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gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
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. 494 · score 0.02
Gelasius, bishop, to all the bishops throughout Dardania and Illyricum. 1. Hearing of the orthodox constancy of your love in Christ, and that you so cling to the traditions of the ancient faith and sincere communion that the neighboring contagion of the transgressors has in no way infected a mind devoted to Christian t …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Vincomalo (495). A second receipt of the same kind. Gelasius acknowledges to Vincomalo that he has paid into the accounts of the church from the proceeds of a farm which he holds under a tenancy agreement, for the fruits of the year of the consulship of Asterius and Praesidius, men of the highest ran …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Rusticus (25 January 494). Gelasius touches in passing on how much consolation he draws from Rusticus's affection for the apostolic see, and how much he endures on account of the Acacian schism. He commends Bishop Epiphanius and instructs Rusticus on ecclesiastical discipline, warning that divine aut …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
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. 493 · score 0.02
After five hundred years they wish to subvert the things established by Christ. Saint Athanasius was not condemned by a synod of the East for this reason: because this see did not consent; nor was Saint John of Constantinople nor Saint Flavian condemned. If therefore those who were condemned by a synod of the East coul …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Majoricus and John (496). Because of the double murder of bishops in the church of the Scyllacians (Squillace), Gelasius deprives that church of the right of having its own bishop and commits it to the visitation of Majoricus and John. He also strictly forbids the superstitious practice, atte …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Among the cares which the guardianship of the apostolic see imposes upon us, it is especially necessary for the moderation of the faith that whatever has been constituted by our predecessors concerning ecclesiastical discipline, we take care to preserve. But because time and circumstances sometimes demand, certain matt …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Certain men sit in their houses knowing neither what they speak nor about what they make assertions, striving to judge others when they do not judge themselves, and wishing first to accuse rather than to know and to teach rather than to learn, and in matters undiscussed and causes uninvestigated and without seeking the …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
How is one who rushes into these blasphemous profanities not an apostate? How is one not judged sacrilegious who, having abjured the providence and power of the one God whom he confessed, is led away to monstrous superstitions and empty fictions? Did not the Lord himself, when the woman taken in adultery was brought to …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
What then do these prudent men and those searching with sharp minds into the inner matters of religion, established in the regions of the East, say? If they knew that a person of this kind was placed in the church of Antioch, why did they provide their consent by communicating with such persons? Why did they not remove …
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 …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
This is the principle which we have followed in the case of Acacius, and those who object to it object not to our action but to the entire tradition of the Church from the time of the apostles. Let them read the history of every heresy from the beginning, and they will find that this has always been the practice. Those …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Zeja, Count (c. 495–496). Gelasius commends to Zeja the case of the clergymen Silvester and Faustinianus, who are pressing their claim to freedom before his jurisdiction. He reminds the count that it should always be gratifying to Christians to be asked to assist those with a just cause, and that it …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
These things were said concerning Calandio, but they apply with equal force to the case of John of Alexandria. Indeed, the broader the inquiry is pursued, the more grave and scandalous the revelations become. The entire sequence of events in the East reveals a deliberate and systematic plan to replace catholic bishops …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
These things moreover which have been said about the venerable Calandio also apply in a certain rational way to the person of John of Alexandria. Indeed, if the matter is more broadly examined, such great tragedies and so many repeated errors are found there that, if those who perpetrated them are themselves the judges …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
4. Let your fraternity know that the bishop of the church of Thessalonica, though frequently urged by our admonitions, has never been willing to avoid the contagion of external communion, nor has he condemned before us the name of Acacius or the other similar perfidious ones and those communicating with them with a fit …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Herculentius, Bishop of Potentia (495). Trigetius has informed Gelasius by petition that on his property called Sextilianus he has built a basilica dedicated to the holy archangel Michael and the confessor Marcus out of his own devotion. Gelasius therefore instructs Herculentius that, if the place fa …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
We have also received complaints that certain bishops are conducting themselves more like secular lords than like pastors of souls, displaying worldly pomp and luxury that are contrary to the spirit of the Gospel. We admonish all bishops to remember that they are the successors of the apostles, who left all things to f …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
What is greater above a presbyter for the governance of the Church except the episcopate? If he had sworn, how do you command this? And if he had sworn, why did you put him forward so that it might happen contrary to what he had sworn? I am astonished moreover whether the emperor suffers from necessity, that he cannot …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
For just as in every heresy, when the author of the depravity has been condemned, his successors and accomplices and all those polluted by communion with the followers of such things must be avoided by Catholic integrity, so with Eutyches, Dioscorus, Timothy Aelurus, and Peter of Alexandria together with his communican …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to an Unknown Bishop (c. 495). A newly built church had been consecrated without the authority of the supreme pontiff, and Gelasius had accordingly suspended the celebration of the liturgy there. Now that the requisite authority has been obtained, he orders that the church be restored to divine worship. …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
We were greatly astonished that your love desires to know, as though it were a new and difficult question and something hitherto unheard of, that which the communicators of the Eutychian pestilence, having nothing to respond for the obstinacy of their own perdition, now frequently convicted by reason, murmur about in w …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
We were greatly astonished that your love desires to know, as though it were a new and difficult question and something hitherto unheard of, that which the communicators of the Eutychian pestilence, having nothing to answer for the obstinacy of their own perdition, now frequently convicted by reason, murmur about in wr …
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 …