Father 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 Divine Liturgy is always a festival celebration. That explains why, on the penitential weekdays of Lent and also on the ordinary weekdays of Holy Week, there is no celebration of the full Divine Liturgy. Therefore, at these Liturgies, the Anaphora (the consecration of the Holy Gifts) is omitted, and Holy Communion is received […]
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 »Understanding The Revelation (The Apocalypse) I came home from Patmos with a great tan which must have been a miracle, because my last Post implied that I spent my time there in church – yes? No. In the old days, I loved to go to a quiet beach and read. I found this little beach […]
Read More »In case some of you long-time readers feel a sense of deja vu as you read this Post, you are to be congratulated for having a good memory. I promised to write on the Transfiguration, but this was one of the rare weeks when I just couldn’t come up with anything. So I searched back […]
Read More »But first: I made a major error in last week’s Post about Christian Nationalism, for which please forgive me. I said the United States of America was founded not as a Christian nation but as a “secular” nation. I meant to say “non-sectarian”: with no established “sect” or religion. Secular means “having nothing to do […]
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