Lectures on Pastoral Work

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Excerpt from Lectures on Pastoral Work: Delivered in the Divinity School, Cambridge, 1883 "Ars est artium regimen animarum" is the well-known saying of Gregory the Great in the beginning of his book on the Pastoral Office, where he expresses a very natural surprise that while no one would think of professing himself a physician of the body without some knowledge of diseases and their remedies, many who are wholly ignorant of spiritual complaints (more subtle though they are than physical ailments), and who have never learnt the method of their treatment, are not afraid to profess themselves physicians of souls. St. Yincent de Paul, after long experience, declares that, had he in early life realised the tremendous difficulties and responsibilities of the pastoral work, he would have chosen any other calling rather than that of the priesthood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.