Patristic Quote of the Day

And this is the sense, the reason I have spoken everything that is contained in the past speech is to terrify you by my threat. Therefore turn to me with your whole heart and indicate the repentance of your soul by fasting, weeping, and mourning; so that by fasting now, you might afterwards be filled; by weeping now, you might afterwards laugh; and by mourning now, you might afterward be consoled.—St. Jerome on Joel 2:12-14