* * *

I notify you of myself,

that by the mercy

and the long-suffering of God

I am alive bodily, but spiritually –

God knows.

Pray that the Lord

vouchsafed

that I tie

the Christian ends.

Painful pressures are

there in the whole body,

from both the cold and involuntary

hunger.

There are many things to eat,

yet, many things cannot be eaten.

The weak stomach

and the malfunctioning intestines

would not allow it.

However, by an old

habit,

I still force myself to eat,

although after that I have to

suffer a great burden

from headaches

and from vomiting.

And besides, both visitors

and newcomers are a nuisance;

they sit for a long time in the hut,

and get bored.

That's what I am like, day after day,

and I live

and I am reputedly unjust

in the reception of newcomers

and of visitors.

And my infirmity is to blame

as well as my malfunction

before God and people.

                     Sofia

'Live [and learn] – do not yearn.'

Sayings of St. Ambrose of Optina

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Synaxis of the Holy Seventy Apostles

Memory January 4

In addition to the twelve apostles, the Lord Jesus Christ chose seventy others. The Holy Evangelist Luke says this: “After this, the Lord chose the other seventy disciples, and sent them two in front of His face” ( Luke 10: 1 ). Twelve were with Him as witnesses of his life, and seventy prepared people for the acceptance of Christ the Savior, preaching in the cities that Christ the Lord intended to visit. Subsequently, many of the disciples of the Lord, and, of course, including many of the seventy, fell from Christ and ceased to serve him. The Holy Evangelist John writes: “Many of His disciples departed from Him and did not go with Him anymore. Then Jesus said to the twelve: “Would you also like to move away?” ( John 6: 66–67) When the days of Christ's suffering came, the number of Christ's disciples diminished even more, and hardly one of the seventy remained with Him, when one of the twelve fell away from Him. After the resurrection of Christ, the face of the holy twelve apostles was replenished by Matthew, and little by little - from among those who turned to Christ by the twelve apostles and the sermon of the holy Apostle Paul , from above called in the same primitive face and became, along with Peter in that face .