An excerpt from St. Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter to the Ephesians

“If in a short space of time I have become so close a friend of your bishop – in a friendship not based on nature but on spiritual grounds – how much more blessed do I judge you to be, for you are as united with him as the Church is to Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ to the Father, so that all things are in harmony through unity. Let no one make any mistake: unless a person is within the sanctuary, he is deprived of God’s bread. For in prayer of one or two has such power, how much more has the prayer of the bishop and the whole Church.”

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