Second Sunday of Lent

"When you hear of being far from the world, of leaving the world, of being pure from the world, you are first in need of learning and knowing ... what the term world means, how many different meanings the word conveys. Then you will be able yourself to know, in how far you are distant from or connected with the world. If a man know not first what the world is, he cannot understand with how many limbs he is bound to or far from it" (from The Mystical Treatises of St. Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 2, 17-18).

Icon of the Transfiguration