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Gregorius Passivo episcopo a Firmano. Bene novit fraternitas vestra (Grat. dist. 61, c. 18) quam longo sit tempore b Aprutium pastorali sollicitudine destilutum. Ubi diu quæsivimus qni ordinati debuisset, et nequaquam potuimus invenire. Sed quia Opportunus mihi in moribus suis, c in psalmodiæ studio, in amore orationis valde laudatus, religiosan. vitam omnimodo agere dicitur, hunc volumus ut fraternitas vestra ad se faciat venire, et de anima sua admoneat, quatenus in bonis studiis crescat. Et si nulla ei crimina quæ per legis sacræ regulani morte d mulclanda sunt, obviant, tunc hartandus est ut vei ' monachus, vel a vobis subdiaconus fiat.
Gregory to Passivus, bishop of Fermo. Your Fraternity well knows (Gratian, dist. 61, c. 18) how long a time Aprutium has been destitute of pastoral solicitude. There we have long sought who ought to be ordained, and we could by no means find him. But since Opportunus is said to be greatly praised in his morals, in his study of psalmody, in his love of prayer, and to lead in every way a religious life, we wish that your Fraternity cause him to come to it, and admonish him concerning his soul, that he may grow in good pursuits. And if no crimes which by the rule of the sacred law are to be punished with death oppose him, then he is to be exhorted to become either a monk or, by you, a subdeacon.
額我略致費爾莫主教帕西烏。你的手足之情深知（格拉提安，第六十一題，第十八章）阿普魯提缺乏牧養照顧已何等長久。我們在那裡久尋當受按立之人，卻怎樣也找不著。但既然歐波都努據稱在品行上、在詠唱聖詠的殷勤上、在愛慕禱告上大受稱讚，並被稱各方面度虔敬的生活，我們就願你的手足之情使他前來，並就他的靈魂勸勉他，使他在美善的追求上長進。他若無甚麼按聖律規條當處死的罪與他相干，那麼就當勸勉他，或作隱修士，或由你立為副祭。
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Et post a!i-, quantulum temporis, si Deo placuerit, ipse ad pastoralem coram debcat promoveri. Si quæ vero gravia obviant, multo magis admonendus est, ut saeculum rclinqnat, et hæc perfectius defleat. Peto antem ut pro me orare debeas, quia cum tribulationibus cordis fatigor nimiis doloribus corporis i.
And afterward, when a little time has passed, if it please God, let him be advanced to the pastoral office in due course. But if any grave matters stand in the way, he must all the more be admonished to forsake the world and to bewail these things more perfectly. I ask, moreover, that you should pray for me, since I am worn down by many tribulations of heart together with grievous pains of body.
此後，過些時日，若蒙天主喜悅，願他按次序被擢升至牧職。但若有任何重大之事橫加阻礙，則更當勸誡他捨棄世俗，並更完全地為這些事痛哭。此外，我懇求你當為我祈禱，因為我既為心中諸多患難所困，又受身體劇痛的折磨。