Dear Father Roman, CHRIST IS RISEN! Christ is in our midst! We send our heartfelt congratulations on the Feast of Christ’s Resurrection. May God grant you new strength for faithful labors in this holy season! In your latest church bulletin there is an announcement of a talk by Fr. Lev Puhalo on the Orthodox Christian

Dear Fr. Herman, Christ is Risen! We were glad to hear from you from Jordanville, and look forward to news from Mt. Athos. Friday night we sang the canon to St. Demetrius the Great Martyr, praying that he would be able to open the way to the Holy Mount for you, and every day we

Dear Barry, CHRIST IS RISEN! May the blessing of our Lord be with you! We were very happy to receive your letter and hear of your path to Orthodoxy. May God send you His grace abundantly and grant you eternal salvation in His True Church! The light you saw, and the presence you felt, I

Dear Anna, May the blessing of the Lord be with you! Thank you for your letter. I think it reveals less confusion than you think—perhaps your ideas are still somewhat confused, but I think your basic attitude is correct, and if you persevere in spiritual struggle your ideas also will straighten themselves out. Your battle

Dear Father Basil [Rhodes], Thank you for your letter, and please forgive this delayed response, which is partly caused by our recent snowstorms and other winter difficulties. I was glad to see the kind tone of your letter, and I hope that we will continue to be on friendly terms. There are at times some

Dear Timothy [Shell], May the blessing of our Lord be with you! We were glad to hear from you; thank you for the information on Russian periodicals. About your personal problems: Fr. Basil Rhodes has also written us a letter, saying about the same things he wrote to you, but apologizing for calling our Church

Dear Rev. [Roy] Goodridge [Wales, UK], Thank you for your letter, expressing your anguish over the present state of the Anglican Church. Fr. Herman has directed me to reply to [you.] There is really only one answer to your situation: to be joined to the Orthodox Church. This, of course, will not solve all your

Dear Fr. Donald, Please forgive my long delay in answering your letters. I wanted to hear first from Bishop Laurus, and I wrote to him only after Christmas in order not to burden him at a busy time. I received his reply on the same day as your new letter this week, but now it

Dear Fr. Ioannikios, Christ is in our midst! Thank you for your letters. Regarding Fr. Lev: your letter is a study in restraint in the face of attacks which, from what we have seen of them, are simply outrageous. Until about a month ago, Fr. Lev had sent nothing whatever to us of all his

Your Grace, dear Vladika Laurus, Blagoslovite! I hope you and the brethren spent the feast days peacefully and joyfully. For us these days went very well, both in the monastery and in our missions in Redding and Etna. Despite the troubles of the times and our sorrows over many “converts,” there are still some people

Your Grace, dear Vladika Laurus, Bless! Thank you for your letters and the copy of Fr. Levs letter (which I am returning with this). Fr. Lev sent us none of the letters exchanged in this controversy, and we were sent a copy of his letter and Br. Isaac s reply by someone else. In general,

Dear Father Chrysostomos, Christ is in our midst! From Fr. Auxentios we receive the impression that my last letter to you has caused a feeling of some hopelessness regarding any emergence from your state of isolation and any normal relationship with the priests and faithful of our Russian Church Abroad. I would like to correct

Dear Father Chrysostomos, In truth Christ is risen! Thank you for your letter and kind gift. Regarding Fr. Theodore in Cleveland: I believe he is not a “fanatic” regarding Fr. Panteleimon, but still he has ties with him and your serving with him in any case would produce “complications.” Sadly, this is the way it

Dear Mr. Stamos, May the blessing of our Lord be with you. Thank you for your letter. Even though you express basic disagreements with us in it, we are glad that you have spoken frankly of your feelings, as in the long run this is the best path to mutual understanding and, if possible, agreement.

Dear Andrew, May the blessing of our Lord be with you! Please forgive us also for our offenses against you. May God forgive and enlighten us all! Your letters, especially the last one (of Forgiveness Sunday), are saddening, as has been the whole course of church life in England recently. Actually, your situation is a

Dear Father Hilarion, Christ is in our midst! Many thanks for your kind letters and Xeroxes of recent weeks. I think we never sent you a list of things we intend to publish, so here is a list of those we can think of now: Life and Epistles of Bishop Damascene of Glukhov, new martyr.

Dear Brother in Christ, Andrew, Many thanks for your letter and the informative “jottings.” The situation indeed is not healthy, but if Vladimir and Olga are indeed going to go “off the deep end,” it might make others stop and think, especially Fr. Alexis. We certainly hope that the responsibility and the practical needs of

How to Survive as an Orthodox Christian in the World Lecture A. Introd.: pilgrims will go back to world—here we are protected, have our rhythm, segregated community, oneness of mind, services, Lit. to inspire and recharge—but how to continue inspired in world and remain Orth (w ones children)? B. This question arises bee. our way

Dear Father Ioannikios, Christ is in our midst! A few notes on our continuing “dialogues on evolution” many thanks for your two letters (one to Br. Makarios). 1. Concerning “day-age”—I agree entirely with the proposal to measure them “not chronologically but theologically.” I only suggest we be consistent in doing so. Dr. Kalomiros and others,

Dear Father Ioannikios, Christ is in our midst! Glory be to God, Brother Makarios arrived safely and is getting into the rhythm of our life here. Please pray that his summer stay will be fruitful—for him and us. About “evolution”—we were glad to have your comments. If you really want to see them so much,

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

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

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.

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

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