St. Athanasius of Brest
\nDear Sister in Christ, Nina,<\/p>\n
Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ, and on the approaching feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Rejoice!<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know Maria [Kraft] well, and don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve been going through with her. But: unless you are very strong and know very well what you are doing, you\u2019d better not get involved any more. I talked with her several times when she was here, enough to see that her problems are deeper than mere \u201ccrazy convertism.\u201d Her salvation is through suffering, if she can take it. If she is relieved of the \u201cproblem\u201d of her children and allowed to think about \u201cspiritual life,\u201d her perdition is almost guaranteed. Words and good intentions aren\u2019t going to help her. WATCH OUT: If you\u2019ve already been so upset by her, better humble yourself and not think you can help at all, which you probably can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve been having Boston temptations? Does that come from telephone conversations with Boston? Are you trying to be in two places at once? Better choose your place and then stick to it and stop tickling the devil. Otherwise, not only will you have no peace, but disaster may be ahead. If you\u2019re \u201cthrough with Boston,\u201d then be through with it!<\/p>\n
Is the transcription of Maria finished? Can we have it? Are you using it as a spiritual \u201clightning rod\u201d?<\/p>\n
Pray for us.<\/p>\n
With love in Christ,
\nSeraphim, monk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St. Athanasius of Brest Dear Sister in Christ, Nina, Greetings in our Lord Jesus Christ, and on the approaching feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Rejoice! We don\u2019t know Maria [Kraft] well, and don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve been going through with her. But: unless you are very strong and know very well what you … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}