But if someone says to you:
‘This is sacrificial meat’
(generally) do not eat
because of the one1 who told (you) and (their) conscience.
Now I speak about the conscience
not of one’s own
but the other’s.
For why should my liberty be judged by another’s conscience?
If I take part with thankfulness –
why am I blamed for that which I give thanks for?
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do
do everything for the glory of God.
Be inoffensive to Jews
and to Greeks
and to the church of God,
As I please all people, all ways
not see to benefit for myself
but for the many
that they might be saved.
Be imitators of me as I am of Christ.
Eternal Light, shine into our hearts;
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil;
Eternal Power, be our support;
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance:
That we may seek your face
with all our heart and mind and soul and strength. Amen.
Alcuin