On the Lord's Prayer
"The most holy and venerable invocation of our great and blessed God the Father is a symbol of the personal and real adoption to be bestowed through the gift and grace of the Holy Spirit. In accordance with it, once every human particularity is overcome and disclosed by the coming of grace, all the saints will be and be called sons of God to the extent that from that moment they will have radiantly and gloriously brightened themselves through the virtues with the divine beauty of goodness."
+ St Maximos the Confessor, Chapter 20, The Church's Mystagogy, in "Maximous the Confessor Selected Writings" (New York: Paulist Press, 1985) 203.
