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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Next Thursday, February 2, is the famous festival of the Holy Groundhog, more properly titled the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple. I wrote a Post about both these celebrations some years ago, titled “The Groundhog who stole Candlemas”, which (if you’re interested) can be […]
Read More »or Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre Pascha, if you wish A Very Long Introduction If you were going on a long auto journey to some lovely place, how would you approach it? Here, I think, is what you would not do: You would not wait till the very last minute, then just jump in your car and drive off. […]
Read More »The Holy Orthodox Church is running over with Saint Gregorys. I wrote last year about “Another great Saint Gregory” – Gregory of Nyssa. (If you’d like to read it, go to the far bottom right of this page, and scroll down to January 2022.) Before we get to this year’s great Saint Gregory the Theologian, […]
Read More »Today Friday January 6 is the Epiphany, when we celebrate Christ’s Baptism. In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, Christ begins His public ministry. Between those events something extremely significant happened, which most Orthodox never hear about. In fact I could find very few Orthodox icons about it. Christ’s Temptations in the Desert Last summer I wrote that […]
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