Tag Archives: St. Gregory the Great

“It was in these cataclysmic days that the people chose a certain Roman Deacon Gregory to be their new Bishop.”

In 589 Deacon Aigulf trekked home to Tours with relics he had collected in Rome. St. Gregory of Tours relates in his Historia Francorum that Aigulf saw with his own eyes the disasters that struck Rome that year. The Tiber rose to … Read More

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On Divine Mercy Sunday a sobering thought from a Pope about that terrible day

“Divine Mercy! Rah, rah, rah!”   Right? Right.   However… We have come to Low Sunday, Dominica in albis, the Octave of Easter.  I reviewed something of what Fathers of the Church had to say about our Gospel passage on this famous … Read More

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On Mercy Sunday a sobering thought from a Pope about fear and that terrible day

As we have come to Low Sunday, Dominica in albis, I reviewed something of what Fathers of the Church had to say about our Gospel passage on this famous Sunday: John 20:19-31. Pope St. Gregory the Great (+604) preached on … Read More

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Pope Benedict, the lark and the raven

I picked up something from Ignatius Insight which caught my eye.  They posted an excerpt from Pope Benedict’s autobiographical Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977. His Holiness recounted something that happened during his ordination to the priesthood, sixty years ago today as I … Read More

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