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]

We must strive to follow and fulfill in ourselves the various stages of Christ’s plan as well as his mysteries, and frequently beg him to bring them to completion in us and in the whole Church.
[From a treatise On the Kingdom of Jesus by Saint John Eudes, priest]