“Showing [Jesus] that a lowly [= contemptible] mind could never be fit for contemplation, but that he who has risen above earthly things and has become superior to all things pertaining to the body, and who has withdrawn from the cares of life, having established himself apart in stillness, and has become higher than the domination of the passions.
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“Her humility, patience and faithfulness to the will of God raised the Maiden of Nazareth higher than the heavens,
“emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
“Then, when we become incorruptible and immortal and attain the Christ-like [= likeness to Christ] and most blessed end, we shall always be with the Lord, as the divine Paul says (1 Thessalonians 4:17), being fulfilled in the visible Theophany through all-holy contemplations, while the most radiant flashes of light shine around us, as they did upon the Disciples in that most divine Transfiguration