Then, after these things, we say that Prayer which the Saviour delivered to His own disciples, with a pure conscience styling God our Father, and saying: OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN. O most surpassing loving-kindness of God! On them who revolted from Him and were in the very extreme of misery has He bestowed such complete forgiveness of their evil deeds, and so great a participation of grace, as that they should even call Him Father. 'Our Father, which art in heaven'; they also, too, are a heaven who bear the image of the heavenly, in whom God is, dwelling and walking in them. - St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catechesis V:11
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