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Although your interpretation of my words is similar to my mind, they may contain many things that I could not write clearly, without explaining either their words or those spoken to me by her; and he summed it all up in one word: God alone knows the future. - Your failure to notify seems to come from your strong contempt, and from indignation for obedience to T.; this must already be surrendered to the will of God.
S. Well, may the Lord strengthen you in your holy monastery; What's the point of moving? she had the freedom to think about it first; and she herself chose your monastery: but I don’t want to force will in any way. - When the mother abbess blessed you to have a revelation to her, then let her begin and continue; and how to do it - you let her read some chapters from Simeon the New Theologian, from St. Abba Dorotheus, don’t form your own mind; and in Callistus chapters 14 and 15, in Cassian in the word about reasoning how to acquire it, in part 4 of the Philokalia: and what she does not understand, explain to her. Also the first 4 degrees of St. Let him read John of the Climacus; Having learned the fatherly teaching in theory, let it extend to action. It is very unpleasant for me that S–I treat you with some kind of reproach, and I did not want this to happen; but when it already exists, then it is necessary to attribute this to their weaknesses and to the suppression of the enemy, but to your benefit; when you love them, you will make their words false, and you will shame the devil.
How do they come to perfection if not by enduring reproaches: and they will not perish through this, but having been the cause of benefit to others, in turn, they themselves receive this cleansing from others and come to their senses. St. Epiphanius arrived in Tsar-grad to judge St. Chrysostom; and St. Cyril, even after his death, was still angry with him until he was miraculously pacified; When so many great saints stumbled from ignorance, what can we say about us sinners? Forgive, and you yourself will be forgiven. I am very happy about S–i’s arrangement, to which her poor condition greatly contributes. God forbid that T—a doesn’t even dream about it.
May the Lord strengthen Mother X and confirm her in the humility that we all really need. May the Lord deliver Mother I-yu from mental and physical illness: your pilgrim, much-sinful I.M. November 9, 1843.
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