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gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.02
Among the decretals of the apostolic see which we commend to the attention of all the churches, the following are of particular importance: the letters of blessed Clement, the letters of blessed Anacletus, the letters of blessed Evaristus, and those of all the subsequent bishops of Rome who have spoken on matters of fa …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
But your love says that you have had so much charity toward me that you were not content merely to write but desired to hear speech in person. Let us examine whether the desire for such an encounter proceeds from true charity or from some other motive. For true charity does not seek communion with those who are separat …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.02
After the prophetic and evangelical as well as the apostolic writings, which we have regularly declared the catholic Church to be founded upon, we have considered it not unfit to say that, although all the catholic churches spread throughout the world are the one bridal chamber of Christ, nevertheless the holy Roman Ch …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Honorius, Bishop (of Dalmatia). Gelasius expresses surprise that Honorius was surprised at the pastoral concern the apostolic see shows for all the churches throughout the world in accordance with ancestral custom, including his region. News had reached Rome that certain persons in Dalmatia were tryi …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.02
We had grieved until now at the barbarian raids devastating the provinces nearest to the city and at the cruel tempest of war, but as much as we have discovered amid the very fervent dangers of recent calamities, the devil has inflicted a more pernicious ruin upon the minds of Christians than hostile savagery has upon …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Honorius, Bishop of Dalmatia. Gelasius assures Honorius that he ought not to have been troubled by what the pope had written to him about the nascent heresy in Dalmatia; Gelasius had acted out of pastoral duty and it matters not through whom he had received the information. He explains what was trans …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
We had grieved until now at the barbarian raids devastating the provinces nearest to the city and the cruel tempest of wars, but as much as amid the very fervent dangers of recent calamities we have discovered, the devil has inflicted a more pernicious ruin upon the minds of Christians than hostile savagery has upon th …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
What we desire to be made firm by the full and sincere restoration of the faith and catholic communion, your love asserts. It is not sufficient for us to hear from report alone, unless through letters you will have shown your earnestness in urging concerning those things which divine providence has accomplished around …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Indeed his stolid and dull mind is such that concerning the poisons which he has badly drunk and vomited forth, he can neither receive nor render any account whatsoever, but hardened by diabolical blindness and already delivered over to himself, he stands condemned by the deadly obstinacy of his own heart, and nothing …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
After the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, which we have enumerated above, the writings of the holy fathers who did not deviate from the fellowship of the holy Roman Church are to be received and read with devotion. The works of blessed Cyprian, of blessed Gregory of Nazianzus, of blessed Basil, of b …