Fr. Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast
Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Six years ago, when I turned 79, I wrote three Posts covering “What I’ve Learned in 79 Years” * – choosing the odd age 79 because I figured (who knows?) I might not make it to 80. And now so suddenly I’m 85. That number just sounds wrong. But here it is, and here I still […]
Read More »Someone (I’m sorry – I still can’t remember who) wrote: “Our chief task as Orthodox is not to think about Orthodoxy, but to think about the world in light of Orthodoxy”. Of course we need to know the Faith. However, the Orthodox Faith is a “given”. Orthodoxy is built on the Rock. It doesn’t change. […]
Read More »But first: Next Tuesday is August 15, the great feast of the Dormition / Falling Sleep / Kimisis (κοίμησις) of our Lady the Theotokos and Ever-virgin Mary, when we celebrate her Entrance into Heaven. Let me refer you back to two Posts I wrote in 2019 titled “Why do we honor the Mother of God? […]
Read More »Retired The old retired priest is me, of course, and this will be a very personal story. I don’t think I’ve ever written anything quite like this before. There will be very few images this time, because who wants to look at me? Every time I stand before a mirror I think “Who’s that old […]
Read More »1) The new conservative ecumenical coalition, 2) Secularized education, 3) The Environment, 4) Ukraine and Patriarch Kirill, 5) Abortion? Homosexuality? Introduction I greatly admire His All-Holiness Bartholomew, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Please understand that I am a priest of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, answerable directly to His Eminence Metropolitan Saba and […]
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