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If we knew at what time we were to depart from this world, we would be able to select a season for pleasure and another for repentance. But God, who has promised pardon to every repentant sinner, has not promised us tomorrow. Therefore we must always dread the final day, which we can never foresee. This very day is a day of truce, a day for conversion. And yet we refuse to cry over the evil we have done! Not only do we not weep for the sins we have committed, we even add to them....
If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow. Nobody must rejoice in the security of their own good deeds. As long as we are still experiencing the uncertainties of this life, we do not know what end may follow...we must not trust in our own virtues.
--Saint Gregory the Great, from Be Friends of God
Patron Saints Index - St. Gregory the Great
The Holiness of Gregory by James J O'Donnell
Christian Biographies by James Keifer
For All The Saints by Katherine Rabenstein
Catholic Online by Terry Matz
From the Housetops by Sister Catherine Goddard Clark, M.I.C.M.
Christ's Faithful People
Monastery of Christ in the Desert
On Saint Gregory the Great by the Venerable Bede
Lives of the Saints by John J Crawley
The Earliest Life of Saint Gregory the Great by a monk or nun of Whitby
Iucunda Sane: On Pope Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius X
Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine
Cross: It is only right, with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise You Father and Your Only-Begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Dear Father, by Your wondrous condescension of Loving-Kindness toward us, Your servants, You gave up Your Son. Dear Jesus You paid the debt of Adam for us to the Eternal Father by Your Blood poured forth in Loving-Kindness. You cleared away the darkness of sin by Your magnificent and radiant Resurrection. You broke the bonds of death and rose from the grave as a Conqueror. You reconciled Heaven and earth. Our life had no hope of Eternal Happiness before You redeemed us. Your Resurrection has washed away our sins, restored our innocence and brought us joy. How inestimable is the tenderness of Your Love! - Saint Gregory's Easter Prayer
Invitatory: Almighty and merciful God, who raised up Gregory of Rome to be a servant of the servants of God, and inspired him to send missionaries to preach the Gospel to the English people: Preserve in your Church the catholic and apostolic faith they taught, that your people, being fruitful in every good work, may receive the crown of glory that never fades away; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Cruciform: You came to taste death, yet you were the Life and had come to bring it to the dead. Amen.
Week 1 O Lord, you received affronts without number from your blasphemers, yet each day you free captive souls from the grip of the ancient enemy.
Week 2 You did not avert your face from the spittle of perfidy, yet you wash souls in saving waters.
Week 3 You accepted your scourging without murmur, yet through your meditation you deliver us from endless chastisements.
Week 4 You endured ill-treatment of all kinds, yet you want to give us a share in the choirs of angels in glory everlasting.
Week 5 You did not refuse to be crowned with thorns, yet you save us from the wounds of sin.
Week 6 In your thirst you accepted the bitterness of gall, yet you prepare yourself to fill us with eternal delights.
Week 7 You kept silence under the derisive homage rendered you by your executioners, yet you petition the Father for us although you are his equal in divinity.
--St. Gregory's "Prayer of Acclaim to the Suffering Christ"
Exit Invitatory: So Jesus called them and said to them, ‘You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.’ --Mark 10:42-45
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