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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Parchment of Decalogue by Jekuthiel Sofer, 1768 COMMANDMENT FIVE: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. Orthodox often expand this Commandment to include the wider topic of: The Family By that we mean the Traditional Family: father, mother, and children […]
Read More »from the Altar Screen at Temple Church, London (Creative Commons) The Third Commandment You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His Name in vain. In the Old Testament, a name is not merely a label for identification. A name […]
Read More »Once during a sermon I asked my people “What is the Eighth Commandment?” and they all just stared at me. Well, I caught them off guard. I probably would have done the same. But then I thought: In my fifty years as a priest, I had never once done a teaching series on the Ten […]
Read More »Often in history, including recent history, we have seen what happens when people lack knowledge, fail to seek truth, disregard facts. We’ll come back to that. But before we get started, two things: 1 Right to Life: I commend to you this excellent statement by our Orthodox Bishops: https://www.assemblyofbishops.org/news/2021/assembly-of-bishops-endorses-alternatives-to-women-in-crisis-pregnancies You might also want to see “Father […]
Read More »At least I don’t. I think it’s because I know them so well, pray them so often, that I usually just rattle them off, trying to get on to the “important” things that follow. Or sometimes I use them to settle my mind and heart before I really get down to praying. No matter, I pay […]
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