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 innocent suffering people of Ukraine, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, and Iran. Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! __________________ I had arrived on Crete and was staying in Heraklion overnight. I got up early and went around the corner to the Church of Saint Titus to say my prayers. […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Inasmuch as I am not the Pope, I do not want to “get into it” with today’s civil authorities and their supporters or detractors. Therefore I want to make it clear again that nothing in these three Posts was written to apply specifically to the current war with […]
Read More »Before we begin: Please pray for the innocent suffering people of Ukraine, Gaza, the Palestinian West Bank, Iran and Sudan. Χριστός Ανέστη! Αληθώς Ανέστη! As I said last week: I first wrote this teaching about war and peace for our Saint Nicholas Church newsletter ‘way back in 2003, not long before the second US invasion […]
Read More »Personal note to a reader who has been writing to me: Forgive me. I’ve lost your last letter and your address. Please send it again. Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! I did not write this teaching about War and Peace to be relevant to our current war with […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! 1) Pascha Midnight at the Church of the Anastasis in Jerusalem …as described by Serbian Bishop Anastasios of Ochrid We waited, and at last our expectations were fulfilled’, ‘When the Patriarch sang “He is risen”, a heavy burden fell from our souls. We felt as if we also […]
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