St. Gregory the Great: Dialogues
Overview
Gregory the Great was known as an intellectual, administrative, and spiritual giant. While providing for the temporal needs of the Church during his pontificate (590–604), he wrote the Dialogues to take care of the eternal welfare of his people. In four books, the Dialogues honors the memory of the saints of Italy through the first three, and in the fourth, discusses the immortality of the human soul.
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Top Highlights
“Since even holy men cannot fully grasp the secret designs of God during this present life, they call His judgments inscrutable. At the same time, they understand His judgments and can even pronounce them with their lips; for they keep their hearts united to God by dwelling continually on the words of holy Scripture and on such private revelations as they may receive, until they grasp His meaning. In other words, they do not know the judgments which God conceals but only those which He reveals.” (Page 84)
“It is a well-known fact, Peter, that temptations of the flesh are violent during youth, whereas after the age of fifty concupiscence dies down. Now, the sacred vessels are the souls of the faithful. God’s chosen servants must therefore obey and serve and tire themselves out with strenuous work as long as they are still subject to temptations. Only when full maturity has left them undisturbed by evil thoughts are they put in charge of the sacred vessels, for then they become teachers of souls.” (Pages 60–61)
“For all who follow the Lord wholeheartedly are living in spiritual union with Him. As long as they are still weighed down with a perishable body, however, they are not actually united to Him. It is only to the extent that they are one with God that they know His hidden judgments.” (Page 84)
“Holy men do know the Lord’s thoughts, Peter, in so far as they are one with Him. This is clear from the Apostle’s words,40 ‘Who else can know a man’s thoughts, except the man’s own spirit that is within him? So no one else can know God’s thoughts but the Spirit of God.’ To show that he actually knew God’s thoughts, St. Paul added: ‘And what we have received is no spirit of worldly wisdom; it is the Spirit that comes from God.’ And again: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no human heart conceived, the welcome God has prepared for those who love him. To us, then, God has made a revelation of it through his Spirit.’” (Page 83)
- Title: Saint Gregory the Great: Dialogues
- Author: Saint Gregory the Great
- Series: The Fathers of the Church
- Volume: 39
- Publisher: Catholic University of America
- Print Publication Date: 1959
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 303
- Era: era:byzantine
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino; Christian saints › Italy--Biography; Immortality › Christianity
- ISBNs: 0813213223, 9780813213224
- Resource ID: LLS:DIALOGUES
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:35:23Z