Pope St. Gregory the Great

O ur Redeemer, foreseeing that His Passion would trouble the souls of His Apostles, prepared them well in advance. He revealed the sufferings He would undergo and the glory of His Resurrection so that, seeing Him die as He had told them, they would not doubt that He would also …

In the Gospel passage just proclaimed (Lk 13:6-13), you have heard, brethren, the account of two episodes – that of the barren fig tree and that of the woman who was bent over – that call our attention to God’s merciful goodness. The first expresses it by a comparison, the …

In the Gospel proclaimed today (Mt 13:44-52), dearly beloved brethren, the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to earthly realities so that the soul may ascend from what it knows to what it does not know. Thus, through examples of visible things, it will find itself transported to the invisible and, …

The impatient and the patient must be admonished in different ways. The impatient must be told that, by refusing to rein in their own impetuosity, they will find themselves dragged into many abysses of iniquity which they would not have sought out, for fury drives the soul to places it …