This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis

The fact that Fr. Seraphim was homosexual is of no consequence. He was a great ascetic struggler. One cannot, of course cease being homosexual, but when one enters monasticism, one struggle against all of one's former life. Some fall along the way in this struggle and pick themselves up and keep moving toward paradise, others fall and are lost. Some do not fall. It is time that people stopped making an issue of this, except in the positive way: that his example gives hope and strength to others in their own struggle. Fr. Seraphim was an ascetic who struggled greatly. That is all that one really needs to know. I don't agree with is theology, but his asceticism and struggle are sufficient for him to be honoured.