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
The priest says those words at the end of almost every service. But does it fit the evidence? Is God really good? Here is our basic working principle: “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible.” In that context, here is a group […]
Read More »Please pray for the innocent suffering people of Ukraine, the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank, and of Iran and Sudan. Holy Pentecost The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ’s Apostles On Penteost, the Holy Spirit came with power, sending the Apostles out to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the […]
Read More »The Council begins. This First Ecumenical Council, the First Council of Nicaea, was not held in secret. We have five accounts of it. It was called into session by the Emperor Constantine on May 20 in the Year of Our Lord 325, the Sunday after the Feast of the Ascension. Why by the Emperor? […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! The Church commemorates the First Ecumenical Council each year on the Sunday after the Ascension. Had I ever written about the First Council? I searched back, and so I had – nine years ago. It was like reading somebody else’s writing! I’m sure that very few of […]
Read More »Please pray for the innocent suffering people of Ukraine, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank, and Iran. Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! __________________ I had arrived on Crete and was staying in Heraklion overnight. I got up early and went around the corner to the Church of Saint Titus to say my prayers. […]
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