and his influence on St. Gaspar Bertoni
This great ‘Father of the Latin Church’, has been called ‘the Spiritual Director of the Middle Ages.’ In the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, following Scripture and St. Augustine, St. Gregory the Great seems to be the most often quoted by the Angelic Doctor. He is important to Fr. Bertoni not only because he used his commentary on First Kings [1st Samuel] in his conferences to Seminarians, but the Stigmatine Founder also quotes St. Gregory, the Great several times in his Original Constitutions [## 186; 288].
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Bertoni’s Meditations on First Kings
Introduction
by Rev. Joseph Henchey, CSS
 | St. Gaspar Bertoni: 73 Meditations on The Exposition of First Kings - influenced by St. Gregory the Great - INTRODUCTION |
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Meditations on First Kings
English translation from the Original Texts
by Rev. Joseph Henchey, CSS
Chapter I – Meditations 1 – 7:
- Meditation 1 [## 4853-4862] – Prologue
- Meditation 2 [## 4863-4883] – 1 Reg. 1:1-2
- Meditation 3 [## 4884-4906] – 1 Reg 1:3-4
- Meditation 4 [## 4907-4930] – 1 Reg 1:5-11
- Meditation 5 [## 4931-4964] – 1 Reg 1:12-19
- Meditation 6 [## 4965-5001] – 1 Reg 1:19-23
- Meditation 7 [## 5002-5041] – 1 Reg 1:24-28
Chapter II – Meditations 8 – 14:
- Meditation 8 [## 5042-5098] – 1 Reg 2:1-2
- Meditation 9 [## 5099-5141] – 1 Reg 2:3-5
- Meditation 10 [## 5142-5181] – 1 Reg 2:11-12
- Meditation 11 [## 5182-5239] – 1 Reg 2:11-17
- Meditation 12 [## 5240-5295] – 1 Reg 2:18-25
- Meditation 13 [## 5296-5336] – 1 Reg 2:26-29
- Meditation 14 [## 5337-5383] – 1 Reg 2:30-36
Chapter III – Meditations 15 – 16:
- Meditation 15 [## 5384-5456] – 1 Reg 3:1-9
- Meditation 16a [## 5457-5508] – 1 Reg 3:9-14
- Meditation 16b [## 5509-5554] – 1 Reg 3:15-21
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Library
The Books of the Morals of St. Gregory the Pope,
or An Exposition on the Book of Blessed Job
Volume I: Wherein he explains the time, occasion, division, plan, and the method of discourse and of interpretation pursued in his work.
Volume II: In which the twelfth part, from the sixth verse, the thirteenth, and the first four verses of the fourteen, are explained, a different style being adopted for the time.
Volume III: The thirty-second chapter, and the thirty-third, as far as the twenty-second verse, are expounded; in which, while Job keeps silence, Eliu, a younger person, enters on many right and sound topics, though not rightly, or with sound intention.
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