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
Please pray for the people of Ukraine, under continual attack by the Orthodox Russian aggressors. May God have mercy on us all. Today, December 6, is the feast of : Saint Nicholas of Myra, the Wonderworker Did you know that after Saint Nicholas Day, we slowly begin to gain light in the evening. After about […]
Read More »We have been away this week visiting our daughter and her family for Thanksgiving. Therefore, today’s Post is a rerun * of Post 93, from November 23, 2018 – part of my series on The Seven Deadly Sins. slightly revised Gluttony OK, I know it’s cruel, just cruel, to talk about gluttony on the […]
Read More »Please pray for the people of Gaza and the West Bank. Soon after Charlie Kirk’s murder, I heard an Orthodox priest say it would be wise to wait forty days before saying anything about it – time for the tumult and shouting to die, to use an overworked but appropriate phrase, because there […]
Read More »Will Orthodox Russia never stop this immoral war? – bringing scandal on the Orthodox Church. Saint Nektarios, the Wonderworker of Aegina November 9 If any here present heard the sermon last Sunday at Saint Nicholas Church, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, I take no offense if you now go do something else, because here it comes […]
Read More »Before we begin, I want to ask some questions on another topic: 1 How is it that our government can declare a special emergency so that they can sink ships in the Caribbean? but cannot declare an emergency in order to feed the needy? 2 How is it that they can declare another emergency in […]
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