Everyone who reads the letters of the venerable elder Hieroschemamonk Macarius experiences great calm, peace, and at the same time firmness and joy, regardless of whether he writes to the laity or to the monastics. The elder teaches everyone, without distinction, lessons of genuine spiritual wisdom about the world and life, and points out to everyone the heights of the Gospel commandments. And he especially loves to talk about humility. Humility, humbleness of mind is the basic state of the soul that Father Macarius preaches; everyone always needs it. According to the words of his letters, confirmed by the opinion of St. Isaac the Syrian, “as salt is in all food, so humility is needed in every virtue.”