教牧守則·對話錄與書信 第 354 章

Gregory to Peter, bishop of Triocala. Since the Church of Agrigentum has been committed to the care of your Fraternity's visitation by us, we have foreseen that something useful ought to be provided from it by your labors. Therefore we have written to Maximian, our brother and fellow bishop, that the quarter which the bishop of that same Church ought to receive should be applied from the day of your visitation, or for as long as you shall exercise that oversight there.

Wherefore it is necessary for Your Fraternity to consider with a solicitous mind that, of whatever Church you receive the fruit, you should strive skillfully to expend labor, and there to gather souls to God, to restrain the wicked from iniquity, and to nourish with the word of exhortation those beginning good works, mindful of what is written concerning the universal Church: She has not eaten her bread in idleness (Proverbs 31:27).