Letter 7007: Perfect love does not suffer the losses of bodily absence, nor is the serene union of souls diminished by the...
VII. ENNODIVS HELPIDIO DIACONO.
Perfecta caritas corporalis absentiae damna non patitur nec
animorum serena coniunctio itinerum sequestratione mulcatur:
quorum animae Christo in caritatem sociante conueniunt nulla
possunt separari interiectione terrarum. hac ego spe uel securitate
de conscientia uestra securus amantem mei adloquor tamquam
in amplexibus constitutum. foue, domne Helpidi, quem deo medio
suscepisti. habeat suas mundus astutias et urbanitatem fallendi
prudentiam damnandus appellet: tu illi dulcedini quam probaui
nihil admisceas, nisi quod gradibus ad perfectae caritatis
nos bona perducat. domine, ut supra salutationem plenissimam
reddens quaeso, ut prosperitatem uestram uel eorum, qui nos
diligunt, frequentibus mihi indicetis alloquiis.
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