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Carrying grievances from superiors When you are already so weak and cannot indifferently endure all the insults from your superiors out of rage, then, realizing your weakness, keep silent about this and leave them to the Providence of the Almighty Lord, who will take care of them better than you and me. Take courage, and let your heart be strengthened in the grace of the Lord, and the Lord will comfort you! Beware of scorning and judging your neighbors Above all, beware of looking down on and judging your neighbors - we have something to worry about, our sinful ulcers stink, we need to be diligent about them. You will not give an answer for others, but for yourself. May the Lord forgive your sins and heal your mental and physical infirmities. Invisibly, through the revelation of thoughts, the mind and feelings are strengthened Glory to the Merciful Lord, that although he allowed and punished my beloved daughter Maria Yakovlevna, he did not allow death, that is, sins, but invisibly, through the revelation of thoughts, he strengthened her mind and feelings and in the storm gave silence and peace of mind - this will serve both of you for the future to be careful, and for patience a reward will inevitably be given, and may the Lord help her in the future to everyone, and may he enlighten her, and may he enlighten her soul with knowledge of edification. To the mother whom you choose as your mentor, do not be ashamed to open your wounds. About accepting a sister for revelation If the Most Merciful Lord grants your heart such courage to bear her mental and physical weaknesses, we also do not have to forbid this: if the Most Merciful Lord will please both of you for the benefit and creation, he will give her the most sincere faith to reveal her thoughts and deeds, and will give you the spirit of courage to bear her weaknesses. But we ask you not to explain this to her, but to expect due diligence from her, and then, as God tells your heart, then use it with her. Extremely cowardly and frivolous, she needs you more for support. That you at least partially accept and console her, the Lord Himself will give you for this. Greater strength is not required, and for this reason we do not force you to accept it, nor do we attract it to your shrine so that it surrenders; In this regard, there is a certain sacrament in the hearts of the well-minded, secretly telling whom to have faith and to reveal their weaknesses. If this had not been given from God, our condition would have been precarious. Revelation of thoughts puts to shame the enemy's illnesses I don’t know what should be said about the benefit of the suffering, whether there is some hope: if the Lord pleases, he will heal, if he does not hide, even before your shrine, lawless and harmful thoughts and dreams. Of course, it is now difficult for her to be completely guided by this serene means: the universal enemy often tries to deny revelation, like a cure, which is absolutely necessary for almost everyone. Moreover, most of all I ask and pray for your love not to give up your participation in the healing of those suffering from a suffocating illness. Your participation in her healing, one might say, is impartial. What is, according to Bose, the life of her immortal soul, which without the edification of your living veneration can be truly dead? Therefore, your care is very necessary for her, for which truly the Lord God will not leave you. May the All-Wise Creator give you wisdom in favor of this and others, to Whom I entrust your love. I also, insignificant, considered it necessary to convince the suffering Elena, so that she, albeit with compulsion, would partially retell some dreams and ghosts to her sister Evdokia, in order to thereby unite them in love and thereby expose and put to shame the enemy’s machinations. And be sure to repeat everything before your shrine. We also decided that every evening Sister Evdokia read the prayer: “May God rise again and His enemies be scattered” and all the doors, windows, and beds of St. protected with a cross. Precious Treasure – Revelation from the Lord Yes, mentally doubtful sister Elena, who believes the enemy’s slander; the most precious treasure for her is revelation from the Lord, but what can she do if she pays bad attention to it! Although out of love for the Lord one should have special edification about it, nevertheless, entrust it more and more to the Lord for complete healing. This execution of the devil is also no small thing, because it seeks, under the guise of edification, to the famous old woman. Although the words of the Savior of the world do not refer to her, “can anything good come from Nazareth?” (John 1:46). May the Lord grant her to contain a saving revelation to whomever she should about the Lord and not have faith in her own opinion. Despair proves obvious pride Describe your life disorder and negligence; I ask you not to despair, for despair proves obvious pride, but trust in God, He is able to correct your steps to do His holy and life-giving commandments. Try to instill the fear of God in the heart of your nephew, Vasily, and correct him with a spirit of meekness, where also with severity. And what do you imagine, that my unworthiness, when I sit with my brothers, appears to you in the form of Christ with His disciples the apostles, and from this you come to the feeling of tears, and despair comes that you are deprived of this due to the difference in gender; then, apparently, even though this feeling should be useful, despair refutes that this is from the divine: a gracious action never leads anyone to despair, but teaches the gift of tenderness, joy, long-suffering and spiritual peace (cf. Gal. 5:22). Do not despair, but cast your sins on God’s mercy We are surprised at your cowardice and feel sorry for you. Having read the chapters shown to you, you became more desperate that your life does not agree with the Holy Scriptures. You definitely need to sympathize with this, but with repentance and humble yourself, and not be cowardly and repent of why you went to the monastery. We must thank God for deigning to bring us out of darkness into light. What to do if they are faulty - do not despair, but read the Holy Fathers, albeit little by little. Seeing your own fault, you will still see yourself; and if you don’t read, you won’t despise yourself and won’t humble yourself. It would be even worse if you saw your virtues and imagined that you were pleasing to God - this would be obvious destruction. One should not give in to despair, but must learn patience I saw that you, due to the cowardice of your pompous thoughts, almost sank to the bottom of destructive despair! But the Merciful Lord, for the prayers of Father Fr. Macarius and Mother Barbara, protected you; and after three or four days, I believe, a grieving and faint-hearted soul, burdened with suffering, can be comforted! And now you yourself can see from experience itself that the Merciful Lord, in His ineffable mercy, commands you to take care of you. “And you must establish yourself with good faith, and not fall into disastrous despair, because, although on the occasion of your absence from the Sophronian Hermitage I could not hasten as much as I should to write a letter to your love, but if such cases, which carefully arise, are not allowed to us, then from those cases we will learn the most soul-edifying patience. So, let us continue to learn to be patient and praise the Merciful Lord, who invisibly nourishes and protects our weak soul and body. In desperation, write that you are left to the mercy of fate, prey to forces gaping to devour you, and so on... And may the right hand of the Almighty deliver you from such soul-harming utterances. But for this, thank the Lord that when you received the letters and printed them, you gave a laudable and decent answer to the question, albeit with compulsion - yes, it seems, in the end, and in fact it turned out to be so! You might be interested in: