Dear Mr. [John] Dunlop, Christ is risen! I pray this finds you well and in the grace of our dear Saviour. Actually, I’ve been meaning to write you for some time, but the pressure of work never seems to give me a minute. Even this will just be a note concerning one practical question, and

Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God, 1971 Dear Brother in Christ, Daniel, Rejoice in the Lord! I pray this finds you well and laboring successfully in the fast — or rather, prepared for the Great and Holy Week. With us these last weeks of long services (abbreviated, at that!) have been rather difficult,

Dear Elena Yurevna, You know how upset we have been in the past few months over the status of our Brotherhood and the whole future of our missionary work in the Church. Unfortunately, Father Herman’s letters to you seem to have communicated more our present feeling of disturbance than the basic principles that have inspired

1. I am in terrible state. 2. Interview with Vladika Anthony — brief — ______? 3. We are horrified because in back of this event is a frightful lack of______: We think we are still independent again, in monastic calling; and he thinks he has taken us over as Abbot. 4. Already on top of

Dear Father in Christ Panteleimon, Evlogeite! Enclosed is our letter to Vladika Laurus, to which we have not yet received a reply. There is no new development in our “case” as yet. Our Staretz, Archimandrite Spyridon, is planning to come to us for a week or more — from Annunciation to Palm Sunday, and then

Dear Father in Christ Panteleimon, Evlogeite! Thank you very much for your word of encouragement, and please forgive us for preserving such a long silence. We have been very busy printing, and not until last week has there been anything new regarding our status and relationship with Vladika Anthony. After writing you we decided to

Your Grace, Dear Vladika Laurus, Bless us, Vladika! Evlogeite! We hasten to inform you of an extremely serious situation which has arisen with us, and which already threatens the whole future of the missionary work which we have conducted now for seven years. We beg you to give us your help and advice. We are

The Minister of the Interior Government of Greece Stadiou and Dragatsaniou Sts. Athens, Greece Your Excellency: We have heard that the Archimandrite Cyprian Koutsoumbas has been reduced to the lay state by the official Church of Greece. We beg you to use your authority to protect him and his priesthood against any act of violence

Dear Sister in Christ, Catherine, Many thanks for your letter of a month or more ago. It’s a comfort to us whenever we get a live response from out there in the somewhat indefinite region of American Orthodoxy. Our whole purpose is to keep up contact and mutual inspiration among the isolated Orthodox “sparks” out

Dear Sister in Christ, Nina [Kojevnikov], Rejoice in our Lord Jesus Christ! I was glad to receive your letter — not because I have any particular means to help you, but because all of us who have been baptized in Jesus Christ are one in Him, and it is our joyful duty to bear one

Dear Father in Christ, Panteleimon, Evlogeite! The spiritual bond between you and your Synodia and our small Brotherhood has always been most close. Years ago you offered us refuge if we should ever need it, and we offered the same to you when you came and saw for yourself the wilderness which God and Vladika

Dear Brother in Christ, Lavrenty [Campbell], Rejoice in the Lord! We tried to call you Friday night to tell of the conclusion of our visit with its trials (from Elena Yurevna’s), but no answer. I rested at her place for a while, while Fr. Herman conversed, and we left in time to reach here safely

Dear Father David [Black], Thank you for your frank letter to Br. Gleb of some weeks ago. Although, of course, your tone was distressing to us, we very much appreciate knowing how you really feel, so that real differences and misunderstandings between us will not be glossed over by polite words. Please permit me to

Dear Brothers in Christ [in Madrid], Rejoice in the Lord! Please forgive us for such a delay in answering your last letter. Since that time the two of us who live here permanently have been tonsured monks and are now Fathers Herman and Seraphim, and our monastery is the St. Herman of Alaska Hermitage. In

Dear brother in Christ, Daniel, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. By God’s grace your onetime brothers Gleb and Eugene are now (for four days already) Fathers Herman and Seraphim, and still overwhelmed by the magnitude of what has happened. Our humble place is now the St. Herman of Alaska Hermitage — already a contradiction,

Dear Brothers in Christ, Lev [Puhalo] and Vassili, Rejoice in our Lord Jesus Christ! We greet you on the feast which you so love, the Nativity of our Most Holy Theotokos, and wish you abundant spiritual joy in these holy days. These summer and fall feasts have been very important for us too, and have

Dear Brothers in Christ, Rejoice in our Lord Jesus Christ! We were most happy to receive your letter and hear of the existence of your Orthodox mission in Madrid. We will gladly enroll you as our regular subscribers, and we have already sent you copies of all the back issues that we still have —

Dear Brother in Christ, Daniel, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ! I’ll write a note while your letter is fresh, and while we’re paralyzed waiting for our generator to be repaired. We’re still kept busy enough on building projects, however! Your letter was a joy to us, too. Sometimes I’m afraid we let the worldly

Dear Father Michael, Bless us Father! Thanks be to God, our linotype is running and your article is nearly set, and hopefully in two weeks the whole issue will be out. Most of the rest of the issue is devoted to two very moving accounts of the Catacomb Church in the USSR, by someone who

[Possibly Aug. 1970] Dear Fr. Vladimir S. [Bridievey, OCA], Thank you for the materials on Fr. H. which you sent to us, as well as for your letter, which touched us deeply. For the sake of the love of St. Herman which we share in common, please permit us to share a few ideas with

Dear Brother in Christ, Daniel, Rejoice in the Lord! We were happy to hear of your trip to Australia, and especially that you were able to meet Fr. Vladimir Evsukoff. We do have quite a few subscribers in Australia, and we suspect that there could be quite a few more if we could find a

Dear Father Michael [Azkoul], Bless us, Father! Thanks be to God, our linotype is now operating, and as soon as lead and type arrive in a few days we will begin, and hopefully quickly finish, our May-June Orthodox Word with your article. In rereading this article we find two important statements for which we would

Dear Brother in Christ, Daniel, Here it is already a week since the great Church events of this year, and only now am I sitting down to try to tell you a little about them. I know how anxious you are to hear about them, but this will be only a brief sketch — we

Dear Father Neketas [Palassis], Evlogeite! As you rightly suspect, we don’t have much sense of the needs of publicity, but at your prodding we’ve sent “publicity packets” to the San Francisco newspapers, Time and Newsweek. We don’t have address of New York Times, so are sending their packet for you to send on, and an

Dear Father Michael [Azkoul], Bless us, Father! As Br. Gleb is at present overloaded with other assignments, I will take a short respite from printing The Orthodox Word to answer for him. As you are already in contact with Archbishop Anthony of San Francisco, I am sure you have already received his permission to take