Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! We’ve been dealing with a lot of heavy subjects lately. We need a break. Our late Antiochian Metropolitan Archbishop Philip (of blessed memory) directed that clergy should stay in our parishes during Great Lent, but now it’s Pascha – and besides, our Milwaukee forecast says freezing rain and […]
Read More »The following is sung during the procession of the Holy Cross at our Orthodox Holy Thursday evening “Twelve Gospels” service. Last Holy Friday (Blog post 9) I compared the Orthodox and Roman Catholic crucifixes. A picture is worth a thousand words, so probably I should now keep quiet. However, being a Blogger, I can’t help […]
Read More »So much happens during Holy Week that there’s not time to take it all in. Let’s look at some things that can be missed. 1. We are encompassed by the Resurrection Tomorrow we celebrate Lazarus Saturday. Actually, the raising of Lazarus took place some time earlier, and John’s Gospel says it was then that the […]
Read More »OK, so March 17 was last week. The article on Other Faiths took longer than I expected. But all times are right for Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick of Ireland, claimed by everybody except the Aztecs. No matter, those were the days when Christians were united, so he belongs to everybody. We’ll talk about all that […]
Read More »Results of the Great Schism in the West Rome, cut off from the other four traditional Patriarchates, now saw herself as the One True Church. In isolation her authoritarian and legalistic tendencies were magnified. Some examples: 1 Purgatory, where after death peoples’ sins “are purged away through torment or ‘purifying’ punishments”. Catechism of Pope Paul VI, 1967. […]
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