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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
or Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre Pascha, if you wish A Very Long Introduction If you were going on a long auto journey to some lovely place, how would you approach it? Here, I think, is what you would not do: You would not wait till the very last minute, then just jump in your car and drive off. […]
Read More »However, we Orthodox have often ignored Saint Ambrose. Why? First, because he is commemorated on December 7, only a day after the feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra *, who is ultra-popular among us. In the Roman Catholic Church, Nicholas has been reduced to a minor commemoration. And also because he wrote in Latin – […]
Read More »If you don’t know where this Post is headed, you haven’t been following the news. 1. Saint Athanasios the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria (AD 298- 373) “Athanasios against the world”, people said. Athanasios was Patriarch for 45 years – 25 of which were spent in exile – in Rome and with the monks in the […]
Read More »This is the last of our series on the Creed. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets. Holy “Spirit“? The word “Spirit” makes Him seem like a kind of misty cloudy […]
Read More »Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became Man. Again this week we’ll have a dull (but important) beginning: three matters regarding language. 1 “For us men…” “…and became man.“ Is that sexist language? In today’s popular usage, […]
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