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

Dear Father Ioannikios, Bless! We send you our heartfelt congratulations on your namesday. May God grant you many years of fruitful labors, and the salvation of your soul. Save, О Christ God! We were glad to receive your communication of some weeks ago, and pray that many such frank communications will be exchanged between us.

Dear Mr. Graves, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We were glad indeed to hear from you and were encouraged by your interest in something so dear to us as the Orthodox saints of the West, as well as by your offer to help us with translations from Latin. About the phenomenon of Orthodox saints

Dear Christopher, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Please forgive our long silence. We have had a quiet summer as far as people is concerned (no one has come for more than a few weeks, and we’ve been mostly alone for the past month), but several outward events have caused us trouble. First there was

Dear Father Neketas, Evlogeite! Alexey Young has passed on your message to us. I would like to assure you that we were not offended or disturbed by your letter to us; we saw there nothing but a sincere and concerned expression of your opinion. But perhaps you thought that my letter to you was written

Dear Brother in Christ, Seraphim, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We rejoice to hear of your baptism and of your desire for monasticism and the desert. May God bring this desire to fruition in your life! As for our skete—since you know of our poverty and labors, I won’t mention them. However, you should

Dear Alexey, Thank you for the “message” from Fr. Neketas. We are rather puzzled as to why he should be so agitated. Perhaps there is a personal element in it, but it seems to have more to do with fears and suspicions on a general church level, which would also explain why the fathers at

Dear Brother in Christ, Nicholas, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your letter. I appreciate the seriousness of what you have written, and I will reply with the same seriousness. I must tell you first of all that, to the best of our knowledge, there are no startsi today—that is, truly God-bearing

Dear Father Panagiotes, Evlogeite! Thank you for your letter of July 6/19, and please forgive this belated reply. About the letter I can only say that we agree with virtually everything you say there. I would only point out that there is an important distinction between (1) identifying apostasy, warning about it, separating oneself from

Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We expect to be here all the time for the next several weeks, and will be expecting you sometime in this period. And Phanourios too. I would not have a difficult time choosing between Reno and Etna, but of course one’s heart has to be in it.

Dear Father Ioannikios, Blagoslovite! Thank you for the “blunt letter.” For all that we said and did to produce this reaction in you, we sincerely ask your forgiveness. However, I must also say that not all that you wrote is entirely just. But let there be peace between us! Please do not make any special

Dear Fr. Neketas, Evlogeite! Thank you for your letter, which we accepted in the spirit of love and concern with which it was written. Father, for you everything seems simple; but many even of the points you raise in this letter are by no means as simple as you would make them. And this is