Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Barbara arrived safely with the icon and relics and your /letter, for all of which many thanks. We look forward to the accounts of your pilgrimage, which should be a great inspiration to English- speaking Orthodox—it is indeed an easy thing simply to take for granted even

Dear Father Cyprian, Evolgeite! We received and read your letter with great joy, feeling in [it] the fragrance of true Orthodoxy which is so much threatened now both on the left side and the right. We hope that there will be frequent contact between us in the future, for we also feel at times somewhat

Dear Brother in Christ, Andrew, Greetings on our Lord Jesus Christ. We were saddened to hear of the developments in England, and especially distressed to learn that you have been deprived of Holy Communion. You, of course, are now in a very bad position: both by being identified as a “rebel” against your own Archbishop

Dear Father Panagiotes [Carras], Evlogeite! Thank you for your letter. Your words do not offend us, and in fact we are encouraged by the fact that, while differing so sharply with our article, you expressed yourself in so conciliatory a tone. We pray that, whatever disagreements may lie ahead, this tone will be preserved by

Dear Father Mark [Wakingham], Bless! First, we write to thank you warmly for the icons of St. Columba, which arrived safely several weeks ago. I’m not quite sure which issue they will fit into, but hopefully we will be using them soon. By the way, has there been any “official” approval (I.e., by the Archbishop)

Dear Daniel, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a brief report on the holy places of France and Switzerland which we hope you may be able to visit. Information of these will be part of our introduction to St. Gregory’s Life of the Fathers, but it is still in very fragmentary form. The

Dear Father Alexis, Evlogeite! Thank you for the copies of the various letters. They help to clarify the picture somewhat. Andrew’s letter has one great virtue: it is straightforward and honest; he says what he thinks. With such a one one may argue or even fight, perhaps, without coming to disaster; and one has the

Dear Brother Christopher, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. We were glad to hear that you are somehow surviving and struggling a little. May God be your help! Do not be afraid to confess the fleshly sins. Do you think that you are so holy? God allows you to fall in order to humble you.

Dear Father Hilarion, Blagoslovite! We do not know how you are, but feel that it is perhaps difficult for you. Rejoice in the Lord! Our goal is in the heavens! Ever darker clouds seem ahead of us in church life, and we pray God will give you the courage and wisdom not to lose sight

Dear Brother Macarius [Schaefer], Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. Many thanks for the excellent photographs and the news. We understand very well your situation as you describe it in your letter. Of course, what you say is “correct” as far as it goes. But you are allowing yourself to make one basic mistake: you

Dear Alexey, We greet you on the Feast and pray this finds you well and in good spirits before your long pilgrimage. The events and revelations of recent months have driven us to some sober thoughts, in particular about the future. In reading the new Boston epistle to Metr. Anthony Bloom (which is, of course,

Dear Christopher, We send you heartfelt greetings on the Feast. May God preserve you in His grace. Sorry to be silent so long—as usual we have been busy, and still have too much to do before July 2, Vlad. Johns feast. Please pray for us especially in these weeks and on that day. Church problems

Dear Daniel, We send you our heartfelt greetings on the Feast of our Lord’s Ascension and on the Feast of Pentecost. May God preserve you in His grace! Your question about “zealotry” comes at a time when we also have been giving much thought to such questions—and in fact, it is now becoming a basic

Dear Brother in Christ, Andrew, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. I was just preparing to answer your last letter, intending to venture the guess that you will soon be receiving a “friendly open letter” from Boston—when lo and behold, with yesterday’s mail we received a copy of this very letter from Boston! Actually, it

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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.