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
I am going to begin on a different subject. I know this has been happening in other places in America – masked men in military garb carrying weapons of war on the streets of our towns and cities, shooting tear gas and pepper spray at people. I’m an old man: this reminds me of things I […]
Read More »Please pray for the people of Ukraine, under continual attack by the Orthodox Russian aggressors. May God have mercy on us all. Today, December 6, is the feast of : Saint Nicholas of Myra, the Wonderworker Did you know that after Saint Nicholas Day, we slowly begin to gain light in the evening. After about […]
Read More »Will Orthodox Russia never stop this immoral war? – bringing scandal on the Orthodox Church. Saint Nektarios, the Wonderworker of Aegina November 9 If any here present heard the sermon last Sunday at Saint Nicholas Church, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, I take no offense if you now go do something else, because here it comes […]
Read More »Before we begin, I want to ask some questions on another topic: 1 How is it that our government can declare a special emergency so that they can sink ships in the Caribbean? but cannot declare an emergency in order to feed the needy? 2 How is it that they can declare another emergency in […]
Read More »Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Pray for an end to these unjust and immoral wars. + + + The Orthodox Saints of October 24 Martyr Arethas (al-Haarith) and over 4,000 with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters; Blessed […]
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