Patristic Quote of the Day

Blessed, I say, be the Church, which believes that there are in Christ two real and perfect substances, but only One Person, so that neither the distinction of the Natures divides the Unity of the Person nor does the Unity of the Person confuse the difference of the substances! Blessed, I say, be the Church, which confesses that Man was united to God, not after His birth, but even in the womb of His Mother, so that it thus makes clear that there always is and always was, only Christ. Blessed, I say, be the Church, which recognizes that God was made man, not by a conversion of nature, but in virtue of the Person not of a fictitious and transitory, but of a substantial and permanent, Person! -- Vincent of Lerins, Commonitories