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The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
Ambrose
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If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
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If you are at Rome live in the Roman style if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
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Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
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When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.
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And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together for we speak to Him when we pray we hear Him when we read the divine saying.
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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
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