Saint Cyprian Hieromartyr

Thu Oct 2nd
"By whom is God hallowed, since He is the one who hallows? But since He said, "You shall be holy to Me; for I the Lord am holy," we seek and ask that we who were sanctified in Baptism may persevere in what we have begun to be."
St. Cyprian of Carthage, De Dom orat
"The new man, reborn and restored to his God by grace, says first, "Father!" because he has now begun to be a son."
St. Cyprian of Carthage, De Dom orat
“No one can have God as Father, who does not have the Church as Mother."
St. Cyprian of Carthage, De Unit
“There is, in fact, among the bishops only one Church, only one soul, only one heart… There is, through the institution of Christ, one and only one Church, spread out over the whole world, one and only one episcopacy represented by a multiplicity of bishops united among themselves… The Church forms a single whole, whose bond is the union of bishops."
St. Cyprian of Carthage, Epistle 66, 8,3
"God does not accept the sacrifice of a sower of disunion, but …More