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
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! ______________________________________ The Holy Martyrs the Priest Raphael, Irene and the Deacon Nicholas commemorated on Bright Tuesday each year Previously forgotten and unknown, these Fifteenth Century martyrs first revealed themselves to the world in 1959! This is an amazing, wonderful story. I wrote about it only a few […]
Read More »I promised to write no more, and I meant it. But there’s something important I forgot. My dear cousin Jacklyn wrote to say she identified with the sufferings of the Virgin Mary, as surely have a million mothers who have suffered great loss. I wrote in an earlier Post of how the Theotokos * suffered […]
Read More »Saint Theodora of Thessaloniki I’ll try to explain this Post’s title later. My Unplanned Visit to Saint Theodora It was during my 2002 trip to Mount Athos. I had an afternoon free in Thessaloniki * , before catching the boat to the Holy Mountain the next morning. I wandered around amazed: an Orthodox […]
Read More »Saint Innocent, March 31 Don’t get me wrong – but I am tempted to dislike people like him. I knew some in high school and college: guys who did everything well. Bundles of energy and enthusiasm who were excellent scholars, good at sports, had good looks, attracted the girls, then went on to marry […]
Read More »Worldly Introduction which has nothing to do with Gabriel I do not intend this Blog to be chiefly religious/political commentary but, on the other hand, I do not want it to be irrelevant to the world we’re living in at this moment. Therefore, before we speak of Heavenly things, I want to mention three earthly […]
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