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 3
1Prologue: One Exhortation Does Not Suit Everyone2The Variety Needed in the Art of Preaching3The Poor and the Rich4The Joyful and the Sad5Subjects and Prelates6Servants and Masters7The Wise and the Dull8The Shameless and the Bashful9The Overbold and the Fainthearted10The Impatient and the Patient11The Kindly Disposed and the Envious12The Simple and the Crafty13The Healthy and the Sick14Those Who Fear Scourges and Those Who Scorn Them15The Silent and the Talkative16The Slothful and the Hasty17The Meek and the Quick-Tempered18The Humble and the Haughty19The Obstinate and the Fickle20The Gluttonous and the Abstinent21Those Who Give What Is Theirs and Those Who Seize What Is Not22Those Who Keep What Is Theirs and Those Who Give Yet Seize23The Quarrelsome and the Peaceable24Sowers of Strife and Peacemakers25Those Who Misread Scripture and Those Who Teach It Proudly26Those Too Humble to Preach and Those Too Hasty27The Prosperous and Those in Adversity28The Married and the Single29Those Who Know Sins of the Flesh and Those Who Do Not30Sins of Deed and Sins of Thought31Weeping Without Forsaking, Forsaking Without Weeping32Those Who Praise Their Sins and Those Who Condemn Them33Sins of Sudden Impulse and Sins of Set Purpose34Small but Frequent Faults, and Rare but Grievous Ones35Not Beginning Good Things, and Not Finishing Them36Evil in Secret and Good in Public, and the Reverse37One Exhortation for Many Hearers at Once38One Hearer with Contrary Passions39Leaving Lighter Vices Alone to Remove Graver Ones40Deep Things Are Not to Be Preached to Weak Souls41The Preacher’s Deeds and His Voice