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
Wednesday November 30: My email tells me that this week’s Post has just been published. I do believe I must have pushed the “publish” key two days early. Uh…whoops. However, this Post is almost ready to go. All I need to do is correct a few typos. This will give you more time to real all […]
Read More »I’ll try to keep this short. This is Thanksgiving week. You probably don’t have much time to read, and I don’t have much time to write, because all our family will soon be here. _______________________________________ Feminine Weakness? Occasionally in our Orthodox hymns for certain female martyrs, we give thanks that they bravely overcame their “feminine […]
Read More »That’s the catchy title some of the Fathers used for Saint James the Just, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and First Bishop of Jerusalem. I think they were trying to startle unbelievers, making the point that Jesus of Nazareth is truly God Incarnate, hoping that people might say “What?!” and then perhaps look further […]
Read More »Have you heard of Saint Jonah? I had not till I discovered him on the calendar of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. Brothers and sisters, this is a beautiful, sad, inspiring story. Please keep reading! What follows here is taken largely from a text found in many places without attribution, so I don’t know the […]
Read More »At the upper right of these Posts, you’ll now see a new series of categories to help you search for older Posts by topic. (Thanks, Laurel!) You can still also locate them by date on the lower right. I am now s l o w l y getting previous Posts (all 344 of […]
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