Resultados18 letters/passages
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. 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. 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
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. 494 · score 0.02
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. 494 · score 0.01
Amid various difficulties we are grateful that we have found the opportunity, most beloved brother Aeonius, by which we might address your love and testify to the solicitude which the apostolic see exercises through its own care for the churches of Gaul. For just as we are bound by the responsibility of universal overs …
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
Pope Gelasius I to John, Bishop of Sora (495). It is indeed established and prescribed by Gelasius's own orders that no one in a church or oratory not dedicated with the permission of the apostolic see is to be thought worthy of a public procession, and that donors may not use crafty usurpations to slip past the establ …
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 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. 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. 493 · score 0.01
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. 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. 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. 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
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 …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
For God the Word did not bring down from heaven a body coeternal from his own substance but, taking it from the mass of our substance, that is from the Virgin, and uniting it to himself, God the Word was not turned into flesh nor appeared as a phantom, but inconvertibly and unchangeably preserved his own essence, uniti …