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hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.02
On this point we suspect you are forgetful of our instruction: for we said that, with the occupiers excluded, those of whom we speak should return to their own churches, so that the others may be ordained elsewhere, if they are indeed of the right faith. Regarding the persons of the Scythian monks, the illustrious Just …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.02
Having solemnly offered the libellus, we report that we have admitted the one offering it to our communion. We commend Paulinus, defender of the Roman church, and we urge that you not leave anything undisposed through haste for your return, because all things are better arranged with the passage of time and with the he …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.02
It befits us to stand with feet firmly planted: we shall profit amid our adversaries by our own goods, if we are not entangled in the errors of others; for whoever is unmoved when pushed proves the strong vigor of his own virtue. Where are the stings of varied temptation not found? What cunning deceptions, veiled with …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.02
Upon reading the letters of your love, through which the madness of the enemies of God was revealed and the persistent fury of the faithless was painfully set forth — who, while with a revived evil spirit they hate the Lord, impiously persecute his members — as far as recognizing your constancy, I blessed God, who guar …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.02
If we attempt to use worthy preambles, it is necessary to produce them with many tears. For very many of us were residing in Constantinople when your most holy representatives — the bishops Ennodius and Fortunatus, the priest Venantius, the deacon Vitalis [and the notary Hilarus] — came as legates of the faith. [This i …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.02
We received the illustrious and most reverend bishop with a grateful spirit, not only for the honor that is owed to priests, but also out of affection for your holiness; for whomever has been approved by your judgment is also judged most approved in our estimation. Concerning the effort and support, however, that must …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
We were unable to restrain them by admonitions, by gentleness, or by authority. They went so far as to appear in a public assembly, crying out even around the statues of the emperors to shake the public peace, and had not the constancy of the faithful people resisted, through the abominable seeds of diabolical tares th …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
Likewise: if they are not heretics, after they were accused in official proceedings by Candidus, the deputy of the master of soldiers of the praetorium, in the court of the prefects, and they recognized that swift danger was approaching, why then, as though about to be condemned, did they again exercise such great numb …
hormisdas · c. 518 · score 0.01
Just as it is consonant with reason that those who are in doubt should seek counsel, so it is equally fitting to respond to those who seek it, because the one who does not instruct the ignorant himself drives them into error, and nothing is more fitting for one zealous in religion than the inquiry after truth, since on …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
But what wonder if the sheep, having abandoned that one true shepherd, were scattered and the cunning, bloodthirsty, and rapacious one disturbed them with his snares? Those who desert their own protection expose themselves to the dangers by which they are torn apart. Therefore now at least with firm steps persist in th …
hormisdas · c. 520 · score 0.01
Commending myself most humbly at your most pious footsteps, I report concerning the synod of New Epirus [Roman province in the western Balkans], that they pretended to anathematize certain persons among themselves. They employed only this stratagem so that they might entrap us in their malice. But the divine Trinity, t …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
Therefore we beseech you and adjure you through the divine mercy to bestow upon their cause, which is just, the highest patronage and the affection of your proven energy, following closely the footsteps of the most pious emperor, so that he may at last restore them to their churches, both out of regard for piety and in …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
Whence some of them, unable to bear the blows inflicted upon them, have departed this life, and no small multitude of our people has been destroyed. For when we were going to the monastery of the lord Simeon [Simeon Stylites the Younger] for the cause of the Church, the aforesaid polluted ones laid ambush for us on the …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
Among the things which our brother and fellow bishop John has brought to our notice out of his zeal for ecclesiastical utility, he has also consulted us, out of devotion to the catholic faith and veneration for the apostolic see, as to what order holy communion should be granted to those coming from the clergy of the G …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
If for our sins these bishops who have been brought here have entered Constantinople, let us not say that they will assuredly see the emperor and be restored to their sees — for they have brought such great sums of money with them that they could blind not merely men but angels — if therefore, which God forbid, they ha …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
If he who has offered a cup of cold water, following the commandments of the gospel, obtains the reward of his good intention from the Lord himself who taught these things, does not he who has delayed announcing the truth to so great a people of the faithful justly incur the penalty of damnation? Hence it is that, esca …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
How greatly our mind is wearied by sharing in your sorrow, it is superfluous to establish in words before those who prove their mutual charity; but may he who as a prescient searcher beholds both our spirit and your labors turn our grief into joy through your prosperity. Moreover, know that we have never ceased to act …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
Sergius, presbyter, as above. Simeon, presbyter, as above. Thomas, presbyter, as above. John, presbyter, as above. Simeon, presbyter, as above. Thomas, presbyter, as above. John, presbyter, as above. Simeon, presbyter, as above. Davidethos, deacon, as above. Thomas, deacon, as above. John, deacon, as above. Lamneus, pr …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
Hormisdas to the Synod of Old Epirus. Delivered by the deacon Rufinus. Blessed be God, who joins together the members of his church! Blessed be God, who brings those divided by the instigation of the evil one back into the same solidarity they once enjoyed! For though the enemy cried out for a long time like a partridg …
hormisdas · c. 522 · score 0.01
Since, therefore, it was proper that our deliberation be declared to your holiness as well, so that from it our desire may also be made evident — in which we direct every effort toward restraining and moderating controversies and extending the desired concord among all — we have judged that the present letters also sho …
hormisdas · c. 515 · score 0.01
To the most holy and blessed patriarch of the whole world, Hormisdas, who holds the see of the prince of the apostles Peter: the petition and supplication of the least of the archimandrites and the other monks of your province of Second Syria. The grace of our Savior Christ moved us to take refuge with your Blessedness …
hormisdas · c. 516 · score 0.01
By the favor of the divinity, which has always instructed the catholic church through the growth of faith, the unity of the holy churches has come about through the teaching and authority of your apostolate. But since we have learned that certain men who are monks in name, for whom discord is more a matter of zeal than …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
Since it is clearly fitting for the state of religion and the full rules of the catholic faith that the watchful care of your exhortation should instruct the flock committed to you throughout all the members of the universal Church, you visited the province of Vienne [in southeastern Gaul] the previous year — if you de …
hormisdas · c. 519 · score 0.01
Geladius, by God's mercy presbyter, as above. Bassus, by God's mercy presbyter, as above. Romulus, by God's mercy presbyter, as above. Eusealius, by God's mercy presbyter, as above. Malchus, by God's mercy presbyter, as above. Leontius, by God's mercy deacon, as above. Stephanus, by God's mercy presbyter, as above. Car …
hormisdas · c. 517 · score 0.01
It has been proven that there are no joys, especially spiritual ones, from which tribulation can be entirely separated. We rejoice at the unity of the church of Constantinople, which has been made with the apostolic see; we rejoice daily that the libelli [formulas of submission] of various bishops are being offered to …