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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
While there can be no doubt that the Church’s Lectionary was perfectly chosen and arranged by the Fathers or whoever did it… … here’s another of the big mistakes they made. The story of Christ’s temptations in the wilderness is fundamental to our understanding of the Christian life. So when do we read it? On […]
Read More »Busy last week. Busy last weekend. Late Blog Post. Short Blog Post. Sorry. God at work in history Some Christians are forever trying to figure out what the future holds: When will the Second Coming be? When will the Lord return in Glory? Even we Orthodox often wonder – or at least I do, who […]
Read More »Tomorrow, January 4, is New Year’s Day, too… and so are January 5th and 6th and 7th… and even March 25th, for that matter. In fact, did you know that in America, for over a century, March 25 actually was New Year’s Day. More about that in a minute. Dating of the beginning of […]
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