Over the past few days I have thinking about what to say about the passing of Metropolitan Laurus, who served as the first hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad and led the reconciliation with the Moscow Patriarchate.  He reposed this past Sunday.  There is more to say, and I will be working on a longer post, but for now I will be brief.  May God grant him rest where the righteous repose, and make his memory to be eternal.  Vechnaya pamyat!