Verba Matris ad filiam, quod sacerdotes rite habentes absolucionis officium, quantumcumque peccatores sint, possunt absoluere a peccatis; et sic de sacramento Eucharistie.
The Authority of the Office
The efficacy of the sacraments depends on the office held by the minister rather than the personal holiness of the individual.
The Mother says, "Go to the one who holds the office of absolution." For no matter how leprous a doorkeeper may be, he can still open the door if he holds the keys just as a healthy man does. It's the same with absolution and the Sacrament of the altar. No matter what kind of minister he is, if he holds the office of absolution correctly, he has the power to absolve you from your sins. Therefore, no one should be looked down upon.
The Warning of Empty Labor
Ministers who pursue worldly desires rather than spiritual duty face divine judgment and the loss of their labor.
However, I warn him about two things. The first is that he won't get what he craves and pursues with worldly desire; the second is that his life will be cut short. Just as an ant, carrying a grain day and night, sometimes falls and dies right at the entrance as it nears its hole, leaving the grain outside, so he, too, will die just as he begins to reach the fruit of his labor; and for his empty labor, he will be put to shame and punished.
Read the original Latin
Mater loquitur: "Vade ad eum qui officium absolucionis habet. Quantumcumque enim ostiarius leprosus est, nichilominus aperire potest portam, si habet claues sicut sanus.
Ita eciam est de absolucione et sacramento altaris. Qualiscumque enim minister est, si tamen rite habet officium absolucionis, potest absoluere a peccatis. Ideo nullus est contempnendus.
Verumptamen premoneo eum de duobus. Vnum est, quod illud, quod carnaliter diligit et optat, non habebit; aliud est, quod vita eius breuiabitur cicius.
Et sicut formica portans die ac nocte granum aliquando, cum appropinquat foramini, cadit et moritur in introitu grano remanente ab extra, sic ipse, cum inceperit peruenire ad fructum laboris sui, morietur et pro superuacuo labore suo confundetur et punietur."
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