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
This has been a long vacation, folks. I see from the Blog stats that some have headed home already. * Understandable. However, I think you who are still hanging in here will enjoy our last week in Greece. We bloggers know these things. But relax. We don’t know your names. Today we’re… Back to the […]
Read More »I’d like to point out again that those of us who have apparent strange experiences with saints or directly from God should not go around bragging about it. No, quite the opposite. God sends us these things because He wants something from us, and we’re not bright enough or spiritually advanced enough to figure it […]
Read More »Before we get started: Our war against Iran has taken attention off wars in the rest of the world. Here are two sources of up to date information from other war zones, some of which is rarely found in American sources at the moment. THE KYIV POST: kyivpost.com Please don’t lose sight of Orthodox Russia’s aggression […]
Read More »Bishop Nektarios died in an infirmary in Athens. As they prepared his body to be taken away for burial they laid his sweater on the bed of the man next to him. The man, who had been crippled for years, immediately stood up and began to walk, and a sweet fragrance filled the room. That […]
Read More »Matins in the evening? In our parish churches, Matins/Orthros is normally sung in the morning. So why, you may ask, are we now suddenly having it in the evening? Also and equally odd, why during Holy Week do we have Vesperal Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts (obviously an evening service) in the morning? I’m really […]
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