73. К епископу Марию

Even at the very beginning of the storm that disturbed the church, we noticed the steady straightforwardness of your way of thinking, and now, when the disasters have increased, we hear again about your reverence that you remain faithful to your previous decision. Therefore, despite the remoteness of your location, giving you due greetings, we please and glorify you for the fact that when the majority was carried away into the abyss of destruction and bowed to the side of those who acted so lawlessly against the church, you took the opposite path, turned away from those who dared to commit these iniquities and retained your due independence. Bearing in mind the importance of this great matter and the duty of everyone to deviate from the path of the evil ones, and also the fact that your unchanging and unyielding decision will serve as a means and a beginning to the correction of evil, please stand firm, with the courage that suits you, and encourage others whom you can to do the same. Then the justness of the matter will be enough to help you, and God will bless your decision, which has chosen the right path in the midst of such confusion, and will give you victory. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: