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"actumque est ut desideria dilata crescerent, et crescentia caperunt quod invenissent. . . . Sancta enim desideria . . . dilatione crescent. Si autem dilatione deficient, desideria non fuerunt."
Pope Gregory the Great, Homily 25.2, as translated somewhat loosely by the Liturgy of the hours (Office of readings, Feast of St. Mary Magdalene), which does not mark the two lacunae. SC 522, ed. Raymond Etaix (2008), ; CCSL 141, ed. Raymond Etaix (1999), ; PL 76, col. 1190.
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