May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In the Ark of Noah certain persons, numbering only eight, were saved by water, which Baptism effects in like manner for you" (1 Peter 3:20). He proves and demonstrates that the solitary Ark of Noah was the figure of the One Church. If, at the time of this Baptism of the world anyone could have been saved without having been in the Ark of Noah, then he who is outside the Church could now be brought to life by Baptism.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!