corporations
29,585
Alternative Giving
9,562
Bank Interest
233
Total Unrestricted
476,527
IOCC - March, 1992-February 15, 1993
Amount
Category
Unrestricted
476,527
Restricted
525,047
Total
1,001,574
Analysis of Revenues
Pct.
3.10%
8.39%
0.56%
5.52%
8.39%
5.56%
0.74%
20.99%
0.59%
0.08%
0.21%
0.07%
9.56%
0.21%
0.45%
21.01%
2.10%
3.57%
0.36%
0.27%
6.21%
2.01%
0.05%
100.00%
Brothers Brother USDA Program
Serbian Fund
~Egyptian
Fund
Russian Fund
_Somalian Fund
Albanian Fund
_Total Restricted
THE WORD/APRIL 1993
Amount
100,196
63,500
359,324
397
500
1,015
115
525,047
Jurisdiction
Unsolicited
SCOBA
Amount
14,790
40,000
Pct.
3.10%
8.39%
Greek
199,001
41.76%
OCA
I
4,551
0.96%
Serbian
I
48,705
10.22%
128,800
1,300
29,585
9,562
233
476,527
27.03%
0.27%
6.21%
2.01%
0.05%
100.00%
Antiochian
Russian Patriarchal
Corporations
Alternative Giving
Bank Interest
Total Unrestricted
Analysis of Revenues
Pct.
47.58%
52.42%
Analysis of Restricted Cash by Funds
Fund
World Learning Grant
Cash
Pct.
19.08%
12.09%
68.44%
0.08%
0.10%
0.19%
0.02%
Cash
Donations to IOCC
should be made directly
to the:
ANTIOCHIAN ARCHDIOCESE
358 MOUNTAIN ROAD
ENGLEWOOD, NJ 07631
earmarked ''IOCC''
100.00%
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�LIFESTYLES
X by John David Powell
ST. NICHOLASCAMPAPPLICATION
CAMPERAPPLICATION
''Evil is Everywhere''
uring Orthodox church services
on the unday, Monday and
Tuesday before Easter, there is a
pas age that gives me the willies. It implore God to ' heap more evils" on his
ervant . It's not aid once; it's said lots of
time.
I'm not ure I like this idea. It may serve
as a reminder that faith is strengthened
through trials, but I could do without a
econd heaping helping of the bad stuff.
God, as u ual, did not consult me and,
therefore, has hi own ideas on this. As a
r ult, the Big E is everywhere. A recent
unday newspaper provided the following examples:
-A Texasman is accused of intentionally putting glass fragments in his infant
son's baby food;
-A Louisianaman admits to numerous
exual offensesagainst three teen-agegirls;
-A orth Carolinaday-care operator is
convicted of 99 counts of sexual abuse of
children who attended his facility; and
-A Louisianajury recommends life in
prison without parole for a woman who
murdered a man who stopped to help her,
the second man she shot that day.
I believe there are demons who wander around looking for nice temporary
places to dwell. In time, after working
their various mischiefs, they move on to
other unsuspecting souls.
A man I knew - I'll call him Ben was one uch victim. I truly believe God
and Satan waged a war within him.
Ben was a minister and had a family.
But there was a dark and evil side seen
only by those closest to him. He eventually sought psychiatric help, but not before he lost his family.
After a few years, he was given another church, a small congregation in a tiny
Kentucky town. He met a woman and got
married. But the demons had not finished.
He eventually eparated from his new
wife, and one night he almost tried to kill
her. A few hours later,knowing the pull of
evil was too strong, he hanged himself.
"I feel worthless and no good," he
wrote. 'Tm tired of coping and struggling.
My patience has worn thin, my mind is
nearly broken, my elf-love and selfe teem is nil."
That night I lost a friend, children lost
a father, and evil moved on to another
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persmith does not create the verdigris, nor
unsuspecting victim.
Ben left Scriptures to be read at his do parents create the dirt. Likewise, it is
memorial service. One was the story of not God who has created evil. He has givChrist and the man with unclean spirits en man knowledge and discrimination so
called Legion because they were so many, that he may avoid evil."
And how can one do that, with the
which Christ cast into swine.
The existence of evil is nearly as old as heaping of more evils and the incredible
time, but our sophisticated society refuses nastiness found within the pages of the
to see evil for what it is. The first two list- newspapers? In the end, Ben knew the anings for evil in my thesaurus show afflic- swer and passed it along in his memorial
service - a letter from the Apostle Paulto
tion and ailment.
That's not quite the way some early the church in Philippi: "Finally, brethren
church fathers saw evil. St. Diadochos was whatever is true, whatever is honorable'
born around the year 400 and was bishop whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatev:
of Photiki in northern Greece. He wrote er is lovely; whatever is gracious, if there is
that evil does not exist by nature and that any excellence, if there is anything worthy
man is not naturally evil "for God made of praise, think about these things."
nothing that was not good."
In his "One Hundred Texts on SpirituJohn D. Powell is an Orthodox Christal Knowledge and Discrimination" he
wrote: "For good, which exists by nature, ian from Ruston, Louisiana. He writes
is more powerful than our inclination to and edits a newspaper there.
evil. The one has
existence, while the
other has not,
except when we
give it existence
through our actions.''
St. Anthony of
Egypt (251-356) is
credited for the
work "On the
Character of Man
and on the Virtuous Life."
He wrote: "But
when the soul . . .
separates itselffrom
God, evil demons
enter its thought
processes and suggest unholy acts to
it: adultery, murder,
robbery, sacrilege
Herfaceandvoicearerecognized
bymillions
worldwide.
and other such
Dr.
Han~n
Mikhail-Ashrawi
has
become
the
most
prominent
demonic acts."
And later: "It is
womanmth~ArabWorld.
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shehaschanged
man's negligence
theWest's
mindaboutthePalestinian
people
and indolence that
OnSaturday,
July24,wearehonored
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All applications must be accompanied by a check payable to "St. Nicholas Summer Camp", in order to secure a reservation.Reservations will be held on a first come, first served basis, limited to 100 campers per session. If the session you
requestedis full, we will inform you of the alternate date. Upon receipt of your application and payment, you will be sent
verification of your reservation, along with medical forms. Requests for cabin assignments cannot be accommodated.
PLEASEREAD CAREFULLY:
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.
~ wish to enroll my child at St. Nicholas Summer Camp for the session(s) marked above. I understand that after my child
1s registered for camp, accident insurance coverage is applicable and the fees will not be transferable or refundable exceptfor withdrawal due to sickness; in which case a pro rata refund will be made for the unexpired portion of his/her stay.
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�DAILYDEVOTIONS
INTRODUCING.
THEWORDoffers thispage as a service to our churches. Those who appear
on this page have a gijt to offe 0 such as iconography and sacred art.
Philip Zimmerman was named by His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP in 1988 to serve as the first director of the St.John
of Dama cu Academy of Sacred Arts at the Antiochian Village
in Ligonier, PA. Phil is a graduate oflndiana University of Penny! ania, earning a B.. in Art Education followed by graduate
work at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. His formal
training in iconography was received under the direction of
Bi hop JOB of the O.C.A. Diocese of the Midwest. He is married
and ha three children.
Phil' major commissions include St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre, PA;St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in Montreal, Canada; St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Church inJohnstown, PA;Sts. Peter and Paul Chapeland throughout the Antiochian Village - in Ligonier, PA; Christ
the aviour Cathedral and Seminary (Carpatho-Russian Diocese)
in John town, PA. He has also executed less extensive projects.
Phil's tyle can best be described as "American Orthodox,"
combining and utilizing both traditional Russian and Greek
tyle of iconography. He is capable of painting in the strict styles
of Russian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, and Greek. He
work in acrylic paints. For further information or his services,
write in care of:
acred Arts Academy
POB 638, Rt. 711 N.
Ligonier, PA 15658-0638
Enclosed is icon of Ruth and Naomi with the following scripture passage:
Entreat me not to leave you or to return f ram f allowing you; for where you go I will go, and where
you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; where you die I will die,
and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me
and more also if even death parts me from you.
The original icon is 4 'x6' and hangs in St. George An tiochian llliiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiliiiiiliiiiiliiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliilliiiiilliiiiiliiiiilliilii
Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh, PA.
If you wish to be listed on this page, send a description
of your work to:
May, 1993
1. ACTS 5:21-33; JOHN 6:14-27
Prophet Jeremiah, SS. Paphnutius and
Acacius
2. ACTS 6:1-7; MARK 15:43-16:8
Translation of the body of Athanasius,
Sts. Boris and Gleb
3. 6:8-7:5, 47-60; JOHN 4:46-54
SS. Timothy, Maura, Theodosius, Peter
the Wonderworker
4. ACTS 8:5-17; JOHN 6:27-33
SS. Pelagia of Tarsus; Hieromartyrs
Silvanus and Albian
5. ACTS 8:18-25; JOHN 6:35-39
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
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15.
Martyr Irene, St. Euthymius, St.
Neophytus (FAST)
ACTS 8:26-39; JOHN 6:40-44
St. Job of many contests; SS. Seraphim
and Barbarus
ACTS 8:40-9:19; JOHN 6:49-54
Memorial of the Holy Cross in
Jerusalem; Martyr Acacius (FAST)
1 JOHN 1:1-7; JOHN 19:25-27, 21:24-25
Apostle and Evangelist John; Arsenius
the Great
ACTS 9:32-42; JOHN 5:1-15
Prophet Isaiah; Martyr Christopher
ACTS 10:1-16; JOHN 6:56-69
Apostle Simon the Zealot; SS. Simon and
Laurence
HEBREWS 7:26-8:2; MATTHEW 5:14-19
SS. Methodius and Cyril; Nicodemus
and Mucius
ACTS 14:6-18; JOHN 7:14-30
SS. Epiphanius of Cyrus, Germanus and
Dionysius; Mid-Pentecost (FAST)
ACTS 10:34-43; JOHN 8:12-20
Martyr Glyceria; SS. Sergius, Irene and
Euthymius
ACTS 10:44-11:4; JOHN 8:21-30
SS. Isidore of Chios, Isidore the Fool-forChrist (FAST)
ACTS 12:1-11;JOHN 8:31-42
SS. Pachomius, Demetrius the New, and
Isaiah the Wonderworker
Tl-IEWORD/APRIL 1993
16. ACTS 11:19-26, 29-30; JOHN 4:5-42
St. Theodore the Sanctified; Neo-Martyr
Nicholas
17. ACTS 12:12-17;JOHN 8:42-51
SS. Andronicus and Junia of the Seventy;
St. Euphrosyne
18. ACTS 12:25-13:12; JOHN 8:51-59
Martyrs Peter, Dionysius, Christina,
Andrew and Paul
19. ACTS 13:13-24; JOHN 6:5-14
SS. Patricius and his Companions; St.
Cornelius (FAST)
20. ACTS 14:20-27; JOHN 9:36-10:9
SS. Thelaleus and Stephen of Piper
21. ACTS 26:1-5, 12-20;JOHN 10:1-9
SS. Constantine and Helen (FAST)
22. ACTS 15:35-41; JOHN 10:27-38
Martyrs Basiliscus, John, Demetrius and
Paul
23. ACTS 16:16-34;JOHN 9:1-38
SS. Michael the Confessor and
Euphrosyne
24. ACTS 17:1-15;JOHN 11:47-57
SS. Simeon, Nikita Stylites, and Vincent
25. ACTS 17:19-28;JOHN 12:19-36
Third Discovery of the Head of the
Prophet and Baptist John
26. ACTS 18:22-28; JOHN 12:36-47
Apostle Carpus and Alpheus of the
Seventy; Leave of Pascha (FAST)
27. ACTS 1:1-12;LUKE 24:36-53
FEAST OF THE ASCENSION OF OUR
LORD
28. ACTS 19:1-.8;JOHN 14:1-11
Martyr Eutyches; SS. Ignatius the
Wonderworker and Sophronius (FAST)
29. ACTS 20:7-12; JOHN 14:10-21
MM. Theodosia of Tyre and Theodosia
of Constantinople
30. ACTS 20:16-18, 28-36; JOHN 17:1-13
SS. Isaac of Dalmatia, Natalius, Barlaam,
Roman and Meletius
31. ACTS 21:8-14; JOHN 14:27-15:7
Martyr Hermas of the Seventy; St.
Philosophus
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�FELLOWSHIPFOOTNOTES
FOOD FOR HUNGRY PEOPLE MREGIO
ORK
3 77.57
rge-Alban
1,000.00
ne a
ael
0
gara Fall
rge
890.00
e
100.00
th Glen Falls
rg
50.00
ca
rge
20.00
briel Chapel - . Glen Falls
IO
174.00
an figuration - London
0
-Otta
a
826.78
rge - Richmond Hill
BEC
3,010.00
't. ichola - Montreal
2,225.00
t. George - Montreal
0
irgin Mary - Montreal
0 'A COTIA
400.00
t. nthony - Halifax
TOTALCA -AMREGIO
9,073.35
t. Athana ius ewark
0
DI TRICT OF COLUMBIA
t. George - Washington, D.C.
1,100.00
ARYLA D
t. Mary - Hunt Valley
20.00
. Peter & Paul - Bethesda
1,515.00
EWJERSEY
t. Anthony - Bergenfield
1,625.00
t. George - Little Falls
555.00
t. tephen - . Plainfield
340.00
E YORK
t. Mary - Brooklyn
1,020.00
t. ichola Cathedral - Brooklyn 1,175.00
hurch of the Virgin Mary- Yonkers 160.00
t.Johnniondale
188.00
PE
YLVA IA
t. G orge - Allentown
465.14
t. George -Altoona
275.00
t. George - Bridgeville
1,620.00
t. Ellien - Brownsville
125.00
t. Anthony - Butler
478.00
t. Mi hael - Green burg
385.15
t. Mary - John town
1,205.00
t. Michael - Mones en
287.14
t. Elia ew Castle
5,814.89
t. Georgeew Ken ington
2,060.00
t. George pper Darby
368.25
t. George - Pitt burgh
1,406.00
t. Mary - Wilkes Barre
1,112.52
t. Philip - ouderton
1,331.56
t. Paul - Emmaus
310.00
t. John - Beaver Fall
250.00
TOT LEA TER REGIO
25,203.55
30
WORLD
FOODDAY
TOTALLBS.
1500
850
510
164
617
505
947
1,000
958
260
721
924
400
398
128
709
1992
MIDWEST REGION
ILLINOIS
1,000.00
St. George - Cicero
360.00
St. George - Spring Valley
70.00
Holy Transfiguration - Wheaton
INDIANA
310.00
St. John Chrysostom - Ft. Wayne
2,064.06
St. George - Indianapolis
817.00
St. George - Terre Haute
66.00
Holy Resurrection - Gary
0
All Saints - Bloomington
0
St. George - Michigan City
IOWA
310.00
St. George - Cedar Rapids
KENTUCKY
280.00
St. Andrew - Lexington
1,215.00
St. Michael - Louisville
MICHIGAN
St. Mary - Berkley
300.00
Incarnation Church - Detroit
0
St. George - Detroit
635.00
St. George - Grand Rapids
1,235.74
St. Nicholas - Grand Rapids
2,200.00
St. Mary - Iron Mountain
58.72
St. Mary - ·Livonia
0
St. Simon - Ironwood
25.00
St. James - Williamston
1,193.34
St. George - Flint
1,101.72
MINNESOTA
St. Mary - St. Paul
300.00
St. George - West St. Paul
441.90
NORTH DAKOTA
All Saints Mission - Fargo
0
OHIO
St. George - Akron
20.00
Holy Cross - Canton
548.00
St. George - Canton
646.18
St. George - Cleveland
5.00
St. George Cathedral - Toledo
345.00
St. Elias - Sylvania
1,525.00
St. Mark - Youngstown
1,100.00
St. Matthew - N. Royalton
200.00
WEST VIRGINIA
St. Nicholas - Beckley
0
St. George - Charleston
1,800.00
Holy Spirit - Huntington
486.18
WISCONSIN
St. Elias - La Crosse
40.61
St. Nicholas - Mequon
137.97
MANITOBA
St. Mary - Winnipeg
0
ONTARIO
St. Ignatius - Windsor
0
TOTALMIDWEST REGION
20,837.44
WORLD
FOOD DAY
TOTALLBS.
1,675
953
320
2,500
375
806
94
650
333
1,212
1,614
1,200
636
1,350
525
153
THE WORD/APRIL l993
NEWENGLAND REGION
CONNECTICUT
St. Nicholas - Bridgeport
St. George - Danbury
MASSACHUSETTS
St. George - W. Roxbury
St.John of Damascus - Dedham
St. Mary - Cambridge
WORLD
FOOD DAY
TOTALLBS.
1,515.00
10.00
1,350
2,325.00
1,426.00
987.22
561.65 1,450.00
1,114.00
647.85
4,121.50
1,300
1,000
St. George - Lawrence
St. George - Lowell
St. George - Norwood
St. George Cathedral - Worcester
RHODE ISLAND
St. Mary - Pawtucket
2,279.73
NERFellowship,
St. John the Divine
382.89
TOTALNEW ENGLAND REGION 16,820.84
SOUTHEAST REGION
FLORIDA
St. George CathedralCoral Gables 1,525.00
St. Philip - Davie
280.16
St. George - Jacksonville
0
St. Peter - N. Miami
0
St. Andrew - Eustis
334.12
St. George - Orlando
1,012.30
St. Mary - W. Palm Beach
1,000.00
St. Basil - Silver Springs
125.00
St. Lazarus - Miami
0
Our Lady of Regla - Miami
100.00
St. Nicholas - St. Petersburg
10.00
GEORGIA
St. Elias - Atlanta
1,245.93
St. Stephen - Hiram
0
LOUISIANA
St. Basil - Metairie
610.00
NORTH CAROLINA
AllSaints - Cary
0
TENNESSEE
St. Ignatius - Franklin
10.00
St.John - Memphis
0
MISSISSIPPI
St. George - Vicksburg
453.60
t. Peter - Jackson
125.00
VIRGINIA
St Ignatius - Tidewater
0
TOTAL
SOUTHEAST REGION
6,831.11
SOUTHWEST REGION
COLORADO
St. Augustine - Denver
St. Elias - Denver
St• Luke - Boulder
St Mark - Denver
IOWA
t. Thomas - Sioux City
KANSAS
St. George Cathedral - Wichita
t. Mary - Wichita
THEWORD/APRIL 1993
137.93
200.00
25.00
0
702.85
1,067.00
1,291.64
'91
600
2,317
1,400
263,060
945
1,000
990
565
383
750
250
500
154
WORLD
FOOD DAY
LOUISIANA
TOTALLB.
St. John the Divine - Lake Charles
100.00
NEBRASKA
St. George - Kearney
147.41
110
St. Mary- Omaha
5.00
St. Vincent of Lerins - Omaha
0
OKLAHOMA
St. Elias - Oklahoma City
1,000.00
St. AntonyTulsa
187.00
TEXAS
St. Elias - Austin
866.91
St. Michael - Beaumont
2,000.00
1,500
Ss. Constantine & Helen - Dallas
0
640
St. George - El Paso
886.18
St. George - Houston
1,928.00
3,400
St. Anthony the Great - Spring
385.97
300
St. Gregory - Dallas
59.00
TOTALSOUTHWEST REGION
10,989.89
WESTERN REGION
CALIFORNIA
St. Nicholas Cathedral - Los Angeles
10,294.00
St. Luke - Garden Grove
2,825.00
Church of the Redeemer-Los Altos 2,000.00
St. John the Evangelist - Orinda
50.00
St. George - San Diego
2,052.00
St. Nicholas - San Francisco
399.00
St. Michael - Van Nuys
1,143.05
St. Michael - Whittier
0
St. Barnabas - Huntington Beach
376.oo
St. Matthew - Torrance
185.41
St. Mark - Irvine
259.50
Ss. Peter & Paul - Ben Lomond
60.00
Virgin Mary - Sacramento
326.17
Orth. Ch. Fellowship - UCSB
1,100.00
St. Athanasius - Goleta
312.20
St. Timothy - Lompoc
0
St. Athanasius - Sacramento
0
Holy Cross - Lancaster
100.00
St. Andrew Mission - Riverside
61.25
St. George - Glendora
0
Holy Cross - Concord
0
ARIZONA
St. George - Phoenix
885.00
Holy Resurrection - Tucson
300.00
243.54 NEW MEXICO
St. Joseph - Santa Fe
5.00
NEVADA
St. Michael - Las Vegas
1,694.00
OREGON
St. George - Portland
316.63
UTAH
SS. Peter & Paul - Salt Lake City
0
WASHINGTON
St. Paul - Lynwood
70.00
Holy Cross - Yakima
179.90
ALASKA
St. John Cathedral - Eagle River
99 .00
4,300
1,691
800
125
126
6,000
54
471
250
'91
30
700
200
.31
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FOOD DAY
TOTAL LBS.
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Fe tival Winner:
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My Respon ibility to Live the
Orthodox Faith in Christ, Through
Wor hip, Witness, Service
and Fellowship
by Fadi Makhlouf
I proudly stand
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~before all of you this
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evening, a self-pro~
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.
you ask, did I be,,,,••,, • s,..,...
come a member of
uch an honorable and distinguished
organization? Well, entrance is quite
imple. You must invite Christ into your
life, and you 're a member for eternity.
However, membership does bear a few
respon ibilities. Most especially, it is my
re ponsibility to live the Orthodox Faith
through Wor hip, Fellowship, Witness,
and Service.
Worship is the very essence of our religion. It is considered our supreme
duty, an expression of our thanksgiving
for God' grace and compassion to us.
We are all inners, since the fall of Adam
and Eve in the garden of Eden. Yet,
through the acrifice of Christ, God has
giv n u the privilege of communion
with Him. Worship i a gift, and should
be practiced in all "spirit and truth."
"The true worshippers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth," Qn. 4:23-24).
We, as true wor hippers, must invoke
the Grace of God to strengthen us in the
True Faith, to know the truths of the
Holy criptures, to remain at all times
humble and obedient, to love our fellow man. When we commune with
God, we supplicate Him to forgive us,
and to I ad us o that we may attain His
kingdom. "Therefore, let us be grateful
for receiving a kingdom that cannot be
haken, and let us offer God acceptable
wor hip, with reverence and awe" (Heb.
12:28).
In witnes ing, we are allowing others
to hare in our "good new ." In knowing
about the Grace of God, and His love
for man, and the Grace He granted us
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possibly one of the greatest men to ever
walk the face of this earth, and the
greatest contributor to our New Testament, spent most of his life fettered like
a common criminal.
But Paul recognized, as we should
recognize, that far greater are the rewards in heaven than here on earth.
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures
Recorded as of March 1, 1993
throughJesus Christ, we are bearers of
Good News. "For God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten
Son, that all who believe in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life," Qn.
3:16).
We as Orthodox Christians, are the
"light,of the world" (Mt. 5:14).Jesus still
has a great message for the world, and
He needs us to carry it. The ideas of the
Scriptures do not walk by themselves in
this world. They need men and women
to carry them. As Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount, "Acity on a hill cannot be hid, nor do men light a lamp and
put it under a bushel, but on a stand and
give light to all in the house, that they
may see your good works, and give
glory to your Father who is in heaven"
(Mt. 5:14-16).
Be an example to others. Show them
that the reward you will attain in heaven
is far greater than any reward here on
earth. Speak joyfully of the Grace of
God, and the gift that He has given you!
But Jesus warns us in Matthew, "deny
Me among men, and I too will deny you
to my Father." We must with all fervor
announce the love of God for men,
throughJesus Christ. Christ blamelessly
died on the cross, so that I may be
saved. It would be selfish of me not to
tell others of this truly magnificent
sacrifice!!!
As Psalm 100:2 indicates, we must
"serve the Lord with gladness." There
are many opportunities to serve God. A
prime example of service to the Lord
and the Orthodox Church is SOYO, St.
John the Divine, and the Antiochian
Women. Through SOYO, etc., parishioners are able to organize collectively,
and serve God.
This may be through altar and choir
service, and also through serving the
community. When we serve our fellow
man, we serve God as well. Christian
faith and worship find their ultimate in
Christian love. This genuine love derives from humility and sincerity. Often,
it is far easier to love God (who loves us
back), and neglect our love for our fellow man, our neighbor. We sincerely
love our neighbor when we give the
sacrifice, without reward. Christ Himself proclaimed the love of God as the
most important commandment,
"and
the second is like it, you shall love your
neighbor as yourself"
(Mt. 2 2: 39).
Christ declared "on these two commandments depends all of the law, and
the prophets" (Mt. 22-40).
Through serving our fellow man, we
are doing God's will, and therefore serving Him as well. So, although loving a
God who loves us back is easy, loving a
neighbor who might not love us back is
hard.
We must serve our communities
through volunteer work, without reward. We must also do the same for our
churches. Then we please God, and
truly serve Him.
Fellowship is what allows me to call
you all my brethren in Christ, my
Brothers and Sisters. "Our fellowship is
with the Father and with His Son,Jesus
Christ" (1 Jn. 1:3).
How is it that we are brethern in
Christ? Well, the answer is quite simple:
through communion,
and the Holy
Spirit. Christ, in Matthew, asked His disciples to "eat His body" and "drink His
blood." In doing so, He is asking them
to unite in brotherhood. We, as partakers of the Holy Communion, become
one with each other, because we have
all invited Christ into our souls. We form
one body, with Jesus Christ at the head
of our body.
"We have one teacher, and we are all
brethren" (Mt. 23 :8). In the Holy Spirit
we are also brethren. The true believer
believes in the Holy Spirit, and when we
all share a common belief and respect in
the Holy Spirit, and God, we ultimately become one. Just as the children love
their father and share a love for their father, we a~ Children of God share a
common love with God, and thus are
brethren.
Brethren in Christ
it has been
warned to us, it will not be easy to fulfi_II
these responsibilities for we are in this
'
world, but by no means
of it. As PauI
writes to Timothy, "Indeed, all who desire to live a Godly life in Christ Jesus
will be persecuted" (2 Tim. 3:12). Paul,
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1995
on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and
steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
consumes, and where thieves do not
_break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be" (Mt.
6:19-21).
Jesus also goes on to say, "Blessed are
those persecuted for righteousness'
sake, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Blessed are you when men revile and persecute you and utter all
kinds of evil against you falsely on my
account. Rejoice and be glad, for your
reward is great in heaven" (Mt. 5:10-11).
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Elias Church in Syracuse, New York.
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. . . that April is a month full of liturgical services for
Orthodox Christians. Friday, April 2 is the final Compline and
Akathist to the Theotokos; the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
can be served on April 7 (Wed.), 9 (Fri.), 12 (Mon.), 13 (Tues.),
and 14 (Wed.). On Sunday, April 4, we commemorate St. Mary
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done before the death of Bishop EMMANUEL (Abohatab).
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Arabs--United States
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1905-2013
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<h4>Biographical/historical note</h4>
<p>The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCA), headquartered in Englewood, New Jersey, oversees seven dioceses with over 250 parishes in the United States and Canada. </p>
<p>The AOCA is one of 24 archdioceses of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East across the world. The editorial office for their publication <em>The Word</em> is in Brooklyn, New York. AOCA founded the periodical as an Arabic language publication in 1905, which ran for 16 volumes. The final issue of the Arabic <em>Al-Kalemat</em> appeared in 1933, and the English iteration <em>The Word</em> began anew in 1957.</p>
<p>The original copies of the periodical are housed at the Antiochian Heritage Library in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. The Antiochian Heritage Library was founded in 1987, and its collections focus on information about early Christianity, the theology of the Orthodox Church, and religious and cultural themes in Middle Eastern history. </p>
<h4>Scope/content note</h4>
<p>The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Newspaper Collection includes both Arabic-language volumes of Al-Kalemat and English-language volumes of <em>The Word</em> (also called Al-Kalemat, Al Kalimat, Al Kalimah, and الكلمة), covering the years 1905-1993. The periodical focuses on current events and debates from an Antiochian Orthodox perspective. </p>
<p>The periodical is written and published by The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and continues to be published monthly excluding July and August. Some years and issues are not included in the collection, and there are some years that the publication did not run.<br /><br />The collection also includes various parish commemorative booklets from Antiochian Orthodox churches in different regions of the United States, including but not limited to, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York.</p>
<p>The English-language volumes are located here on the KCLDS Archive's website. The Arabic-language volumes are located on the Khayrallah Center’s <a href="https://arabicsearch.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arabic Newspapers database</a>.</p>
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The Word [Al-Kalemat, الكلمة] Volume 37, Issue 04
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Volume 37, Issue 4 of The Word [Al-Kalemat, الكلمة], dated April 1993.
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1993 Apr
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52 - 78th Street, Brooklyn, New York
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