Parables of the Gospel Walter Farrell and his father

and his father

destiny: these realities form the basic pattern of existence

First published in English in 1963

Queen of Priests

Parables of the Gospel Walter Farrell and his fatherBy Saint Gregory the Great Translated by Nora Burke No matter the stage, the career of Saint Gregory the Great was marked consistently by excellence. Appointed Prefect of Rome around the age of thirty, Gregory forsook his worldly success in favor of monastic silence and communion with God, establishing at his ancestral home the Monastery of St. Andrew. There, in the words of Pope Benedict XVI, he lived a life of permanent dialogue with the Lord in