Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Yet in all this she is first and always, "the Mother of Our Lord." If in our hymns we call her - as we do - "most gracious" and "full of grace," it is because God has filled her with the grace of which His Son is the incarnate expression. And if we call her blessed, it is because we can imagine her bliss in bearing the Lord Jesus beneath her heart by reason of the operation of the same Holy Ghost in our heart. - A.C. Piepkorn, *The Church* pp. 331,332