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
July 20 is the feast day of Mother Maria who died in 1945, seventy five years ago, in a Nazi gas chamber. On February 10, 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo at her “monastic” house in Paris. While she had been traveling, the Nazis had arrested Yura (son of Maria and her second husband) […]
Read More »The quote above is from a 1967 Paul Newman movie, “Cool Hand Luke”, about a Florida prison chain gang. You younger people probably remember neither 1967 nor Paul Newman nor chain gangs. (Indeed a cool movie. Look it up.) I think the line is still fairly common, because it applies to so many situations. For example, […]
Read More »Someone said “Everybody listens to advice. Nobody ever takes it”. But, oh, I hope you take this advice from the Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko. So my advice is: Put his Maxims in an icon on your computer screen, labeled in capital letters so you will see it and open it often. Or print out the Maxims and […]
Read More »I have some suggestions and thoughts, based on my own reading and thinking and praying and personal experience. Take them for whatever you think they’re worth. So you understand where I’m coming from: 1 I have degrees in science (meteorology) and in theology and have been shaped by both disciplines. 2 I have much respect for our hierarchs. They […]
Read More »This post will have three parts: 1 We will venerate the Apostles online. 2 What is Apostolicity? 3 How I found the Apostolic Church after I thought it had vanished from the face of the earth. The Apostles I’m sure you all know that next Monday June 29 is the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, because you are eagerly anticipating the […]
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