Patristic Quote of the Day

This trumpet is not a horn of wood or bronze that gives a grim bellow to soldiers by a breath compressed through its hollows, but from the heart of the Father and the mouth of the Son it peals forth a summons to life both to those in the underworld and to those up above simultaneously.... The trumpet which in the beginning raised the human being out of mud, is the same one that in the end will raise the human being up again out of dust. -- St. Peter Chrysologus, Semon 103 par. 1