But let the one who is catechized in the word grant a share in all good things to the one who catechizes (Galatians 6: 6).

This is the meaning: [katechein] signifies to sound around or to resound nearby, which happens when someone is at the initial phase of becoming a Christian. God and Christ resound and are spoken into the ears and sent into the mind. This is the meaning of the one who is catechized in the word; that is, when someone is catechized, it happens through the word, such that the word would resound to him through the invocation. So let the one who is catechized in the word grant a share in all good things to the one who catechizes; that is, let there be nothing unshared with him.- Marius Victorinus

Note: Invocation here indicates the prayer said in the waters during Baptism

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He became a human being that we might be divinized in him; he came to be in a woman and was begotten of a virgin in order to transport our errant race into himself and in order that from then on we may become a holy race and “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet 1.4), as the blessed Peter has written.- St Athanasius of Alexandria

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My dear euthymius, I am unable to express how much I rejoice at your enthusiasm—not only that you enrich your spirit with the heavenly Scriptures when you are at home but that you also frequent the holy Church with vigilant heart. So the body’s sense of hearing is touched by the divine words and, within, the love of your soul is nourished. The work of divine grace is recognized because, in the house of God, you are enjoying spiritually the conversation of those whom you know are fervent in the love of the divine Law; on the other hand, you are not happy exchanging useless words with certain people who, without profit, come to the life-giving feast of the heavenly word and who, according to the truthful word of the Apostle Paul, who blames them, “stop listening to the truth and are diverted to myths.”- St Fulgentius

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Who only lets the dear God rule
And hopes in Him always
He will receive him wonderfully
In all trouble and sadness.
He who trusts in God the Most High
He has built on no sand.

What help are our heavy sorrows?
What good are our woes and our sorrows?
What good is it that every morning in our misfortunes we make our cross and sorrow only greater through sadness.

Just be still for a little while
And yet be merry in yourself
How our God's will of grace
As his omniscience directs
God who has chosen us for Himself
He also knows very well what we lack.

Sing pray and walk in God's ways
Do thine only faithfully
And trust in heaven's rich blessing
And He shall be new with thee.
For he who puts his trust
In God he will not forsake.

"What shall I give You, Lord, for all Your mercies, which You continually bestow so bountifully on me? Only my faith, for I have no works that shall justify me. I have done no good thing before Thee. But even my faith is Your gift.” - John Calvin

I have a confession to make. John Calvin did NOT say this.

It was Orthodox St John of Kronstadt from his writing, " My Life in Christ", pg. 138

Battle of Adwa March 1896- Ethiopian forces led by Emperor Menelik II emerged victorious against invading Italian invaders. This marks a rare occasion where a country(and a Christian one) is able to successfully resist getting colonized.

José Martí Monzó- Council of Toledo