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

Posted on March 10, 2017October 22, 2023 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 […]

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

Posted on March 3, 2017October 22, 2023 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 […]

2. MY TRAVELS – 1985 Part 1: My First Trip to Greece

Posted on February 22, 2017August 3, 2024 by Fr. Bill

A Summer Sabbatical Has it been almost 32 years ago already? I was on sabbatical from my church that summer of 1985. I was a middle-aged Episcopalian priest who had been trying unsuccessfully, I felt, to preserve traditional Christianity in the Episcopal Church. There are many different kinds of Anglicans. Like others in my little […]