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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
For Post 151 on the Preparation for Liturgy, I decided that including the Priest’s Vesting Prayers would make the article too long. However “Mama V” wrote asking that we include them. So… I copied the following from the website * of Saint Luke the Evangelist Orthodox Church (OCA) in Palos Hills, Illinois – for which […]
Read More »Money! Money! Money! I know some church members take offense when the Priest talks about money. Maybe this is because they think dirty old money is too unworthy a topic to mention in church. Or maybe because… well, let’s no go there. In either case they would certainly have been offended by their Lord Jesus […]
Read More »Before we plunge into this Post: May God grant you a blessed feast of the Holy Angels today, and of that wonderful Saint Nektarios tomorrow. And praise Him for sending them to help and assist us. [P.S. on Friday evening. I forgot to add: Go to Post 91 to read the life of Holy Nektarios.] The Preparation, […]
Read More »The Service of Preparation, Part One No clever “catch line” to introduce this Post. The Divine Liturgy is too serious a matter for that. But “serious” doesn’t mean dull. I hope you’ll find this interesting, informative, even enlightening. Why this series? Because we Orthodox have attended the Liturgy so many times that we can easily […]
Read More »Last week I promised a Post on Saint Paul. After three paragraphs I looked at what I had written, and… BORing. Not Paul! He’s fascinating. But my writing was not. So instead let’s do something seasonal. Boo By the title above, of course I don’t mean we’re all possessed by demons as with the Gadarene demoniac […]
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