Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
We hear these words at the end of almost all our Orthodox services. The priest begins the Dismissal: “May Christ our true God, through the intercessions of His all-pure and all-immaculate holy Mother….[and so on through the other commemorations, then] have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loves mankind.” Through some […]
Read More »In a comment last week, “Skip” shared a video of some of Bishop Kallistos’ humor. Lest you miss it, I’m copying it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0KZT5rjZc ________________________________________ Introduction P.S. (“Prescript?”) added the day after publication: Please read the very perceptive and thoughtful Comments at the end of this Post, which mention important things I ignored. It is […]
Read More »His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) departed this earthly life on August 24, 2022. Here I want to look at: 1 His life. 2 Two (of the many) things I learned from him. 3 My four personal encounters with him. His Life Bishop Kallistos was perhaps the most prominent Orthodox theologian, author and lecturer of our […]
Read More »At the upper right of these Posts, you’ll now see a new series of categories to help you search for older Posts by topic. (Thanks, Laurel!) You can still also locate them by date on the lower right. I am now s l o w l y getting previous Posts (all 344 of […]
Read More »Who am I talking about up there? Surely it can’t be me!? The number sounds just wrong, so wrong. But there it is, and here I am. In fact with the traditional Chinese or Japanese system of counting, I will be 85 years old. (I’m not going to go there. Turning 84 is quite enough.) In a book […]
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