That day
Sunday, 20 May 2007
The verse
“We love him, because he first loved us.”1 John 4:19 · WEB
From the tradition
“The word is added to the element, and there results the Sacrament, as if itself also a kind of visible word.”
Augustine of Hippo · Tractates on the Gospel of John, Tractate 80, §3
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. John Gibb and James Innes, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 7, ed. Philip Schaff (1888)), checked against the source edition.