Prayer And Life

Pater noster qui es in coelis... Homo, quid commune cum terris tibi, qui confiteris tibi genus esse de coelis? Ergo coelestem vitam monstra in habitione terrena: quia si quid in te gesserit terrena cogitatio, coleo maculem, coelesti generi injuriam intulisti. Sanctus Petrus Chrysologus, Sermo LXXI, In Orationem Dominicam Source: Migne PL 52.401d-402a

Our Father who art in heaven... 1 O man, what have you in common with earth, who here proclaim to yourself that your lineage comes from heaven? Therefore, while dwelling on earth, exhibit the heavenly life, because if you carry about an earthly mind in you, you have brought a blemish upon heaven, and an injury upon your heavenly lineage. Saint Peter Chrysologus, from Sermon 71, On The Lord's Prayer 1 Mt 6.9