Stephen,

Thank you for sharing this - it's a beautiful photo.

Many years,

Neil

Thank you Neil. It is most shocking that he is gone from our site and his humorous ways and words along with his great homilies will be missed by all of us.

Vichnaya pamjat

Stephen

LOL. I remember the first time I met Father Serge. It was at Oxford back in the early 1990s, when I was visiting a friend who was studying there. A group of us wound up at a Chinese restaurant (which had wonderful food!). Serge had a very dry sense of humor. After one of his more outrageous statements of the evening I must have had a look on my face because he said: “Don’t worry. No one has ever accused me of being normal.” I could not stop laughing. And in my conversations with him over the years have each been filled with laughing.

His talent regarding Liturgy was incredible. I would often ask him to translate something from Church Slavonic. Amazingly, he could translate as he read the Slavonic text (fast enough so I would barely keep up typing it into a document).

I pray that when he arrived in heaven he found it stubbornly clinging to the Julian Calendar, and I can just see him in a corner in conversation with the Mother of God trying to convince her to intercede with her Son to lead the Church remaining in the world to take a 13 day break until the calendar is back in sync.

Eternal Memory to a faithful servant of the Lord!

Indeed.

Thank you for sharing that photo.

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