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Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
That’s the catchy title some of the Fathers used for Saint James the Just, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and First Bishop of Jerusalem. I think they were trying to startle unbelievers, making the point that Jesus of Nazareth is truly God Incarnate, hoping that people might say “What?!” and then perhaps look further […]
Read More »Have you heard of Saint Jonah? I had not till I discovered him on the calendar of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. Brothers and sisters, this is a beautiful, sad, inspiring story. Please keep reading! What follows here is taken largely from a text found in many places without attribution, so I don’t know the […]
Read More »This is the last of our series on the Creed. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets. Holy “Spirit“? The word “Spirit” makes Him seem like a kind of misty cloudy […]
Read More »Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became Man. Again this week we’ll have a dull (but important) beginning: three matters regarding language. 1 “For us men…” “…and became man.“ Is that sexist language? In today’s popular usage, […]
Read More »That’s certainly a mouthful. However, it is the proper title of what we usually call The Nicene Creed. To explain: This primary statement of the Church’s Faith was written at two Ecumenical Councils: the first section at the First Council of Nicaea (AD 325), and the last at the First Council of Constantinople. Furthermore the Greek word […]
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