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Why are you dodging, apologizing and asking for forgiveness for what we praise and glorify you for, accepting your letter and reproaching you for sending it so late and not soon? If you really think that writing to us is great impudence on your part, then, leaving it, worry about our accusation of slowness and justify yourself. The more you say that even in our absence you love us as sincerely as you loved us in our personal presence, the more you will increase your guilt. If you were simply disposed towards us, like others, there would be no reason to remain silent for such a long time; and as soon as you say that you have such sincere and ardent love for us that you would not even refuse to take a journey to us, no matter how difficult and how scary it is due to the many robbers besieging the road, if your ill health had not prevented you, then you have only one way to justify yourself - to send us countless and constantly your letters, which can make up for the guilt of your long silence. Do this, and then we will be completely satisfied. No matter how late your present letter arrived, but, as it is imbued with ardent love, it pays off the debt for the past time. However, be careful that the letters that follow him do not imitate his lateness, because this will only be able to prove that your present letter arrived late not because of your laziness, but because of a vain, as you say, fear, if those who follow him will come to us soon and often enough. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: