Saturday of Lent Week 1

"If the small pupil of your soul has not been purified, do not venture to look at the globe of the sun, lest you be bereft even of the usual sight, which is simple faith and humbleness and confession of the heart and light service in accordance with your power, and you be cast into one of the intelligible places, which is darkness without God, like him who ventured to go to the meal in sordid habits" (from The Mystical Treatises of St. Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 2, 17).