68. Надо надеяться не на свои способности, а на помощь от Господа. Смиренное прошение о помиловании лучше противоречия

Your Reverence, most honorable Mother Abbess Lyudmila in the Lord! I received your letter dated December 18th and thank you for congratulating me, a sinner, on the past holiday of the Nativity of Christ and for your well wishes. Mutually and as a sinner, I congratulate you on the current New Year and wish you and all the sisters in Christ new mercies from the All-Bountiful Lord. I also received twelve rubles from you by transfer by mail, which were distributed according to your destination. I bring you deep gratitude for your zeal for me, a sinner. Thank God that your novice Evdokia successfully passed the exam for the right to teach. May the Lord help her to conduct this matter according to her conscience with the fear of God, not so much relying on her abilities and learning as on help from the Almighty and All-Good God. She's very young. More attention is required from you to her in all respects. My health is now, thank God, improving, but I still can’t leave my cell, because I often catch a cold even in a warm cell. Asking for you and your cell attendants: mm. To Paphnutius, Hilarion, Zosimus, Onesiphorus, Masha, and to M. Vyacheslav, and to your entire monastery, peace and God's blessing, I remain with sincere good wishes. P.S. I also received your last letter of January 10 and I answer briefly. Do not resist or contradict either the Master or the school council, but just humbly beg everyone: “Have mercy! Have mercy! Be merciful!” - and so on. in the same way. You will gain more by this than by contradiction. The persistent and humble petition of the Evangelical widow and the merciless ruler bowed to mercy. And you should personally ask your Master for leniency. You might be interested in: