Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
I know… Some of you have heard these stories before. But some of you haven’t, and you really need to hear them. Besides, the good old stories always deserve re-telling. That’s why the Church year repeats itself, year after year after year. We’re doing two weeks on Saint Nicholas. Last week we covered the life […]
Read More »Everybody knows Saint Nicholas belongs in December – so what is he doing here in May? It’s because May 9 is a lesser and almost unknown feast day of Saint Nicholas, the day when… we’ll come to that. Keep reading. Over the past few years, I have sometimes referred you back to old posts about […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Last week, we utterly demolished all skeptical objections to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then we began to tell the full story of the Resurrection – much of which is never heard at Sunday Liturgy in the Orthodox Church. Yet, we are often called “The Church of the […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! He is risen! …but I’m not. I’m still wiped out after Holy Week. This, therefore, is a re-tread of my Post #10 of April 21, 2017, written long before most of you were following this Blog. The Resurrection Stories Which Most Orthodox Never Hear I hate to tell […]
Read More »1) The Holy Fire 2023 It has arrived again, just as it has for the past 1500 years or so. We talked about the Holy Fire in Post 395. This is from Jerusalem yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99whmyx0NCE&t=34s 2) The Resurrection Service yesterday at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Piraeus, Greece. The fireworks (literally) begin at about minute ten. […]
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