29. Next I entreat you, by
Him, from Whom ye have both received this gift, and hope for the
rewards of this gift, that ye be mindful to set me also in your
prayers with all your household Church. Forsooth it hath come to
pass in most proper order, that I should write unto your Mother now
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concerning
prayer; unto her, forsooth, it chiefly pertains by praying to
contend on your behalf, who is less full of care for herself than
for you; and that for you rather than for her I should compose this
little
work concerning widowed continence; because unto you it
remaineth to overcome, what her age hath already overcome. But the
holy
virgin your
child, if she desire aught concerning her
profession from our
labors, she hath a large book on Holy Virginity
to read. Concerning the reading of which I had also admonished you,
forasmuch as it contains many things necessary unto either
chastity, that is, virginal and widowed, which things on this
account I have here partly touched on lightly, partly altogether
passed over, because I there discussed them more fully.
May you persevere in the grace of
Christ.
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