Monday of Lent Week 4

"Merciful is he, who shows his compassion towards his neighbor not only in gifts, but who after hearing or seeing anything that causes suffering to any one, cannot withhold his heart from burning; who, even if he receives a blow on his cheek from his brother, does not venture to repay him even with a word and so cause him to suffer intellectually" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 4, 43).