{"id":1379,"date":"2016-10-01T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2016-10-01T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T20:28:40","slug":"204-dec-3161975b-st-sabbas-of-zvenigorod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"204. Dec. 3\/16,1975B St. Sabbas of Zvenigorod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text\">Dear Alexey,<\/p>\n<p>Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>John Hudanish was here and said you were busy on Nikodemos\u2014I hope we\u2019ll see it soon? Which reminds me\u2014must start getting to you the tapes on Sederholm. Hope to do so within a few weeks. How does Nikodemos feel right now? How about money?<\/p>\n<p>John Hudanish\u2014a \u201ctypical American convert\u201d\u2014may God grant him patience and gratitude in sufferings, there is no other way. The ones who go off don\u2019t want that and refuse to accept it. Our Christopher (who left Saturday) is one such, but perhaps as he grows up he will learn. He is terribly immature and just totally spoiled, more so than most.<\/p>\n<p>We have been so busy on printing (about a week to go on the Calendar) that we haven\u2019t thought much about the outside world, but rumblings do get to us about the \u201cbig question\u201d (which is a rather difficult one to define!) Our Vladika Averky cover seems definitely to have put us into a certain \u201ccategory\u201d\u2014which is probably for the best. We feel now some indefinably \u201cweight&#8221; resting on us, as if we are carrying the brunt of a \u201cbattle\u201d whose front lines are not dear. Probably our isolation (in several senses) makes us better able to bear this weight, so we thank God. Around Fr. Panteleimon there seems to be some cloud that prevents even sober people from thinking too clearly or somehow \u201chandling\u201d the situation, and we have received several indications that the older generation expects us to say the right \u201cword\u201d when the time comes. May God give us strength. Vladika John blessed and named our Orthodox Word, so we go forward trusting in him. Basically we are peaceful, and very full of work.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had little snow, and the last bit is melting today; our road has been open most of the time. God willing, we will expect you for our feast. Pray for us.<\/p>\n<p>With love in Christ.<br \/>\nSeraphim, monk<\/p>\n<p>P.s. Enclosed one of John H\u2019s letters. The other Russian text is the Moscow Patriarchate text on Old Believers, which we haven\u2019t read yet.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alexey, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ. John Hudanish was here and said you were busy on Nikodemos\u2014I hope we\u2019ll see it soon? Which reminds me\u2014must start getting to you the tapes on Sederholm. Hope to do so within a few weeks. How does Nikodemos feel right now? How about money? John Hudanish\u2014a \u201ctypical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}