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

Dear Brother in Christ, Laurence, Thank you for spending the feast day with us. Our services for some reason today took 3 hours, so you were probably to Williams before we finished. With Uspeniye we go on autumn time, and getting up time becomes pre-dawn, as you aptly reminded us. In the last few hours

Dear Brothers in Christ [Fr. Panteleimon et al.], Rejoice in the Lord! Thank you for the card and manuscripts (Arkady and Transfiguration). We note that Jordanville celebrates St. Herman on July 27 — but somehow this feast hasn’t caught on with us. What does the monastery do with St. Panteleimon? The Arkady ms raises several

Dear Brother in Christ, Dimitry, Rejoice in the Lord! We were very glad to receive your letter and read it with great interest. We were touched at your defense of such “unpopular” ones as we. However, it would probably be best to discount a good part of what is said about our dire straights. Our

Dear Brother in Christ, Laurence, You have told us of your willingness to drop everything and come to join us here as a full-fledged brother; and you have expressed your doubts. Now it is for us to tell you what you can expect and what we expect of you when and if you join us,

Dear Brother in Christ Laurence, Congratulations on your namesday! May God grant you to grow with each year in Christian virtues and attain in the end to His eternal Kingdom! Enclosed is our official epistle to you to help you make up your mind about joining us. What does it say to your heart? Fr.

Dear Brother in Christ, Laurence, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Rejoice in the Lord! Congratulations with the namesday child. We are sending him an inscribed copy of vol. 6 of the OW, so he can clearly see what we are doing. The calendar has been sent to Nicholas Mabin, airmail. Time is fast approaching

Dear Father in Christ, Panteleimon, Evlogeite! On looking over our file of letters to you since our “crisis” began in January, I note that we have sent you a “progress report” about every two months; and another one is now due! And so I send you this brief report, even though there is very little

Dear Father Panteleimon, Evlogeite! This is solely a “Publication Question Sheet”; a letter will follow shortly. Thanks be to God, we are well and in good spirits. 1. Life of St. Mamas: safely received with many thanks. It will go in the May-June issue, as Vladika John will have to be our saint for March-April!

Dear Father in Christ, Panteleimon, CHRIST IS RISEN! Evlogeite! It was very good to talk to you, and one only regrets that the time was so short. We do hope you will be able to visit us the next time you are out on the West Coast, and we can discuss many things more thoroughly.

CHRIST IS RISEN! Dear Father in Christ Neketas, Evlogeite! Please forgive our long silence. Somehow, since the Canonization last year our correspondence with you has slowed to a trickle, which is unfortunate, as our common mission of English-language Orthodox enlightenment would profit by more intercommunication, not to mention the mutual encouragement which is often so

Dear Father Ambrosius [Pogodin], IN TRUTH CHRIST IS RISEN! Thank you very much for the letter and gift, and please forgive our long delay in answering. There is so much for just the two of us to be doing, and as you see, we are very late in publishing our magazine. But by God’s mercy

Dear Brother in Christ, Anastasios [Luebke], Christ is risen! We were glad to hear from you, and pray that this finds you well and in the grace of our Risen Lord. In the same mail with your letter we received a letter from Priestmonk Innocent, who enclosed a copy of a part of his recent

Dear Father Innocent, In truth Christ is risen! I will be honest with you and come to the point: Why “strain at a gnat and swallow a camel”? While souls are starving and perishing for want of Holy Orthodoxy, are you going to devote your time and energy to idle academic exercises? Doubtless you are