Letter 255

255. To Vitus, Bishop of Carrhae

Would that it were possible for me to write to your reverence every single day! For ever since I came to know your love by experience, I have a great longing — above all to live together with you, but if that may not be, at least to write and to receive letters, so that I may both make known my own affairs and learn how it is with you. But since we do not have all that we wish, but only what the Lord gives, and these things we ought to receive with thanksgiving, we have given thanks to the holy God, who has provided us with an occasion for writing to your reverence: the arrival of our most beloved and most reverent brother Sanctissimus, our fellow-presbyter, who, having endured great toil in his journey, will recount to you with exactness all that he found in the West. For these things too we ought to give thanks to the Lord and to worship Him, that He may grant the same peace to us also, and that we may receive one another in freedom. Greet from us all the brotherhood in Christ.