That day
Monday, 19 March 2007
The verse
“The LORD, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.”Zephaniah 3:17 · WEB
From the tradition
“He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”
Cyprian of Carthage · On the Unity of the Church, §6
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. Ernest Wallis, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, rev. A. Cleveland Coxe (1886)), checked against the source edition.