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
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 […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Pray for an end to these wars. + + + That title above is an embarrassing paraphrase of the old spiritual “I’ve got shoes”. “What do you mean: I’ve got demons?” “Of course you do. I trust […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Pray for an end to these unjust and immoral wars. + + + The Orthodox Saints of October 24 Martyr Arethas (al-Haarith) and over 4,000 with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters; Blessed […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and Palestine. Pray for peace in Gaza. This is a subject of some interest to me, now that I’m in my 88th year on earth. Maybe I’m doing it all wrong. We were told by a Methodist professor many years ago that if we go to […]
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