Resultados25 letters/passages
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Whatever it was my duty to do in humility, I have not neglected. But if I am disregarded in my reproof, I will have no choice but to bring the matter before the Church. May Almighty God show you, brother, how great a love for you constrains me in saying these things, and how deeply I grieve in this matter -- not agains …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
Book I, Letter 79 To Martinus, Bishop in Corsica. Gregory to Martinus. When people ask for what is just, we should listen with a willing ear, so that petitioners may find the remedy they hope for and the Church is not left without a shepherd's care. Since the church of Tanates [a town in Corsica], where Your Fraternity …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.02
Gregory to Victor and Columbus, Bishops of Africa. We know from our own experience in this life how a disease, if neglected at its onset, gains strength. If it were met by skilled physicians at the start, it would be stopped before the far greater harm that comes from attending to it too late. Reason compels us, then, …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.02
Gregory to Barbara and Antonina. Most beloved daughters, I received your Glory's letter -- written more in tears than in words -- and I am touched by no less sorrow than you feel for your father's illness. The law of charity makes your sadness my own. But even in the direst circumstances, we must not lose trust in the …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
Was it not the case -- as you well know -- that the prelates of this Apostolic See, which by God's providence I now serve, were offered the title of "universal" by the venerable Council of Chalcedon? Yet not one of them ever accepted it or claimed this ill-advised name, lest by seizing the glory of singularity by virtu …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.02
All that was foretold has come to pass. The king of pride draws near, and -- terrible to say -- an army of priests is being marshaled for him, since those appointed as leaders in humility have enlisted under the banner of pride. But in this matter, even if I said nothing at all, the power of Him who personally and uniq …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 33 To Romanus, Patrician and Exarch of Italy [the Emperor's chief military and civil representative in Italy, based in Ravenna]. Gregory to Romanus. Even without an immediate reason to write, we ought to stay in touch about your health and safety through regular correspondence, so we can hear the news we …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
Peter, the Apostle, or in the city of Rome, we consider them to be sinful and pernicious not only for us but for all Christians, according to God's word in the Scriptures: " Jacob needs no soothsayer, Israel no divination: time will reveal the marvellous things God does to them." We consider also that auguries and divi …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 37 To Maximianus, Bishop of Syracuse [Gregory's trusted deputy in Sicily]. Gregory to Maximianus. I must write to your Fraternity about a situation that requires pastoral attention. We have learned that certain monks in the province of Sicily are wandering about without any supervision, neither observin …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Gregory to the lord Venantius, Patrician, and Italica his wife. With due affection, I have made inquiries of certain people who have come from Sicily about Your Excellency's health. But the report they gave me was a sad one, full of accounts of your frequent ailments. When I say this, I have nothing better to report ab …
gregory_great · c. 595 · score 0.01
Gregory to Candidus, priest, departing for the patrimony in Gaul. As you proceed with the help of our Lord God Jesus Christ to take charge of the Church estates in Gaul, I want you to use whatever funds you receive to purchase clothing for the poor and English boys of about seventeen or eighteen years of age who may be …
boniface · c. 743 · score 0.01
For a long time no council has been held there, and as a result many who call themselves priests hardly know what the priesthood is. When Carloman has put his promises into effect and you take your place by his side at the council, if you see bishops, priests or deacons living in adultery or having more than one wife i …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Gregory to the Emperor Mauricius. The generosity of my Lords, which has always mercifully sustained your servants, has shone forth here in so generous a supply that the needs of all who are weak and suffering have been relieved by your bounty. For this we all pray with tears to Almighty God -- who moved your Clemency t …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 21 To Natalis, Bishop of Salona [modern Split, Croatia]. Gregory to Natalis. Your deacon Stephen delivered your letter of congratulations, and we received it gladly. A greeting offered with genuine warmth deserves to be believed as such, and it's right that a bishop should share in the joy of a fellow bi …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Book I, Letter 36 To Peter the Subdeacon [Gregory's delegate in Sicily]. Gregory, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to Peter the Subdeacon. The instructions I gave you when you departed for Sicily must be studied carefully. The greatest attention must be paid to ensuring that bishops do not involve themselves in …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
The value of the farmland produce matters little to me if fraud is mixed in. If it comes to my knowledge that you are lax about this, you will be held responsible. Furthermore, I have learned that the Jews in Catania have been complaining that they were expelled by force from the site of their synagogue, which they had …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
Gregory to Pantaleo, Prefect of Africa. Your Excellency is well aware of how urgently the law prosecutes the detestable perversity of heretics. It is therefore no light sin if those whom both the integrity of our faith and the strictness of the laws condemn should find room to creep back during your administration. We …
gregory_great · c. 600 · score 0.01
Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. We have already learned of the devastating plague that has struck Africa, and since Italy is not free from the same affliction, our sorrows are doubled. Amid these evils and countless other calamities, dearest brother, our hearts would fail from sheer despair -- if the Lord's v …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
Book II, Letter 32 To Peter, Subdeacon of Sicily [Gregory's chief estate administrator]. Gregory to Peter. From information received from Romanus the defensor [church legal advocate], I have learned that the convent on the farm of Monotheus has been wronged by our church at Villa Nova regarding a farm that was reported …
boniface · c. 726 · score 0.01
This we strictly forbid, for it is an impious thing to allow children who have been offered to God by their parents to follow their baser instincts for pleasure. You mention also that some have been baptized by adulterous and unworthy priests without being questioned on their belief in the articles of the Creed. In suc …
boniface · c. 726 · score 0.01
If they obey, they will save their souls, and you, on your side, will attain your reward. Do not refuse to eat and speak with them at the same table. It often happens that where correction fails to bring men to an acknowledgment of the truth, the constant and gentle persuasion of their table companions leads them back …
boniface · c. 726 · score 0.01
Gregory, the servant of the servants of God, to Boniface, our most holy brother and colleague in the episcopate. Your devout messenger Denual has brought us the welcome news that you are well and that, by the help of God, you are making progress in the work for which you were sent. He also delivered to us letters from …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.01
Give this matter your close attention, because if there is any shortfall in what is delivered, it will mean the death not of one person alone, but of the entire populace. As for the management of the Church patrimony in Sicily, I have sent -- under God guidance, I believe -- a man you will find yourself in complete agr …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Here begins the letter of Rechared, King of the Goths, addressed to the blessed Gregory, Bishop of Rome. Rechared to the holy lord and most blessed pope, Bishop Gregory. When the Lord in His mercy led us to break away from the impious Arian heresy, and the holy Catholic Church received us into her arms on the true path …
gregory_great · c. 599 · score 0.01
Gregory to Theoderic and Theodebert, Kings of the Franks. Since the renown of your kingdom has long outshone all others through the grace of the Christian religion, you should take the greatest care to please the Almighty Lord all the more perfectly in that very thing which makes you more glorious than other nations -- …