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St Boniface, tr. Kylie, 1911
Letter 15: Boniface Thanks Eadburga, Abbess of Thanet, for Books She Has Sent Him. About…
To the Abbess Eadburga, beloved sister, now long bound to him in the kinship of spiritual love, Boniface, servant of the servants of God, sends constant greetings in Christ.
May the Eternal God, who rewards just deeds, grant that my dearest sister rejoice in the celestial choir of the angels, for by sending a gift of scriptural books she has consoled with spiritual light an exile in Germany, who must trace dark and unfrequented places among the German nations, and who, unless he have the word of God as a lamp unto his feet, and a light unto his path, will fall into the snare of death. But beyond this, trusting constantly in thy love, I beg thee, deign to pray for me, because, for my sins, I am assailed by the storms of a dangerous sea; ask Him who dwelleth on high and looketh down on the low things and pardoneth our faults, to put into my mouth the word, that the gospel of Christ’s glory may have free course and be glorified among the nations.1
Notes
- 2 Thess. iii. 1.