Probity and
integrity:
‘My heart is
sore for …., sometime one of your clergy, that he should have so little
understanding of the office that was conferred on him. It moves me to warn you
earnestly against any excessive fondness for money, and to insist upon your
absolute probity and integrity. You must keep yourselves from the slightest
taint of wrong. If a man has no control over himself in matters of this sort,
how can he possibly preach it to anyone else? If he fails to rise above the
love of money, he will find himself corrupted by the worship of his idol…’
[Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians, Ch 9,1-11,4, II Reading from the Office
of Readings on Wednesday, 26th Week, p.596 of Vol. III of The Divine
Office.]
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