St. Teresa of Avila, St. Francis of Assisi, and Our Ereymon Topon

Readings for the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church at the Chapel of Our Merciful Saviour in Eureka CA on October 15, 2025. Today we honor St. Teresa of Avila, a Spanish Carmelite nun of the 16th century who was a reformer who founded the Discalced Carmelites and a mystic […]

“Francis of Assisi” by Hermann Hesse – Prologue

I discovered that one of my favorite authors, Hermann Hesse, wrote a novella about one of my favorite saints, Francis of Assisi, and it’s never been translated into English. Using the original German version and an Italian translation, I have been slowly translating the novella Franz von Assisi (1904), with the help of AI. This […]