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Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Gregory I''', also known as '''Gregory the Great''', served as was the [[Pope]] of Rome from [[September 3]], 590, until his death on [[March 12]], 604. He is noted for his writings. Also, the [[Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts]] has been attributed to him. ==Biography==St. Gregory's family had large land holdings in Italy, which St. Gregory sold to help the poor following his father's death. After turning his home into a [[monastery]] named for St. [[Apostle Andrew|Andrew]], Pope [[Pelagius II of Rome|Pelagius II]] appointed him as an ambassador to [[Constantinople]]; however, Gregory disliked the worldly atmosphere of the court and never learned Greek. After his [[consecration of a bishop|consecration]] as Bishop of Rome on [[September 3]], 590, he negotiated a peace with the Lombards, who besieged Rome, and he dispatched St. [[Augustine of Canterbury]] to evangelize Britain. He is known in the East as '''Gregory the Dialogist''' for his four-volume ''Dialogues'', in which he wrote of the lives and miracles of the saints of Italy and of the afterlife. It is the primary source of the lives of St. [[saintsBenedict of Nursia]] and his sister [[Scholastica]] . His other writings include the ''Moralia on Job'', a commentary on the Book of Italy Job; his ''Homilies on Ezekiel''; the ''Pastoral Rule'', which served as the prime manual for [[priest]]s in the West for many years; and a great number of the after-lifeother sermons.  He added the commemoration of the Apostle Andrew to the embolism on the [[Lord's Prayer]] in the ancient Roman Mass; as a result, the Roman Mass is also credited with devising often called the [[Liturgy of St. Gregory the Great|Mass of St. Gregory]], especially among a number of Orthodox. He was a patron of ancient Western chant, often called "Gregorian chant" for his patronage. In the East, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Giftscelebrated during [[Great Lent|Lent]] commemorates St. Gregory as its author, although it is unclear what role he played in its development.  St. Gregory reposed on [[March 12]], 604.

"For to despise the present age, not to love transitory things, unreservedly to stretch out the mind in humility to God and our neighbor, to preserve patience against offered insults and, with patience guarded, to repel the pain of malice from the heart, to give one's property to the poor, not to covet that of others, to esteem the friend in God, on God's account to love even those who are hostile, to mourn at the affliction of a neighbor, not to exult in the death of one who is an enemy, this is the new creature whom the Master of the nations seeks with watchful eye amid the other disciples, saying:"'If, then, any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new" ' (2 Cor. 5:17)." "We truly love God and keep His commandments if we restrain ourselves from our pleasures. For he who still abandons himself to unlawful desires certainly does not love God, since he contradicts Him in his own intentions.... Therefore, he loves God truly, whose mind is not conquered by consent to evil delight. For the more one takes pleasure in lower things, the more he is separated from heavenly love."

"We truly love God and keep His commandments if we restrain ourselves from our pleasuresI say it without the least hesitation, whoever calls himself the universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor of [[Antichrist]], because he thus attempts to raise himself above the others. For The error into which he who still abandons himself falls springs from pride equal to that of Antichrist; for as that Wicked One wished to unlawful desires certainly does not love Godbe regarded as exalted above other men, like a god, since he contradicts Him in his own intentionsso likewise whoever would be called sole bishop exalteth himself above others.... ThereforeYou know it, he loves my brother; hath not the venerable Council of [[Chalcedon]] conferred the honorary title of 'universal' upon the bishops of this Apostolic See [Rome], whereof I am, by God truly's will, whose mind is not conquered the servant? And yet none of us hath permitted this title to be given to him; none hath assumed this bold title, lest by consent to evil delight. For assuming a special distinction in the dignity of the more one takes pleasure in lower thingsepiscopate, we should seem to refuse it to all the more he is separated from heavenly lovebrethren."

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