Letter 5012: Gregory assigns Peter of Trecala support from Agrigentum's revenues while he oversees that church and urges him to work diligently for souls.
Since we have entrusted the church of Agrigentum to your Brotherhood for visitation, we have thought it useful to provide something from that church for your labor. So I have written to our brother and fellow bishop Maximianus that the fourth share which the bishop of that church ought to receive should be assigned to you from the day your visitation begins, and for as long as you carry that responsibility there.
Your Brotherhood must therefore consider this carefully: since you are receiving the income of the church, you must work diligently for it. Gather souls there for God, restrain the corrupt from wrongdoing, and nourish those just beginning good works with words of encouragement. Remember what is written of the universal Church: "She does not eat the bread of idleness" (Prov. 31:27).
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Latin / Greek Original
EPISTOLA XII. AD PETRUM EPISCOPUM.
Agrigentinae Ecclesiae redituum quartam partem in visitationis stipendium assignat.
Gregorius Petro episcopo Trecalitano.
Quoniam Agrigentina Ecclesia a nobis fraternitatis suae visitationis curae commissa est, laboribus tuis aliquid ex ea utile prospeximus consulendum. Propterea Maximiano fratri et coepiscopo nostro scripsimus, ut quarta, quam ejusdem Ecclesiae episcopum oportebat accipere, a die visitationis tuae, vel quousque illic eam sollicitudinem gesseris, tibi debeat applicari. Unde fraternitatem tuam necesse est mente sollicita cogitare, ut cujus fructus Ecclesiae percipit, opera studeat solerter impendere, atque ad Deum illic animas congregare, pravos ab iniquitate compescere, et incipientes bona opera, verbo exhortationis nutrire, memor quod de Ecclesia universali scriptum est: Panem otiosa non comedit (Prov. XXXI, 27).
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