Resultados25 letters/passages
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
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 …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Whatever it was my duty to do in humility, I have not neglected. But if I am disregarded in my reproof, I will have no choice but to bring the matter before the Church. May Almighty God show you, brother, how great a love for you constrains me in saying these things, and how deeply I grieve in this matter -- not agains …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.02
Book II, Letter 3 To Velox, Magister Militum [a senior military commander]. Gregory to Velox. We informed Your Glory some time ago that soldiers were ready to be sent to your area. However, since your letter warned us that the enemy had assembled and was marching toward us, we held them back. Now it seems beneficial to …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.02
Book III, Letter 29 To the Priests and Clergy of Milan [one of the most important cities in northern Italy, close to Lombard-controlled territory]. Gregory to the priests, deacons, and clergy of the church of Milan. We have received your letter, which, though it speaks of your sufferings and difficulties, also reveals …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Before him, pagan rulers who knew nothing of the true God but worshipped idols of wood and stone still paid the highest respect to their priests. How much more fitting, then, that a Christian emperor should honor the priests of the true God, when pagan rulers knew how to honor priests who served gods of wood and stone? …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Gregory to the Empress Constantina. Knowing how my most serene Lady thinks about the heavenly country and the welfare of her soul, I believe I would be greatly at fault if I kept silent about matters that ought to be brought to her attention for the fear of God. I learned that there are many natives on the island of Sa …
gregory_great · c. 603 · score 0.01
Gregory to Phocas Augustus. It gives us joy to consider, with rejoicing and deep thanksgiving, what praises we owe Almighty God now that the yoke of sorrow has been lifted and we have come to times of freedom under the imperial authority of Your Benign Piety. That Your Serenity has not found a deacon of the Apostolic S …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Victor and Columbus, Bishops of Africa. We know from our own experience in this life how a disease, if neglected at its onset, gains strength. If it were met by skilled physicians at the start, it would be stopped before the far greater harm that comes from attending to it too late. Reason compels us, then, …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to Hospiton, leader of the Barbaricini. I have been pleased to learn that you, among all the Barbaricini leaders, worship the true God while the rest remain devoted to stocks and stones. I give thanks to Almighty God for this, and I urge you to hold firm to the faith you have received. Show your neighbors by wo …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 29 To Maurilius and Vitalianus, Magistri Militum [senior military commanders defending central Italy]. Gregory to Maurilius and Vitalianus. On receiving Your Glory's letters, we gave thanks to God for your safety and greatly rejoiced at your careful preparations. What you requested was immediately made …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Sabinianus, Deacon. You know what has happened in the case of the usurper Maximus. After our most serene Lord the Emperor had sent orders that he should not be ordained, he broke out into an even higher pitch of arrogance. The men of the distinguished patrician Romanus accepted bribes from him and arranged h …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Was it not the case -- as you well know -- that the prelates of this Apostolic See, which by God's providence I now serve, were offered the title of "universal" by the venerable Council of Chalcedon? Yet not one of them ever accepted it or claimed this ill-advised name, lest by seizing the glory of singularity by virtu …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
On my own account I was not at all disturbed. My conscience bears me witness: I was prepared to endure any hardship, so long as I emerged from it all with my soul intact. But I have grieved deeply for the distinguished men Gregory the prefect and Castorius the military commander, who neglected nothing that could be don …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
All that was foretold has come to pass. The king of pride draws near, and -- terrible to say -- an army of priests is being marshaled for him, since those appointed as leaders in humility have enlisted under the banner of pride. But in this matter, even if I said nothing at all, the power of Him who personally and uniq …
gregory_great · c. 592 · score 0.01
Book III, Letter 10 To Savinus, Subdeacon [Gregory's representative]. Gregory to Savinus. Wicked men have gone out and disturbed your minds, claiming what they do not understand and asserting what they cannot prove. They pretend that the faith itself is in danger, when in truth they are only seeking to cause division. …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 61 To Gennadius, Patrician and Exarch [supreme military and civil governor] of Africa [the Byzantine province of North Africa, roughly modern Tunisia]. Gregory to Gennadius. That you constantly keep the fear of God before your eyes and pursue justice is proven by the defeated enemies at your feet. But so …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 33 To Romanus, Patrician and Exarch of Italy [the Emperor's chief military and civil representative in Italy, based in Ravenna]. Gregory to Romanus. Even without an immediate reason to write, we ought to stay in touch about your health and safety through regular correspondence, so we can hear the news we …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
Peter, the Apostle, or in the city of Rome, we consider them to be sinful and pernicious not only for us but for all Christians, according to God's word in the Scriptures: " Jacob needs no soothsayer, Israel no divination: time will reveal the marvellous things God does to them." We consider also that auguries and divi …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 37 To Maximianus, Bishop of Syracuse [Gregory's trusted deputy in Sicily]. Gregory to Maximianus. I must write to your Fraternity about a situation that requires pastoral attention. We have learned that certain monks in the province of Sicily are wandering about without any supervision, neither observin …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Gregory to the lord Venantius, Patrician, and Italica his wife. With due affection, I have made inquiries of certain people who have come from Sicily about Your Excellency's health. But the report they gave me was a sad one, full of accounts of your frequent ailments. When I say this, I have nothing better to report ab …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 74 To Gennadius, Patrician and Exarch [supreme military and civil governor] of Africa. Gregory to Gennadius. As the Lord has made Your Excellency shine through military victories in this life, so you should use all your energy of mind and body to defeat the enemies of the Church. From both kinds of trium …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Gregory to Peter, Subdeacon. Gregory, servant of God, presbyter and abbot of the monastery of Saint Theodore in the province of Sicily, located in the territory of Palermo, has informed us that tenants of the farm of Fulloniacus -- which belongs to the holy Roman Church -- are attempting to encroach on the boundaries o …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 75 To Gennadius, Patrician and Exarch [supreme governor] of Africa. Gregory to Gennadius. If your military success came merely from the same qualities that distinguished commanders of old, it would not be so remarkable. But when, by God's grace, you achieve your victories not through worldly planning but …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 49 To Honoratus, Deacon [Gregory's representative in Constantinople]. Gregory to Honoratus. Since we have taken on, however unworthily, this position of leadership, it is our duty to assist our fellow bishops in need as far as we can. Our brother and fellow bishop Januarius, of the metropolitan city of C …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
For a long time no council has been held there, and as a result many who call themselves priests hardly know what the priesthood is. When Carloman has put his promises into effect and you take your place by his side at the council, if you see bishops, priests or deacons living in adultery or having more than one wife i …