Here too in this synagogue, that is in this present assembly, you can at this very moment fix your eyes upon your Savior if you wish. Whenever you direct your inward gaze toward wisdom and truth and the contemplation of God’s only Son, then your eyes are fixed upon Jesus. Blessed was that congregation of which the gospel says, All eyes in the synagogue were fixed upon him! How I long for our own assembly to deserve the same testimony; for all of you, catechumens as well as the faithful, women, men, and children, to have your eyes, not those of the body but of the soul, turned toward Jesus!When you look at Jesus your own faces will become radiant with his reflected glory, and you will be able to say: The light of your face has shed its brightness upon us, O Lord! To you be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen ■ Origen of Alexandria (183-253), On Luke’s Gospel 32, 2-6: SC 87, 386-392