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Patience in rooting is beneficial Although N rather reproaches you, and humbles you, and reproaches you, if, with the help of the Almighty, you endure with complacency and attribute them to your sins, then you will receive significant benefit from these pronunciations! If you fall into bitterness and the most destructive despair, then you will be deprived of much. As a testimony to your love I will place St. Simeon the New Theologian, chapter 31: “The one who is dishonored or annoyed and is greatly ill at heart, we know from this that he is surrounded by an ancient serpent in the depths. Even if he endures in silence or answers with much humility, he is unable to do this and is weakened. If he contradicts sorrow or speaks with insolence, give the strength of the serpent the poison to pour into his heart and savagely devour his inner being, just as from here, fortified every day, you create correction in good things and the strength of his damned soul, and for him to live from sin, he is dead and will always be righteous.” Advice for reprimanding another person And here, most revered sister of the Lord, the famous imaginary elder gave responsive advice, consistent with the Divine Scripture and the traditions of the holy fathers. From now on, when you are reproached by another person, I ask and pray to protect yourself from such ulcers, and, according to the tradition of the holy fathers, to reproach yourself and condemn yourself for your shortcomings. And it’s amazing to me how conceit blinded and darkened you, and didn’t give you anything less. You, being, firstly, not bound by marriage, always subject to yourself, and secondly, not burdened with a large family of children and servants of different morals and knowledge, you yourself are often extremely burdened in receptions. So, with the help of the Almighty, let us make a good beginning to strive to do the commandments of the Lord, which alone were given by the Savior Himself for the healing of our poor souls! In addition, would you please also from us, sinners, according to your unlimited faith, to complacently listen to advice, the only one useful for your soul. First, start praying for Avdot. Theor.; second, when you meet, force yourself to treat her kindly and apologetically in every possible way; third - try in every possible way, having forgiven the act with you, to mention her morality and treatment, as soon as possible, with praise and good and benevolent disposition. And when, with the assistance of God’s grace for the prayers of our universal elder, Father Theodore, you fulfill our unworthy advice, then you will tangibly feel the fruits in your soul and in all your feelings peace of thoughts, joy, meekness, abstinence, long-suffering, compassion and love for everyone! (Cf. Gal.5:22–23). Glory to the All-Merciful Lord, who with His mercy and goodness relieved us from this vile and terrible war. Remedies to combat depression We, insignificant ones, had the pleasure of receiving and reading your pleasant lines, from which we see that you are weighed down and burdened by despondency and relaxation, which distract you from soul-edifying activities, and especially from church and sacred services... But, as you are still young and inexperienced in such enemy attacks on us, who want to bind and captivate our souls with these strong giants, plunging them into their pernicious ditch, I dare to remind your love, like a spiritual daughter, of the testament of St. Apostle Paul, writing to the Church of Ephesus, chapter 6: “Our struggle is not in flesh and blood, but against the principalities, and against the powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual wickedness in high places. For this reason, accept all the weapons of God, so that you will be able to resist on the evil day, and, having done everything, come to an end. Stand then, girdle your loins with truth, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. And he put shoes on his nose in preparation for the gospel of peace. Take the shield of faith over everything, and in it you will be able to extinguish all the arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Making supplication with all prayer and supplication at all times in the Spirit, and persevering in everything with all patience and prayer” (Eph. 6:12-18). Let us understand, O most venerable one, what the teacher of the universe, St. Apostle Paul, who commands us to patiently force ourselves to pray and exercise with our hands, to hold in our minds the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, that is, to say the Jesus Prayer with our lips. With the help of the right hand of the Almighty, let us force ourselves to do the above. Then we will be helped and strengthened by the grace of God, we will be able to destroy all the arrows of the enemy! That is, everything will disappear: laziness, despondency and negligence. - And zeal and diligence in everything will shine. You will feel a worthy appetite for reading! 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