702. О пользе частого Причащения для больных. Настоятельство – крест, и самовольно с него сходить не следует

M. St. O. n. G.I.H.B.n. p.n. Your Reverence, most honorable in the Lord Mother Abbess Leonida! I received your letter, and thank you for congratulating me, a sinner, on the Nativity of Christ and the New Year and for your good wishes. Mutually, I have the honor to congratulate you on your entry into the new year and fervently prayerfully wish you the renewal of your mental and physical strength to carry out the abbot’s work of managing the Holy Spirit entrusted to you from the Lord. monastery. At the end of the letter, you express a desire, due to your illness, to partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ more often. – Your desire is laudable. You yourself wrote that after Communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ you feel better both in your soul and in your body. Therefore, do not look at your illness, but at least in your cell communicate the Holy Mysteries more often. The late Father Fr. Ambrose said that one very sick abbess, for whom medical benefits did not help, decided to communicate the Holy Mysteries of Christ every day and after a while she completely recovered. Glory to God for granting you the privilege of visiting the Sarov desert and venerating the relics of the newly-minted saint of God, Seraphim. You wrote that the Diveyevo abbess and the Diveyevo holy fool do not advise you to leave your abbotship. - In any case, it is better not to come down from the cross without permission, but to hang on it until they take it down, in the likeness of our Lord Jesus Christ. You also wrote that your clerk has gone crazy. - No, but as you can see, she suffers from strong suspicion. She should be supervised. As for the smoker, do as you please. Asking for you and all the sisters of the monastery entrusted to you for peace and God's blessing, I remain with sincere goodwill. You might be interested in: