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
Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and Palestine. Pray for peace in Gaza. This is a subject of some interest to me, now that I’m in my 88th year on earth. Maybe I’m doing it all wrong. We were told by a Methodist professor many years ago that if we go to […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Please give through International Orthodox Christian Charities. iocc.org These Posts, first published back in 2020, are reprinted here while I’m recovering from Covid. They follow the daily journal from my trip to Athos in 2002. If […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Introduction Why a rerun? Because I’ve spent the week dealing with a nasty case of the Covid, and I’m just not up to producing a fresh Post. (Though hardly anybody is paying attention, Covid is making […]
Read More »Pray for the suffering people of Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank. ______________ I know, you long-time readers have heard this story before. So have I! I’m telling it again 1 So you newer readers will hear it. 2 Because all good stories deserve re-telling. Why do you suppose the Church year repeats itself over and […]
Read More »Pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and Gaza. _________________ A Week on a Greek island The conference ended and with my wife’s leave – I have a wonderful wife – I had something I had long wanted: a week to bum around on a Greek island. I felt prepared. I had learned enough […]
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