Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom rejoice! Good heavens, we didn’t mean for our poor letter to put you into such a state! Indeed, the evil one beset you. It is doubtless profitless to sort out all the reasons, both demonic and human, for such a trial; what … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Just a brief note — since you mentioned that you might be printing Sarah’s article on the Shroud of Turin separately. I read it yesterday at last, rather quickly but enough to see that it shouldn’t be printed as it is, for several reasons: … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Igor [Kapral], Greetings in our lord Jesus Christ. We are well and thanking God for His mercies to us, and trust you are also well. We were very glad to have even a brief letter from you, for somehow we feel even more kin to you now with the repose of … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Nicholas [Eastman], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We were glad to hear from you again and are happy to try to answer some of your questions. Your mixed feelings lately, especially at Holy Transfiguration Monastery, doubtless reveal several things. One of them, as you yourself must realize, is your own … Read more

Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! Father Herman returned safely Wednesday from Edmonton with his mission accomplished, thanks be to God. (It turns out that Vladika Savva himself left the money for Father Herman’s trip.) We had so many obstacles in the way beforehand — 3 cars in the ditch, ruined transmission, dead battery — that we … Read more

Unmercenaries Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Please forgive our usual long silence, but we’ve really been overwhelmed with happenings of late. I’ve just returned from three days in Seattle, at Fr. Neketas’ request, in order to have a good talk with Fr. Panteleimon — about which more below. The … Read more

Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! We received the plane tickets, and also noted the urgent tone of your brief letters. Apparently there is nothing to do but obey. However, it is really impossible for both of us to be away from here for more than 24 hours, and the more now when my 12-year-old godson [Tommy … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Nicholas [Eastman], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We were happy to hear from you again, and please forgive our very hasty replies to your previous letters. As you see, the Orthodox Christian life is full of trials and temptations, usually of a seemingly very trivial nature. By this the devil … Read more

Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Congratulations on the feast of the Image of Our Saviour. May the grace of our Saviour be with you now and always. Thank you for your very frank letter, in which your deep concern is very evident. Please forgive us if we ourselves have added to your confusion (on the … Read more

Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! Thank you for the letter and the Sorrowful Epistles, which arrived safely. Our new issue has a 1-page notice about the latter. Melchisedek was here for Pentecost weekend, and unlike his last visit he talked quite a bit, which seems to be good for him. Nonetheless, he’s obviously the iceberg type, … Read more