Great indeed and exceedingly to be admired are the delicacies which you sent, in abundance, in timeliness, in worth; yet they are not equal to your affection, your piety, your solicitude. By which it is proved that it was not so much your regard that was lacking to us as your presence. The festival was made unimpeded by the prosperity of your intercessions: yet by as much of bodily fare as was added to it, by so much was there lacking, contrary to custom, of spiritual banquets—which, if God grant them to me in a future supply, may He deign then to display together with you, even as He now deigns to transmit them through you.