Father Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast
A Variety of Topics: Saints, Seasons, Society, the Moral Life, plus Travels mostly to Greece, and more, by Father Bill Olnhausen
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Inasmuch as I am not the Pope, I do not want to “get into it” with today’s civil authorities and their supporters or detractors. Therefore I want to make it clear again that nothing in these three Posts was written to apply specifically to the current war with […]
Read More »Personal note to a reader who has been writing to me: Forgive me. I’ve lost your last letter and your address. Please send it again. Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! I did not write this teaching about War and Peace to be relevant to our current war with […]
Read More »Brothers and sisters, there is a whole lot going on this morning, so pay attention. This Liturgy begins as a celebration of Christ’s victory over Satan and death “down below”, and by the middle we’re celebrating the Resurrection here on earth, even though it hasn’t happened yet, although of course it has. In the two […]
Read More »At last! a Holy Week service that is “in sync” with the time of day and doesn’t go on forever! Beginning with last night’s Procession of the Cross of Christ and continuing through Pascha, the ceremonies are intended to draw us more fully in these wonderful closing events of Holy Week. The Cross of Christ […]
Read More »The Royal Hours These four services are the short “Hours” (First Hour (dawn), Third Hour (9 a.m.), Sixth Hour (Noon), Ninth Hour (3 p.m.) sung in monasteries. Today they are scheduled also in parish churches – usually on Holy Friday morning, or in some places scattered through the day. On this day they contain […]
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