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Month: March 2017

7. My Travels: 2002 Part 4 – Saint Nektarios

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Fr. Bill

The Life of Saint Nektarios (before and after he died) After Bishop Nektarios died, his sweater was inadvertently laid on the bed of the man in the infirmary next to him. The man who had been crippled for years immediately stood up and began to walk, and a sweet fragrance filled the room. This was […]

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6. My Travels: 2002 Part 3 – Mount Athos.

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Fr. Bill

Daily (but it’s mostly nightly) Life on Mount Athos Why was I so impressed by how beautiful things were at night? Because on Athos one spends a lot of the night awake. My most distressing memory is of the Finnish guestmaster knocking on my door every morning at 3 a.m. saying, “Pater, Pater, the services […]

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5. My Travels: 2002 Part 2: Mount Athos

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Fr. Bill

At Last: To the Holy Mountain! If you’d like to prepare a bit more before we leave for Mount Athos in the morning, here is the second part of the CBS  program on the Holy Mountain. On Wednesday morning, after a restless night’s sleep fearing I wouldn’t wake up at 4 a.m., it was off […]

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4. My Travels – 2002 Part 1: Towards Mount Athos

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Fr. Bill

I know I promised you a visit to Mount Athos, but first… By 1999 our new Saint Nicholas Church was ten years old and doing well, and we could afford to travel again, and I don’t want you to think I always left my wife behind. Khouria * Dianna and I made trips to Greece in […]

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3. My Travels – 1985 Part 2: First Trip to Greece

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Fr. Bill

The Island of Paros: A Quick Immersion into Greece and Orthodoxy The conference on Crete was over, and with my wife’s OK I had scheduled a week to bum around. So it was off to the island of Paros in the middle of the Aegean. I can’t remember why I chose Paros, but it was a […]

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