One...by Our Lord's Voice

"There is one God, and one Christ, and one Church,

and one chair, by our Lord's voice founded upon Peter.

To set up another altar, or to constitute another priesthood,

besides the one altar and the one priesthood, is impossible.

Whosever gathereth elsewhere scattereth.

It is adulterous, it is impious, it is sacrilegious,

whatsoever is instituted by man to the breach of God's disposition.

Get ye far from such men:

they are blind, and leaders of the blind..."

St. Cyprian

Bishop of Carthage, Martyr

Patron of North Africa

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FEAST DAY  - Sts Cornelius and Cyprian -

September 16

 “You cannot have God for your Father if you do not have the Church for your mother.... God is one and Christ is one, and his Church is one; one is the faith,

and one is the people cemented together by harmony into the strong unity of a body.... If we are the heirs of Christ, let us abide in the peace of Christ; if we are the sons of God, let us be lovers of peace.” ~ St. Cyprian, The Unity of the Catholic Church

 Sts Cornelius and Cyprian, ora pro nobis!