The Church offers us today the life of someone salvation history has determined to be a significant figure in the proclamation of the Gospel. Pope Saint Leo the Great, a doctor of the Church helped the Church of his era develop orthodox thinking on the person of Jesus Christ that is standard theology today. He defended the two natures of Jesus Christ at the Council of Chalcedon. The Fathers of Chalcedon said, "Peter has spoken through Leo!"Saint Leo is one of three popes to be given the title "the Great" acknowledging his work as a father of the faithful.
This text is a hymn based on a text taken from the Office of Readings for Matins for Christmas. This text captures Leo and his keeping belief in Christ correct.
God truly is come down from heaven,
begotten of the Father,
and has entered into the womb of the Virgin
and has appeared visibly to us,
clothed in human flesh
received from our first parent:
and He who is both God and man,
Light and Life,
the Creator of the world,
has passed through the closed portal.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
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