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gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
As soon as it was possible for us to draw breath from the tempest of continual wars, which the circumstances of the times have relentlessly inflicted upon those provinces and these alike, we resolved to address all the priests of the Lord throughout Dardania with the concern of fraternal charity. First, because having …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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 0.02
I also perceived in my mind that the Greeks would remain in their obstinacy, nor should this seem unexpected to anyone, since it was foreseen in advance. Wherefore they do not so much strive to oppose the public arrangements on account of religious causes, but rather through the occasion of the royal embassy they endea …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
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. 493 · score 0.02
Euphemius moreover, I am astonished if he does not himself recognize his own ignorance. For if he knew the canons, he would know that the apostolic see has the right to judge all and is judged by none, as the blessed Pope Gelasius declares. The two powers by which this world is principally governed are the sacred autho …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to the clergy, order, and people of Brindisi (494). Having granted the Brindisians the bishop they requested — Julian, now his brother and fellow bishop — Gelasius sends Julian back immediately to his church together with this letter. He presents the formal letter (litterae formatae) indicating what Jul …
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. 496 · score 0.01
The case of Coelestinus is of such a nature that I think you also are not unaware of it. Since this man, being conscious and convicted in the murder of his parent and bishop, as the tenor of the documents shows, was judged by the verdict of all to be by no means worthy of the office of the altar, and for so detestable …
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
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. 496 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to John, Bishop (496). Gelasius expresses indignation at the audacious conduct of Asellus, who held the office of archdeacon. When the bishop of the church died a sudden violent death, Asellus, who above all others had a duty to protect the church, instead arranged for an election to be held without con …
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. 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. 496 · score 0.01
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. 494 · score 0.01
Of the revenue of each church over which a bishop presides, as well as of the offerings of the faithful, four portions ought to be made: one for the bishop, another for the clergy, a third for the poor, and a fourth to be applied to the fabric of the church. No woman shall minister at the sacred altars or presume upon …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
I pray your piety not to judge arrogance in the office of divine reason. Far be it, I beseech, from a Roman prince to think that truth communicated to his senses is an injury. There are two powers, emperor, by which this world is chiefly governed: the sacred authority of the bishops and the royal power. For in things p …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
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. 494 · score 0.01
The servants of your piety, my sons Faustus the master and Irenaeus, illustrious men, and their companions performing their public embassy, having returned to the city, said that your clemency had inquired why I had not sent writings of my greeting to you. Not by my own design, I confess, but since those who had long s …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Moreover, the same principle applies to the case of Acacius as applied to every previous heresy. When Arius was condemned, all those who communicated with him were likewise condemned, without the necessity of convening a separate synod for each individual. The same was true of the followers of Macedonius, of Nestorius, …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
In the length of your love's letter you filled us with great joy in that part where it was said that in the church of Thessalonica and similarly in others, when the letter of our predecessor concerning the excesses of Acacius was read aloud, all pronounced anathema against him and no one mingled himself with the commun …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
Which things our ancestors, discerning by divine inspiration, necessarily took precaution that against each heresy, once the council had been celebrated and the decision made, this should remain perpetually firm, and that the same cause should never be allowed to come under examination again. They rightly understood th …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
Those however who say that Christ was a subtle man, or that God was passible, or that the Word was changed into flesh, or that the body was not truly taken from the Virgin, or that the Word was united to flesh only in appearance, anathema be to them. Those who say one nature of God the Word incarnate, not understanding …