Patristic Quote for the Day

Just as Christ God before His resurrection carried around our body as corruptible, and, encompassed and bound by it with respect to our soul, we cannot now accomodate receiving the entire glory which has been revealed to us. In reflecting on that glory, we believe we see a single drop of it, and for that reason say that for the moment we see in a mirror and obscurely, yet we do see ourselves spiritually like Him Whom we see and Who sees us eve in this present life. After the Resurrection, though, just as He Himself raised His own body from the tomb transformed by divine power, so shall we, too, all receive our body itself as spiritual, and, having first been likened to Him in our soul, we shall then become like Him in both soul and body. This is to say that we shall be like Him, human beings by nature and gods by grace, just as Himself is indeed God by nature Who in His goodness has taken on the nature of man. - St. Simeon, the New Theologian, *Tenth Ethical Discourse*