Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...

People of the world do not understand the message of Christ, and how He can
be Divine, but they desperately want a personal God who cares about them and
looks after their welfare.
As Christians we are called to understand these “People of the World,” these
secularists. And if we make love the aim of our being, we will find the door that
will open the reality of God for our friends, for Our Lord is the answer to every
man’s hunger and every man’s need.
WRITINGS OF THE FATHERS:
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+ In partaking of Christ we are partaking of the Father, because the Word
(Christ) is the Father’s own.
- St. Athanasius
+ Christ was made man, that He might deify us in Himself. He was born
of a woman, and begotten of a virgin, in order to offer Himself to an erring
generation, that we may become ever more a holy race, and “partakers
of the Divine Nature”, as is written in 2 Peter 1:4.
- St. Athanasius
+ Who is Jesus Christ? He is the Word of Truth, the Word of Incorruption that
generates mankind by returning them to the Truth. He is the goad that urges
us to salvation, expels destruction and pursues death, He who builds up the
edifice of God in mankind and causes God to take up an abode in men.
- St. Clement of Alexandria
+ Because of His great love for mankind, the Word of God, Jesus Christ,
became what we are in order to make us what He is Himself.
- St. Irenaeus
+ Christ saved men not by mighty storms from above but as a crying babe
in a manger and as a willing and silent victim upon the Cross.
- St. Jerome
+ His compassion for us compelled Christ to be born in a human body
at Bethlehem.
- St. Methodius of Olympus
+ The Sacrificial Victim was offered for all mankind, and was sufficient to save
all, but it is to believers only that the bounty is available.
- St. John Chrysostom
+ After His public ministry, He did not eat of the lamb, but became the true,
suffering Lamb in the Paschal Feast.
- St. Peter of Alexandria mA