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JANUARY WORD REVISED 3.Indd Volume 58 No. 1 January 2014 VOLUME 58 NO. 1 JANUARY 2014 COVER: THEOPHANY ICON BY THE HAND OF editor’s letter KH. ERIN KIMMETT OF NORWOOD, contents MASSACHUSETTS. 3 EDITORIAL Engaging Older by Bishop JOHN 4 DESIRE, SCRIPTURE, AND CHANGE: Members in Ministry READING THE BIBLE IN THE ORTHODOX TRADITION by Fr. John Oliver 9 DAILY DEVOTIONS Recently I was invited to address the annual conference of the Orthodox Christian Asso- 10 LOVE YOUR ENEMIES by Fr. Andrew Harmon ciation of Medicine, Psychology and Religion, an interdisciplinary group that offers oppor- 14 WORLD COUNCIL • visiting people who are shut in; OF CHURCHES’ STATEMENT tunities for Orthodox caregivers to share their experiences and learn from each other. It struck • running afternoon programs for older The Most Reverend parishioners; Metropolitan PHILIP, D.H.L., D.D. 19 REFLECTING ON REFLECTIONS me that this organization offers us a model that Primate by Fr. Joseph Allen, Th.D. could revitalize our parishes and enrich our • ushering and welcoming people to the The Most Reverend members’ lives. It would take an investment services; Archbishop JOSEPH 22 ARCHDIOCESAN OFFICE of energy on the part of the leadership of our • reaching out to the community, includ- The Right Reverend Bishop ANTOUN 24 HELP THE ORPHANS parishes, but the positive possibilities are many ing holding open houses; OF WAR IN SYRIA • helping at food pantries; The Right Reverend by Dianne O’Regan and exciting. Bishop BASIL • helping with summer church day Our conference topic this year was ministry to The Right Reverend 26 COMMUNITIES IN ACTION camps. Bishop THOMAS older Christians. As they retire from employ- Doing ministry is very rewarding. Older Chris- The Right Reverend 32 ORATORICAL FESTIVAL ment, our older members present great oppor- Bishop ALEXANDER tunities and challenges for the parish. This po- tians need to mentor others and share their The Right Reverend ON FAITH God-given talents and wisdom. For the experi- Bishop JOHN 34 tential workforce, ready and able to serve, has by G. Philip Sayegh ence to be most worthwhile, the ministries of The Right Reverend much to offer every age segment of the parish, Bishop ANTHONY especially their own. To develop and support the older Christians need to be supported. People The Right Reverend ministries of older Orthodox Christians, I think need tools to complete their tasks; they may Bishop NICHOLAS need to de-brief after new experiences; and Founded in Arabic as an interdisciplinary group of medical people, Al Kalimat in 1905 people in the helping ministries, and theologi- they may need support from others who know by Saint Raphael (Hawaweeny) more about the particular tasks at hand. Founded in English as cally equipped church leaders, who can and will The WORD in 1957 meet regularly, is essential. This group would Assembling an interdisciplinary group of doc- by Metropolitan ANTONY (Bashir) act as resources to develop and then support tors, nurses, social workers, counselors and Editor in Chief The Rt. Rev. Bishop JOHN, D.Min. the ministries of our older members. clergy should be a first step. Identifying the Assistant Editor Christopher Humphrey, Ph.D. needs and creating a plan to engage and recruit Editorial Board The Very Rev. Joseph J. Allen, Th.D. Older members may not have had time to at- Anthony Bashir, Ph.D. Letters to the editor are welcome and should include the author’s full name and tend adult education programs while they were older members would follow. Finally, parish The Very Rev. Antony Gabriel, Th.M. parish. Submissions for “Communities in Action” must be approved by the local leaders would recruit particular people for par- Ronald Nicola pastor. Both may be edited for purposes of clarity and space. All submissions, in working. They could now be invited to join ex- Najib E. Saliba, Ph.D. hard copy, on disk or e-mailed, should be double-spaced for editing purposes. isting study groups, or study groups designed ticular jobs. From there, only God knows what The Very Rev. Paul Schneirla, M.Div. for them could be established. We must not as- He will do in the lives of all those who engage Design Director Donna Griffin Albert ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION: U.S.A. and Canada, $20.00 in new ministries or are served by them! Learn- Member sume that older members are confident in their Foreign Countries, $26.00 The Associated Church Press understandings of the worship, tradition or life ing how to serve and be served is important for Single Copies, $3.00 Conciliar Press of the Church. Needed ministries of the church all of us. Ecumenical News International The WORD (USPS626-260) is published monthly, except July and August, by the Orthodox Press Service Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America at 358 Mountain should be identified, and older Christians could I welcome for The WORD reports of such min- Editorial Office: Road, PO Box 5238; periodicals postage paid at Englewood, New Jersey 07631- be matched to ministries according to their istries that are ongoing, looking for parishes to The WORD 5238 and at additional mailing offices. 2 Lydia’s Path competencies and interests. These ministries share how and why they do things the way that Westborough, MA 01581-1841 Postmaster send address changes to: The WORD, 358 Mountain Road, PO Box could include they do, so that other parishes can share in the e-mail: [email protected] 5238, Englewood, NJ 07631-5238 ISSN 0043-7964 www.antiochian.org. successes. Subscription Office: • transporting older members to social 358 Mountain Road Canada Post Publications Agreement No. 40065483 events, the doctor, and the grocery store; PO Box 5238 Return Canada address to: Englewood, NJ 07631-5238 Atlas International Mail, PO Box 1051, Fort Erie, ON, L2A 6C7, Canada • mentoring and tutoring young people; Bishop JOHN 2 January 2014 The Word 3 It is the conviction of the Orthodox Christian In sharp relief against this creation narrative Desire, Scripture, and Change tradition that no insights and awakenings, no dis- of theocratic violence and its detritus, there is coveries by great minds and grand movements, Yahweh, the biblical God, who creates the entire- READING THE BIBLE IN THE ORTHODOX TRADITION no truths gained by human experience are more ty of the non-human world on purpose, declaring foundational to our well-being than this: there is it good.1 Then, in a kind of sweeping crescendo, I was invited to participate in a symposium a God, who is a God of desire, who, with love be- He makes man “according to Our image and like- held on Sunday, November 3, 2013, at the yond measure, desires us. ness.” Here, the desire for us that is part of God’s Islamic Community Center, in Murfreesboro, This is the central reality, known not by what own energies is imparted to the man made in His Tennessee – the mosque that has generated man can intuit – for the created cannot penetrate image, so that man will desire God in return. This international attention and even more lo- the mystery of the uncreated – but in what God is the dance of salvation: God’s pursuit and man’s cal passion. The title of the symposium was has revealed. It undergirds more than history; response, the created following the sometimes- it is always the present pulse and breath of life, tender, sometimes-terrifying lead of the Uncreat- “God’s Books: Reading Scripture in Judaism, and without embracing it above all other gospels ed, and it is at play in every moment of every act Christianity, and Islam,” and speakers includ- – that God desires us – the human being is less of reading sacred text. We read not firstly to study ed two Muslim, one Catholic Christian, one than human and His books are less than compre- or acquire, but to surrender. “Thou hast made us Protestant Christian, one Jew, and me. What hensible. for Thyself,” wrote Augustine, “and our hearts follows is the full text of my address. The creation narrative of Genesis reveals a find no peace until they rest in Thee.”2 God who creates; in the context of other creation narratives of its era, it reveals a God who creates Interpretation Centered on Christ and pursues. The Sumerian culture, from which the biblical Abraham came, was propped up in The content of God’s desire is not manifest part by a belief in multiple deities who produced in the abstract nor contained by reason, neither creation in a fit of rage. Marduk, the most pow- is it even primarily spiritual. It is more than an “there is a God, erful of the junior gods, tears open the body of ephemeral sense discerned in sacred writ by an who is a God his mother, Tiamat, and her interior contents be- open heart. The Christian Bible describes God as comes the sky, the stars, the heavenly galaxies, desiring to meet His creatures in a variety of con- of desire, 3 the earth and all its vegetation. To tend to this crete and particular media: in Scripture itself, in who, with 4 5 material mess – a task with which no god would His Temple, in the world of nature, in the poor 6 love dirty its hands – Marduk creates man, a neces- and “least of these,” even in the trembling urgen- 7 beyond sary slave to manage creation and build temples cy of our own pain. measure, to the gods. But more than all this, to His desire for us God has given a specifically incarnational contour. desires us.” For the Sumerians, creation erupted from a violent matricide in the heavenly realm, with hu- God is the God of desire, yes, but it is equally manity created as a regrettable afterthought, a the conviction of the Orthodox Christian tradition worldview that favored the interests of the power- that God demonstrates His desire in and as the ful and educated elite, who occupied the same tier Christ.
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