Patristic Quote of the Day

Son of the Virgin, God of the Virgin, and creator of the world: yours is the suffering, yours the depths of wisdom. You know what you were and what you became; because you were willing to suffer, you deigned to come and save mankind. Like a lamb you lifted our sins from us, and you have abolished them by your sacrifice, my Savior, and saved every man. - St. Romanos the Melodist, [Mary at the Cross, tran. Constantine A. Trypanis, in *The Penguin Book of Greek Verse*]