Tuesday of Lent Week 1

"Protect the sinner without doing him wrong. But strengthen his courage for life, then the mercy of the Lord will bear you. Support with your word the weak and the distressed in spirit whenever you can, then the hand that bears the universe will support you. Participate with those who are suffering in heart, in passionate prayer and mourning of the heart, then before your demand a fountain of grace will be opened" (from The Mystical Treatises of St. Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 2, 14).