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Gréa, Adrien, Essai Historique sur les Archidiacres in “Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes,” Ed. Firmin Didot, Vol. 12 (August 1851), pp. 39-67. [GREA.A.1851.0800.1(FR)]

[NOTE: With this thesis, the young Adrien Gréa obtained his diploma as paleographic archivist at “l’Ecole de Chartes” of Paris. This is an historical work, where the author shows the origin, evolution and decadence of the archdeaconry in both the West and the East.]

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Gréa, Adrien, De re catholica apud catholicos orientales instauranda, Palmé, Paris 1865.

 

[NOTE: This work, written in elegant Latin, is concerned with settling the relations between the Latin Church and the Eastern Church. The Eastern clergy, according to Dom Gréa, is affected by two principle evils: the ignorance which renders them poor, and the excessive poverty which renders them covetous and venal. For a work of restoration, he suggests sending Latin Rite missionaries to the East, (a clergy that has already been thoroughly trained in the Eastern Rite), and to propagate the religious discipline of life in common.]

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Gréa, Adrien, L’Église et sa divine constitution, Palmé, Paris 1885. [GREA.A.1885.0000.1(FR.1885)]

 

[ITALIAN TRANSLATION: Della Chiesa e della sua divina costituzione. Trans. Most Reverend Lancia, Archbishop of Monreal. 2 volumes. Libreria Pontificia F. Pustet, Rome 1904]. [GREA.A.1885.0000.1(IT.1904)]

 

SECOND EDITION of L’Église et sa divine constitution. Maison de la Bonne Presse, Paris 1907. [GREA.A.1885.0000.2(FR.1907)]

 

[NOTE: This edition was expanded and re-edited.]

 

THIRD EDITION of L’Église et sa divine constitution. Casterman, S. A., Tournai, 1965. [GREA.A.1885.0000.3(FR.1965)]

 

[NOTE: This edition is essentially the same work as the second edition, except that many of the footnotes have been translated from Latin to French.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Introduction to Le Bréviaire Romain, Desclée, Bruges 1893. (French translation of the Breviary for the Carmelite Sisters of Bruges).

 

[NOTE: This translation of the Roman Breviary by Dom Gréa demonstrates his desire to make the Prayer of the Church comprehensible to the layperson.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Préface in “La vie de Saint Pierre Fourier,” Rev. Dom Vuillemin, Retaux, Paris 1897.

 

[NOTE: Dom Gréa stated, in a very impressive summary, the principles which motivated and inspired his attempt to introduce “the state of perfection in the pastoral clergy.” Through these pages he expressed his intuition: why can’t the secular clergy embrace the evangelical councils without having to renounce their diocese, their bishop and their pastoral ministry, in order to realize their aspirations?]

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Gréa, Adrien, Sermon sur Saint-Claude, Lons-le-Saunier 1899.

 

[NOTE: This sermon was given by Dom Gréa at the cathedral of Saint-Claude on June 16, 1899 on the occasion of the patronal feast of the city and the diocese. This is a little theological jewel on the episcopate. With just a few pages he summarized the doctrine of the episcopate, then amply developed it in the study on the Church.]

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Gréa, Adrien, L’Etat religieux et le clergé, Paquet, Lyon 1902. [GREA.A.1902.0000.1(FR)]

 

[NOTE: This was a separate printing of Chapter XXXV of L’Église et sa divine constitution, printed by Paquet, Lyon in 1902. It was later added in the Second edition of L’Église et sa divine constitution, printed by Maison de la Bonne Presse, Paris in 1907. The chapter represented here is from the Third edition of of L’Église et sa divine constitution, printed Casterman, Tournai in 1965, (pp. 447-495).]

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Gréa, Adrien, Les Chanoines Réguliers dans l’histoire, in “Le Prêtre,” 23(1904), and later printed separately by  Sueur-Charruey, Arras 1904.

 

[NOTE: In this work, Dom Gréa summarizes religious life in the first twelve centuries in a generalized way. However, the supporting documentation is abundant and this work is one of the first on this subject with its rigor and scientific method.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Rapport présenté au congrés des juriconsultes catholiques à Périgueux, October 27, 1906, in “Revue Catholique des Institutions et du Droit,” 1906.

 

[NOTE: Dom Gréa outlines the history of Church property. He shows how down through the centuries the property of the Church has been the object of changing fortunes. Her savings and the benefiting regimes are considered the principle cause of the secularization of both the clergy and the Church’s property and titles. It is the hope of the Church that there will be a return to a spirit of genuine poverty and to a communion of life and goods among the clergy. This was the intent of the reform begun by the popes of the 11th century.]

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Gréa, Adrien, L’institut de Chanoines Réguliers, in “Le Prêtre,” October 24, 1907.

 

[NOTE: After an historical introduction which is basically reproduced from the previous two works, Dom Gréa is expressly concerned with the juridical organization of the observances in use by the very old institutes of Canons Regular.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Origines de l’Etat: relations avec la religion et l’Eglise, Paris 1907.

 

[NOTE: This work was published as the Appendix 1 to the second edition of L’Église et sa divine constitution. It is subdivided into three books. The State and the family bring to the Church the human generations destined for salvation. This being the motive for Dom Gréa to look at the thorny issue of the relationship between church and state. He takes a position which is ahead of his time, but nevertheless his doctrine is still in line with the understanding of that time, which needed to keep in the forefront Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus and the encyclical Quanta cura (both December 8, 1864) in order to maintain the norms orthodoxy.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Raison d’espérer pour les catholiques, in “Revue Catholique des Institution et du Droit,” Poncet, Lyon 1907.

 

[NOTE: This is simply a reproduction of what Dom Gréa already wrote in Rapport présenté au congrés des juriconsultes catholiques à Périgueux, October 27, 1906, in “Revue Catholique des Institutions et du Droit,” 1906.]

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Gréa, Adrien, La Sainte Liturgie, Maison de la Bonne Presse, Paris 1909. [GREA.A.1909.0000.1(FR)]

 

[NOTE: In this book, Dom Gréa expands and completes the content of his course on the Liturgy, which since September 19, 1885 he began teaching to his men in formation. He considered this to be a fundamental part for priestly formation. This work with his explanations and interpretations regarding the: 1) Divine Office, 2) the Holy Mass, 3) Sunday’s, feasts and solemnities, 4) the people consecrated to God, 5) sacred places: churches, cemeteries, monasteries, etc., 6) sacred things; but above all the frequent sections of very good liturgical theology, give this book a boldness and actuality that is valuable today.]

 

[ITALIAN TRANSLATION: La Santa Liturgia, Trans. Sac. Dr. Marco Brunello. Arti Grafiche Fratelli Pozzi, Alasso 1930].

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Gréa, Adrien, La Première Communion et le directives de Sa Sainteté Pie X, in “Le Prêtre,” 1909. (A separate printing was later done by Sueur-Charruey, Arras 1909).

 

[NOTE: In this article, Dom Gréa presents and explains the ceremony of the renewal of baptismal promises, which Pope Saint Pius X, when he was the bishop of Mantova, introduced in the rite of First Communion for Children. He demonstrates the close relationship that exists between Baptism and the Eucharist.]

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Gréa, Adrien, La Prière publique de l’Église, Troyes 1911.

 

[NOTE:  A pamphlet on the nature of the public prayer of the Church (the Divine Office) and the rules which govern its celebration.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Du Ministère ecclésiastique et hiérarchique des diacres et des Ordres inférieurs, in “La revue des Sciences ecclésiastiques et la Science Catholique fusionnées avec Le Prêtre”, 1912. (A seperate printing was later done by Sueur-Charruey, Arras 1912).

 

[NOTE: In this work Dom Gréa describes the nature and functions of the deaconate and the minor orders, which he described as emanating from the ministerial deaconate.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Des Biens Ecllésiastiques et la pauvreté cléricale, in “Revue Pratique d’Apologétique”, G. Beauchesne, Paris 1915.

 

[NOTE: This is a study on the origin and nature of the Church property and the various attitudes assumed by the clergy regarding this during the past centuries. Dom Gréa concludes that the essential condition for the credibility of the Church and for her missionary activity in the world is for the clergy to return to a common life and to evangelical poverty.]

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Gréa, Adrien, Conférences de Dom Gréa in “La Voix du Pére: Bulletin des C.R.I.C.,” (July 1947 thru September 1948).

 

[NOTE: This is a collection of homilies, sermons and conferences given by Dom Gréa to the community during the years at Sainte-Antione 1893-1896. This, however, is only a portion of his works most of which are in the manuscript form in 9 large volumes for a total of 2168 pages.]

 

[ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Conferences of Dom Gréa. Trans. Unknown. Unpublished edition.]