43. Об открытии в обители церковно-приходской школы

Your Reverence, most honorable in the Lord Mother Abbess Lyudmila! I received your letter dated August 28, in which you ask me, a sinner, for a blessing for a new undertaking - the opening of a parochial school in your monastery, for your new efforts and labors. May the all-merciful Lord bless you to work in a good cause. You wrote in a previous letter that your teacher will be a secular girl who will have quarters in a monastery. In my sinful opinion, if this position could be filled by any nun of your monastery, it would be better. However, the actual thing will show better. There are also secular girls who are trustworthy people. God willing! I received your stamps, for which I thank you. Sorry for not answering your previous letter. You yourself know my life: this, that, this needs to be done. And then you look, then you forgot about this, then you didn’t remember about the other at the time. So, and back to the river - sorry! Your schema-monks were at a loss on August 15, which fell on Thursday, whether they should break their fast on that day. But you yourself remember that your late Mother did not break her fast with milk unless the Twelfth Feast fell on Saturday. Here's the solution for you. Due to weakness, they can allow it with the blessing of the confessor, or after that they must repent. Asking for you and your monastery the peace and blessing of God, I remain with sincere goodwill. You might be interested in: