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2) Sf. Grigore cel Mare,intr-o scrisoare catre sf. Augustin de Canterbury care il intreba despre unele practici din VT, e si mai direct:

"A woman should not be forbidden to enter Church during these times, for the workings of nature cannot be considered culpable, and it is not just that she should be refused admittance, since her condition is beyound her control. We know that the woman who suffered an issue of blood, humbly approaching behind our Lord, touched the hem of his robe, and was at once healrd of her sickness. If, therefore, this woman was right to touch our Lord's robe, why may not one who sufferes nature's courses be permitted to enter the Church of God?"

NB A intra in Biserica era echivalent pe vremea aceea si cu a te impartasi.
Dar mai jos e si mai explicit:

And if it is objected that the woman in the Gospels was compelled by disease while the latter are bound by custom, then remember, my brother, that everything that we suffer in this mortal body trough the infirmity of its nature is justly ordained by God since the Fall of man. For hunger, thirst, heat, cold, and weariness originate in this infirmity of our nature; and our search for food against hunger, drink agannst thirst, coolness against heat, clothing against cold, and rest against weariness is only our attempt to obtain some remedy to our weakness. So if it was a laudable presumption in the woman who, in her disease, touched our Lord's robe, why may not the same concession be granted to all women who endure the weakness of nature?"