Quote from Letter 4,33 to Theodelinda, queen of the Lpmbards. July 594.
Therefore, since you know this from my open statement of it, it is right that you should no longer have any scrap of doubt with regard to the Church of Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles. But persist in the true faith, and establish your life on the rock of the Church, that is to say, on the confession of Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles.
Otherwise, all of your tears and such great deeds may perish, if they are found hostile to the true faith. For as boughs wither away without the goodness of the root, so works, however good they may appear, are nothing if they are separated from the foundation of faith.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 313
About Me & About the Project
- Arnold Smeets
- BIO - I am a theologian. Radio broadcaster at Dutch Public Broadcast Organisation KRO-NCRV and Senior Research Fellow at CPO (Centre for Patristic Studies), the Netherlands. In 2007 I took my degree cum laude at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Tilburg on a semiotic analysis of three letters of Pope Gregory the Great (Ad Leandrum, concerning his own conversion, and Ep. xi,37 and Ep. xi,56, two instructions on the mission of the English). PROJECT - Every few days I'll blog a paragraph and twitter a line from one of Gregory the Great's Letters. Passages from the letters are quoted with kind permission of the publishers, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada.
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