Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
We just received this letter from our Bishops, calling for prayer for justice and peace tomorrow Wednesday June 3 at Noon EDT. It is important enough that I’m sending it out quickly. I’d suggest that you offer this short prayer from the Ancient Faith Prayer Book: For Times of Trouble O Lord of hosts, be with us. For in […]
Read More »The Time Jesus Ascended on a String You may find this hard to believe – but back in the 1940s, the public School Boards of Hancock County in Ohio (where I grew up) hired a teacher who went from school to school throughout the county teaching Bible stories to us children. I can understand why […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Students, we are now going to play a sort of Third Grade game, but with a serious purpose. So pay attention, and please do what I say. Now: Look around – forward, left, right, up, down – and take in and remember what you see. Next, close your eyes (wait, not yet!) […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! This is a contemporary Coptic Orthodox icon. The Samaritan Woman This is one of my favorite Gospel stories. It makes me smile. Because: 1 The dialog is written so beautifully. It makes me wonder if the Apostle John was a frustrated dramatist. 2 I can see a quiet gleam […]
Read More »Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Yes, but fifty five years years ago last February I was not. I was paralyzed. Not physically, but emotionally and mentally. On January 26 I had flown home to Ohio from seminary in New York. My father had died. I loved him so dearly, and I took it […]
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