Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Notice above: In iconography for this Feast, the Virgin Mary is always depicted symbolically as a three year old “adult”, already full-grown spiritually. Before we talk about this lovely celebration, first let’s demolish a couple of objections to it. 1 It’s not Scriptural. This is the big Protestant objection. It troubled me before I became […]
Read More »Alright, class, please hold up your hands: Who among you will be keeping the full Advent (Nativity) Fast, which begins today, November 15 and lasts till Christmas? As set forth by my Antiochian Archdiocese, the rule is as follows: Throughout this period, we abstain from meat, poultry, eggs and dairy. According to the Patriarchate of […]
Read More »Today is the Feast of the Bodiless Powers of Heaven, the Holy Archangels. I’m not going to talk about that today, but at the very bottom of this Post you can access two Posts I wrote about them seven years ago. ____________________________ I’d like to drop this subject, but after all I wrote last […]
Read More »Enough! In my commentary, I always intend to work right up to the edge of politics, but never jump into the chaos down there. I have political opinions, of course, but that’s not my area of expertise. However morality is. And the political immorality, cruelty, crudity, vulgarity, lying, distortion of truth this year have gone […]
Read More »Hallowe’en… Despite what some misguided folks say, Hallowe’en has nothing to do with Satan and his cohort. I’m just using Hallowe’en as an excuse to talk about the Evil One. Hallowe’en itself is a harmless holiday…promoted by dentists? or so I’ve always suspected. Back in my day, Hallowe’en consisted only of kids in costumes going […]
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