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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
The preceding is an editorial comment. + + + Now, on to today’s topic: Making Lent Great for your Family This article was written in 2003 by Philip Mamalakis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. It is reprinted here with his permission. Our […]
Read More »Or, to take a another angle on the subject, this might be titled “The Sin of Fake Fasting”. Publicans and Pharisees In next Sunday’s Gospel reading (Luke 18:10-14), which I suspect you could almost recite by heart, we hear about a man who fasted diligently but was condemned by the Lord, and another man who […]
Read More »Busy last week. Busy last weekend. Late Blog Post. Short Blog Post. Sorry. God at work in history Some Christians are forever trying to figure out what the future holds: When will the Second Coming be? When will the Lord return in Glory? Even we Orthodox often wonder – or at least I do, who […]
Read More »Tomorrow, January 4, is New Year’s Day, too… and so are January 5th and 6th and 7th… and even March 25th, for that matter. In fact, did you know that in America, for over a century, March 25 actually was New Year’s Day. More about that in a minute. Dating of the beginning of […]
Read More »This, as you note, is my 500th Post! I had no idea I’d be blogging this long. I can think of no better way to celebrate than with music. The Nativity of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ For any here present who are not Orthodox: Here is a typical Orthodox icon for the […]
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