Letter 1060: The care of a church without a bishop — or with a bishop whose governance has been disrupted — is a matter that...
AD CLERUM ORDINEM, ET PLEBEM CONSISTENTEM PE-
RUSIM.
Ne episcopi electionem diutius diſſerant.
Cregorius clero, ordini, ct plebi consistenti * Pe-
TuSiz.
Miramur, carissimi fratres in Christo, quare Eccle-
Siam Dei tanto tempore absque Rectore conspicitis,
ac de vestro lotiusque plebis regimine minime cogi-
latis. Notum est cuim, quod grex, $i pastoris cura
defuerit, per avia gradiatur, et ob hoc Þ ſacilius inj-
mici laqueos insidiautis incurrat. Unde necesse est de
his qui Ecclesize militant unum, habito timore Do-
mini, perquirere, qui Pastoris ministerium possit di-
gne suscipere, atque illic, protegente Doinino, sacra-
mentorum divinorum dispensator insisterc, qualenus
et pro filiis Ecclesize vesire purz quotidie mentis
holocaustum offerat, et viam gregi, quomodo ad $u-
pernam patriam gradi.atur, ostendat.
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