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A Variety of Topics: Saints, Seasons, Society, the Moral Life, plus Travels mostly to Greece, and more, by Father Bill Olnhausen
Giovanni di Paolo, 1326 Yesterday we celebrated the raising of Lazarus which was, as we sang, the “prefiguring of the General Resurrection”, when all mankind will be raised from death – “those who have done what is good will rise to life, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be […]
Read More »Vespers for Palm Sunday Here are the key words from the Old Testament Readings: Genesis 49:1-2; 8-12 – Jacob’s last words to his sons: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between His feet, until He comes to whom it belongs; and to Him shall be the obedience of the […]
Read More »This is the first of my annual Twice-daily Commentaries on the Holy Week Services and their Scripture readings. These are talks I gave for many years at Holy Week services at Saint Nicholas, Cedarburg, and now on this Blog for the last four years. If you’ve read them before, you won’t find much new here – though […]
Read More »I told you that this week we’d talk about our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt, who we commemorate this Fifth Sunday of Great Lent. Yesterday, just as I had her Post all ready to go, suddenly I thought: This sounds very familiar. Guess what? I told you her story last year! You can find her […]
Read More »Heaven on earth When we spoke last week of our being “lifted up” into Heaven, no doubt you noticed that you did not ascend into the sky. Heaven is not literally “up there” somewhere. Or perhaps in a strange way it is, since “up” from our round earth is infinite, “everywhere”! But Heaven is even […]
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