Fr. Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast
Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
The Time Jesus Ascended on a String You may find this hard to believe – but back in the 1940s, the public School Boards of Hancock County in Ohio (where I grew up) hired a teacher who went from school to school throughout the county teaching Bible stories to us children. I can understand why […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Students, we are now going to play a sort of Third Grade game, but with a serious purpose. So pay attention, and please do what I say. Now: Look around – forward, left, right, up, down – and take in and remember what you see. Next, close your eyes (wait, not yet!) […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! This is a contemporary Coptic Orthodox icon. The Samaritan Woman This is one of my favorite Gospel stories. It makes me smile. Because: 1 The dialog is written so beautifully. It makes me wonder if the Apostle John was a frustrated dramatist. 2 I can see a quiet gleam […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Yes, but fifty five years years ago last February I was not. I was paralyzed. Not physically, but emotionally and mentally. On January 26 I had flown home to Ohio from seminary in New York. My father had died. I loved him so dearly, and I took it […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! This Sunday’s Lessons: 1 Don’t cooperate with the rats. 2 Do your duty. 3 Never fail to help the poor and needy. But first: Last year I started a series on the Sundays of Pascha but got distracted onto something else. This year we’re going to complete it, come what may. Probably. […]
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