“Let us fix our attention on the blood of Christ and recognize how precious it is to God his Father, since it was shed for our salvation and brought the grace of repentance to all the world.”
[From a letter to the Corinthians by Saint Clement, pope]

Christ himself is both victim and priest according to the spirit. For he offers the victim to the Father according to the flesh, and he is himself offered on the altar of the cross.
[Excerpt from a homily on Genesis by Origen, priest]

The wedding feast at Cana is the joyful marriage of man’s salvation, a marriage celebrated by confessing the Trinity or by faith in the resurrection. [From a sermon by Faustus of Riez, bishop]

We need God to take our flesh and die, that we might live. We have died with him, that we may be purified.
[From a sermon by St Gregory Nazianzen]