Gregory the Great, bishop of Rome from 590 to 604: the Book of Pastoral Rule on what a pastor is and how he should teach each kind of person, and his selected letters from the Register, from the Lombard wars and the mission to the English to the quarrel over the title Ecumenical Patriarch. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
The Pastoral Rule, Part 1
1Prologue: To John of Ravenna2The Unskilled Should Not Seek Authority3Those Who Do Not Live What They Have Learned4The Weight of Government, and Why Prosperity Is to Be Feared5How Government Scatters the Mind6Those Who Flee Rule for Their Own Ease7True Humility Does Not Resist God’s Decrees8Desiring and Refusing the Office of Preaching9Those Who Bend the Apostle’s Words to Their Own Desire10The Ambitious Mind Flatters Itself with Promised Good Works11Who Ought to Come to Rule12What Kind of Man Should Not Come to Rule