Letter 2,7 - to Candidus, bishop of Orvieto. December 591.
"When a bodily apoplexy occurs, whether for purging or for punishment (God's judgement is not recognized in this), we ought not to add affliction on those tormented, in case displeasure over their failing (Heaven forbid!) should fall on us.
The bearer of this letter, Calumniosus, asserts that, because of this seizure that he suffers, those goods customarily given to him by your church are being denied to him. And so we encourage your Fraternity with the present letter, to ensure that this sickness should not impede him at all in receiving what is customary for him, because with very different people in our Church fighting for God, various infirmities often arise, as you well know.
And if they are deterred by this example, you will no longer be able to find anyone to fight for the Church. But in accordance with that place's status, let your Fraternity contemplate divine judgement, and not cease to provide for him as a sick man, with what whatever could by provided for him as a sick man, with what whatever could be provided for him, if healthy, from the church's meager income."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 197.
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Friday, 19 November 2010
Monday, 25 October 2010
Church Matters
Letter 1,78 - to the clergy, senate and people residing by the church of Bevagna. August 591.
"Whenever some matter is entrusted to several people to deal with, while each has a different view from the others, the door is opened to losses of money, rather that to profits. Foreseeing this, and so that is cannot happen at your church, we have decided that the church's care and profits should be entrusted to the priest Honoratus, for the present, so that the goods and services of the church can be looked after and guarded in every way by him."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 190.
"Whenever some matter is entrusted to several people to deal with, while each has a different view from the others, the door is opened to losses of money, rather that to profits. Foreseeing this, and so that is cannot happen at your church, we have decided that the church's care and profits should be entrusted to the priest Honoratus, for the present, so that the goods and services of the church can be looked after and guarded in every way by him."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 190.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Pastoral Care
Letter i,15 - to Balbinus, bishop of Rosellano. januari 591.
"It has come to our attention that the church of Populonae has been so destitute of the office of priests that neither can the last confession be administered there to the dying, nor can baptism be provided to infants. Most disturbed therefore by the importance of such a holy and such a necessary matter as this, we order your Beloved to go as visitor to the above mentioned church, strengthened by the authority of this decree."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 130.
"It has come to our attention that the church of Populonae has been so destitute of the office of priests that neither can the last confession be administered there to the dying, nor can baptism be provided to infants. Most disturbed therefore by the importance of such a holy and such a necessary matter as this, we order your Beloved to go as visitor to the above mentioned church, strengthened by the authority of this decree."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 130.
Saturday, 8 May 2010
One Faith
Letter 1,14 - to Demetrius, bishop of Naples. December 590.
"Stephen, the bearer of this letter, when his mind was wavering from the path of truth concerning certain articles of faith, had suspended himself from the communion of the Catholic Church because of his doubts over this matter, until God, the discloser of truth, should recall him to the path of righteousness. Please recognize that he has satisfied us and has taken communion, accepting the Catholic faith. (..) We give you this advice with the present letter, by virtue of our faith and at risk to us, that they [Stephen and a group sharing his earlier doubts, AS], that they themselves seem to have demanded. Receive them into the Catholic faith and communion, and recall them from the darkness into light in whatever ways you can, so that after a case of this sort has been brought to us, even if we pass over it in silence, we cannot endure the failure of negligence over their souls."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 130.
"Stephen, the bearer of this letter, when his mind was wavering from the path of truth concerning certain articles of faith, had suspended himself from the communion of the Catholic Church because of his doubts over this matter, until God, the discloser of truth, should recall him to the path of righteousness. Please recognize that he has satisfied us and has taken communion, accepting the Catholic faith. (..) We give you this advice with the present letter, by virtue of our faith and at risk to us, that they [Stephen and a group sharing his earlier doubts, AS], that they themselves seem to have demanded. Receive them into the Catholic faith and communion, and recall them from the darkness into light in whatever ways you can, so that after a case of this sort has been brought to us, even if we pass over it in silence, we cannot endure the failure of negligence over their souls."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 130.
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