Fathers

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What the Fathers say

Exodus 28:30

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

On this breastplate it is further carefully prescribed that the names of the twelve patriarchs should be engraved. For to carry always the fathers registered on the breast is to think without intermission on the lives of the ancients. For the priest then walks blamelessly when he pores continually on the examples of the fathers that went before him, when he considers without cease the footsteps of the Saints, and keeps down unlawful thoughts, lest he advance the foot of his conduct beyond the limit of order. …

The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 2, Chapter 2 ↗