Май 1877 г.
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May 21. By His inscrutable, but gracious, omnipotent and wise destinies, the Lord granted me today, with great tenderness and tears, to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in the feeling of my greatest sinfulness and weakness, and by this I attracted to myself the mercy of God and the forgiveness of sins and help to unfailingly perform the Liturgy with a clear, loud, strong voice. I thank the Lord for His mercy. The word is true, that where sin abounds, grace abounds [Rom. 5:20], and that the power of the Lord is made perfect in weakness. “I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me” [2 Corinthians 12:9].