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You write, condemning your dispensation and confessing your weaknesses, for which may the man-loving Lord forgive you, in whom in all your affairs place your trust, and ask for His help: for without Him we cannot do anything. He is able to correct and resolve all our perplexities; and about the future, what can happen to us, since it is hidden from us, we should not test or assume what will happen - and not worry ourselves ahead of time, but try to manage our lives according to the will of God. Regarding those asking you to go on pilgrimage, you need to consider who to let in, looking at the reliability of life; I do not advise releasing those appointed without the will of the bishop. There is little benefit from their wandering, and it seems that there is hope that the saints will forgive them for not fulfilling these vows: while others will deliberately make vows in order to wander, bored with being in one place. May the Lord make you wise in all your affairs, and may He bless you and your abode. - Asking for your blessing, with my respect I remain your unworthy pilgrim, many sinners, I.M. May 15, 1836.
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