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Gregorius a Opportuno de Aprutio. Pervenit ad me quia, ex eo tempore quo dilectionem tuam verbis asperis propter quædam qu:c mihi jure displicucrant contristavi, magna libi sit oborta tristitia atque continuus animi moeror. Unde te, dilectissime fili, volo cognoscere quia ego illa verba non asperitate cordis sed amore tuae animae sum locntus. Tu itaque ad omnipotentem Deum tota men:e convertere; quam nihil sit fugitiva præsens. vita considera; aeterna præmia lucrari festina; in quantum virtus sufficit, castiga carnem, quæ, quandiu in voluptatibus vixit, animam castigavit.
額我略致阿普魯提烏姆的奧波爾圖努斯。我聽聞：自從我因某些理當使我不悅之事以嚴厲的話語使你的愛心憂傷以來，你便生出極大的悲哀與心靈持續的愁苦。為此，至愛的兒子，我要你知道：我說那些話並非出於心地的嚴厲，而是出於對你靈魂的愛。所以你當全心歸向全能的天主；思量這現世的生命何等短暫易逝；急切地去賺取永恆的賞報；盡你力量所及，苦待你的肉體——那肉體既在諸般逸樂中活過，便曾苦待了你的靈魂。
Gregory to Opportunus of Aprutium. It has come to me that, from the time when I saddened your Charity with harsh words on account of certain things that had rightly displeased me, a great sadness and a continual grief of soul has arisen in you. Wherefore, most beloved son, I want you to know that I spoke those words not from harshness of heart but from love of your soul. Do you, therefore, turn with your whole mind to Almighty God; consider how fleeting is this present life; make haste to gain the eternal rewards; in as far as your strength suffices, chastise the flesh, which, so long as it lived in pleasures, chastised the soul.
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Benignitatem tuam proximis exhibe, psalmodiae et lacrymis horas vitae frequentius impende, illata mata a proximis æquanimiter tolera. Si contra veritatem injuriam pertuleris, lucrum puta, ut hac agens, per temporalia quae despiciendo pateris, ad cælestia regna pertingas. Otnnipotens autcm Deus cor et corpus tuum caelestis gratiæ salute perfundat, ut de ejus Spiritu et recta interius sentire et recta exterius sufficias agere.
要向你的近人施行仁慈；要更常在詠唱聖詠與流淚中度過你生命的時光；要以平靜的心忍受近人所加的傷害。倘若你為真理之故蒙受不義，就當視之為得益，好使你如此行，藉著你因輕看而忍受的暫時之事，得以進入天上的國度。願全能的天主以天上救恩的恩典充滿你的心與身，使你藉著祂的聖神，既能在內心正確地體悟，又能在外表正直地行事。
Show your kindness to your neighbours; spend the hours of your life more frequently in psalmody and tears; bear with equanimity the wrongs inflicted by your neighbours. If you suffer injury against the truth, count it gain, so that, acting thus, through the temporal things which you endure by despising them you may attain to the heavenly kingdoms. And may Almighty God flood your heart and body with the saving grace of heaven, so that from His Spirit you may be able both to feel rightly within and to act rightly without.