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 »Before we begin: Please pray for the innocent suffering people of Ukraine, Gaza, the Palestinian West Bank, Iran and Sudan. Χριστός Ανέστη! Αληθώς Ανέστη! As I said last week: I first wrote this teaching about war and peace for our Saint Nicholas Church newsletter ‘way back in 2003, not long before the second US invasion […]
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 »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 […]
Read More »Kievan chant, sung by “Archangel Voices” Troparion/Apolytikion of Bridegroom Matins Alleluia. Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, and blessed is that servant whom He shall find awake, but unworthy is the servant whom He shall find heedless. Beware, therefore, O my soul, do not be weighed down with sleep, lest you be given up to […]
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