Letter 10031: On the question you raised in your last letter about the proper interpretation of the relevant precedent: I think...

Since no official courier was available, I entrusted this letter to a private traveler.

I'm glad you missed hearing from me, but I reject any charge of negligence.

If I did not know you as a man who understands friendship — one who has often worried and labored so that some good...

1. To his brethren truly God-beloved and very dear, and fellow ministers of like mind, the bishops of Gaul and Italy, Basil, bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has deigned to style the universal Church of God His body, and has made us individually members one of another, has moreover granted to all of us to live in intim...

"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth" (Song of Songs 1:2).