13 December 2006

Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Another quote from Gerhard on this day when the Church remembers and gives thanks for the Virgin Martyr, St. Lucia. Her virginal life and her martyrdom call us to give ourselves wholly to the Bridegroom.

"The holy Church of God sustains the relations of mother, virgin, bride. She is as a mother because she daily bears sons to God. She is as a chaste virgin, because she keeps herself pure from all unholy alliances with the devil and the world. She is as a bride, because Christ hath betrothed her to Himself by an eternal covenant, and hath given her the pledge of the Spirit." (Sacred Meditations, XXIII)

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