Resultados14 letters/passages
augustine_hippo · c. 419 · score 0.02
The Emperors Honorius and Theodosius, Augusti, to Bishop Aurelius — greetings. An imperial decree against the Pelagians. 1. Pelagius and Caelestius [the two chief proponents of the heresy denying original sin and the necessity of divine grace], authors of a wicked and execrable doctrine, have been condemned by the judg …
augustine_hippo · c. 396 · score 0.02
That was not the case. They left of their own accord; they deserted us of their own accord, in spite of all my efforts to dissuade them out of concern for their own wellbeing. As for Donatus: since he has now been ordained before any decision was reached in Council about his case, I leave the matter to your wisdom — pe …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.02
Gregory to Augustine, Bishop of the English. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will" -- because a grain of wheat, falling into the earth, has died so that it might not reign in heaven alone. He by whose death we live, by whose weakness we are made strong, by whose suffering we are rescued …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.02
Gregory to Augustine, Bishop of the English. [This is Gregory's famous letter answering Augustine of Canterbury's questions about how to organize the new English church.] Through my most beloved son Laurentius the priest and Peter the monk, I received your Fraternity's letter, in which you have been at pains to questio …
sulpicius_severus · c. 400 · score 0.02
Letter 2. To the Deacon Aurelius. Sulpitius has a Vision of St. Martin. Sulpitius Severus to Aurelius the Deacon sends greeting — After you had departed from me in the morning, I was sitting alone in my cell; and there occurred to me, as often happens, that hope of the future which I cherish, along with a weariness of …
sulpicius_severus · c. 400 · score 0.02
And, on the remembrance, yet again my tears burst forth, while groans issue from the bottom of my heart. In what man shall I for the future find such repose for my spirit as I did in him? And in whose love shall I enjoy like consolation? Wretched being that I am, sunk in affliction, can I ever, if life be spared me, ce …
sulpicius_severus · c. 400 · score 0.01
To such a degree does a miserable burden press me down; and while I cannot, through the load of sin which overwhelms me, secure an ascent to heaven, the cruel pressure rather sinks me in my misery to the place of despair. Nevertheless, hope remains, one last and solitary hope, that, what I cannot obtain of myself, I ma …
sulpicius_severus · c. 400 · score 0.01
Nevertheless, I cannot so command myself as to keep from grieving. I have, no doubt, sent on before me one who will plead my cause in heaven, but I have, at the same time, lost my great source of consolation in this present life; yet if grief would yield to the influence of reason, I certainly ought to rejoice. For he …
augustine_hippo · c. 389 · score 0.01
Do not attack it frontally at first. Begin with instruction: explain, patiently and repeatedly, what the martyrs truly deserve from us, and what this practice actually is — a pagan funeral banquet dressed in Christian clothing. Let the congregation understand before they are told to stop. Understanding makes obedience …
augustine_hippo · c. 396 · score 0.01
Letter 60 — To Aurelius of Carthage: Bad Monks Do Not Make Good Clergy (A.D. 401) To Father Aurelius, my most blessed lord and brother in the priesthood, most sincerely beloved — Augustine sends greetings in the Lord. I have received no letter from your Holiness since we parted, but I have now read your Grace's letter …
sulpicius_severus · c. 400 · score 0.01
Ere long, while my eyes were earnestly fixed upon him, and when I could not satisfy myself with gazing upon his countenance, he was suddenly taken away from me and raised on high. At last, having passed through the vast expanse of the air, while my straining eyes followed him ascending in a rapidly moving cloud, he cou …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
You must therefore rejoice with trembling at this gift and tremble in your rejoicing. Rejoice that the souls of the English are drawn by outward miracles to inward grace. But fear lest, amid the signs that are performed, the frail mind should lift itself up in its own estimation and, the more it is raised outwardly in …
augustine_hippo · c. 389 · score 0.01
Augustine, Presbyter, to Bishop Aurelius — greetings. 1. When I kept trying and failing to find the right words for this reply, I finally gave up composing and simply cast myself on God, asking him to let me say something worthy of the zeal and care for his Church that you and I share — and worthy of the respect I owe …
sulpicius_severus · c. 400 · score 0.01
But if, after the example of the teacher of the Gentiles, as indeed often happened, he had been included among other victims who were condemned to die by the sword, he would have been foremost to urge on the executioner to his work that he might obtain the crown of blood. And, in truth, far from shrinking from a confes …