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216. April 18/May 1, 1976 Bright Saturday

CHRIST IS RISEN! Dear Brother in Christ, Andrew [Bond], Thank you for the copy of your “sorrowful epistle” to Vladika Nikodem. What you describe there is indeed but one case of a very widespread problem now in our Church, a diversion from the devil “on the right side,” as it were, and it will require

215. April 12/25,1976 Pascha 1976

Dear Christopher, We will be expecting you in May. Only please write again shortly before you come to confirm the time and date. Yes, the Sobor has daily Liturgy. Archbishop Averky reposed on Tuesday before Palm Sunday and was buried on the eve of Lazarus Saturday. A righteous man, little valued. We must now present

214. Apr. 3/16, 1976B Friday of Sixth Week of Lent

Dear Alexey, David brought us Nina’s note saying that she wants to send copies of Fr. John’s letter to Fr. George Grabbe and Fr. Panteleimon; and she is confused about whether to send also an “invitation” to Fr. John with the letters. Good heavens! If she is going to go on like this there is

213. April 3/16, 1976 Friday the Sixth Week of Lent

Dear Nina, David brought your note. Forgive my frankness—but why in the world do you want to send copies of Father John’s letter anywhere? Fr. George [Grabbe] already knows from the Synod, if he is supposed to know; and please don’t involve Fr. Panteleimon in anything to do with Etna. No matter what, that will

212. March 17/30, 1976B St. Patrick of Ireland

Dear Brother in Christ, Nicholas [Eastman?], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray you are faring well in the Fast and will be prepared to meet the Holy Passion and Resurrection of our Saviour. This is spiritually a very rich part of the year for us, with the long services, the special Lenten tone

211. March 17/30,1976 St. Patrick of Ireland

(St. Alexis the Man of God) Dear Alexey, Again, congratulations on your namesday. May Christ our God preserve you ever in His grace. We were encouraged by your dream of our “library”—at least it exists somewhere\ As a matter of fact, we’ve been thinking of it much of late, but a more urgent project is

210. Feb. 22/March 6, 1976 Cheese-fare Saturday

Dear Dr. Kalomiros, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We received your new letter on evolution. I have read it only once and it will be a long time before I will be able to answer it in detail. However, in general I will say this: I find it very helpful because I see that

209. Feb. 14/27,1976 St. Cyril Equal-to-the-Apostles

Dear Alexey, Just a note to accompany the (separately mailed) American Scientist and Xeroxes. Eugene Zavarin has sent his first general comments on the “scientific” part of our evolution study, to be followed by a detailed criticism. He has two main criticisms: (1) He thinks the “author” (we didn’t tell him who wrote it) is

208. Jan. 28/Feb. 10, 1976 St. Ephraim the Syrian

Dear Alexey, Enclosed is a new fruit—unfortunately mostly reprints, but we hope the cover is new and inspiring. In our visit we didn’t have a chance to ask you how Nina is getting along in the community. Is she getting a longing for big-city life? She told me that she and Barbara are not getting

207. Jan. 21/Feb. 3, 1976 St. Maximus the Confessor

Dear Dr. Kalomiros, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. I am sorry to be so late in answering your last letter. We have been working constantly at catching up on printing, and then I was sick with flu for several weeks. In general, our printing work is accomplished with great difficulty, and our helpers (both

206. Jan. 18/31, 1976 Sts. Athanasius and Cyril of Alexanderia

Dear Alexey, Rejoice in our Lord Jesus Christ! I hope you aren’t still upset over the Hudanish fit. You can accept it as “experience”—and really, such behavior is so outrageous, so out of the context of normal life, as it were, that one can’t really believe it until one see it with one’s own eyes.

205. Jan. 3/16, 1976 St. Genevieve of Paris

Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Just a brief note to return Vladimir’s note and one letter of Kalomiros—the other, unfortunately, I’ve mislaid between my two cells and will have to search more for. Forgive me! I still haven’t written Kalomiros, but hope to shortly. I’ve read through and underlined most of the

204. Dec. 3/16,1975B St. Sabbas of Zvenigorod

Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. John Hudanish was here and said you were busy on Nikodemos—I hope we’ll see it soon? Which reminds me—must start getting to you the tapes on Sederholm. Hope to do so within a few weeks. How does Nikodemos feel right now? How about money? John Hudanish—a “typical

203. Dec. 3/16, 1975 St. Sabbas of Zvenigorod

Dear Nina, Rejoice in our Lord Jesus Christ! It was good to hear from you. For now—rejoice in your isolation, and learn to be somewhat “aloof” from that world out there—even the Orthodox world. Whatever is developing in your soul will come out better and straighter for being away from the tumult of the world.

202. Dec. 1/14, 1975 St. Philaret the Almsgiver

Dear Father Hilarion [Igor Kapral], Blagoslovite! We have heard with joy of your tonsure and ordination. May Christ our God preserve you for many years of fruitful service in His Church! Many thanks for your letter on Fr. Panteleimon, etc. Do not be overly grieved at the troubles that go on about us. It is

201. Nov. 27/Dec. 10, 1975 Kursk Icon-St. Diodorus of Solovki

Dear Brother in Christ, Paul [Bartlett], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Please forgive our long silence, which is especially reprehensible on our part, knowing the difficulty of your lone Orthodox struggle out there in the world. These last weeks have been so busy that we have scarcely been out of the printshop, day or

200. Nov. 18/Dec. 1, 1975 Martyrs Platon and Romanus

Dear Brother in Christ, Macarios [Schaefer?], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. I’m sorry to be so late answering your letter. We’ve been working day and night on The Northern Thebaid (which is now complete except for cover), and now the Calendar, and I just haven’t answered any letters. About becoming a novice: if Nicholas

199. Nov. 7/20, 1975 St. Cyril of New Lake

Dear Brother in Christ, Phanourios [Ingram], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We were glad to hear from you again. In answer to your two questions: 1. You should be allowed to receive Holy Communion in San Francisco after simply going to confession. There is no special rite for receiving people from the Greek Archdiocese,

198. Oct. 25/Nov. 7,1975 Martyrs Marcian and Martyrius

Dear Brother in Christ, Thomas, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your letter, in which we see your sincere desire to serve Christ, God willing in the monastic life. You are welcome to visit us for some time and see our life at first hand. After this we could talk about your

197. Oct. 24, 1975B Joy of All Who Sorrow

Dear Brother in Christ, Andrew [Bond], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your letter, the Old Calendarists, and the list of British Saints, all of which were received safely. Have you sent something besides the list of Saints? If so, we haven’t received it yet. We were very glad to see this,

196. Oct. 24/Nov. 6,1975. Joy of All Who Sorrow

Dear Christopher [Amerling], Rejoice in our Lord Jesus Christ! We will be expecting you as per your letter on Nov. 14 n.s. at the Greyhound depot in Redding at 5 p.m. (or whatever time you said—I don’t have your letter right here). So far our weather is all right, but there may be muddy or

195. Oct. 22/Nov. 4, 1975. Kazan Mother of God. Equal to the Apostles Averky

Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ, and congratulations on the namesday of Vladika Averky! We just asked Fr. Michael Pomazansky: who is an authentic Orthodox theological guide for today, and his reply: Archbishop Averky. Fr. Michael told us some other important things which we’ll share with you when we see you. (When?) Concerning

194. Oct. 10/23, 1975

Dear Fr. Michael [Azkoul], Bless! Enclosed is the text of Bulgakov and Florensky; I have pencilled in a few comments. You show quite clearly their gnostic tradition. May God grant the work to be printed. We look forward to seeing the summary. Enclosed also are the two quotes you wanted; I hope they are what

193. Oct. 9/22, 1975. St. James, son of Alpheus

Dear Nina, We were glad to get your letter. Thanks also for the letters which give the “Boston version” of recent events. We didn’t like the tone at all— “oily,” self-justifying, and rumor-mongering. To spread to California rumors about the personal life of Fr. Augustine Whitfield is not very noble, to say the least—and yet

First fruits of the “Missions” document: a deadly heresy emerges…

On September 2nd and 3rd of 2016 a Conference was held in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was entitled “ Integral Ecology as the new road to reconciliation” and was held “under the High Patronage of His Holiness the Pope Francis, His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Archbishop of Canterbury…” On the official program

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