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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. 493 · score 0.02
Euphemius moreover, I am astonished if he does not himself recognize his own ignorance. For if he knew the canons, he would know that the apostolic see has the right to judge all and is judged by none, as the blessed Pope Gelasius declares. The two powers by which this world is principally governed are the sacred autho …
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 0.01
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. 493 · score 0.01
I also perceived in my mind that the Greeks would remain in their obstinacy, nor should this seem unexpected to anyone, since it was foreseen in advance. Wherefore they do not so much strive to oppose the public arrangements on account of religious causes, but rather through the occasion of the royal embassy they endea …
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. 494 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Rufinus and April (494). A similar decree concerning two serfs of Maxima, an illustrious and magnificent lady, who have been ordained as deacons in violation of the laws of princes and the rules of the fathers. The agents of Maxima have complained to Rome that Silvester and Candidus, her serf …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius I to the bishops throughout Dardania (495). Because some persons are not ashamed to disturb ecclesiastical order through illicit ambition and to infringe the privileges which belong to metropolitans and provincial bishops, Gelasius decrees that the ancient custom must be observed: bishops are to be ordain …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
Although for the governance of the blessed apostle Peter divinely instituted, by which the vicars of his see are indebted to all the churches, we have given suitable letters to our brothers and fellow bishops established throughout Dardania, following the path of the ancient faith and communion, so that they may be abl …
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. 493 · score 0.01
Hearing the orthodox steadfastness of your love in Christ and finding you so firmly attached to the traditions of the ancient faith and sincere communion that the neighboring contagion of apostates could in no way infect your mind dedicated to Christian truth, we magnified the Lord and took care with all eagerness of h …
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
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' …