A Letter from Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) to Abbess Magdalena (Countess Grabbe), Superior of the Lesna Convent in France* November 26 / December 9, 1979 Your Reverence,[1] I am writing this letter en route — onboard the ocean liner Orion, which is...
Reply of Metropolitan Philaret to I. Solzhenitsyn[1] MOST ESTEEMED ALEKSANDR ISAEVICH, On behalf of the whole Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia I thank you for sharing your observations and thoughts with us. We feared for your life when you were...
December 2/ 15 1965 Your Holiness, We have inherited a legacy from the Holy Fathers that everything in the Church should be done in a legal way, unanimously, and conforming to ancient Traditions. If any of the bishops and even primates of one of the autocephalous...
by Protopresbyter George Grabbe In the pages of the Paris journal The Way, one could often read about the supposed perniciousness of the “Byzantine Period” in the life of the Church. Then, in their books, the contributors to this journal began to criticize...
Anti-Nicene Fathers Vol V. p.26 By Pontius the Deacon. ———— Although Cyprian, the devout priest and glorious witness of God, composed many writings whereby the memory of his worthy name survives; and although the profuse fertility of his...
