Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
“Orthodoxy from the Third Coast”? What’s that? See “About”, upper right. Since 2019 I have been writing a l o n g series on the Divine Liturgy. If you want to go back and review: 1 Posts 151 and 152 – The Proskimidi: the Service of Preparation 2 Post 163 – How we should prepare ourselves […]
Read More »Rennett Stowe at Creative Commons “The Lenten spring has come – the light of repentance! Let us cleanse ourselves from all evil, crying out to the Giver of Light: Glory to You, O Lover of mankind. Let us begin the fast with joy! Let us prepare ourselves for spiritual effort. Let us […]
Read More »THE NINTH COMMANDMENT You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. “As Jesus Christ hung on the Cross, it seems clear that He was reciting Psalms. Just before He died, he quoted Psalm 31:5: “Into Your hands I commit My spirit”. If He’d had the strength to complete the verse aloud, He would have added, […]
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Read More »Parchment of Decalogue by Jekuthiel Sofer, 1768 COMMANDMENT FIVE: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you. Orthodox often expand this Commandment to include the wider topic of: The Family By that we mean the Traditional Family: father, mother, and children […]
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