Dear Andrew, May the blessing of the Lord by with you! Thank you for your letter. Yes, it was a little “nagging,” but I must say I agree with most of your points. Yes, the “Grabbe newsletter” is thoroughly uninspiring and has little positive to say about Orthodoxy. Its best forgotten and not spread further. … Read more

Dear Father Chrysostomos, Christ is in our midst! Thank you for your letter, which was most welcome, and please forgive my long silence in not writing to the other Fathers—I have just been too busy and unable to write. My letter to Andrew Bond advising him not to print Fr. Akakios’ letter was meant more … Read more

Dear Father Akakios, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for your letter and the copy of your article for The Old Calendarist. I had not seen it before, and my impression of it from Fr. Theodore’s brief words was, indeed, that it was more in the nature of a personal … Read more

Dear Mrs. Prokopchuk, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for your letter and the article from the Tlingit Herald. We also have been disturbed of late, not only by this, but by other articles also in this publication. It sometimes happens, of course, that there are differences of opinion among … Read more

Dear John [Hudanish], May the blessing of the Lord be with you, and give you a profitable season of the Fast! I’m glad to hear the services went well on Pentecost. However: beware\ No matter how “right” you may be on various points, you must be diplomatic also. The first and important thing is not … Read more

Dear Father Yves [Dubois], Christ is in our midst! We received your note of alarm and hasten to reply. Not knowing the specific nature of your encounter with Archbishop Vitaly, as well as the other problems you have had in the last three months, I will only give you our impressions both of the article … Read more

Dear Father Theodore, Christ is in our midst! I received and read your letter with some sadness. (Father Herman is presendy on a month- long pilgrimage to Mt. Athos and won’t be back for a week or so.) I had heard, rather briefly, from Fr. Chrysostomos and Fr. Auxentios about this incident, and then that … Read more

Dear Barry, May the blessing of our Lord be with you! First of all—yes, you are welcome to come and visit with Dan on June 5-7, or whenever you can make it. I trust you know from Dan that we have “primitive” accommodations. I will be glad to talk with you about confession. However, you … Read more

(St. Hermogenes of Moscow) Dear Father Laurence, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for the news and the copies of Fr. Lev’s letters. We have heard from Fr. Herman from Athens, Thessalonica, and Karyes; but no word yet whether he will be able to stay more than four days. The … Read more

Dear Brother [Fr. Herman], Christ is Risen! Glory be to God that you arrived on Athos—may God grant that your stay be fruitful, both for now and the future. We are fine. We are all at Wildwood after serving Liturgy for St. Nicholas. Today is cold and foggy, after a week or two of hot … Read more