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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Before we get started: Last week’s Post dealt with the “dark side” of the spiritual world. But now the Orthodox Church shows us some of the “bright side of the other side”: 1 On November 8 we celebrate the feast of The Archangels Michael and Gabriel and All The Bodiless Powers of Heaven. If you wish, take a look at […]
Read More »The title above makes it sound like I work for “Ghostbusters”! No. But, in another way, maybe I do. from “The Exorcist” Have I done exorcisms like this one? No way! I understand that demonic possession does very very rarely exist. But if I saw something like this (thank God and all the saints I […]
Read More »James died, a martyr, on October 23, AD 62. His titles puzzle some people. Those who believe Mary is “ever virgin” wonder: How could Jesus have a brother? Those who think bishops were a later corruption of the Gospel, ask: Why do we call James “Bishop of Jerusalem””? Well… the Orthodox Church was there […]
Read More »“And now for something completely different.” Or maybe not – since Saint Francis didn’t lend money. He didn’t possess any. Usury: lending money at interest I was visiting family this week, so I took this an as easy topic: I’d just find the Scriptural and Patristic references to Usury and copy them here. Wrong! I found […]
Read More »What was it Francis “almost made”? He “almost made it” onto the calendar of the Orthodox Church. Why didn’t he? 1 Because he missed the deadline! It was not Francis’ fault, of course, that he was born in 1182, but unfortunately the year 1054 is the cut-off, the officially accepted date for the split between […]
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