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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

Dear Father Panteleimon, Evlogeite! Please forgive our long silence, but it seems we just don’t get around to correspondence until it’s absolutely necessary. It would be so nice to have a good talk with you. Father Neketas tells us you will be coming out West in November, and perhaps will be able to come to

Dear Brother in Christ, Daniel, Many thanks for your letter and the Xerox of St. Nil. The Christian “magic” booklet is also interesting and typical of the whole tone of this kind of “Christianity,” which I think differs from the charismatic movement only quantitively, not qualitatively. Many of the “signs of the end” which he

Dear Fr. Neketas, Evlogeite! Thank you for the Xerox of the letter of the man in Texas — we are sending him a few things. We are always grateful for your Xeroxes, even if we may not always mention them. Please forgive us, but here are some more observations on a sad trend! We visited

Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray that Susan has returned safely and that this finds you well and in the grace of our Saviour. I will start right out with our comments on the material for Nikodemos No. 4. 1. Editorial: By now you should have received our

Dear Father Neketas. Evlogeite! Yesterday’s mail brought the second issue of The True Vine and a letter from Alexey Young telling of your proposal to print Nikodemos as a supplement to your Newsletter. (Alexey says were supposed to get a copy of your letter — ?) Somehow in our minds these two events seem to

CHRIST IS RISEN! Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! It was good to hear from you again, even if some of the news is bad. But it is all our common sorrow, and only emphasizes how careful we must walk these days, and how close the small flock of Christ must be bound together in mutual love

Dear Brother in Christ, Laurence, CHRIST IS RISEN! Enclosed is absolutely the first copy of the new issue, slightly delayed due to uckywenie (various). Enclosed also is a letter from a prospective catechumen, to whom (today) we have given your name and tel. number. Pray to your guardian angel and lead him to the true

Dear Brother in Christ, Laurence, Glory be to God for all things! We had Liturgy yesterday, but a joyful feast nonetheless, with 3 pilgrims (Alexey and family). We also received, on Saturday, a very moving letter from Vladika Anthony, which reveals a loving heart. After it something of the empty pit in the bottom of

Dear Brother in Christ, Laurence, Rejoice in the Lord! We sympathize with you in your trials and troubles, which however are doubtless for your good. Use them wisely! It’s good news that there was 760 pounds of lead. Enclosed is $20 more for payment — but wait a day or two to cash it, as

Dear Brother in Christ, Michael [Farnsworth?], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We read your letter with great interest and sympathy. Glory be to God that you are on fire with love for the narrow path the truly leads to salvation. May God grant you in His time to take on yourself the angelic habit

Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! Many thanks for your letters, and please forgive our usual long silence. As you notice, our OW is again late. Cold weather struck us already a month ago, and we were finally forced to finish our winter preparations; most likely we will have our hardest winter so far. Then two weeks

Dear Brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We read your two letters with great interest. Little did I suspect, when I casually mentioned Orthodox America in my letter, that it would evoke such a response! We have thought of such a periodical — actually a newspaper — as something to be

Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! To answer your requests immediately: the manuscript is going to Fr. Michael [Azkoul] in today’s mail (but please send us a complete copy as soon as its out!) The 1968 copies are going to you likewise today. The stapler is Acme #1. Enclosed is the new OW, whose mailing has been

Dear Brother in Christ, Dimitry, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray this finds you safely returned — although from what we hear not all your fellow-pilgrims left unscathed from Mt. Athos! Alas, I’ve done it again! My letter has inspired you to take a decision — a leave of absence from the seminary.

Dear brother in Christ, Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. After I resolved finally to put off no longer writing to you, but to do it unfailing today — I realized that the feast celebrated today is that .of the Icon for which you have such devotion. And so I congratulate you on the