FAITHLINK: Sermon on the Blessed Virgin #Mary, the Mother of #God – St. Proclus of Constantinople/DailyGospel.org
“Saint Proclus of Constantinople (c.390-446), Bishop, Sermon no.1; PG 65,682 … ‘… Let all humanity dance in unison …. The holy Mother of #God has brought us together in this place; the Virgin #Mary, purest treasure of virginity, the Second Adam’s spiritual paradise, place in which the two natures are united, place of exchange in which our salvation has been brought to pass, nuptial chamber in which #Christ espoused our flesh. She is that spiritual bush which the fire of giving birth to a God did not burn, the bright cloud who bore him who is enthroned above the cherubim, the pure fleece that received celestial dew… Mary, handmaid and mother, virgin, heaven, the one bridge between God and man, loom of the incarnation on which the tunic of the union of natures was so skilfully woven, its weaver being the Holy Spirit. …'”