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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Did Our Lord Jesus take His first steps as an infant in Egypt, not at home in Nazareth? Was one of His first questions: “Father, what is that?” “It’s a pyramid, my son”. Why ever would I publish this Post in the middle of January? After all, we read the story of the Flight into […]
Read More »Did you ever have a mental roadblock – like I had last week? I intended to write about the Flight into Egypt. I had much material gathered and many interesting images, and I just couldn’t put it all together. Maybe next week? Therefore out of the files I’ve pulled up Post 46, written please note […]
Read More »The Nativity of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ Now that “the tumult and the shouting” have died, and Commercial Christmas is over, we Christians can get down to celebrating the Real Christmas. * Again this year, I’ve searched for some of the best Orthodox Christmas music I could find. Some is a repeat […]
Read More »As surely you have noticed, most of our American Christmas customs have nothing to do with the Birth of Jesus Christ. They’re secular – that is, without any specific religious connotations. That doesn’t mean they’re evil. Many of them are good or lovely or fun. But first, there’s one thing about secular Christmas which I […]
Read More »1 The Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ Who “came to earth without leaving Heaven”. Let’s begin with the more than puzzling words of Jesus to Nicodemus, that night when he came to Him by stealth: “No one has ever ascended into Heaven except the one who descended from Heaven, the Son of Man, who […]
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