Resultados13 letters/passages
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.02
For the tree is known by its fruit. Come, then, you also, O most honorable ones, to the see which you yourselves have proclaimed holy; hasten to the immovable rock of Peter; number yourselves with the apostolic choir; confirm the crowns of your victory; claim the reverence prepared for you, O most reverend ones, among …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to the bishops of Sicily (494). Gelasius instructs the bishops of Sicily to administer the resources of their churches in accordance with canon law. He rules that the thirty-year prescription that applies to the possession of dioceses and their estates holds good, just as it does for other property, and …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.02
Gelasius, by divine mercy minister of the Catholic and apostolic faith, to his most religious and most holy lords the bishops Cosmas, Severianus, Cyrus, Zoilus, Eusebius, Thomas, and Silvanus. 1. If any right things exist that you have written, press the work forward. Why should I communicate my sorrows to you, O most …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Herculentius, Stephanus, and Justus (494–496). Frequent and insistent complaints reach Gelasius about bishops who neither know the ancient canons nor obey his own decrees. This letter deals in particular with two serfs of Placidia, an illustrious lady, who have been ordained as deacons in vio …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
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. 495 · score 0.02
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. 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. 493 · score 0.01
What we desire to be made firm by the full and sincere restoration of the faith and catholic communion, your love asserts. It is not sufficient for us to hear from report alone, unless through letters you will have shown your earnestness in urging concerning those things which divine providence has accomplished around …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
Of the revenue of each church over which a bishop presides, as well as of the offerings of the faithful, four portions ought to be made: one for the bishop, another for the clergy, a third for the poor, and a fourth to be applied to the fabric of the church. No woman shall minister at the sacred altars or presume upon …
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. 492 · score 0.01
In the length of your love's letter you filled us with great joy in that part where it was said that in the church of Thessalonica and similarly in others, when the letter of our predecessor concerning the excesses of Acacius was read aloud, all pronounced anathema against him and no one mingled himself with the commun …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
Those however who say that Christ was a subtle man, or that God was passible, or that the Word was changed into flesh, or that the body was not truly taken from the Virgin, or that the Word was united to flesh only in appearance, anathema be to them. Those who say one nature of God the Word incarnate, not understanding …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
For God the Word did not bring down from heaven a body coeternal from his own substance but, taking it from the mass of our substance, that is from the Virgin, and uniting it to himself, God the Word was not turned into flesh nor appeared as a phantom, but inconvertibly and unchangeably preserved his own essence, uniti …