Wednesday of Lent Week 5

"[Divine] care surrounds all men at all times, but it is not seen, save only by those who have purified themselves from sins and think of God perpetually. To these men then it is revealed clearly; for when they have been led into great temptations for the sake of truth, then they receive a faculty of perception clearly as if with the eyes of the flesh" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 5, 64-65).