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We wish you and all the unanimous sisters around you peace and health, mental and physical, and reliable success in salvation.
Listening to your writing, dated March 21, written to us, the wretched, we see your consciousness in our weaknesses and inclinations. Although you started to correct yourself during fasting and go to church for services; but in all of this they sinned and people were condemned and they grumbled against I. and reproached her; We cannot praise all this, but out of fatherly love we reproach and punish you, and advise you to keep yourself from such attempts and negligence in the future; especially since you stand on top and should be an example to others; otherwise others, looking at you, will be jealous of the same imaginary virtues. For God's sake, take care and call on God for help, and in the hope of His help, begin; and this - imaginary - is allowed to you as an exaltation, as you write yourself: when I correct something, then I think about myself; and this does not please God. Remembering this, reject all elevation, attributing corrections to God, and not to yourself.
May the most merciful Lord protect you from all the snares of the enemy, and may all your sins forgive you; and we, the unworthy, send our unworthy forgiveness and blessing, and your zealous pilgrims remain: the many-sinful Hieroschemamonk Leonid and the many-sinner I.M.
At the request of T-s, in the weaknesses she described, of which she repents, regrets and wants to improve, so that the Lord forgive her, and we, the unworthy, forgive. If he does not want to make a beginning, but is still in the same position, then whatever he sows, he will also reap the same fruits; the fruits of humility are peace; and the fruits of pride are constant disorder and confusion. Tell her to humble herself before everyone, and especially before her sister; this is the first medicine for her, and so that she does not listen to the enemies who seduce her; May the Lord help her and may he get rid of all the snares of the enemy and may he forgive her all her sins. April 3, 1834.
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