520. В монастыре трудно жить без терпения. Старайся трудиться и работать не ради похвалы, но ради Царствия Небесного

M. St. O. n. G.I.H.B.n. p.n. You must have patience, otherwise it is difficult to live in a monastery without it. Try to work and work not for the sake of praise from your boss or flattery before her, but for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, consider yourself unworthy of praise and do not seek it. But what people do is of no concern to you. May the Lord help you learn the Psalter and with this lead you to humility, so that you can always reproach yourself and consider yourself better than everyone else. And lighting a stove is not much work, unless laziness overcomes you. May the Lord help you in everything. Calling upon you the peace and blessing of God, I remain with the desire for salvation. You might be interested in: