Letter 36: Chrysostom tells Maron that love sees across distance and asks for prayers and news.

We are bound to you in love and disposition, and we see you as if you were present here. Such are the eyes of love: they are not cut off by distance and they do not fade with time. We wished to write more constantly to your Reverence. Since that is not easy because of the difficult road and the lack of travelers, whenever it is possible we greet your honor and make clear that we always keep you in memory, carrying you in our soul wherever we may be. You too, then, tell us more often about your health, so that, though separated in body, we may become more cheerful by continually learning of your well-being, and may receive great comfort while sitting in the wilderness. It brings us no small joy to hear that you are well. Above all, be urged to pray for us.

Λʹ. Μάρωνι πρεσβυτέρῳ καὶ μονάζοντι. Ἡμεῖς τῇ μὲν ἀγάπῃ συνδεδέμεθά σοι καὶ τῇ διαθέσει, καὶ ὡς παρόντα σε ἐνταῦθα οὕτως ὁρῶμεν. Τοιοῦτοι γὰρ τῆς ἀγάπης οἱ ὀφθαλμοί· οὐχ ὁδῷ διακόπτονται, οὐ χρόνῳ μαραίνονται. Ἐβουλόμεθα δὲ καὶ συνεχέστερον ἐπιστέλλειν τῇ εὐλαβείᾳ σου, ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ τοῦτο οὐκ ἔνι ῥᾴδιον διὰ τὴν τῆς ὁδοῦ δυσκολίαν, καὶ τὴν ἀπορίαν τῶν ὁδοιπόρων, ἡνίκα ἂν ἐξῇ προσαγορεύομέν σου τὴν τιμιότητα, καὶ δῆλόν σοι ποιοῦμεν, ὅτι διηνεκῶς ἐπὶ μνήμης σε ἔχομεν, ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ περιφέροντες, ὅπουπερ ἂν ὦμεν. ∆ήλου τοίνυν καὶ αὐτὸς ἡμῖν συνεχέστερον τὰ περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας τῆς σῆς, ἵνα καὶ τῷ σώματι κεχωρισμένοι, μανθάνοντες συνεχῶς τὰ περὶ τῆς ῥώσεως τῆς σῆς, εὐθυμότεροι γινώμεθα, καὶ πολλὴν ἐν ἐρημίᾳ καθήμενοι δεχώμεθα τὴν παράκλησιν. Οὐ μικρὰν γὰρ ἡμῖν εὐφροσύνην κομίζει τὸ ἀκούειν περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας τῆς σῆς. Καὶ πρὸ πάντων εὔχεσθαι ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν παρακλήθητι.