Friday, March 6

We are accepted!

Do not rely on your own efforts, but on the grace of Christ. ‘You are,’ says the apostle, ‘saved by grace.’ Therefore it is not a matter of arrogance here but faith when we celebrate: we are accepted! This is not pride but devotion.

— St. Ambrose, quoted by Thomas Oden in
The Justification Reader
(Grand Rapids: Eeerdmans, 2002), 108