A Time Of Gifts, Part IV

An audience with Father Seraphim, a gentle elder monk in Transylvania

Father Seraphim, in his monastic cell

I had not intended to write the final installment of the account of my Romanian pilgrimage so soon, but as I will be leaving on Sunday to spend Orthodox Holy Week in Jerusalem, it’s probably for the best that I do it now. Besides, today is Good Friday on the Western calendar, and it could well be that some of you wil…