Fathers and Sons

Pater Noster qui es in coelis. Hoc cum dicis, non sic habeas, quasi non sit in terris; non sic accipias, quasi sit loco clausus, qui claudit omnia, sed intellige esse tibi genus e coelo, cujus Pater habetur in coelo, et age ut, vivendo sancte, sancto respondeas Patri. Dei filium ille se probat, qui vitiis non obscuratur humanis, qui divinis virtutibus elucescit. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo LXVII

'Our Father who art in heaven.' 1 When you say this, do not have it that He is not in earth, nor receive it as if He were somehow circumscribed by space, that One who encompasses all things, but understand that to you is a lineage from heaven, for he has a Father in heaven who acts so that living in holy manner he appears as an image of the holy Father. He is proved a son of God, who is not darkened with human vices but who shines with divine virtues. Saint Peter Chrysologus, from Sermon 67 1 Mt 6.9