Patristic Quote of the Day

By being born he had remade the nature which he had made through creation, because that nature which had been made to propagate life was propagating death. Through the sin of the first man nature received a lethal wound, and what was the beginning of life began to be the origin of death. So this is the rationale for the Nativity, this is what compelled Christ to be born, that the Nativity of the Creator would provide nature with a cure, and nature's healing would bring her children life. -- St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 143, par. 11