Friday of Lent Week 4

"Be occupied with the books of God's providence intensely, without becoming satisfied. They have been composed by holy men and show the aim of His different works in His establishing the different species of the world. Let your mind be strengthened by them and you will acquire enlightened impulses from their subtlety, then your mind will go its way with a clear consciousness towards the aim of [understanding] the right scheme of the creation of the world, according to the laudable wise intention of the Creator of the natures. Read in the two testaments which God has destined for the instruction of the whole world, so that it should be dazzled by the power of His Providence in every generation and be enveloped in wonder" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 4, 48).