Patristic Quote for the Day

See how he shows us that, just as Eve was taken from the flesh and bones of Adam and the two were one flesh, so also Christ gives Himself to us to the extent of communion of His flesh and bones. He showed them to His apostles, saying: "Handle Me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have." From the same flesh and bones He gives us to eat, and through this communion, makes us, too, one with Him. - St. Symeon the New Theologian, *First Ethical Discourse*