Tuesday of Lent Week 4

"Acquire a pure behavior, that your soul may exult during prayer and joy be kindled in your mind at the recollection of death. Keep control of small things, lest you neglect great ones... Acquire freedom in your behavior, that you be freed from confusion. Do not use your freedom for the sake of comfort, lest you become a slave of slaves" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 4, 44).