Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Before we plunge into this Post: May God grant you a blessed feast of the Holy Angels today, and of that wonderful Saint Nektarios tomorrow. And praise Him for sending them to help and assist us. [P.S. on Friday evening. I forgot to add: Go to Post 91 to read the life of Holy Nektarios.] The Preparation, […]
Read More »The Service of Preparation, Part One No clever “catch line” to introduce this Post. The Divine Liturgy is too serious a matter for that. But “serious” doesn’t mean dull. I hope you’ll find this interesting, informative, even enlightening. Why this series? Because we Orthodox have attended the Liturgy so many times that we can easily […]
Read More »Last week I promised a Post on Saint Paul. After three paragraphs I looked at what I had written, and… BORing. Not Paul! He’s fascinating. But my writing was not. So instead let’s do something seasonal. Boo By the title above, of course I don’t mean we’re all possessed by demons as with the Gadarene demoniac […]
Read More »I’m compulsive about getting this Post out on Fridays. Not this week. My computer went flooey (that’s a technical term) and I had to get a new one and set it up, so here we are, barely, on Saturday. I hope you’ve been able to handle the strain of all this. Me? Not so much. On October 18, Christians […]
Read More »Today: Why do we sing so much? Why only males in the Altar? Why no pipe organs? Why do we sing so much? It’s hard to find anything in Orthodox worship which isn’t sung. This is because traditional Jewish services were (and are) sung. The Apostles were Jewish, and that’s how they grew up worshipping, […]
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