2-6-2013- MORE PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS FROM AD 50-150


**************************MARY*********************************


"THE BABY THAT I CARRY, CARRIES ME, SAITH MARY."

*EPHRAIM THE SYRIAN*


"MARY WAS A VIRGIN, IN SO FAR AS A HUSBAND IS CONCERNED; AND NOTA VIRGIN, IN SO FAR AS CHILD BEARING WAS CONCERNED."

*TERTULLIAN*


"IN ACCORD WITH THE REALITIES OF BOTH NATURES, THE SAME VIRGIN WOULD BE BOTH HANDMAID OF THE LORD AND HIS MOTHER ALSO."

*GREGORY THE GREAT*


"WHEN THEREFORE THEY ASK, "IS MARY, MOTHER OF MAN, OR MOTHER OF GOD?" WE ANSWER, BOTH! THE ONE BY THE VERY NATURE OF WHAT WAS DONE AND THE OTHER BY RELATION. MOTHER OF MAN, BECAUSE IT WAS A MAN WHO WAS IN THE WOMB OF MARY AND WHO CAME FORTH FROM THERE; AND MOTHER OF GOD, BECAUSE GOD WAS IN THE MAN WHO WAS BORN.."

*THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA*


"MARY THE MOTHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, OUGHT NOT TO BE CALLED THEOTOCOS, i.e., MOTHER OF GOD, BUT CHRISTOTOCOS, i.e., ONLY THE MOTHER OF CHRIST, NOT OF GOD. FOR NO ONE.....BRINGS FORTH WHAT IS ANTERIOR IN TIME."

*NESTORIOUS*


****************************MEDITATION*******************


"SEEK AND FIND, AND REALIZE THAT THE TRUTH DOES NOT LIE OPENLY ON THE SURFACE."

*CLEMENT*


"NO MAN HAS A RIGHT TO LEAD SUCH A LIFE OF CONTEMPLATION AS TO FORGET IN HIS OWN EASE, THE SERVICE DUE TO HIS NEIGHBOR, NOR HAS ANY MAN A RIGHT TO BE SO IMMERSED IN ACTIVE LIFE, AS TO NEGLECT THE CONTEMPLATION OF GOD."

*AUGUSTINE*


************************MERCY********************************


"DIVINE MERCY IS SUCH THAT IT AIDS THOSE WHO ARE WILLING."

*HILARY OF POITIERS*


"THAT THOU ARE RIGHTEOUS THEN, IMPUTE IT WHOLLY TO HIS MERCY; BUT THAT THOU ART A SINNER, ASCRIBE IT TO THINE OWN INIQUITY."

*AUGUSTINE*


*******************THE MINISTRY**************************


"HAVING THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, THEY JUDGE MEN TO SOME EXTENT, BEFORE THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND GUARD THE CHASITY OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST."

*JEROME*


"IF A MAN DESIRE THE OFFICE OF A BISHOP, HE DESIRES A GOOD WORK. WORK, YOU SEE, NOT RANK."

*JEROME*


"KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCRIPTURES IS ALSO NECESSARY FOR HIM, BECAUSE IF A BISHOP IS MERELY A HOLY MAN, HE BENEFITS ONLY HIMSELF, BUT IF HE IS LEARNED IN DOCTRINE AND IN SPEECH, HE CAN INSTRUCT OTHERS."

*ISIDORE OF SEVILLE*


"MORE ARE THE TEMPESTS WHICH ASSAIL THE SOUL OF A BISHOP, THAN THOSE STORMS WHICH AGITATE THE OCEAN."

*JOHN CHRYSOSTOM*


"WHEN TEACHING IN CHURCH, SEEK TO CALL FORTH NOT PLAUDITS, BUT GROANS. LET THE TEARS OF YOUR HEAVENS, BE YOUR GLORY."

*JEROME*


"NOR IS THAT PASTOR SERVICEABLE, OR WISE, WHO SO MINGLES THE DISEASED AND AFFECTED SHEEP, WITH HIS FLOCK, SO AS TO CONTAMINATE THE WHOLE FLOCK, WITH THE INFECTION OF THE CLINGING EVIL."

*CYPRIAN*