Sunday, July 28, 2013

Gregory I: Angels and Men

“HEREIN then is the nature of angels distinguished from the present condition of our own nature, that we are both circumscribed by space, and straightened by the blindness of ignorance; but the spirits of angels are indeed bounded by space, yet their knowledge extends far above us beyond comparison; for they expand by external and internal knowing, since they contemplate the very Source of knowledge Itself.”

~Pope St. Gregory I:  Morals, 2, 3. (6th cent.)

Resources:
Pope St. Gregory I ("the Great"), biographical article

Angels, Catholic Encyclopedia


St. Gregory the Great with Sts. Ignatius and Francis Xavier,
by Guercino. Oil on canvas, c. 1626; National Gallery, London.

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