Quote from Letter 9.148 to Secundinus, an anchorite monk. May 599
Therefore, your Beloved, so very sweet to me with your very moral life, must afflict yourself through abstinence and apply yourself to the doctrine of God, and should think if this with more attention, in case a church might be found divided from the holy, universal Church by following an error of the schismatics.
And what did so many labour produce, if it is found not to be in the unity of faith, which before the eyes of almighty God protect the soul especially in good deeds? For from this it is said: 'One alone is my dove, my perfect one.' [Sg. 6:9]
And what did so many labour produce, if it is found not to be in the unity of faith, which before the eyes of almighty God protect the soul especially in good deeds? For from this it is said: 'One alone is my dove, my perfect one.' [Sg. 6:9]
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 630.
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