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Gregory the Great was known as an intellectual, administrative, and spiritual giant. While providing for the temporal needs of the Church during his pontificate (590–604), he wrote the Dialogues to take care of the eternal welfare of his people. In four books, the Dialogues honors the memory of the saints of Italy through the first three, and in the fourth, discusses the immortality of the human...

PETER If everyone who unites himself to the Lord becomes one spirit with him, what does the renowned Apostle mean when he asks, ‘Who has ever understood the Lord’s thoughts, or been his counselor?’39 It hardly seems possible to be one spirit with a person without knowing his thoughts. GREGORY Holy men do know the Lord’s thoughts, Peter, in so far as they are one with Him. This is clear from the Apostle’s words,40 ‘Who else can know a man’s thoughts, except the man’s own spirit that is within him?
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