Patristic Quote for the Day

Christ our God is born and becomes man by adding to Himself flesh endowed with an intellective soul. He who from non-being brings all things into being is Himself born supranaturally of a Virgin who does not thereby lose her virginity. For just as He Himself became man without changing His nature or altering His power, so He makes her who bore Him a Mother while keeping her a Virgin. In this way He reveals one miracle through another miracle, at the same time concealing the one with the other. This is because in Himself, according to His essence, God always remains a mystery. He expresses His natural hiddenness in such a way that He makes is the more hidden through the revelation. Similarly, in the case of the Virgin who bore Him, He made her a Maother in such a way that by conceiving Him the bonds of her virginity became even more indissoluble. - St. Maximos the Confessor, First Century of Various Texts, #9