Father Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast
A Variety of Topics: Saints, Seasons, Society, the Moral Life, plus Travels mostly to Greece, and more, by Father Bill Olnhausen
Why is it so hard to get to church when we’re away from home? So who wants to go to church while we’re on vacation? I (the Church fanatic) do. Let’s see if I can convince you to join me. As you know from last week’s Post, we’ve left the problems of the world behind, […]
Read More »It’s time to take a break. The Sabbath Principle: Stop working. Get away. Now that many people work online, they keep working all the time. Brothers and sisters, cut it out! if you can. Fathers, give your wives a break. And if you can, get away and go somewhere else – even if it’s only […]
Read More »Years ago an Episcopalian professor friend of mine was considering Orthodoxy. * He told me the defining “test issue” for him would be: What does the Orthodox Church officially teach about the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Was she taken bodily into Heaven or was she not? I responded: “Well, … …” which […]
Read More »But first: Ukraine This is an Orthodox issue: one Orthodox nation making war against another Orthodox nation, bringing shame on the Orthodox world. I dislike preceding the glorious topic of the Transfiguration with such a dreadful subject as this. However, the US war on Iran has captured the headlines. Ukraine and its 25 million Orthodox […]
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