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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
The Entrance of Our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem Introduction Yesterday we celebrated the raising of Lazarus which was, as we sang, the “prefiguring of the General Resurrection”, when all mankind will be raised from death – “those who have done what is good will rise to life, and those who have done what is […]
Read More »For those who may not know: I’m repeating my annual series of twice-daily Posts during Holy Week. Before we begin: This Holy Week please be sure to pray especially for the people of Ukraine, many of whom again this year will not be able to get to church because of the actions of (God help […]
Read More »Be sure to listen to this powerful hymn sung by the Boston Byzantine Choir. from the Arabic Tone 6, by Metropolitan Athanasios Atallah of Homs – arranged by Bishop Basil of Antiochian Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America (from Orthodox Christian Chants site) Actually the Saturday of Lazarus is not Holy Week, which begins with […]
Read More »Introduction to Holy Week Here we go again with the first of my annual Twice-daily Commentaries on our Orthodox Holy Week Services and their Scripture readings. These are based on talks I gave for many years at Holy Week services at Saint Nicholas, Cedarburg, and now have published in this Blog for the last six years. If […]
Read More »I can think of three possible ways this article might go: 1 I knew a young Protestant couple who were interested in Orthodoxy. They saw that a local Orthodox church was having services on the Friday evenings of Lent, so they went to check it out. The priest met them at the door and welcomed […]
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