Second Sunday after the Epiphany

I know a man who, when he saw a woman of unusual beauty, praised the Creator for her.  The sight of her lit within him the love of God . . . It was marvellous to see how what would have been the undoing of another became for him supernaturally a crown of victory.  If such a man is always and in all cases capable of such feelings and such conduct, he has already partaken of incorruptibility even before the general resurrection.

St. John Climacus.