Letter 1,29 - to the illustrious Andrew. February 591.
"May almighty God inform your most charming heart that, even absent in body, I have not withdrawn from love of you in my mind. For I cannot forget your goodness even if I wanted to.
But as for you knowing that I have obtained episcopal rank, if you love me, weep for me. For here the occupations of this world are so great that I see that I have almost been separated from the love of God by this episcopal rank.
I bewail this incessantly and I ask you to pray to the Lord on my behalf."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 150.
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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