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 2
1How One Who Has Rightly Come to Rule Should Conduct Himself2The Ruler Should Be Pure in Thought3The Ruler Should Always Be Foremost in Action4The Ruler Should Be Discerning in Silence and Useful in Speech5The Ruler Should Be Near to All in Compassion and Above All in Contemplation6The Ruler Should Be Humble with the Good and Stern Against Vice7The Ruler Should Care for Both Inward and Outward Things8The Ruler Should Not Set His Heart on Pleasing People9The Ruler Should Know How Vices Pass for Virtues10Correcting and Overlooking, Zeal and Gentleness11The Ruler’s Daily Meditation on the Sacred Law