40. to Gilo the Schismatic (1130/4)

Peter, the humble abbot of the Cluniacs, to Gilo, formerly the bishop of Tusculum.

Indeed, the enormity of the affair commands that I speak many things to your belovedness, but the manner of letters, (especially of moderns) inhibit the pen, wishing to diffuse itself, so that it also does not dissolve into necessary things.(I would write a book, not a letter if I let it).

If I say the church is with you, false is the voice of the father to the son, promising, “I give to you…. False also is the voce of the prophet…

Therefore, the communal Mother Church recalls you, therefore, it recalls affectionately what…