Last Sunday after Pentecost:Christ the KingProper 29Nov. 16, 2025 This Sunday is the last Sunday of the liturgical year. It is the Christian “New Year’s Eve” so to speak. It wraps up what we commonly call the green season or Ordinary Time before the church embarks on the seasons of Advent, Christmas, and into Lent … Continue reading The Only King
22nd Sunday after PentecostProper 27, Year CNov. 9, 20252 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 In 1938, people across the country tuned into the Orson Welles radio program Mercury Theatre on the Air converting the 40-year-old novel War of the Worlds into a fake news bulletin describing a Martian invasion of New Jersey and chaos ensued. Police logs … Continue reading To Stay Centered
All Saints Sunday, Year CNov. 2, 2025 Ephesians 1:11-23Luke 6:20-31 Today is an important day in the Church. On this day we are combining All Saints celebration, one of the seven principal feasts of the church year, which honors all saints, known and unknown; not just the famous ones but the ones who have walked … Continue reading The Hope to Which We Are Called
Day 9– As we drove to the Peloponnese we went by the Corinth Canal, which connects the Ionian Sea with the Aegean Sea. Construction began in 67 BCE and was completed in 1893 BCE. Makes construction in Houston look not so bad. (Ignore the finger.) We frist toured the museum of the ancient city of … Continue reading EDOT Pilgrimage to Greece: Corinth
Day 7: As a former art student and ancient art history geek, the visit to the site of Minoan palace in Knossos was a full on geeky delight. The Minoans were Europe’s first advanced civilization from 2700 to 1420 BCE before being overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from the mainland, but was initially settled in the neolithic … Continue reading EDOT Pilgrimage to Greece: Crete
Day 6: A free day to explore the isle of Rhodes on our own. t was nice to be a little slower paced and discover sites and surprise delights. Rhodes is beautiful (as is everywhere we went.) It is named after the nymph Rhodos, the daughter of Aphrodite, and has nothing to do with the … Continue reading EDOT Pilgrimage to Greece: Rhodes
Day 5: We disembarked in Kuşadası, Türkiye where we found the ancient city of Ephesus. I was told the ruins here far exceeded those of Rome. They were exquisite. Our guide was an archeologist himself, often signing up to help at the local excavation sites. He was eagerly awaiting the next opportunity to be accepted … Continue reading EDOT Pilgrimage to Greece: Ephesus (Kusadasi) & Patmos
Day 4: We got on a boat today for a four day cruise to some of the Greek island. A really BIG boat. Mykonos is an island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. Above the town are some 16th century windmills, as it is known as the island of winds. It is a … Continue reading EDOT Pilgrimage to Greece: A Boat to Mykonos
Day 3 was A LOT. First stop was the monument to one of Greece’s most important historical battles, yet still grieved, the Battle of Thermopyles in the year 480 B.C. Remember Esther from the Hebrew Scriptures? Well, the notorious Xerxes who was going to kill Esther’s people landed on the coast of Greece. The historian … Continue reading EDOT Pilgrimage to Greece: Delphi & Temples of Apollo and Athena
BEREA Berea was an old city even in Paul’s day. It was first mentioned by Thucydides in 437 BC. When Paul and Silas visit, it’s a prosperous Roman city with a large Jewish population. I found it to be a quiet, easy-going village by the time the EDOT pilgrims arrive in our year 2024 CE. … Continue reading EDOT Pilgrimage to Greece–Berea & Meteora
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