Letter to the Faithful I Recensio prior
Español Letter to the Faithful I (Former recension) [EpFid I] (An Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance) In the Name of the Lord! [Chapter I] On those who do penance All who love the Lord with their whole heart, with their whole soul and mind, with all their virtute (cf. Mk 12:30) and love their neighbors as they do themselves (cf. Mt 22:39), and hold thier bodies in hatred with its vices and sins, and receive the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and bring forth fruits worthy of penance: O how blessed and blest are those men and women, while they do such things and persevere in them, since upon them rests the Spirit of the Lord (cf. Jn 14:23), and they are sons of their Heavenly Father (cf. Mt 5:45), whose works they do, and they are spouses, fathers and mothers of Our Lord Jesus Christ (cf. Mt 12:50). We are spouses, when by the Holy Spirit the faithful soul is joined with Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are His brothers, when we do the will of the Father who is in Heav...
