In short:  Given the seriousness of the pastoral office, those who are unqualified or lusting for glory should not enter it. To profane it leads to perdition. Jesus “fled from the offered glory of pre-eminence, but desired the pain of an ignominious death; that so His members might learn to fly from the favours of the … Continue reading The Book of Pastoral Rule (Care), Gregory the Great, Part I, Chapter III