29. Next I entreat you, by Him, from Whom ye have both received this gift, and hope for the rewards of this gift, that ye be mindful to set me also in your prayers with all your household Church. Forsooth it hath come to pass in most proper order, that I should write unto your Mother now aged a letter83 Ep. 150, ad Probam. Vol. I. p. 503. concerning prayer; unto her, forsooth, it chiefly pertains by praying to contend on your behalf, who is less full of care for herself than for you; and that for you rather than for her I should compose this little work concerning widowed continence; because unto you it remaineth to overcome, what her age hath already overcome. But the holy virgin your child, if she desire aught concerning her profession from our labors, she hath a large book on Holy Virginity to read. Concerning the reading of which I had also admonished you, forasmuch as it contains many things necessary unto either chastity, that is, virginal and widowed, which things on this account I have here partly touched on lightly, partly altogether passed over, because I there discussed them more fully.
May you persevere in the grace of Christ.
29. Deinde obsecro vos per illum a quo et hoc donum accepistis, et hujus doni praemia speratis, ut me quoque orationibus vestris memineritis inserere cum tota domestica vestra Ecclesia. Ordinatissime quippe provenit ut matri vestrae jam grandaevae de oratione epistolam scriberem ; ad ipsam quippe maxime pertinet orando concertare pro vobis, quae de se minus sollicita est quam de vobis: et ut ad te potius quam ad illam hoc de continentia viduali opusculum facerem; quia tibi superare adhuc restat, quod jam aetas illius superavit. Virgo autem sancta proles vestra, si aliquid de sua professione desiderat ex laboribus nostris, habet grandem librum de Sancta Virginitate, quem legat. De quo legendo etiam te commonueram, quoniam multa continet utrique necessaria castitati, hoc est, virginali atque viduali, quae hic propterea partim tenuiter attigi, partim omnino praetermisi, quia ibi copiosius disputavi. Perseveres in gratia Christi.