With the esteemed author Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor of History, Emeritus, at Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Respected Abbess Mother Diodora.

Dear Sister in Christ.

Now that we returned home I write to thank you and the Sisterhood of Exaltation of the Holy Cross Monastery for your warmth and hospitality.

I thank you for the beautiful and sacred icon. I will think of all of you and pray together with you on the 14th of September.

With every wish for divine blessings.
With respect in Christ.
Jaroslav Pelikan, Professor.
Hamden, CT U.S.A.
21 June 1999

 

March, 2000

1 W Blessed Martyr Eudocia.Antonina. 17 F +1st STANZA OF SALUTATIONS. Alexios the Man of God.
2 T Bishop Theodotos. Hesychios. 18 S + Theodore, Miracle of Kollyva. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem, Eucarpion.
3 F Martyrs Basiliscos, Eutropios & Kleonikos. 19  S + SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY. Chryssanthos & Dareia.
4 S + SATURDAY OF SOULS. Gerasimos of the Jordan 20 M The Holy Fathers martyred in St. Savva’s Monastery.
5 S + SUNDAY OF MEATFARE. Conon the Gardener. 21 T Blessed Iakovos the Confessor. Philemon.
6 M 42 Martyrs at Amorion. 22 W + Hieromartyr Basil, Kalliniki.
7 T Lavrentios, Blessed Agathadoros. 23 T Nicon & his 199 disciplies, Martyrs.
8 W Theophylactos. Apostle Hermos. 24 F + 2nd STANZA OF SALUTATIONS. Zacharius & Parthenios.
9 T + 42 Great-martyrs of Sebastia. 25 S + THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE THEOTOKOS.
10 F Codratos of Corinth. Anastasia the Patrician. 26 S + SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT. Gregory Palamas. Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel.
11 S + Sophronios of Jerusalem. 27 M Prophet Ananias. Matrona, Philetus, Lydia.
12 S + SUNDAY OF CHEESEFARE. Gregory Dialogos. 28 T Blessed Hilarion. Herodon of the 70 Apostles.
13 M + CLEAN MONDAY. (Great Lent begins.) 29 W + Mark, Bishop of Arethousion, Cyril.
14 T Benedict, Blessed Euschemon. 30 T John of Sinai, Author of the Ladder.
15 W + Agapius and 7 Martyrs. Aristoboulos. 31 F + 3rd STANZA OF SALUTATIONS. Hypatios, Bishop of Gangra. Acacios the Confessor.
16 T Sabbinos, Romanos, Christodoulos in Patmos.
 
 

Let us not be disturbed by the lay element, however and wherever it exists. Orthodoxy is not endangered by anything. Of her own accord She goes forward, through time, through the centuries, through the milennia, like a glacier she moves mountains, shaken but "not engulfed", as the blessed Chrysostom says. And just as the eye cannot accept any foreign object, no matter what we put in it – the eyeball will move, the fluids will well up and wash out anything that doesn’t belong there – so the Church is not endangered.

Let us be the carpet under everyone’s feet… We stay this way forever, "in those things of which we have been assured" (II Tim. 3:14), and we keep silence, without waiting for anything; God knows.


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