Father Sergios was on pilgrimage in Greece and on Mount Athos from June 24 to July 17, and was blessed to visit Monasteries and Shrines on Chios and Oinoussai, in and around Athens, on Evia and Aigina, in Thessaloniki and on the Holy Mountain.

He spent a number of days at Esfigmenou, which is now the largest monastic community on the Holy Mountain, thriving through a number of difficulties for which it glorifies God, and at Kapsala, where he visited the kellion of the renowned confessor of the faith, Father Savvas (reposed 1991), whose remarkable letter on the crisis in the contemporary Church, the result of enforcing syncretist-ecumenism from 1924 until today, has appeared in English translation in an appendix to "The Struggle Against Ecumenism".

Kapsala remains a region of great faithfulness to the Church during our troubled times, and not the only one on the Holy Mountain, for which glory be to God. Father Sergios was able to see a number of other old friends on Athos, as an additional blessing.

Metropolitan Moses of Seattle upheld the Monastery's liturgical life while Father Sergios was away, for which the Brotherhood and everyone worshipping with us is grateful.

If God wills, a more detailed report of this pilgrimage will be forthcoming here.