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You write and admit that you are forced to endure not only from your half-wife, but also from your servants. Although these adventures, apparently, are beyond your strength, just remember that it is our duty, calling on the Almighty Lord, to endure this and acquire humility, and preserve it, like some kind of property. The Monk Elijah Ekdik clearly writes about this in chapter 62: “The home of the soul is patience, for it will endure in it. Having humility is what feeds on it.” And therefore, so that no one allows contradictions or incorrect word justifications, let us pass by patience and teach by the example of our complacency. “Reprove with the strength of your virtues the lips of those who teach you against you, and not with the knowledge of your words, but with the meekness and quietness of your lips, make them fall silent, reprove the disobedient shamelessness with the nobility of your life and the restraint of shameless feelings with your eyes.” With God's help, let us endure as much as possible and, with thanksgiving and praise, ask the Most Merciful and Almighty Lord, so that the Lord, with his all-powerful right hand, will grant you patience to endure all troubles. And besides these means, it is impossible to get rid of either the mental enemy or the temptations that allow souls to be tempted. I remember that I wrote about this in a letter last year. And when you desire, read the 12th chapter of Hebrews to console yourself and you will find considerable consolation for your soul, oppressed by sorrows. Moreover, I ask and pray you, like an obedient sister, to read from the conciliar message of St. Apostle James chapter 1, and after reading, the Lord will invisibly give you a feeling of the joy of the fruit of obedience and form your soul with inner consolation. And then, with joy from the 33rd Psalm, you will exclaim with your lips and heart: “This lowly one cried, and the Lord heard and saved him from all his sorrows.” The Angel of the Lord will encamp around those who fear Him and deliver them. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who trusts. There are many sorrows for the righteous, and the Lord will deliver them from all of them. The Lord protects all their bones; not one of them will be crushed” (Ps. 34:7-9, 20-21). Let us courageously exercise patience and imagine that for our sins and negligence the Most Merciful Lord has allowed this to happen to us, so that we, the weak, may accustom ourselves to courageous patience and unshameful trust in the Most Merciful Lord God! And I can firmly assure you that if you tolerate this with complacency, then the All-Merciful Lord will invisibly send you something worse! “Blessed are you when people revile you” (Matthew 5:11) Firstly, you write that at the time of receiving my letter you were indignant in spirit against the inglorious rumors slandering you. My daughter, our Christian duty urgently requires, as far as possible, our strength to endure and imitate our immortal Creator and Redeemer. This is mentioned in the beatitudes as follows: “Blessed are you when they revile you and smite you, and say all kinds of evils about you lying to Me for my sake. (And you who have endured this,) rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven” (Matthew 5:11-12). And that your thoughts were overcome by suspicious thoughts, for which may the Most Merciful Lord forgive you. But from now on you must begin not to accept such soul-destroying thoughts, as you have experienced first-hand the flattery and futility of them! Again, you should be more complacent with your benefactress and, at every meeting, with your inner feeling and thought, call upon the help of the Almighty Lord, so that he may give you a spirit of cheerfulness and reason to answer and not accept opinions that are harmful to your soul from the words she utters. Sins are cleansed by patience and trust in God's will Unfortunately, you have become as impatient, angry and cowardly as you yourself describe your situation. We are very sorry. We ask and pray in the future not to dare to do such things, but to pay attention to yourself, to your weaknesses, mental and physical, and to try in every possible way to endure the adventures that come your way, sorrowful and unpleasant, and to blame them for our mental and sensory endeavors and sins before God, through which our sins are cleansed through patience, complacency and hope. Our Savior Jesus Christ Himself, with His most pure lips, spoke in St. His Gospel: “By your patience gain (that is, train) your souls” (Luke 21:19). May the Most Merciful Lord enlighten and enlighten your sense and mind to the knowledge of true God-wisdom and to the creation of His holy life-giving commandments. Stay awake, be sober and take courage I read your beautifully written lines and, due to the weakness of my understanding, heeded them, and for the incomprehensible misdeeds committed by you, may the Most Merciful Lord forgive you, and enlighten you, and enlighten you with His grace and mercy. I also ask you and pray with humility to stay awake, be sober and take courage, and move away from the wines that lead you to flesh and blood and to all voluptuous movements, and from the clouds and noisy storm of excitement that torment your mind and feelings and want to plunge your good will into the mud of voluptuousness. But even if we see something in ourselves from the evil Speculator, even then, having risen again, let us flow with repentance and tenderness to the One who revives the dead, and who raises the fallen, and who crowns those who suffer from such evil tormentors, and who bestows freedom and gifts of reasoning against warfare. Vanity is cured by guarding your conscience and not concealing your thoughts. From your writings I see that these are the fruits of vanity, for which I ask you to take every effort to eradicate it, and in what way - by preserving your conscience and not hiding your thoughts, which will serve for your salvation. You might be interested in: