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 NINTH COMMANDMENT You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. “As Jesus Christ hung on the Cross, it seems clear that He was reciting Psalms. Just before He died, he quoted Psalm 31:5: “Into Your hands I commit My spirit”. If He’d had the strength to complete the verse aloud, He would have added, […]
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Read More »Parchment of Decalogue by Jekuthiel Sofer, 1768 COMMANDMENT FIVE: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. Orthodox often expand this Commandment to include the wider topic of: The Family By that we mean the Traditional Family: father, mother, and children […]
Read More »from the Altar Screen at Temple Church, London (Creative Commons) The Third Commandment You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His Name in vain. In the Old Testament, a name is not merely a label for identification. A name […]
Read More »Once during a sermon I asked my people “What is the Eighth Commandment?” and they all just stared at me. Well, I caught them off guard. I probably would have done the same. But then I thought: In my fifty years as a priest, I had never once done a teaching series on the Ten […]
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