Thursday 23 January 2014

Help and Support

Quote from Letter 9.28 to Libertinus, ex-praetor. October 598

Thus we greet your Glory, and ask that you might join with him [the bearer of this letter] and give him support in every way. And in case he may perhaps fail to understand some things that are beneficial, due to his newness, instruct him carefully with your counsels and give your attention, as has been your custom, to helping him achieve those things.
And so, while he achieves the tasks imposed on him for his own good with your assistance, you may receive a reward for your goodness, and we may be invited to pray more earnestly for the mercy of almighty God on behalf of your Glory's life.

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 564

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