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gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Bishops Majoricus and John (496). Because of the double murder of bishops in the church of the Scyllacians (Squillace), Gelasius deprives that church of the right of having its own bishop and commits it to the visitation of Majoricus and John. He also strictly forbids the superstitious practice, atte …
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. 493 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to Laurentius, Bishop of Lychnidus (496). Having recently assumed the pontificate, Gelasius sends this letter as a kind of medicine for orthodoxy and, following the custom of his predecessors, despatches a statement of faith to the churches. He discusses the Acacian schism and the formula of faith that …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.02
What then do these prudent men and those searching with sharp minds into the inner matters of religion, established in the regions of the East, say? If they knew that a person of this kind was placed in the church of Antioch, why did they provide their consent by communicating with such persons? Why did they not remove …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Pope Gelasius I to the clergy, order, and people of Brindisi (494). Having granted the Brindisians the bishop they requested — Julian, now his brother and fellow bishop — Gelasius sends Julian back immediately to his church together with this letter. He presents the formal letter (litterae formatae) indicating what Jul …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
Amid various difficulties we are grateful that we have found the opportunity, most beloved brother Aeonius, by which we might address your love and testify to the solicitude which the apostolic see exercises through its own care for the churches of Gaul. For just as we are bound by the responsibility of universal overs …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
The case of Coelestinus is of such a nature that I think you also are not unaware of it. Since this man, being conscious and convicted in the murder of his parent and bishop, as the tenor of the documents shows, was judged by the verdict of all to be by no means worthy of the office of the altar, and for so detestable …
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 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
Pope Gelasius I to John, Bishop of Sora (495). It is indeed established and prescribed by Gelasius's own orders that no one in a church or oratory not dedicated with the permission of the apostolic see is to be thought worthy of a public procession, and that donors may not use crafty usurpations to slip past the establ …
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. 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. 495 · score 0.01
These things moreover which have been said about the venerable Calandio also apply in a certain rational way to the person of John of Alexandria. Indeed, if the matter is more broadly examined, such great tragedies and so many repeated errors are found there that, if those who perpetrated them are themselves the judges …
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. 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. 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. 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. 494 · score 0.01
I pray your piety not to judge arrogance in the office of divine reason. Far be it, I beseech, from a Roman prince to think that truth communicated to his senses is an injury. There are two powers, emperor, by which this world is chiefly governed: the sacred authority of the bishops and the royal power. For in things p …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.01
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. 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. 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
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. 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 …