Whoever you are, if you devoutly and faithfully boast of the name of Christian, value this atonement rightly. You were a castaway, banished from the realms of paradise, dying of your weary exile, reduced to dust and ashes, with no more hope of living. But by the incarnation of the Word, you were given power to return from far away to your Maker, to recognize your parentage, to be free when you had been a slave, to be promoted from an outcast to a son. Now you, who were born of the flesh, may be reborn by the Spirit of God. You may gain by grace what you did not have by nature, and—if you acknowledge yourself as the child of God by the spirit of adoption—you may dare to call God Father. –St. Leo the Great, Sermon 22, 5 Aquilina, Mike (2010-09-01). A Year With The Church Fathers: Patristic Wisdom for Daily Living (p. 49). Saint Benedict Press. Kindle Edition.
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