Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen
My Travel Journal Though it is now September 2020, we are about to go to Mount Athos in September 2002. As you may know, I kept daily journals on my travels, mostly to Greece, so that when I got too old to do it any more, I could read them and experience it all again – […]
Read More »Next Tuesday is September 1. Get your party hats out! Get ready to pop open the champagne, and stay up till midnight, and see the New Year in! Or not. For any who haven’t the faintest idea what I’m talking about: Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical New Year is September 1. But even Orthodox will think I’m […]
Read More »Saint Nektarios the Mischievous Beginning in 2002, Saint Nektarios of Silivria, the Wonderworker of Aegina, started doing mischievous things for me – some startling, some subtle. At first I might have attributed them to coincidence, but as they continued, I felt sure they were not. What in the world was he up to? I couldn’t […]
Read More »The icon above is contemporary, available from https://www.trinitystores.com/artwork/christ-desert Crete, c. 1550 Submit this question to the internet, and almost everybody will say: No, of course not. How could we possibly know that? All we know is that (if He existed, a few will say…) He was a First Century Jew. I think they’re wrong. […]
Read More »Humor When I first went to college, a church of my denomination sponsored a supper for us newcomers. As we ate, one guy made a cute (clean!) remark. We laughed. The pastor looked at us severely and said: “Life is a serious matter. We should not make jokes about it.” We never went back. I […]
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