Fr. Francis Therese Krautter csj
Pelagius:
The resurrection of the body is the whole point of our gospel message. Without it, all the works of prayer and fasting which we do are meaningless.
Origen:
Evidently Matthias was chosen to replace Judas before Jesus ceased appearing to the disciples after his resurrection.
Clement of Alexandria:
The vine produces wine as the Word produces blood, and both are drunk for the health of men and women—wine for the body, blood for the spirit.
Cyril of Alexandria:
For it is his Holy Spirit who has united us with the Savior Christ since connection with the vine produces a choice of those things that belong to it. And our connection with the vine holds us fast. From a firm resolve in goodness we proceed onward by faith and we become his people, obtaining from him the dignity of sonship.… He says that he is a vine, the mother and nourisher, as it were, of its branches. For we are begotten of him and in him, in the Spirit, to produce the fruits of life.
