quick question

[e=mv^2]

What is the proper way to address an email to a priest?

[Philip]

Father [Name],

Bless, Father. [Email]

[Akathist]

I usually start my email with:

Father J(name): then say my stuff

And end with,

Father Bless.
xenia

However, if writing in reply and he has said "Glory to Jesus Christ!" to start his email to me, I start with:

"Glory Forever" Father.

then say my thing.

[Eusebios]

Either of the above are quite appropriate.

[Xpycoctomos]

I say "'Sup Pops?"... but that might explain the dirty looks I got from him at Liturgy on Sunday.:confused:

[Marjorie]

I wouldn't worry too much about this. I've generally just written, "Fr. So and So," which might not be perfect Orthodox-speak, but no one is offended or anything.

In IC XC,
Marjorie

[Akathist]

"Yo Homey" might be a bit too informal.

[the_baby]

You know I don't know. But I'm glad I came here, so now I do know for the future if I ever need it. Cool

[e=mv^2]

I settled on " Fr. X I ask for your blessing" After reading this:
Is there a proper way to address and sign letters to clergy/fellow Orthodox?

When one writes a clergyman, he should begin his letter in this way: "Bless!" or "I ask for your blessing." The letter may be signed: "In Christ," "Asking for your prayers," etc. Lay people should refrain from blessing a Priest (i.e., "God bless you"), and Priests should greet each other with a simple request for a blessing. Lay people may greet each other with a simple request for prayers and close their letters in the same way. The flowery exhortations that were especially popular in the nineteenth-century Russian Church ("Christ is in our midst," "Glory be to God," inter alia), and usually taken from the Liturgy, are not traditional forms of greeting for clergy or for lay people. Nor are the greetings exchanged between great Church Fathers and the Saints. Though these high-sounding exhortations are very popular now, since they appeal to the Protestant evangelical piety which has invaded the Church, when used by the poor Christians that we are today, they are at odds with the humility which derives from a piety engendered by submission to Christ and to the traditions of His Church.

Orthodox Tradition, Vol. IX, No. 1, pp. 10-11.


Thanks for all the responses tho.

[HandmaidenOfGod]

This may also help when addressing clergy:

Forms of Address and Salutations for Orthodox Clergy (http://www.goarch.org/en/special/usvisit2002/clergy/clergy_greetings.asp)

[Vasya Davidovich]

Father Name,

Evlogite!

[Body of missive]

In Christ,
Name.

[xristos.anesti]

Did they email their priests in the XIX century Russia?

No they did not.

IS OUTRAGE!

[Vasya Davidovich]

Lol!