This is the reality of our adoption as sons of God. Unlike human adoptions, it does not consist in the mere name, nor does it confer honor merely to the extent that those who have been adopted share the name of those who have been naturally born and have the same father as they, without having undergone the same birth and its pangs. In this case, however, there is a real birth and a sharing with the only-begotten Son not of the surname only, but of His very Being, His Blood, His Body, His Life. What, then, is greater than that the Father of the only-begotten Son Himself recognizes in us His members and finds the very form of the Son in our faces? It says, "He predestined them to be conformed to the image of His Son" (Rom 8:29).
+St. Nicholas Cabasilas, from The Life in Christ, book 4, #9. How the Eucharist makes us sons of God.
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