25. Друг друга тяготы носите. Об употреблении в пищу яблок до Преображения

Dear Mother Abbess Lyudmila in the Lord! I received your letters, but I couldn’t answer: sometimes I have too little time, sometimes I’ll forget, and sometimes due to natural weakness - laziness. I apologize for my error. My health, thank God, is normal. I study every day from morning until late evening. If you ask whether to go to St. Petersburg on monastic business, go, God will bless you and help you get what you ask for for the monastery. Take Vyacheslav for help too, God bless you. Lord help me to live more peacefully with M. Leonida and, according to the word of St. Apostle, bear one another’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ. Vyacheslava, apparently, needs spiritual correction when the Lord raised her up from the bed of illness, and maybe even from death. Father o. Ambrose and all the Elders of Optina Pustyn who preceded him blessed the consumption of baked apples before the Transfiguration, which is what we do, but they did not bless the consumption of raw apples until the Savior. Invoking the peace and blessing of God upon you and all the sisters, I remain with sincere goodwill. You might be interested in: