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St Boniface, tr. Kylie, 1911
Letter 33: Boniface Asks Abbot Aldhere with His Brotherhood to Pray to God for Himself,…
To his venerable brother Abbot Aldhere, Boniface, humble servant of the servants of God, greetings in Christ.
With the most earnest and heartfelt entreaties, we beg you of your loving clemency, deign to be mindful of us in making intercession with your holy prayers, and to implore the good Lord, who is the cause of our exile, that with His right hand He may protect and steer the ship of our weakness lest it be submerged in the waves of German tempests, and bring it unharmed in His guardianship to the tranquil shore of the heavenly Jerusalem. Greet all the brothers of your holy brotherhood, our dearest brother in the Lord, with the kiss of our love and devotion. We commend ourselves to your prayers, that whether in life or in death we may be united with the fellowship of your love. And that this may be so established, we wish, by brotherly devotion to deserve well of you according to the favour of your clemency, in so far as our powers avail. We beg you, also, to intercede for the German peoples given over to the worship of idols, asking the Lord, who poured out His own blood for the safety of the whole world, and “will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth,”1 to turn them to a knowledge of the Creator and to the bosom of Mother Church. Likewise we entreat you to offer your prayers and masses for the souls of our brothers at rest, who laboured with us in the Lord. The bearer of this letter will give you their names.
It is our constant wish that you have good health and holy success in Christ.
Notes
- 1 Tim. ii. 4.