"Peter Has Spoken Through Leo!"

"The Son of God, therefore, descending from His heavenly throne, enters into the infirmities of this world; and, not leaving the Father's glory, He is generated in a new order and a new birth.  In a new order, because invisible in His own, He was made visible in ours; being incomprehensible, He wished to be comprehended; while remaining prior to time, He began to exist in time; the Lord of the universe, concealing the immensity of His majesty, assumed the form of a slave; the impassible God did not disdain to be man subject to suffering, nor the Immortal One to be subject to the laws of death.  He is generated, however, by a new birth:  Because an inviolate virginity, not knowing concupiscence, has supplied the matter of the flesh.  From the Mother of the Lord, nature, not guilt, was assumed.  Nor does the Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of a Virgin, have a nature different than ours just because His birth was miraculous.  For He who is true God is likewise true Man, and there is no falsehood in this unity, in which the lowliness of man and the height of divinity coincide.  God is not changed by his compassion, nor is man swallowed up by such dignity.  For each nature does what is proper to each in communion with the other:  the Word does what pertains to the Word, and the flesh to what pertains to the flesh.  One shines forth with miracles; the other succumbs to injuries.  And just as the Word does not depart from quality with the Father's glory, just so the flesh does not abandon the nature of our race."

St Leo the Great, Pope of Rome, Lectis dilectionis tuae