Letter 165: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

The good endeavor of good will is always accompanied by the effect of divine prosperity. By the providence of our God, an opportunity of time has been offered in which you ought to strive for the reward of your faith. Presuming first upon the mercy from above, and then upon the conscience of the most merciful prince, we have dispatched legates for the cause of the Catholic religion, through whom we greet your amplitude with the proper office of due reverence, asking that you not refuse your labor and effort for the restoration of ecclesiastical concord: so that when those whom the authority of the apostolic see has condemned have been repelled and removed, and the Christian people have returned to the one communion which is right, you may have the blessed apostle Peter, for whose faith we strive, as your helper in your deeds.

(a.5i9m. Homiisdae papae ad Anastasiam et PalmatiauL Jan.) Misfis legatis ui pro ecclesiasiicae redintegratione concordiae labarem impendant, postulat, Hormisda Anastasiae^) et Palmatiae a pari. Bouae voluntatis studium diviuae semper comitatur prosperitatis effectus. Dei uostri providentia temporis facultas oblata est, in qna pro fidei vestrae praemio debeatis anniti. De supema primitos mi- sericordia, deinceps de conscientia clementissimi principis praesu- menteS; legatos pro religionis catholicae causa direximus^ per quos amplitudinem yestram debitae reverentiae salutamua officio^ posio- lanteS; ut pro ecclesiasticae redintegratione concordiae vestram labo- . rem atque operam non negetis: quatenus quum repulsis remotisque iis^ quos apostolicae sedis damnavit auctoritas^ ad unam quae recta est communionem plebs Christiana redierit, beatum Petrum aposto- lum; pro cujus fide nitimur, in vestris possitis habere actibus ad- jutorem,