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1 13| Catholic Church" (Ep. lv., n. 1). In the same way Maximus 2 12| secundum Lucam, lib. x., nn. 175-176). These, then, are the 3 12| Lucam, lib. x., nn. 175-176). These, then, are the duties 4 16| day of June, in the year 1896, and the nineteenth of our 5 5 | which is His body" (Eph. i., 22-23). Scattered and separated 6 8 | not have sin" (Ibid. xv., 24). "But if I do (the works) 7 8 | give testimony" (Ibid. xv., 26-27). Hence He commands that 8 8 | In Matt., lib. iv., cap. 28, v. 20). But how could all 9 15| those of Constantinople. The 28th Canon of the Council of 10 5 | of His bones" (Eph. v., 29-30). Another head like to 11 16| at St. Peter's, Rome, the 29th day of June, in the year 12 10| to one head" (St. Thomas, 2a tae, 9, xxxix., a. I). From 13 12| faith fail not" (Luke xxii., 32), and He furthermore commanded 14 9 | Haereses, lib. iv., cap. 33, n. 8). And Tertullian: " 15 9 | Credendi, cap. xvii., n. 35). It is then undoubtedly 16 8 | believe Me not" (John x., 37). "If I had not done among 17 8 | believe the works" (Ibid. x., 38). Whatsoever He commands, 18 8 | I ad Corinth. capp. 42, 44). On the one hand, therefore, 19 9 | Commentariorum in Matt. n. 46). Irenaeus too says: "The 20 15| part iii., cap. 21, n. 55). Hence those remarkable 21 12| Ambrosius, De Fide, lib. iv., n. 56). For this reason Jesus 22 15| Leo X. laid down in the 5th council of Lateran "that 23 11| faithful as said above" (cap. 74). "For the same reason, 24 11| Gentiles, lib. iv., cap. 76). Jesus Christ, therefore, 25 15| ad Synodum Romanum an. 869, Cf. Actionem vii., Conc. 26 9 | Augustinus, De Haeresibus, n. 88). The need of this divinely 27 9 | should believe them not and abandon not the primary and ecclesiastical 28 13| the same way Maximus the Abbot teaches that obedience to 29 8 | another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever, the Spirit 30 16| the mercy of God, who is able to move the hearts of men 31 8 | he charges them to spread abroad and propagate His teaching. " 32 16| derive therefrom a greater abundance of salutary fruit. But We, 33 9 | manifest progress and such abundant fruit, shall we hesitate 34 7 | precipitating them into the abyss only when the Scriptures, 35 8 | the other that the duty of accepting and professing all their 36 9 | of the Church have been accustomed to follow and, with one 37 13| which, truly and humbly, it acknowledges to have received together 38 9 | repudiating in one sweeping act the whole of Christian teaching? 39 15| Synodum Romanum an. 869, Cf. Actionem vii., Conc. Constantinopolitani 40 13| For this reason Jerome addresses Damasus thus: "My words 41 6 | solemnly offered it up, thus addressing His Father: "Not for them 42 11| Church, he does not give an adequate reply. It is clear, indeed, 43 3 | the sacraments which are administered by men specially chosen 44 10| power of performing and administering the divine mysteries, together 45 15| beget any confusion in the administration that Christians are bound 46 9 | than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of 47 15| of the Apostolic See, is admitted by all to be worthless. 48 7 | of heretics as follows: "Admitting the sacred Scriptures they 49 9 | Ephesians. In this he first admonishes them to preserve with every 50 12| right of giving advice and admonition,which is called direction, 51 7 | power Christ did actually adopt. For this purpose it is 52 10| to be the sons of God by adoption might attain to the perfection 53 5 | the Church is united to an adulteress. He has cut himself off 54 8 | scatter His flock and are His adversaries: He that is not with Me 55 12| shadowy right of giving advice and admonition,which is 56 16| grace, and as a token of Our affection, We lovingly impart to you, 57 11| ministers through whom the aforesaid Sacraments should be dispensed 58 | afterwards 59 | again 60 13| and Peter spoke through Agatho" (Actin xviii.). In the 61 15| against the Church. All are agreed that the divine promise 62 6 | and I in Thee" (Ibid. 21). Agreement and union of minds is the 63 9 | that all doctrine which agrees with that of the Apostolic 64 2 | also He makes use of human aid for that which lies beyond 65 9 | Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would 66 12| love he is preferred to all-that being the most perfect he 67 9 | As often as the heretics allege the possession of the canonical 68 15| him" (Hadrianus ii., in Allocutione iii., ad Synodum Romanum 69 6 | who profess Christianity allow that there can be but one 70 8 | therefore, it was no more allowable to repudiate one iota of 71 13| for we have had as our ally his follower and the successor 72 4 | conspicuous by its all surpassing altitude, which set forth the image 73 16| dearly beloved, hold fast altogether God as your Father, and 74 8 | ambassadors of Christ as He is the ambassador of the Father. "As the Father 75 12| The expression indeed is ambiguous, as if the rock and the 76 15| people, neither of which is amenable to the other. But the authority 77 12| power is said to be of such amplitude and force that God will 78 3 | united to it. And as in animals the vital principle is unseen 79 12| he was ennobled by the announcement. Although he is a rock, 80 13| preceded by the consent of antiquity which ever acknowledged, 81 15| churches; we do not read that anybody has pronounced sentence 82 12| shutteth and no man openeth (Apoc. iii., 7), having delivered 83 9 | unity? In that-"He gave some Apostles-and other some pastors and doctors, 84 8 | have received grace and Apostleship for obedience to the faith 85 16| Appeal to Sheep Not of the Fold~ 86 3 | and acts which certainly appealed to the senses. So that their 87 4 | into the future he saw the appearance of a mountain conspicuous 88 9 | cap. 9). Wherefore, as appears from what has been said, 89 12| de Poenitentia, n. 4 in Appendice opp. S. Basilii). He who 90 15| present case this is much more applicable, since Christ the Lord wished 91 9 | James ii., 10). Nay, it applies with greater force to an 92 11| necessary that He should appoint someone in His place, to 93 15| it lacks the assent and approval of the Apostolic See, is 94 15| which the First See has not approved of cannot stand; but what 95 11| His divine authority He aptly names him Peter, from petra 96 3 | it follows that those who arbitrarily conjure up and picture to 97 10| doctrine was never left to the arbitrary judgment of private individuals, 98 1 | the Patriarchs, Primates, ~Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ordinaries 99 9 | de Fide Orthodoxa contra Arianos). The practice of the Church 100 9 | different from her own. The Arians, the Montanists, the Novatians, 101 4 | the eminence of the Church arises from its unity, as the principle 102 5 | Church of Christ cannot arrive at the rewards of Christ.... 103 9 | impious and above measure arrogant. And if all learning, no 104 11| He was obliged, when He ascended into Heaven, to designate 105 11| Church. Hence before His Ascension He said to Peter: «Feed 106 6 | that is by seeking for and ascertaining what kind of unity in faith 107 14| explaining the words of Christ asks: "Why, passing over the 108 15| indeed be overcome by the assaults of the powers of hell, as 109 3 | Photinians and Nestorians assert, nor wholly in the invisible 110 15| lambs and sheep has been assigned by God. "Christ constituted [ 111 8 | He further promised to assist them in the fulfilment of 112 9 | help of God and through the assistance of His grace, we believe 113 5 | the separation and cutting asunder of its members. What is 114 9 | instituted is not wholly attained by the performance of this 115 15| ever been acknowledged and attested by the Church, as is clear 116 9 | by Apostolic tradition" (Auctor Tract. de Fide Orthodoxa 117 3 | to teach by visible and audible signs, and they discharged 118 12| writing to the Emperor Maurice Augustus, says: "It is evident to 119 10| feed-that is to govern with authority-all Christian souls. Whence 120 9 | manner were condemned all authors of heretical tenets who 121 13| have no wish to quote every available declaration; but it is well 122 16| to offend the Father, who avenges an offence against the Mother? 123 6 | of the same mind, and to avoid difference of opinions: " 124 5 | beware of-see what you must avoid-see what you must dread. It 125 9 | were declared heretics and banished from the bosom of the Church? 126 8 | He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that 127 11| it is Christ Himself who baptizes; it is He who forgives sins; 128 10| world preach the Gospel." "Baptizing them." "Do this in commemoration 129 9 | Gregory of Nazianzum and Basil because "they studied the 130 12| 4 in Appendice opp. S. Basilii). He who is the King of 131 1 | strength. The essential beauty and comeliness of the Church 132 | become 133 15| as in point of fact has befallen some of them. Moreover, 134 15| iv., cap. 3). Nor does it beget any confusion in the administration 135 3 | than heavenly grace which begets sanctity, but the ordinary 136 3 | of those who heard them begot faith in souls-"Faith cometh 137 6 | Apostle St. Paul not merely begs, but entreats and implores 138 15| the venerable and constant belief of every age (Sess. iv., 139 8 | should perish. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be 140 16| fast, therefore, O dearly beloved, hold fast altogether God 141 1 | Venerable Brethren, Health, and Benediction.~It is sufficiently well 142 16| Church? . . . If you had a beneficent friend, whom you honoured 143 14| with Peter. "If the divine benignity willed anything to be in 144 1 | sheep that have strayed. Bent upon this, We have thought 145 15| Church." In this sense St. Bernard writes as follows to Pope 146 6 | difference of opinions: "I beseech you, brethren, by the name 147 1 | from whom "cometh every best gift and every perfect gift" ( 148 10| ruling and governing, was not bestowed by God on all Christians 149 10| all Christ's sheep must betake themselves. Yea, it is called 150 5 | another. "See what you must beware of-see what you must avoid-see 151 15| of Heaven to Peter alone? Biblical usage and the unanimous 152 12| Whatsoever thou shall bind upon earth it shall be bound 153 13| rules the Heavenly powers binds and loosens there" (Defloratio 154 15| Wherefore Optatus of Milevis blamed the Donatists for this reason: " 155 16| hand of the Father, if you blaspheme His Church? . . . If you 156 13| communicate with none save your Blessedness, that is with the chair 157 16| and people, Our Apostolic Blessing.~Given at St. Peter's, Rome, 158 12| confidence, and as it were blotting out his denial, He commits 159 6 | society, one kingdom, one body-"one body and one spirit 160 5 | of His flesh, and of His bones" (Eph. v., 29-30). Another 161 9 | unwilling to learn about the books of the divine mysteries 162 16| the happiness to have been born, as it were, in the bosom 163 1 | nevertheless the Church was bought by Jesus Christ), but some 164 3 | and renders fruitful the branches united to it. And as in 165 16| out to those whom the foul breath of irreligion has not entirely 166 5 | the mother cannot live or breathe apart" (Ibid.). What similarity 167 16| the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who 168 16| body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one 169 16| take Christ Jesus as their Brother, and at the same time the 170 15| whole of the Church" (S. Brunonis Episcopi Signiensis Comment. 171 15| Peter”; on him alone He buildeth His Church; and although 172 12| has He shed His blood? To buy the sheep which He handed 173 10| know it not, or wickedly calumniate it. God indeed even made 174 16| honoured daily-and even once calumniated his spouse, would you ever 175 4 | or place. "The Son of Man came that the world might be 176 15| Constantinople. The 28th Canon of the Council of Chalcedon, 177 9 | allege the possession of the canonical scriptures, to which all 178 8 | Rom. Epist. I ad Corinth. capp. 42, 44). On the one hand, 179 9 | and not "bringing into captivity every understanding unto 180 3 | it a mountain" (Hom. De capto Eutropio, n. 6). Also Augustine 181 8 | with the means of properly carrying it out, for this reason 182 4 | its unity belongs to the category of things indivisible by 183 3 | the proximate efficient causes of salvation, it is undoubtedly 184 5 | member" (S. Augustinus, Sermo cclxvii., n. 4). The Church of Christ, 185 15| successors as the principle and centre, as it were, of this unity. 186 9 | churches-the matrices and original centres of the faith, must be looked 187 8 | not for a few years or centuries only, but for all time-" 188 13| the beginning of the sixth century in the great Eighth Council 189 15| Apostles (hence his name Cephas), has sat; in which chair 190 15| Synodum Romanum an. 869, Cf. Actionem vii., Conc. Constantinopolitani 191 6 | deceived, that the nature and character of this unity should be 192 15| should merely have been charged with the office of superintendent, 193 8 | from the Father; and he charges them to spread abroad and 194 5 | flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth 195 15| Apostles; the leader of that choir; the mouthpiece of all the 196 8 | required their successors to choose fitting men, to endow them 197 3 | body, and even the body of Christ-"Now you are the body of 198 5 | invented-that is, another Christ-if besides the one Church, 199 10| Finally it is the body of Christ-that is, of course, His mystical 200 9 | with that of the Apostolic churches-the matrices and original centres 201 3 | shaken?" (Enarratio in Psalm. ciii., sermo ii., n. 5). He who 202 8 | through the countries and cities, when they had proved in 203 10| any wish to interfere in Civil matters, or to infringe 204 15| the other apostles should claim anything as exclusively 205 11| be called any more Simon; claiming him for Himself according 206 3 | human institution which claims a certain obedience in discipline 207 4 | constitution, belongs to the class of things effected by Christ' 208 16| Venerable Brethren, to your clergy and people, Our Apostolic 209 16| of God: I am a Catholic. Clinging to thy Mother, thou offendest 210 5 | the Father and the Son, clings not to life and salvation" ( 211 9 | who have not deliberately closed their minds to the truth: " 212 6 | it must be united by the closest bonds, so as to form one 213 2 | Human Co-operation~2. Although God can do by 214 5 | members cannot possibly cohere with the head so as to make 215 12| is to be a principle of cohesion for the various parts of 216 1 | The essential beauty and comeliness of the Church ought greatly 217 12| office without the power of commanding, forbidding, and judging, 218 10| Baptizing them." "Do this in commemoration of Me." "Whose sins you 219 16| pleases, We most earnestly commend to His loving kindness all 220 9 | God" (Vetus Interpretatio Commentariorum in Matt. n. 46). Irenaeus 221 12| jurisdiction that nations and commonwealths are held together. A primacy 222 2 | obvious that nothing can be communicated amongst men save by means 223 4 | Church to embrace several communities similar in nature, but in 224 9 | But faith alone cannot compass so great, excellent, and 225 15| it, rather than to each component part; and in the present 226 9 | worthless sand: they cannot comprehend" (Comment. in Matt. xiii., 227 8 | is this word? That which comprehends all things, that which they 228 10| over and may order all that concerns religion, and may, without 229 15| rescinded the acts of the Conciliabulum of Ephesus. Damasus rejected 230 6 | amongst men, from which concurrence of wills and similarity 231 10| judgment St. John Chrysostom concurs: "I say and protest (he 232 9 | interpreter, and to wish to condemn them unknown?" (De Unitate 233 12| It must be the necessary condition of stability and strength. 234 1 | We have thought it most conducive to this salutary end and 235 15| loosening, and feeding confers upon each and every one 236 3 | justice, but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" ( 237 8 | with like authority, and to confide to them the office and mission 238 12| henceforth he ought to have confidence, and as it were blotting 239 12| lambs-feed my sheep." That is He confides to him, without exception, 240 9 | taught, and by miracles confirmed. He willed and ordered, 241 8 | Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that 242 12| brethren.» Finally He who confirms in "every good work and 243 7 | the disturbing element of conflicting passions. From a variety 244 15| Nor does it beget any confusion in the administration that 245 15| and dependent. "It is not congruous that two superiors with 246 6 | not to be ascertained by conjecture, but by the certain knowledge 247 15| given to the other Apostles conjointly with him. If the power of 248 14| received, they received in conjunction with Peter. "If the divine 249 3 | that those who arbitrarily conjure up and picture to themselves 250 15| gates of Hell shall not conquer them.» Whence is it therefore 251 12| upon a rock,» cannot be conquered by the gates of Hell, which 252 9 | not from their own inner consciousness, but from the writings and 253 13| declarations were preceded by the consent of antiquity which ever 254 15| distincition is made" (De Consideratione, lib. ii., cap. 8). But 255 15| the rest. They have flocks consigned to them, one to each; to 256 4 | appearance of a mountain conspicuous by its all surpassing altitude, 257 4 | which has raised itself conspicuously throughout the entire Roman 258 15| Cf. Actionem vii., Conc. Constantinopolitani iv). The reason for which 259 12| Himself "the Good Shepherd," constitued Peter the pastor "of His 260 5 | by the separation of its constituent parts" (S. Cyprianus, De 261 12| priests. He is a rock, and constitutes a rock" (Hom. de Poenitentia, 262 4 | as the principle of its constitution-a unity surpassing all else, 263 8 | for all time-"even to the consummation of the world." Upon which 264 7 | be subject to various and contradictory interpretations. This is 265 3 | time; both of which are contrary to the truth. The union 266 7 | necessarily begotten; hence come controversies, dissensions and wranglings 267 2 | doctrine and gave His laws, conversing with men.~ 268 1 | Us the power of bringing conviction home to the minds of men.~ 269 8 | Clemens Rom. Epist. I ad Corinth. capp. 42, 44). On the one 270 13| To be in communion with Cornelius is to be in communion with 271 12| who is Himself "the chief corner-stone in whom all the building 272 3 | their authority. But his correlation of rights and duties in 273 16| irreligion has not entirely corrupted, and who at least seek to 274 16| that they can in no wise be counted among the children of God, 275 8 | therefore the word through the countries and cities, when they had 276 15| Which sheep? Of this or that country, or kingdom? My sheep, He 277 9 | wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait 278 4 | outside this world, and to create a new and unheard-of race 279 2 | all that is effected by created natures, nevertheless in 280 16| to have the true God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, as 281 8 | preach the "Gospel to every creature, to carry His name to nations 282 9 | them unknown?" (De Unitate Credendi, cap. xvii., n. 35). It 283 15| a lawless and disorderly crowd. It is not sufficient for 284 1 | not yet fully known, or culpably abandoned) should perceive 285 9 | the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness, by which they 286 5 | parts by the separation and cutting asunder of its members. 287 13| Rome is to be held" (Sermo cxx., n. 13). So, too, St. Cyprian: " 288 9 | who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by 289 11| to found His Church" (S. Cyrillus Alexandrinus, In Evang. 290 11| His power that His body is daily consecrated upon the altar; 291 16| friend, whom you honoured daily-and even once calumniated his 292 9 | perfectly one as to prevent all danger of error: "that henceforth 293 9 | There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who 294 12| food for it, to ward off dangers, to guard against insidious 295 15| Epist. xxvi., ad Episcopos Dardaniae, n. 5). It has ever been 296 4 | one, that no Christian can dare to deny it. But in judging 297 12| Church, "Who bath the key of David, who openeth and no man 298 16| Peter's, Rome, the 29th day of June, in the year 1896, 299 4 | Church, "And in the last days the mountain of the House 300 8 | they appointed bishops and deacons for the faithful....They 301 16| Hold fast, therefore, O dearly beloved, hold fast altogether 302 13| to quote every available declaration; but it is well to recall 303 13| all other Churches." These declarations were preceded by the consent 304 12| the Church should be the defence of its faith. "Could not 305 13| church, jure divino. "We define" (declare the Fathers of 306 9 | revealed, either by a solemn definition or in the exercise of its 307 13| binds and loosens there" (Defloratio ex Epistola ad Petrum illustrem). 308 9 | be the effect of a moral deliquency, the same is to be said 309 10| attain to the perfection demanded by their high calling, and 310 12| it were blotting out his denial, He commits to him the government 311 13| Ep. xliii., n. 7); and he denies that anyone who dissents 312 15| the bishops limited, and dependent. "It is not congruous that 313 14| The safety of the Church depends on the dignity of the chief 314 9 | that is contained in the deposit of divine revelation, it 315 9 | where the word of life is deposited and preached. Those who 316 15| understood that Bishops are deprived of the right and power of 317 1 | salutary end and purpose to describe the exemplar and, as it 318 16| said we have faithfully described the exemplar and form of 319 9 | 19). And this indeed most deservedly; for they, who take from 320 8 | Apostolic mission was not destined to die with the Apostles 321 10| be no just necessity for destroying the unity of the Church" ( 322 4 | deny it. But in judging and determining the nature of this unity 323 16| all those, therefore, who detest the wide-spread irreligion 324 16| go not to the worship of devils, I serve not stones: but 325 1 | thoughts and of Our care is devoted to Our endeavour to bring 326 9 | be also the fitting and devout worship of God, which is 327 14| priests" (S. Hieronymus, Dialog, contra Luciferianos, n. 328 9 | human race, and to this end directed all His teaching and commands, 329 3 | say that the Church has disappeared from the world, when it 330 9 | unity. "No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) 331 3 | audible signs, and they discharged their mission only by words 332 13| of the Fisherman, to the disciple of the Cross....I communicate 333 8 | might be saved, and those disobeying should perish. "He that 334 15| necessarily becomes a lawless and disorderly crowd. It is not sufficient 335 1 | improbable that ignorance may be dispelled by the consideration; that 336 9 | divine Sacrifice and in the dispensation of the Sacraments, as well 337 11| aforesaid Sacraments should be dispensed to the faithful as said 338 10| ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God" ( 339 9 | and endeavour than she has displayed in guarding the integrity 340 16| instruction and a more perfect disposition to keep united with their 341 7 | hence come controversies, dissensions and wranglings such as have 342 1 | ideas and prejudices may be dissipated from the minds chiefly of 343 8 | under the universal law of dissolution by death? It was consequently 344 15| summon, to transfer, to dissolve Councils, as is clear, not 345 15| St. Thomas in iv Sent, dist. xvii., a. 4, ad q. 4, ad 346 15| make no exception where no distincition is made" (De Consideratione, 347 4 | nature, but in themselves distinct, and lacking those bonds 348 4 | whole human race, without distinction of time or place. "The Son 349 7 | the sacred Scriptures they distort the interpretations" (Lib. 350 15| Bishops, each in his own district, command with real power 351 15| their mutual relations are disturbed if there be a twofold magistracy 352 7 | the human mind and of the disturbing element of conflicting passions. 353 7 | but also because of the divergencies of the human mind and of 354 16| soothsaying, I seek not profane divinations, I go not to the worship 355 8 | known. Christ proves His own divinity and the divine origin of 356 10| heresy has no perfect dogmatic teaching, whereas schism, 357 15| and a sinner" (De Schism. Donat., lib. ii). Hence the teaching 358 4 | Catholic Church" (De Schism. Donatist., lib. iii., n. 2). And 359 16| S. Augustinus, Contra Donatistas Epistola, sive De Unit. 360 15| Optatus of Milevis blamed the Donatists for this reason: "Against 361 16| but I am on the side of Donatus.' What doth it profit thee 362 9 | this wise, all cause for doubting being removed, can it be 363 3 | because its visible parts draw life and power from the 364 5 | unless united to the head and drawing from it their vital force. 365 5 | avoid-see what you must dread. It happens that, as in 366 9 | Epiphanius, Augustine, Theodoret, drew up a long list of the heresies 367 9 | yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real 368 | during 369 9 | Wherefore, from the very earliest times the fathers and doctors 370 3 | voices falling upon the ears of those who heard them 371 3 | God-the true body of Christ on earth-will not disappear" (In Psalm. 372 13| nor in one age, but by the East and by the West, and through 373 9 | abandon not the primary and ecclesiastical tradition. We should believe 374 13| Constantinople responds as an echo: "The chief Prince of the 375 9 | of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ" ( 376 12| human society really and effectively. This, furthermore, Christ 377 10| unity of government, which effects and involves unity of communion, 378 13| sixth century in the great Eighth Council by the Emperor Justinian, 379 | either 380 7 | mind and of the disturbing element of conflicting passions. 381 13| Church, as its principal element-that is as the principle of unity 382 12| earth as its superior, it embraces the whole Church and all 383 4 | excellence...Furthermore, the eminence of the Church arises from 384 2 | being in the form of God.... emptied himself, taking the form 385 15| Peter alone. These things enable us to see the heavenly ideal, 386 3 | useful to speak in this Encyclical. ,~ 387 8 | to choose fitting men, to endow them with like authority, 388 3 | it is the body of Christ endowed with supernatural life. 389 8 | witnesses to him to the ends of the earth." He further 390 3 | the Church itself shall endure. Wherefore Chrysostom writes: " 391 8 | not are with Him are His enemies, does not designate any 392 3 | Christ is it living and energizing, because by the infusion 393 12| thou art a rock,» he was ennobled by the announcement. Although 394 | enough 395 7 | and certain perverse views ensnaring souls and precipitating 396 15| place by Divine Wisdom from entertaining any such thought, since 397 6 | Paul not merely begs, but entreats and implores Christians 398 10| Hom. xi., in Epist. ad Ephes., n. 5). Wherefore as no 399 9 | Paul in his epistle to the Ephesians. In this he first admonishes 400 13| Epistolam, xxvi., ad omnes Episc. Hispan., n. 4). We have 401 13| succeed Peter in the Roman Episcopate receive the supreme power 402 15| the Church" (S. Brunonis Episcopi Signiensis Comment. in Joan., 403 15| Church" (Epist. xxvi., ad Episcopos Dardaniae, n. 5). It has 404 9 | urged by St. Paul in his epistle to the Ephesians. In this 405 15| everyone" (S. Gregorius M. Epistolarum, lib viii., ep. xxx., ad 406 15| Lib. ii., n. 4-5). But the Epsicopal order is rightly judged 407 4 | of this unity many have erred in various ways. Not the 408 3 | supreme truth-though residing essentially in the intellect, must be 409 10| authority. To this end He established in the Church all principles 410 9 | of peace" (Eph. iv., 3, et seq.). And as souls cannot 411 15| writes as follows to Pope Eugenius: "Who art thou? The great 412 15| lib viii., ep. xxx., ad Eulogium).~ 413 13| n. 3. and Ep. liac., ad eundem, n. 14). He calls it the 414 3 | mountain" (Hom. De capto Eutropio, n. 6). Also Augustine says: " 415 9 | the Quartodecimans, the Eutychians, did not certainly reject 416 3 | unseen and invisible, and is evidenced and manifested by the movements 417 13| loosens there" (Defloratio ex Epistola ad Petrum illustrem). 418 14| many, it is necessary to examine into the relations which 419 4 | in its origin, and in its excellence...Furthermore, the eminence 420 9 | cannot compass so great, excellent, and important an end. There 421 15| Church the power which He exercised during His mortal life. 422 13| present time, lives and exercises judgment in the persons 423 12| imparts His gifts, and is not exhausted....He is a priest, and makes 424 15| the Chief Pastor; they are exiled from the Kingdom, the keys 425 13| the Apostolic chair always existed in the Roman Church" (Ep. 426 14| are as many schisms to be expected in the Church as there are 427 9 | she regarded as rebels and expelled from the ranks of her children 428 16| length of its unity: we have explained sufficiently its nature, 429 13| reason and motive of this he explains to be that "the Apostolic 430 12| perfect" (S. Ambrosius, Exposit. in Evang. secundum Lucam, 431 15| Hence those remarkable expressions of the ancients concerning 432 15| pontiffs, whose jurisdiction extends to the whole Christian commonwealth, 433 14| chief priest, to whom if an extraordinary and supreme power is not 434 13| He calls it the chair o f Peter because it is occupied 435 4 | it has filled the whole face of the world, and about 436 6 | receive the name of the faithful-"one Lord, one faith, one 437 12| it and the whole building falls. It is consequently the 438 15| Apostles; the head of that family; the ruler of the whole 439 1 | themselves in error without fault of theirs; and that even 440 9 | Augustinus, lib. xvii., Contra Faustum Manichaeum, cap. 3). For 441 10| lawfully succeed them to feed-that is to govern with authority-all 442 15| Kingdom of Heaven-you who fight against the chair of Peter?" ( 443 13| Prince of the Apostles was fighting on our side: for we have 444 4 | not unknown; for it has filled the whole face of the world, 445 11| can be ascertained only by finding out what was the evident 446 5 | may be cut off-a hand, a finger, a foot. Does the soul follow 447 16| on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith" (Heb. xii., 448 16| xii., 2) feel Our heart fired by His charity. What Christ 449 8 | proved in the Spirit the first-fruits of their teaching they appointed 450 13| to the successor of the Fisherman, to the disciple of the 451 8 | faithful men, who shall be fit to teach others also" (2 452 13| Fathers of the Council of Florence) "that the Holy and Apostolic 453 13| the sacred canons" (Conc. Florentinum). Similarly the Fourth Council 454 4 | And all nations shall flow into it. And many people 455 4 | Christ, and the blessings flowing there from. Wherefore, by 456 12| guard against insidious foes, to defend it against violence: 457 13| have had as our ally his follower and the successor to his 458 6 | and so perfect amongst His followers that it might, in some measure, 459 12| flock, to provide proper food for it, to ward off dangers, 460 5 | off-a hand, a finger, a foot. Does the soul follow the 461 12| the power of commanding, forbidding, and judging, which is properly 462 4 | at all times was seen and foretold by Isaiah, when looking 463 5 | it lived; separated, it forfeits its life. So the Christian 464 10| Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them." 465 10| you shall forgive they are forgiven them." And in like manner 466 11| who baptizes; it is He who forgives sins; it is He who is the 467 13| Christ. That is: the power of forgiving and retaining sins was given 468 9 | the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith. "In many 469 13| to the constitution and formation of the Church, as its principal 470 10| merely as individuals, but as forming a society, organized and 471 16| indeed to idols, I consult fortune-tellers and soothsayers; but I leave 472 16| from me; I do not consult fortune-telling, I seek not soothsaying, 473 16| goes out to those whom the foul breath of irreligion has 474 13| Florentinum). Similarly the Fourth Council of Lateran declares: " 475 12| whom all the building being framed together, groweth up in 476 4 | things effected by Christ's free choice. For this reason 477 4 | evident from the clear and frequent testimonies of Holy Writ 478 15| dignity and authority. They frequently call him "the Prince of 479 16| If you had a beneficent friend, whom you honoured daily-and 480 9 | children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with 481 3 | nourishment and renders fruitful the branches united to it. 482 12| indestructible unity. How could he fulfil this office without the 483 16| will derive from Our words fuller instruction and a more perfect 484 9 | measure of the age of the fulness of Christ" (13). But, in 485 10| which have not all the same functions, but which, united one to 486 3 | must be guided by these fundamental principles. That is to say, 487 8 | important mission unless he were furnished with the means of properly 488 | further 489 15| There are, it is true, other gatekeepers of heaven and to pastors 490 8 | not with Him and do not gather with Him, scatter His flock 491 8 | against Me, and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth" ( 492 15| Michael. Imperat.) wherefore Gelasius on the decrees of Councils 493 11| sheep» " (St. Thomas, Contra Gentiles, lib. iv., cap. 76). Jesus 494 8 | Apostles, when the Holy Ghost had come down upon them, 495 12| and the shadowy right of giving advice and admonition,which 496 3 | shall roll, the Church of God-the true body of Christ on earth-will 497 16| the same yearning Our soul goes out to those whom the foul 498 10| be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority. 499 15| children and feeds the mothers, governs the subjects and rules the 500 1 | earnestly pray that He will graciously grant Us the power of bringing