Resultados8 letters/passages
ennodius_pavia · c. 518 · score 0.02
He provides what is necessary who brings orphans and foreigners to the attention of the parent of all: the only path is the consolation of your apostolate, which heals strangers. Far be it from me to call afflicted those whom it befalls to reach you: parents, homeland, and wealth are not sought elsewhere by those whom …
ennodius_pavia · c. 501 · score 0.02
To Pope Symmachus, from Ennodius. While the apostolic see is graced by the care of Your Holiness's crown, and the heavenly governance of the Church proceeds under your direction, those of us who serve the faith from a distance take comfort in knowing that the head is sound. The attacks you face are known to me, and the …
ennodius_pavia · c. 520 · score 0.02
Ennodius to Symmachus. Petition is never ineffective when it reaches a man of justice and compassion. I bring my request to you confident that it will receive the hearing it deserves — not because I have any claim on your time, but because the cause itself does. Consider it, and act as your conscience directs. Farewell …
ennodius_pavia · c. 499 · score 0.02
Ennodius to Pope Symmachus. [Pope Symmachus (r. 498-514) was a pope whom Ennodius energetically defended during the disputed papal election of 498-502. This letter concerns a property settlement.] Your apostolic condescension has raised me to the point of boldness: the confidence you granted has become the mother of my …
ennodius_pavia · c. 511 · score 0.02
To Pope Symmachus, from Ennodius. Although the distinguished Laurentius attends to your cause with the devotion it deserves, I add my own voice — not because it is needed, but because loyalty demands expression. Your Holiness's cause is my cause, and silence on my part would be a form of betrayal. May God continue to s …
ennodius_pavia · c. 493 · score 0.02
Ennodius to Pope Symmachus. A good commander knows to encourage the proven valor of a soldier who has been tested in battle, so that courage, nourished by praise, may learn to forget its love of life in the next engagement. Whose strength is not fed by a general's commendation? What limbs, even those of a raw recruit, …
ennodius_pavia · c. 519 · score 0.01
--- Now that the longed-for necessity of mine — desired so ardently, felt so keenly — began, through the grace of your nearness, to promise the fulfillment of that desire, you have migrated in spirit to some more distant country: even as you almost touch Liguria with your hand, you have given your tongue a holiday. Whe …
ennodius_pavia · c. 503 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Hormisdas. We know that the sacraments of a religious vocation free those who hold them from the entanglements of sin — not because the holy are immune to temptation, but because the commitment itself provides both armor and direction. I write to you, brother, not as a teacher but as a fellow traveler who l …