Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
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 […]
Read More »All icons by permission of Saint Isaac’s Skete at Skete.com In our super-busy world, even good Christian people seem to think that being active all the time – go, go, go – is the best way to make the world a better place. Well, sometimes it is. Sometimes maybe. And sometimes… Saint Antony spent over […]
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