Patristic Quote of the Day

If someone can become the brother of the Lord by coming to faith, we must ask how one can become also his mother. We must realize that the one who is Christ’s brother and sister by believing, becomes his mother by preaching. It is as though one brings forth the Lord and infuses him into the hearts of one’s listeners.—St. Gregory the Great, Forty Gospel Homilies (on Matt. 12:50).