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gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
… hings pertaining to the public order, the bishops themselves recognize that the imperial governance has been conferred upon you by divine arrangement, and they obey your laws, lest they should seem to resist the order established for worldly affairs. With what affection, I ask, ought you to obey those who have been ass …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.02
Which things our ancestors, discerning by divine inspiration, necessarily took precaution that against each heresy, once the council had been celebrated and the decision made, this should remain perpetually firm, and that the same cause should never be allowed to come under examination again. They rightly understood th …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
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. 493 · score 0.02
What is greater above a presbyter for the governance of the Church except the episcopate? If he had sworn, how do you command this? And if he had sworn, why did you put him forward so that it might happen contrary to what he had sworn? I am astonished moreover whether the emperor suffers from necessity, that he cannot …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.02
To this we respond that the dignity of a church depends not upon the political importance of the city in which it is located but upon its apostolic foundation. The Roman Church holds the primacy not because Rome was once the capital of the empire but because it was founded by the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and be …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.02
Among the decretals of the apostolic see which we commend to the attention of all the churches, the following are of particular importance: the letters of blessed Clement, the letters of blessed Anacletus, the letters of blessed Evaristus, and those of all the subsequent bishops of Rome who have spoken on matters of fa …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
But we have already shown that this argument has no foundation in the tradition of the Church, which has always held that the apostolic see has the right to judge all bishops without the necessity of convening a synod, just as it has the right to confirm or annul the decisions of synods. The authority of the apostolic …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
We were greatly astonished that your love desires to know, as though it were a new and difficult question and something hitherto unheard of, that which the communicators of the Eutychian pestilence, having nothing to answer for the obstinacy of their own perdition, now frequently convicted by reason, murmur about in wr …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
We were greatly astonished that your love desires to know, as though it were a new and difficult question and something hitherto unheard of, that which the communicators of the Eutychian pestilence, having nothing to respond for the obstinacy of their own perdition, now frequently convicted by reason, murmur about in w …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
4. Let your fraternity know that the bishop of the church of Thessalonica, though frequently urged by our admonitions, has never been willing to avoid the contagion of external communion, nor has he condemned before us the name of Acacius or the other similar perfidious ones and those communicating with them with a fit …
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. 493 · score 0.01
After five hundred years they wish to subvert the things established by Christ. Saint Athanasius was not condemned by a synod of the East for this reason: because this see did not consent; nor was Saint John of Constantinople nor Saint Flavian condemned. If therefore those who were condemned by a synod of the East coul …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to an Unknown Bishop (c. 495). A newly built church had been consecrated without the authority of the supreme pontiff, and Gelasius had accordingly suspended the celebration of the liturgy there. Now that the requisite authority has been obtained, he orders that the church be restored to divine worship. …
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. 496 · score 0.01
After the prophetic and evangelical as well as the apostolic writings, which we have regularly declared the catholic Church to be founded upon, we have considered it not unfit to say that, although all the catholic churches spread throughout the world are the one bridal chamber of Christ, nevertheless the holy Roman Ch …
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
These things were said concerning Calandio, but they apply with equal force to the case of John of Alexandria. Indeed, the broader the inquiry is pursued, the more grave and scandalous the revelations become. The entire sequence of events in the East reveals a deliberate and systematic plan to replace catholic bishops …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
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. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Rusticus (25 January 494). Gelasius touches in passing on how much consolation he draws from Rusticus's affection for the apostolic see, and how much he endures on account of the Acacian schism. He commends Bishop Epiphanius and instructs Rusticus on ecclesiastical discipline, warning that divine aut …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Moreover, about him who is now placed before the divine judgment, it is not lawful for us to decree anything other than the state in which the last day found him. And therefore, unless his name is repudiated along with the other associates of this error, you must in no way share with any of them the purity of the Lord' …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Moreover, the same principle applies to the case of Acacius as applied to every previous heresy. When Arius was condemned, all those who communicated with him were likewise condemned, without the necessity of convening a separate synod for each individual. The same was true of the followers of Macedonius, of Nestorius, …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Herculentius, Bishop of Potentia (495). Trigetius has informed Gelasius by petition that on his property called Sextilianus he has built a basilica dedicated to the holy archangel Michael and the confessor Marcus out of his own devotion. Gelasius therefore instructs Herculentius that, if the place fa …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Gelasius, bishop, to all the bishops throughout Dardania and Illyricum. 1. Hearing of the orthodox constancy of your love in Christ, and that you so cling to the traditions of the ancient faith and sincere communion that the neighboring contagion of the transgressors has in no way infected a mind devoted to Christian t …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
This is the principle which we have followed in the case of Acacius, and those who object to it object not to our action but to the entire tradition of the Church from the time of the apostles. Let them read the history of every heresy from the beginning, and they will find that this has always been the practice. Those …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Vincomalo (495). A second receipt of the same kind. Gelasius acknowledges to Vincomalo that he has paid into the accounts of the church from the proceeds of a farm which he holds under a tenancy agreement, for the fruits of the year of the consulship of Asterius and Praesidius, men of the highest ran …