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399. Saint Nicholas in May

Posted on May 4, 2023May 6, 2023 by Fr. Bill

Everybody knows Saint Nicholas belongs in December – so what is he doing here in May? It’s because May 9 is a lesser and almost unknown feast day of Saint Nicholas, the day when… we’ll come to that. Keep reading. Over the past few years, I have sometimes referred you back to old posts about […]

362. 1) From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus in five images, 2) Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed the World, 3) Nativity Poems by Saint Ephrem the Syrian and by G K Chesterton

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Fr. Bill

1. Santa Claus! And now you know why Santa Claus is dressed in red. 2. Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed the world by John Ortberg, Senior Pastor, Presbyterian Church, Menlo Park, California My notes: This article was written during the 2012 Presidential campaign. I left it unaltered, except for two explanatory footnotes. We hear much […]

359. 1) A little more about Ukraine. 2) Everything Imaginable and more about Saint Nicholas

Posted on November 30, 2022December 7, 2022 by Fr. Bill

Wednesday November 30: My email tells me that this week’s Post has just been published. I do believe I must have pushed the “publish” key two days early. Uh…whoops. However, this Post is almost ready to go. All I need to do is correct a few typos. This will give you more time to real all […]

224. Saint Nicholas does something completely “off the wall”

Posted on December 4, 2020March 18, 2023 by Fr. Bill

Well, actually it was entirely on the wall! More on this later. Saint Nicholas This Sunday December 6 is the feast of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia. Why December 6? Because that is the day he died, his “birthday” into Heaven. This seems the right time to finish the story of how Saint […]

222. My First Trip to Greece – Part Two: How I fell in love with Orthodoxy. Saint Nicholas makes his first move.

Posted on November 27, 2020November 30, 2022 by Fr. Bill

Image compliments of St Isaac’s Skete: skete.com A week on the Island of Paros The Conference ended and with my wife’s leave, bless her heart again, I had something I had long wanted: time to bum around on a Greek island. I felt prepared. I had learned enough Greek to get by. “Yes” in Greek […]