Your Grace, Dear Vladika Nektary, Bless us! On your visit to us in April you informed us that you had been assigned, by the Sobor of Bishops and Archbishop Anthony, the duty of raising with us a question regarding our St. Herman Calendar, namely the commemorations (in italics) of recent hierarchs, ascetics, and martyrs, in … Read more

CHRIST IS RISEN! Dear Brother in Christ, Christopher, May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Yes, I was ordained priest on Sunday, and I begin to feel the weight of the cross. Please pray for me harder than ever, that I may truly be able to help souls to salvation. The … Read more

Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. I’m sorry to be so long in writing. It really seems that these last weeks and months have been our busiest ever. I haven’t forgotten the last installment for the Sederholm series (by the way, did I mention that we have received a Xerox copy of Fr. … Read more

Dear Father Cyprian, Evlogeite! Please forgive our long delay in answering your letters. We have been even more overwhelmed with work than usual in these several months, and besides all that, just about a month ago Father Herman was ordained to the priesthood and I to the diaconate, so that now we have also the … Read more

Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Enclosed are the articles for Nikodemos. Both are very good and lively. I’ve made some comments in the text. We look forward to the next installments on Christianity in Britain—it looks to be a very interesting series. Many thanks for the offer of the jeep—were expecting David … Read more

Dear Father Ioannikios, Bless! We send you our heartfelt congratulations on your namesday. May God grant you many years of fruitful labors, and the salvation of your soul. Save, О Christ God! We were glad to receive your communication of some weeks ago, and pray that many such frank communications will be exchanged between us. … Read more

Dear Mr. Graves, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We were glad indeed to hear from you and were encouraged by your interest in something so dear to us as the Orthodox saints of the West, as well as by your offer to help us with translations from Latin. About the phenomenon of Orthodox saints … Read more

Dear Christopher, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Please forgive our long silence. We have had a quiet summer as far as people is concerned (no one has come for more than a few weeks, and we’ve been mostly alone for the past month), but several outward events have caused us trouble. First there was … Read more

Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! Alexey Young has passed on your message to us. I would like to assure you that we were not offended or disturbed by your letter to us; we saw there nothing but a sincere and concerned expression of your opinion. But perhaps you thought that my letter to you was written … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Seraphim, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We rejoice to hear of your baptism and of your desire for monasticism and the desert. May God bring this desire to fruition in your life! As for our skete—since you know of our poverty and labors, I won’t mention them. However, you should … Read more