62. Жертвовать здоровьем и жизнию должно только при крайней необходимости. Если болеешь, то к чтению Евангелия не мешает присовокупить и вещественное лечение

Your Reverence, most honorable Mother Abbess Lyudmila in the Lord! I received your letter dated February 22 and thank you for greeting me, a sinner, with fast days and for your well wishes. You gave Anna Smirnovskaya a good cell attendant. - They did a good job. Maybe she will calm down now. But those who bake prosphora on their own and sell them on their own cannot be approved. You can deal with them more strictly so that they don’t do this. You write that due to difficult circumstances one should not pursue health and life. – In general, health and life should be valued, for this is a gift from God. And if extreme necessity demands it somewhere, then, of course, one must sacrifice both health and life. But you don’t have such a need yet. You also wrote that you have a debilitating fever and you decided to treat it by reading three chapters of the Gospel daily. - The treatment is good. Keep doing this. But it doesn’t hurt to add material treatment to this. A good remedy for fever is quinine, with the advice of an experienced doctor. If you drank oatmeal before the clock for reinforcement, it’s nothing. All that is required is repentance. I prayerfully wish you peace with the nuns: Magdalene, Euphrosyne and Porphyria. Asking for you and your entire monastery for peace and God's blessing, I remain with sincere goodwill. You might be interested in: