A Variety of Topics: Saints, Seasons, Society, the Moral Life, plus Travels mostly to Greece, and more, by Father Bill Olnhausen
Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Please give through International Orthodox Christian Charities. iocc.org These Posts, first published back in 2020, are reprinted here while I’m recovering from Covid. They follow the daily journal from my trip to Athos in 2002. If […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Introduction Why a rerun? Because I’ve spent the week dealing with a nasty case of the Covid, and I’m just not up to producing a fresh Post. (Though hardly anybody is paying attention, Covid is making […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. + + + + + + + Introduction I promised to write today on “What I’ve Learned in my 87 * Years”. Probably to […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. ____________ The Dormition of the Theotokos August 15 “What’s happened to Mary?” “I don’t know… We hadn’t thought about it.” That was the general Protestant approach – my approach – when I was young, even in […]
Read More »Please pray for the needlessly suffering people of Ukraine and the needlessly starving people of Gaza. 1) Why the Surge of Young People into the Orthodox Church? Last week I asked any here present to share your opinions about why this is happening – especially why so many young men are being drawn to […]
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