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
The word in New Testament Greek is άσωτος/asotos, “dissipated, debauched, dissolute”. The old English word for this was “prodigal”. This guy who has wasted his life on nothing, worse than nothing, thrown away his family inheritance on pig’s slop: What kind of fuzzy-minded liberal would forgive somebody like that? I still remember my granddad feeding […]
Read More »Last week when I began to research the Flight into Egypt, I knew nothing about the subject, except what I had read in Saint Matthew. (How could I have been so ignorant all these years?) I found so much material that was completely new to me that I didn’t know how to process it all. […]
Read More »Did Our Lord Jesus take His first steps as an infant in Egypt, not at home in Nazareth? Was one of His first questions: “Father, what is that?” “It’s a pyramid, my son”. Why ever would I publish this Post in the middle of January? After all, we read the story of the Flight into […]
Read More »Did you ever have a mental roadblock – like I had last week? I intended to write about the Flight into Egypt. I had much material gathered and many interesting images, and I just couldn’t put it all together. Maybe next week? Therefore out of the files I’ve pulled up Post 46, written please note […]
Read More »The Nativity of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ Now that “the tumult and the shouting” have died, and Commercial Christmas is over, we Christians can get down to celebrating the Real Christmas. * Again this year, I’ve searched for some of the best Orthodox Christmas music I could find. Some is a repeat […]
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