September 2019 – Fr. Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast

145. Thirty Years Later, Part Two – What Being Orthodox for Thirty Years has done to me

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Fr. Bill

Orthodox! To begin where we left off last time: I was chrismated into the Holy Orthodox Church on September 16, 1989 by his Grace Bishop Antoun (may his blessed memory be eternal +) and ordained deacon and priest that same weekend! (Really? they all cried.) Their reasoning was that I already had over 20 years’ […]

144. Thirty Years Later – Reflections after being Orthodox since 1989, Part One

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Fr. Bill

First, let me apologize for all the spelling errors in last week’s Post (now corrected). I am recovering from Shingles (ugh!! If you can get the Shingles vaccine, please do!), and it was hard to concentrate. This concludes the medical segment of our program. Part One: The Thirty-year Search . I was chrismated on September 16, […]

143. Greece 2012, Part Two – All by myself, Wicked Church Hopping, then Home

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Fr. Bill

All Alone Khouria Dianna flew home and I was on my own on Crete. The place where I stayed was over a mountain, down the cliff to the Libyan Sea on an incredibly scary one lane gravel road. Pictures don’t begin to do it justice. That’s a 500 foot drop-off to the left. The nearest grocery, petrol […]

142. Greece 2012, Part One: Too much Talk, some mild Philosophizing, and some Travel

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Fr. Bill

Summer is about to flee here in the north, but September is the perfect time to visit Greece – not too hot, fewer tourists, lower prices, warm water. So in September 2012 I was off to my second favorite place in the world. (Wisconsin is first.) That was then. This is now. I can’t travel […]