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

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,