Peter
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On the text: "Do not practice your almsgiving before others" [Matthew 6:1].
On the text: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" [John 2:19].
Even during the tyranny of Eusebius — as you have written — when the friends of virtue were being destroyed, no one...
They stood firm against the passions — the very passions they had previously acknowledged defeat against.
I have watched how the communion is administered, and I am troubled.
The usurper must be reprimanded — not to gratify those who are watching, and not to make a point at his expense, but...
On "heap burning coals on his head" [Romans 12:20]: repaying evil with good is not merely a clever strategy for...
We owe thanks for everything — not merely for the blessings we recognize as blessings, but also for the trials we...
Truth is powerful, Peter — and often silent.
If there were no resurrection, Peter, the advice I give you would be foolishness.
Ingratitude, Peter, is not merely an unpleasant quality — it is a failure of perception.
The priesthood is a sacred trust, not a career.
The spiritual life is a journey with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Because obedience is preferred to sacrifices [1 Samuel 15:22], I would rather expose my clumsiness than lose your love.
If your blessedness is called upon in other people's cases to settle quarrels, how much more should a matter be...
Gregory, a servant of God, presbyter and abbot of the monastery of Saint Theodore in the province of Sicily constituted in the territory of Panormus, has given us to understand that men of the farm of Fulloniacus, which belongs to the holy Roman Church, are endeavouring to encroach on the boundaries of the farm of Gerdinia, bordering on the said...
We have been informed that Marcellus of the Barutanian Church, who has had penance assigned him in the monastery of Saint Adrian in the same city of Panormus, not only is in want of food, but also suffers inconvenience from scarcity of clothing. Therefore we hold it necessary to enjoin your Activity by this present order to appoint for him as mu...
Gregory, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to Peter the Subdeacon. The code of instructions which I gave you on your going to Sicily must be diligently perused, so that the greatest care may be taken concerning bishops, lest they mix themselves up in secular causes, except so far as the necessity of defending the poor compels them. But wha...
The divine precepts admonish us to love our neighbours as ourselves; and, seeing that we are enjoined to love them with this charity, how much more ought we to succour them by supplies to their carnal needs, that we may relieve their distress, if not in all respects, yet at least with some support. Inasmuch, then, as we have found that the son o...
Gregory to Peter, Bishop of Aleria in Corsica. Inasmuch as in the isle of Corsica, at the place Nigeunum, in the possession which is called Cellas Cupias belonging to the holy Roman Church, which by the providence of God we serve, we have ordered to be founded a basilica, with a baptistery , to the honour of the blessed Peter, Prince of the apos...
The Roman defender Romano is arriving to take up the management of the Syracusan patrimony [the church's estates in...
On receiving the letters of your Fraternity we returned great thanks to Almighty God, that you had been so good as to refresh us with the news of the gathering in of many souls. And accordingly let your Fraternity strive anxiously to bring to perfection, with the help of the Lord, the work which you have begun. And with regard to those who have ...
Gregory to Peter and Providentius, bishops of Istria [the region at the head of the Adriatic, whose bishops were in...