Latin original · 9 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 845:1004–845:1012 (1012 verses in all)
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The common life in the church of Canterbury, 1151. By what rule the practice of the common life is prescribed, ibid. and following. The exercises and tranquillity of the spiritual life, 875. The active and contemplative life. Through the contemplative life we are free for God; through the active, for the salvation of our neighbor, 8. Isaiah praiseworthily desired the former, Jeremiah the latter, ibid. and 848. The contemplative life is signified by Rachel, the active by Leah, 491. Likewise by Mary and Martha, ibid. Magdalene, suspended in the contemplative life, had already transcended the active, which Martha still held, 869. The love of truth seeks holy leisure; the necessity of charity undertakes just business, 621. Vitalianus, bishop of Siponto, 900, 1107.
He is gravely rebuked because he allowed a virgin, having cast off her religious garments, to return to the world, 900. Vitalianus, former presbyter, is sent into Sicily to do penance, 730. Vitalianus, master of soldiers, 570, 590, 591. Vitalis, bishop of Besançon, 1288. Vitalis, third abbot of Monte Cassino after St. Benedict, 203. Vitalis, defender of Cagliari, 926, 980, 1106, 1230. Viterbo, a city in Etruria which succeeded the city of Ferento in the episcopal see, 189. Vice. Those who do not abstain from vices make surrender to the devil, 49. Certain vices beget others from themselves, and arise from others, 60. Certain vices are prudently to be dissembled by the pastor, but, because they are dissembled, to be pointed out, 29.
Some, openly known, are to be tolerated, ibid. Others, though hidden, are to be searched out, 29. Some are to be reproved more harshly, 30. How great a fault it is to cease from rebuking vices, 70. To go 'from gate to gate' is to run from vice to vice in rebuking, 75. He is of God who is roused by the zeal of divine love to strike at vices, 76. He denies that he is of God who refuses to rebuke the life of the carnal, ibid. In the rebuke of vices, peace within is to be preserved with the vicious, 70. Vices are to be cured by opposite medicines, 88. Vices are to be uprooted first, before virtues are grafted in, 93, 94. The vice in which we are most in peril is to be assailed more sharply, even though others be dissembled, 98. Vices are so to be cured that the Pastor does not bend the virtues into their opposites, 97, 98.
Vices falsely pretend that they are virtues, 28, 514. While a vice is believed to be a virtue, fault is heaped up without fear, 57. A glass vessel broken by the sign of the cross, 216. Vitula built the monastery of St. Vitus in Sardinia, 543. Vitulinus, bishop of Siponto, 1287. With what disposition those who revile are to be heard, 1093. The monastery of St. Vitus in Sardinia, by whom built, 522, 543. Vitus, appointed defender, 1120. To live. It is one thing to live blessedly, another to live essentially, 452. Viviana, widow of Felix, to whom Gregory orders a generous subsidy to be offered, 528. Viulandus, 602. When long vowels were formerly distinguished from short ones, 564. To call. Wisdom deserts those whom, long refusing, it has called, 49.
How God admonished the human race before sin, 82. How He calls it after sin, 82. One's own will pertains to gladness, 62. The pious wills of the deceased are not to be broken, but fulfilled, 687, 689, 947. The last will of a deceased person can sometimes be changed, 1107. In marriages the will ought to be free, 693. Pleasure and youth are vain, 377. 'Votivus,' that is, wished-for, desirable, 589, 590. A vow of chastity makes marriage unlawful for the one who vowed it, 81. He who has resolved to undertake a greater good has made the lesser good, which was lawful, unlawful, ibid. Monks formerly did not vow chastity and poverty in express words, although these were essential to the monastic state, 1021.
A living voice is generally wont to draw the heart more strictly than a lesson read in passing, 858. Wound. The wounds of souls are cured with more difficulty than the wounds of bodies, 3. The livid mark of a wound wipes away evils, 51. Closed wounds torment the more, 54. They sin who, while they recognize the wounds of minds, neglect to cure them by the cutting of words, 74. He who does not feel the pain of a wound does not seek the remedies of health, 93. It is better to resist the inflicting of wounds than that those inflicted be cured, 716. A fox is compelled by a miracle to bring back a stolen hen, 192. Vult, one of the three who always adhered to Totila, 237. Vulturnum, a city of Campania in Italy, 951. Vandals. The persecution of the Arian Vandals against the Catholics in Africa under Hunneric, 348.
They cut off the tongues of the bishops, ibid. They lay waste Campania, 277. Warnilfrida, secretary of Ariulph, 1002. The Visigoths converted to the Catholic faith under king Reccared, 347, 348. The island of Vulcano, 778. 'Xenia' are gifts sent, 300, 328. Xenia, a gift given to guests, 587. In law, xenia are taken for small presents, ibid. Not all xenia seem to Gregory to be rejected, 586, 587, 807. What xenia were agreeable to him, 841. The administration of hospices (xenodochia) was by ancient custom in the hands of the bishops, 706. Whence hospices are called the Church's, ibid. Gregory orders the care of hospices to be committed to clerics of known probity, 706. Sometimes committed to subdeacons, 949.
What sort those who preside over hospices ought to be, 706. Gregory does not allow hospices to be neglected, 1259, 1260. A hospice to be built at Jerusalem, 1237. The privilege of the hospice of Autun, 1221, 1222, 1223. Zabardas, duke of Sardinia, 702. Pope Zacharias, at what time he ruled the Church, 111, 118. Why he translated the Dialogues of St. Gregory into Greek, 111, 121. Perhaps he translated them twice, 112. Zalla, an Arian Goth, at first a most bitter enemy of the Catholics and clerics, 261. St. Benedict tames this fierce man, 264. How great the zeal of a good pastor ought to be, 31. The zeal of God tortures the mind of a good pastor, 32. Let zeal not be immoderate, but circumspect, ibid.
Let the love of peace not bend zeal and constancy, 69. Let humility not hinder pastoral zeal, nor vice versa, 514. Zeal for the honor of God in punishing the guilty of most grievous crime, 759. Far be it from a priestly soul to be moved in any cause by private zeal, 812. Certain priests are censured who are moved by no zeal for the souls which they see perishing in heresy or in vices, 834. Zemarchus, tribune, 499. Zeno. Concerning the martyrdom of St. Zeno there is doubt, 325. The Adige, overflowing up to the windows of the church of St. Zeno, did not enter into it, 325. The monastery of St. Zeno, 1264. Zeno, bishop, 794. Zeno, bishop of Epirus, 796. Zittanus, master of soldiers, 1059. What the binding of tares into bundles signifies, 429.