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Rightly Ordered Toward Love: Gregory the Great and the Death That Leads to Life (Lectio Divina)
Christ’s call to follow Him includes some of the hardest words in the Gospels: hate father and mother, wife and children, even life itself. Gregory the Great goes further and speaks of rightly hating our own soul. What could such words possibly mean for people who are trying to love, and what do we…
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The Door at Our Lips: Gregory the Great and the Grace of Faithful Speech (Lectio Divina)
Is the safest mouth a closed one? Gregory the Great says no, and in saying so he unsettles the easy fix we reach for when our words do harm. The harder question is who gives us the discernment to know when to speak and when to stay silent.
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Estranged From Ourselves: St. Gregory the Great and the Self That Must Be Denied (Lectio Divina)Template
Christ’s call to deny yourself and take up your cross sounds like loss — but what if it’s closer to being unmade and remade at once? St. Gregory the Great names a strange kind of self-denial: not the destruction of who you are, but a growing estrangement from who you used to be.