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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
The Vespers of “Taking Down from the Cross” At last! a Holy Week service (and the only one) that is “in sync” with the time of day. We’re going to cover: 1 The ceremonies, 2 The Scripture readings. Beginning with last night’s Procession of the Cross of Christ and continuing through Pascha, the ceremonies are intended to draw us […]
Read More »For those who may not know: I’m repeating my annual series of twice-daily Posts during Holy Week. Before we begin: As we move towards this Holy Week please be sure to pray especially for the millions of Orthodox people of Ukraine, many of whom again this year will not be able to get to church […]
Read More »His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) departed this earthly life on August 24, 2022. Here I want to look at: 1 His life. 2 Two (of the many) things I learned from him. 3 My four personal encounters with him. His Life Bishop Kallistos was perhaps the most prominent Orthodox theologian, author and lecturer of our […]
Read More »Who am I talking about up there? Surely it can’t be me!? The number sounds just wrong, so wrong. But there it is, and here I am. In fact with the traditional Chinese or Japanese system of counting, I will be 85 years old. (I’m not going to go there. Turning 84 is quite enough.) In a book […]
Read More »Before we begin: If any of you ever look back through earlier Posts (accessible on the right of this screen), you’ll note that many of the images have been removed. It would take too long to explain why. I’m replacing them as I can get to it, Post by Post. _____________________________________________ After writing and rewriting […]
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