37. Великий пост – время покаяния

Your Reverence, most honorable in the Lord Mother Abbess Lyudmila! I received your letter dated February 15th. Great Lent is coming, a time of repentance. May the All-merciful Lord help you and all your sisters in Christ to spend this time with spiritual benefit, I prayerfully wish for this. May God forgive what you confessed before my unworthiness. Also, may the Lord forgive what happens out of weakness and need. I received the stamps from you and thank you for them. If Anna Smirnovskaya comes to us, then we’ll see what happens. Now I can’t say anything definite about her. I’m not writing a special letter to M. Vyacheslava, because I don’t know what to write to her now, and I don’t have time. Give her a blessing from me, a sinner, with goodwill. Asking for you, and for M. Paphnutia, and M. Hilarion, and for all your cell attendants, and for your entire monastery, peace and God’s blessing, I remain with sincere goodwill. I also want to inform you that I received a letter and a telegram, and Claudia Feodorovna came to see me and first talked, and then she confessed to me and received the Holy Mysteries, and left. I call upon you God's peace and blessing. You might be interested in: