Dear Father Michael [Azkoul?], Christ is in our midst! I have read your letter to Father Herman, expressing your grief over the division which seems to be occurring in our Russian Church Abroad. You are certainly correct that the issue at stake is not the teaching of Deacon Lev Puhalo, nor is it the attitude

Dear Fr. Demetrios, Christ is in our midst! We were glad to hear of your conference next summer; these conferences could be valuable supports for our difficult task of standing in the truth in these evil times. I hope you don’t mind if I have a suggestion or two for this conference: First, I think

St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood Platina, California 96076 AN OPEN LETTER TO FATHER NEKETAS PALASSIS Dear Father Neketas, Christ is in our midst! I wish to speak a word to you from the heart, and at the same time to explain to you and others why I feel unable to come to your Seattle conference

Dear Father Hilarion, Christ is in our midst! I’ve wanted to write you so many times, but I seem to be constantly distracted, and now that I have a specific occasion to do so I cant remember the other things I wanted to talk to you about! Anyway, please remember us poor distracted ones in

Dear Father Demetrios, Christ is in our midst! Thank you very much for your letter with its concern over church harmony in connection with Fr. Herman’s going (or not going) to the Seattle conference next month. Several priests have contacted us in this same connection—some saying about the same thing you said, but others, on

Dear Fr. Michael [Azkoul], Christ is in our midst! Thank you for your letter and its attempt to bring peace in the midst of the “debate” over the toll-houses, the “sleep” of the soul, and so forth. I very much appreciate your concern and kind words. I must say that for my part, although I

Dear Fr. Neketas, CHRIST IS RISEN! We haven’t received any answer as yet to my letter to you of last October, but we have received several new issues of the Tlingit Herald, still published and distributed by you, and the insulting, arrogant series of attacks on what we have been defending as the Orthodox teaching

The Orthodox Word Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood Platina, California 96076 U.SA. Dear Maria [Kraft], CHRIST IS RISEN! May the blessing of the Lord be with you! We have received your letter, and Gleb has received one also, informing us of your wish that Gleb leave us immediately. Already several weeks before this, two representatives

Dear John [Hudanish], May the blessing of the Lord be with you! I have received your letter with its news and its various accusations against Father Herman and myself. It is rather an insulting letter —something I don’t think you understand; you probably think you were just being “honest,” without seeing that an Orthodox Christian

Dear Father Ambrose, Christ is in our midst! Father Herman has asked me to answer your inquiry about Fr. John Lewis. We have known him by correspondence for a number of years, and I know several people in the parishes where he served before becoming a monk (including my godfather, who was his chief help

Dear Andrew [Bond], May the blessing of the Lord be with you! We were glad to hear from you, and we welcome your new publication News (or is it Orthodox News? It could be an important and encouraging publication, which is much needed in our days of gloom and negative thinking. Something better than the

Dear Father Roman, Christ is in our midst! Thank you for the letter and the Xeroxes about the “Grabbe affair.” About Fr. Panteleimon: whatever has happened between us is not due to the recent letters that have been exchanged between us; there is something much deeper involved, and the recent letters are only a small

Dear Father Neketas, Christ is in our midst! We have recently received vol. 6, nos. 8 and 9, 1979, of the Tlinget Herald. According to the return address on the envelope and the heading on the title page, this publication was mailed and published by you. You yourself in the past have indicated that Fr.

Dear Father Hilarion, Christ is in our midst! I had planned to write you after our Pilgrimage about your spiritual son, John Van Deerlin, and here almost two months have slipped by. Laziness and distractions! Anyway, he arrived safely before the first day of the Pilgrimage and stayed for several days of courses. He started

Dear Father Mamas, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for your letter. I wondered when I sent my little note: maybe this will just evoke another “open letter” such as your monastery is famous for? But I thought: No, it is so obviously a purely personal note that an “official

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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