Resultados25 letters/passages
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
… hings pertaining to the public order, the bishops themselves recognize that the imperial governance has been conferred upon you by divine arrangement, and they obey your laws, lest they should seem to resist the order established for worldly affairs. With what affection, I ask, ought you to obey those who have been ass …
hormisdas · c. 521 · score 0.02
Since it was necessary for letters to be sent to our lord and son, the most merciful emperor, we commend to the amplitude of your eminence the legates we have dispatched, asking that you deign to support them in the work entrusted to them, and assist their efforts with your authority at court, so that the cause of eccl …
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 …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.02
Well and usefully does your serenity exercise the care of the imperial office, not only in administering the business of the republic but in ennobling it with better institutions, and through the care of restoring unity appeases the author of your venerable empire. For those who reign are secure in th …
gregory_great · c. 598 · score 0.02
Gregory to Quertinus, ex-prefect. I have been asked to intervene on behalf of Bonitus in his effort to obtain a prefecture. I must be honest with you about why I cannot do this. The apostolic see does not seek to place particular individuals in positions of civil power through papal influence. This would be an inapprop …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.02
The peace of the churches is now being composed by heavenly ordinance, since God has chosen you for the empire — in whom he knew the affection for his religion to be always entire. For just as in your private life you always worshipped God with right doctrine, so that you might think about the concord of religion, so n …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
I am asking you to convey a firm message to Leontius, the former consul: he is not to make any unilateral decisions or dispositions concerning the islands without prior consultation with this see. The islands in question fall within the patrimony and pastoral jurisdiction of the Roman church, and no secular authority — …
leo_great · c. 447 · score 0.01
For this reason, we pray your clemency to oppose such disturbances with the Truth, and to order the Faith of the Catholic religion to be preserved without stain. We ask that, in accordance with the standard and decision of the Apostolic See — which we likewise revere as preeminent — Flavian may remain completely unharm …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
I am writing to you with a warning that I intend to follow through on if necessary: if you do not comply with the legitimate authority of the primate of Prima Justiniana in the matters he has brought to your attention, you will face formal correction from this see. The primate's authority is real and binding in matters …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
Your clemency rightly has confidence, as you have declared in the glorious communications sent to me, that it specially profits your republic if the cause of the orthodox faith is placed before all other things. For this is the more salutary concern of a ruler who has received the governance: to conciliate for himself …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
Our spirit is rendered anxious by the long delay of expectation; having been dispatched to so great an emperor, you ought to have informed us more quickly. For we believed we would be able to receive your letters before Ascension Day. Therefore, desiring to learn both the signs of your well-being and the progress of th …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
The piety of almighty God, entreated by the prayers of your blessedness, has deigned to bestow upon us a prince of such great faith that the restoration of ecclesiastical peace, which was demanded by the prayers of all the faithful, may justly be seen to have been conferred through the most religious merits of his clem …
leo_great · c. 453 · score 0.01
… t the things of God to the calculations of the world. Constantinople may be the imperial residence, but that does not give its bishop authority over the ancient apostolic foundations. Ambition is not a ground for privilege, and what the Council of Nicaea established, no later assembly may lawfully amend. I urge your cl …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Empress Constantina. Almighty God, who holds your devout heart in His right hand, both protects us through you and stores up for you eternal rewards in return for your earthly deeds. I have learned from the letters of my representative, the deacon Sabinianus, how justly Your Serenity has taken up the cau …
leo_great · c. 459 · score 0.01
… of the Council's decrees, we support wholeheartedly. The Lord has given you the imperial authority not only for the governance of the state but for the protection of His Church, and we are confident that you will exercise this sacred trust with the same wisdom and firmness that have distinguished your reign. Dated from …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
Book III, Letter 30 To John, Subdeacon [Gregory's representative]. Gregory to John. Since it is clear that the Apostolic See [the papacy], by God's ordering, is set over all churches, there is among our many responsibilities none we take more seriously than ensuring the proper governance of the churches that look to us …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
We rightly confess that the grace of the divine gift has dawned upon us, knowing by the assertion of this letter that the reverence of your apostleship holds our memory in its holy heart. For with true hope we trust that the propitiation of heavenly mercy comes through the intercession of the pontiff, most blessed lord …
pope_felix_iii · c. 486 · score 0.01
The edict of the sentence of Felix, bishop, by reason of the condemnation of Acacius, bishop of Constantinople. Acacius, who after being admonished by us a second time according to the Gospel precept regarding the things that follow, did not heed even the brotherly correction which first was given, and heeding neither …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. Our most devout and God-appointed sovereign, among his many pressing cares, also watches over the preservation of peace among the clergy with genuine spiritual concern -- rightly and wisely recognizing that no one can govern earthly affairs well unless he knows how to handle the things …
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 …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to all the bishops of Gaul who are under the kingdom of Childebert. The divine plan has ordained that there should be different degrees and distinct orders, so that while those of lesser rank show respect to the more powerful and the more powerful bestow love on their inferiors, a single fabric of concord may b …
pelagius_i · c. 557 · score 0.01
As the blessed apostle says, we will not boast beyond measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has measured to us, a measure reaching even to you; for we do not stretch ourselves beyond our reach as though not reaching to you. Thus, with shared solicitude, our predecessors through the grace of God go …
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 …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
We have received what your love communicated in the letters you sent, and we rejoice that the evidence of your faith has reached our knowledge, desiring that God may deign to grant full effect toward ecclesiastical peace to your intention, which we wish to be right. We have conceived hope of this from the heavenly maje …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
It is fitting that God's blessings, though they should be made known to many, should above all be declared to the highest pontiffs. Accordingly, we announce to your holiness through these sacred letters that, first by the favor of the inseparable Trinity, then by the authority of the most distinguished officials of our …