Fr. Bill's Orthodox Blog – Orthodoxy from the Third Coast – Page 83 – Saints, Seasons, Society, Sins, plus Travels mostly to Greece and who knows what next? by Father Bill Olnhausen

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

Posted on March 10, 2017July 27, 2022 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, 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 […]

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

Posted on February 22, 2017 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 […]

1. FATHER BILL’S TRAVELS – AND MUCH MORE

Posted on February 17, 2017July 1, 2022 by Fr. Bill

I started this Blog in 2017. This is a Preface, added five 1/2 years later, on July 1, 2022. This afternoon I wondered what I had written in February 2017, so I went back to see, and that’s why this Preface. Honestly, I had no idea I would live so long, but by the grace of […]