“So much that is put in front of us is so rich, and yet we don’t slow down our hearts enough and our minds enough to take delight in the abundance of what surrounds us. The more you exercise yourself in seeing the gift that these things are, the more obvious the gifts become. Let us take, for example, the Holy Liturgy. It is a familiar friend to us, we know it well, we experience it often. But how different it is when we open our eyes to the ineffable beauty of what is in front of us.”
(Bishop Irenei of Western Europe, 2019 talk)