Eros fire.” (Nonnus, "Dionysiaca" 48. 470 ff – a Greek epic of the 5th century AD) The story of Eros and Psyche has a longstanding tradition as a folktale of the ancient Greco-Roman world long before it was committed to literature in Apuleius' Latin novel, "The Golden Ass". The novel itself is written in a picaresque Roman style, yet Psyche retains her Greek name. Eros and Aphrodite are called by their Latin names (Cupid and Venus), and Cupid is depicted as a young adult, rather than a child. The story tells of the struggle for love and trust between Eros and
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God the Lutheran Church observe the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ on January 1. The feast is a celebration of Mary's motherhood of Jesus. The English title "Mother of God" is a literal translation of the Latin title "Mater Dei", which in turn is a looser rendering of the corresponding Greek title Θεοτόκος ("Theotokos"), literally meaning "Bearer of God" dogmatically adopted by the First Council of Ephesus (431) as an assertion of the divinity of Christ. The title is thus fundamentally Christological rather than Mariological. The Second Vatican Council stated: "Clearly from earliest times the Blessed Virgin is honoured under