Letter 37: To the Catholicos (IV)

To the holy in all things, my pious father, the Catholicos and Patriarch Mar Ishoʿyahb. The blessing of Ishoʿyahb, the servant. Greetings.

I have thought well concerning the need of my weakness, O my father.

The fruits of the diligence of the love of your fatherhood in humility.

You have equated it with wonder. And not the force of the oppression of the time, nor

all the labors that befell you, the discipline of the perfect ones

the perfect ones: they were able to withstand the toils of your fatherhood.

lest they ever rely on the gifts of grace, which the toil of all has earned.

And it is more than the others upon me.

That all this is in weakness, as is well known to every man of good judgment.

You have now also received the proof of the love of your fatherhood.

In the letter of peace, and the conclusion of its name in the peace of the spirit.

And I confess to the love of your fatherhood in the wake.

Humble. For I both pray and am zealous.

At every hour, that the journey of my feet in the encounter might be hastened.

that your fatherhood, with God’s help, before this

that you might be stirred to goodness, as also until now.

Now, the gift of prayer is fitting for my weakness at all times.

The remainder of my days in a life that is pleasing to the will of God.

I have done. I have completed.