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leo_great · c. 461 · score 0.02
Endure with patience what you cannot change, and trust that the same Lord who gave you the charge will give you the strength to bear it. III. Replies to his canonical questions To the specific questions you have raised, we respond as follows: Concerning those who, under threat of torture or death during barbarian invas …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.02
We cannot properly govern those entrusted to us unless we pursue with the zeal of faith those who are both destroyers and themselves destroyed, cutting them off from contact with sound minds with all the severity we can bring to bear, lest this pestilence spread further. I urge you, beloved -- I implore and warn you -- …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.02
Nevertheless, the first marriage retains its validity, and when the first husband returns, the woman must go back to him. The children born of the second union are not to be considered illegitimate, for they were born in a marriage contracted in good faith. III. On men who were weakened in faith during captivity If any …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.02
Leo to all the bishops set over the provinces of Italy: greetings. We summon you to share in our concern, so that with the diligence of shepherds you may guard your flocks more carefully and permit no devilish scheme to succeed. The plague that, by the Lord's revealing mercy, we are driving from our own flock through v …
leo_great · c. 460 · score 0.02
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to Nicetas, Bishop of Aquileia: greetings. I. Introduction My son Adeodatus, deacon of our See, on his return has delivered your request, beloved, to receive from us the guidance of the Apostolic See on matters that seem difficult to resolve but for which we must make provision in light of the nece …
leo_great · c. 459 · score 0.02
You have One who knows your struggles and has prepared the rewards of recompense. Let no one shrink from this labor, whose reward is to reign and live forever. Let all who fight stand firm with their eyes fixed on the heavenly Jerusalem. In the hope of that reward, they need not fear the battlefield or the enemy's assa …
leo_great · c. 445 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, and the holy synod assembled in the City of Rome: to Pulcheria Augusta. I. He sends a copy of a former letter that failed to reach her If the letters we dispatched to your Grace concerning the faith, entrusted to our clergy, had reached you, you would certainly have been able -- with the Lord's hel …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
This is contrary to the canons and the tradition of the Fathers — and it must stop. The same rule applies to all sacred orders without exception: after a proper interval, a man being ordained priest or deacon must have advanced through all the lower clerical ranks in sequence, so that he has time to learn what he will …
leo_great · c. 445 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, and the holy synod assembled at Rome: to Theodosius Augustus. I. He exposes the unscrupulous nature of the proceedings at Ephesus From your clemency's letter, written out of love for the Catholic faith and addressed some time ago to the see of the blessed Apostle Peter, we drew such confidence in y …
leo_great · c. 445 · score 0.01
Some were excluded; others, at Bishop Dioscorus's demand, surrendered themselves to an unrighteous subscription, knowing they would suffer harm if they refused. The resolution he forced through was of such a nature that by attacking one man he vented his fury on the entire Church. Our delegates from the Apostolic See f …
leo_great · c. 442 · score 0.01
This fatalism destroys free will and makes God the author of sin. The Catholic faith affirms that while God governs all things by His providence, He has endowed humanity with free will, and each person bears responsibility for his own choices. No star compels a man to sin, and no celestial configuration excuses wickedn …
leo_great · c. 442 · score 0.01
Leo to Turribius, Bishop of Astorga, concerning the errors of the Priscillianists. I. Introduction: Leo has received Turribius's report on heresy in Spain We have read with deep concern, dear brother, the letter in which your loving zeal for the Catholic faith brought to our attention the errors that have taken root am …
leo_great · c. 459 · score 0.01
Leo to the Catholic Egyptian bishops sojourning in Constantinople. He encourages them in their sufferings for the Faith and in their appeals for justice to the Emperor. The news of the crimes committed in Alexandria [the murder of Proterius, the orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, by a pro-Eutychian mob in 457] has so sa …
leo_great · c. 444 · score 0.01
He would have it understood that Christ's nature belongs to His Godhead alone, so that what "took the form of a servant" and was "like us in every respect" (Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 2:17) was a kind of phantom, not the reality of our nature. II. Human salvation required the union of both natures in Christ But it is of …
leo_great · c. 442 · score 0.01
III. On the origin of souls They teach that human souls are a portion of the divine substance, thereby making the Creator and the creature one and the same. This blasphemy must be utterly rejected. The soul is God's creation, not a fragment of His being. To say that the soul is of the same substance as God is to subjec …
leo_great · c. 445 · score 0.01
He acknowledges the receipt of a letter and advises mercy if Eutyches will recant. Leo to Flavian [Patriarch of Constantinople], bishop of Constantinople. Our brothers whom we dispatched to you in the cause of the Faith had already departed when we received your letter, beloved, through our son Basil the deacon. In it …
leo_great · c. 461 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to Rusticus, Bishop of Gallia Narbonensis, with replies to his questions on various points. I. He urges moderation toward two priests who have offended Rusticus Your letter, brother, which your archdeacon Hermes brought, I have gladly received. The number of different matters it contains makes it l …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
He considers himself subject to no law, bound by no ordinance of God, and in his eagerness for novelty, departs from your practice and ours, adopting unlawful measures and letting what he ought to preserve fall into disuse. II. Hilary is disturbing the peace of the Church by his insubordination But with the approval, a …
leo_great · c. 447 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to the clergy, dignitaries, and people residing at Constantinople. I. He congratulates them on their forthright resistance to error Though we are deeply grieved by what is reported to have taken place recently at the council of priests at Ephesus -- because, as consistent testimony and the results …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of the City of Rome, to all the bishops of Mauritania Caesariensis in Africa: greetings in the Lord. I. The disorderly appointment of bishops in the province is reprehensible Frequent reports from visitors to Rome have brought to our attention certain unlawful practices concerning the ordination of bishops …
leo_great · c. 444 · score 0.01
Leo to Pulcheria Augusta. I. He reminds Pulcheria of her former services to the Church and urges her involvement in the Eutychian controversy How great is the protection the Lord has extended to His Church through your piety, most serene Augusta, we have confirmed by many proofs. And whatever stand the priesthood has m …
leo_great · c. 442 · score 0.01
The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New are one and the same. The Law and the Prophets prepared the way for the Gospel. Christ Himself testified: "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill" (Matthew 5:17). VI. On the devil and the origin of evil Th …
leo_great · c. 443 · score 0.01
Letter 28: The Tome of Leo. To Flavian, Bishop of Constantinople. I. Eutyches has been driven into his error by presumption and ignorance Having read your letter, beloved -- and we are surprised it arrived so late -- and having examined the detailed record of the bishops' proceedings, we have at last discovered what sc …
leo_great · c. 442 · score 0.01
Leo, Bishop of Rome, to all the bishops established in Sicily: greetings in the Lord. I. The occasion of this letter Through the reports of several brothers and fellow bishops we have learned that certain practices have crept into your province contrary to the discipline of the Church and the authority of the canons. A …
leo_great · c. 459 · score 0.01
They cannot bear the light that exposed their error, and so they seek to extinguish it. But the truth, once proclaimed, cannot be unsaid. The five hundred and twenty bishops who spoke with one voice at Chalcedon spoke not their own words but the words of the Holy Spirit, and their decree stands forever. We therefore co …