You
therefore, whoever you may be, who devoutly and full of faith boast
of the Christian name, rightly weigh the grace of your
reconciliation. By the Incarnation of the Word, power was given you
to return from afar to your Maker, to recognize your true parentage,
from a slave to become a freeman, from an outcast to become a son.
Born of corruptible flesh, you were empowered to be reborn of the
Spirit of God, and to obtain through grace what was not yours through
nature. You know that by the spirit of adoption you are become a son
of God: you dare call God your father.
– Pope
Saint Leo the Great
Pope
Saint Leo the Great's
patronage:
All
Parishes named after Pope
Saint
Leo
the
Great.
