Patristic Quote for the Day

These words are often for all God's creations, but especially for the Mother of God. She alone was chosen and she burned with spiritual love for the Son she so joyously conceived. Above all other saints, she alone could truly rejoice in Jesus, her Savior, for she knew that He who was the source of eternal salvation would be born in time in her body, in one person both her Son and her Lord. - St. Bede, the Venerable, Homily on the Magnificat