Patristic Quote of the Day

The woman who “appeared in heaven clothed with the sun” and crowned with “twelve stars” and with the moon as her footstool, “travailing in birth and in pain to be delivered”…is properly and in the exact sense of the term our mother, a power herself distinct from her children, whom the prophets have, according to the aspect of their message, sometimes called Jerusalem, sometimes the Bride, sometimes Mount Zion, and sometimes the Temple and God’s Tabernacle.—Bishop of Methodius of Olympus