Monday in Holy Week

"Make yourself small among men, then He will exalt you even above the heads of the people... Where humility sprouts, there glory will rise... If you are humble in your heart, He will show you His glory in your heart. Be disdained in your greatness, not great in your being disdained. Learn to be disdained, while being full of the honor of the Lord; not to be honored while being injured by ulcers within. Reject honor, then you will be honored. Do not love it, lest you be rejected. If you pursue honor, it will flee from you. If you flee from it, it will rise for you from the place where you hide yourself and it will be a herald of your humility to every one" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 5, 76.77).