42. О неуместности проживания молодого вдового диакона при женском монастыре. Настоятельница должна говорить сестрам, чтобы они не самочинствовали

Your Reverence, most honorable in the Lord Mother Abbess Lyudmila! I received your letter dated July 13th. You write that you interceded for a widower deacon. - In vain. It is completely inappropriate for a young widowed deacon to live at a nunnery. You wrote that he is modest. But you judge him only by appearance. Therefore, I advise you, over time, slowly, through the petition of some outside influential person (even, for example, through your dean) to move him to a more suitable place for him. You also write that some sisters commit arbitrary acts. For example, painters take orders without your knowledge. - But how can it really be? If you are sometimes away, customers will not wait for you. It would be necessary for you, in your absence, to entrust some mother to take orders alone and that upon your arrival at the monastery, she would immediately inform you if there is an order. But if someone does some small, unnoticeable work in their favor, but you can’t catch them, then there’s nothing to do – leave it that way. There is also a proverb: “Not every bast fits.” But we still need to tell the sisters not to act arbitrarily, to take care of their conscience. Asking for you and the monastery entrusted to you for peace and God’s blessing, I remain with sincere goodwill. You might be interested in: