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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
I’m taking a couple of weeks off. This Post and last week’s are reprints (with some revision) from August 2019 – as we prepare for the celebration of the Dormition of the Theotokos on August 15. Last week we saw how often the Virgin Mary is mentioned in the New Testament, second only to […]
Read More »The feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ is August 6. There is much information online about it. For my “take” on the day, go to: https://frbillsorthodoxblog.com/2019/08/02/137-the-transfiguration-the-other-great-forgotten-feast/ _______________________________________- I am taking a short break from writing. This article and the next are reprints from August 2019, updated and corrected and improved (slightly). Introduction […]
Read More »In the Church calendar, today July 29, we commemorate Saint Olaf, and next Monday August 1 we honor the Seven Maccabean Brothers. Saint Olaf of Norway I put the “who?” after Saint Olaf, because I’d be willing to bet that most of you don’t know anything about him. I didn’t. (Do we have any Norwegian […]
Read More »This article, written by Paul Ladouceur, is taken from the July 11, 2022 edition of “The Moscow Times”: https://www.themoscowtimes.com It originally appeared on the website of “Public Orthodoxy”: https://publicorthodoxy.org My Introduction “Manifest Destiny” was the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the North American continent was God-given […]
Read More »That was my immediate reaction when I read again the first chapters of Ezekiel, as I prepared this Post. (Please forgive my built-in scientific skepticism. I can’t help it.) So I looked up the date when hallucinogens were first known in the Old World. There’s some evidence that in Egypt it goes ‘way back. But […]
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