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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
That’s certainly a mouthful. However, it is the proper title of what we usually call The Nicene Creed. To explain: This primary statement of the Church’s Faith was written at two Ecumenical Councils: the first section at the First Council of Nicaea (AD 325), and the last at the First Council of Constantinople. Furthermore the Greek word […]
Read More »We hear these words at the end of almost all our Orthodox services. The priest begins the Dismissal: “May Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-pure and all-immaculate holy Mother….[and so on through the other commemorations, then] have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loves mankind.” Through some […]
Read More »In a comment last week, “Skip” shared a video of some of Bishop Kallistos’ humor. Lest you miss it, I’m copying it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0KZT5rjZc ________________________________________ Introduction P.S. (“Prescript?”) added the day after publication: Please read the very perceptive and thoughtful Comments at the end of this Post, which mention important things I ignored. It is […]
Read More »His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) departed this earthly life on August 24, 2022. Here I want to look at: 1 His life. 2 Two (of the many) things I learned from him. 3 My four personal encounters with him. His Life Bishop Kallistos was perhaps the most prominent Orthodox theologian, author and lecturer of our […]
Read More »This article, written by Paul Ladouceur, is taken from the July 11, 2022 edition of “The Moscow Times”: https://www.themoscowtimes.com It originally appeared on the website of “Public Orthodoxy”: https://publicorthodoxy.org My Introduction “Manifest Destiny” was the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the North American continent was God-given […]
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