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Having written to Mother V., on the 5th of April, although we congratulated you on the feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we now congratulate you again, having already celebrated this bright week of solemn celebration. May God grant that you and your God-saved flock will continue to wait for many such holidays, continuing the soul-saving holy fasts that precede them; Having spent the current post, at the end of it you already felt your shortcomings, and the fact that you came to your senses too late. ABOUT! God forbid that by the end of our days we will come to our senses too late; and take care of this every day and make a beginning for correction, in order to save your soul from eternal hunger and those you flock to fall into the green pasture of God’s commandments and the teachings of church shepherds and teachers. For this reason, try to drive away all laziness, and go to church more often, and thereby encourage your sheep to be cheerful and care for their souls; Your example has a great influence on those subordinate to you.
And during your prayers, remember our badness, so that we, too, do not be condemned, you and others who write and advise, but we ourselves will do more than one good. We received your letter, issued on March 29, on April 10, due to the thaw and the flooding of the waters so slowly; We thank you for accepting the N. sisters, U. and F., into your monastery and placing them, according to your consideration, in a cell. God grant that, just as they serve as a benefit for the monastery, so the monastery will serve as salvation for them.
It is fitting for your R—e to be reminded from St. John Climacus from the 4th degree: “whoever wants to keep his word, let him know that he is suffering from a devil’s illness.” - Also: “one brother slandered the other, for which he was ordered to be expelled from the monastery: for it is not proper for there to be two demons in the monastery: visible and invisible”; and she slanderes many, both her aunt and young ladies. April 5, 1838.
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