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
Before we begin, three things: 1 You can find my old Post on Saint Patrick at the bottom of this Post. 2 I should have mentioned this earlier: If during Lent you would like to pray some of the daily Offices of the Church – Matins, the day Hours, Vespers, Compline – here is a […]
Read More »Not that the saints themselves get lost. They are always on course, and sometimes they travel so far into the Presence of God that we lose track of them. However, these next few Posts will be about the saints we lose because their commemorations fall during Lent, when so much else is […]
Read More »… at least not today in the Orthodox Church, when we commemorate Saints Auxentios, Maron and the martyrs Nicholas and Damian. No hearts and flowers there. We Orthodox do commemorate two Saint Valentines – one on July 6, the other on July 30 A Confusing Introduction I thought this was going to be a simple […]
Read More »That’s a devious way of saying this is a re-run of my old Post, written seven years ago: The Groundhog Who Stole Candlemas When I look back at my former Posts, almost invariably I’m unhappy with them. I think I surely could have written that better. Except for this one. Forgive me, but I really […]
Read More »These days when people are breaking the “Seven Deadly” publicly and unashamedly and even proudly, I thought this might be a relevant topic. Brief Introduction What is “sin”? In the New Testament, by far the most common word for sin is “amartia / ἁμαρτία”, an archery term which means being “off the mark” – the […]
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