Father 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
Pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and Gaza. Saint Sisoes: Why? We don’t know Sisoes’ * birthdate. We know he died in the year 429, and once confessed to having lived in the desert for 72 years – so you can count back. pronounced “SiSO-es” When he was a youth he went […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Saint Augustine of Hippo commemorated on June 15 But…but… you say, today isn’t June 15. It’s May 15. You are correct. Explanation: senility? Over the years I’ve made a long list of saints who I think would make interesting reading. Somehow I got Saint Augustine […]
Read More »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 […]
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