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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Great Lent is a time to concentrate on prayer and, as I see it, to “experiment” with prayer. In the Orthodox Church, personal prayer is not a “one size fits all” thing. Except for the very basics, each of us is allowed to (and should) adapt our prayer life to our situation and abilities. Since […]
Read More »Wednesday November 30: My email tells me that this week’s Post has just been published. I do believe I must have pushed the “publish” key two days early. Uh…whoops. However, this Post is almost ready to go. All I need to do is correct a few typos. This will give you more time to real all […]
Read More »We hear these words at the end of almost all our Orthodox services. The priest begins the Dismissal: “May Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-pure and all-immaculate holy Mother….[and so on through the other commemorations, then] have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loves mankind.” Through some […]
Read More »In a comment last week, “Skip” shared a video of some of Bishop Kallistos’ humor. Lest you miss it, I’m copying it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0KZT5rjZc ________________________________________ Introduction P.S. (“Prescript?”) added the day after publication: Please read the very perceptive and thoughtful Comments at the end of this Post, which mention important things I ignored. It is […]
Read More »His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) departed this earthly life on August 24, 2022. Here I want to look at: 1 His life. 2 Two (of the many) things I learned from him. 3 My four personal encounters with him. His Life Bishop Kallistos was perhaps the most prominent Orthodox theologian, author and lecturer of our […]
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