The world, in its construction, daily prepares and awakens rational creatures to the wonder and glory of that wise Creator. The wondrous variations, which oppose one another, harmonize within it: fire, water, earth, and vaporous air. But that we may not be led astray and think that, because of their diversity, they have many makers, he took and made, of creation, one body in the forming of man, and in him made known to us that he is the Lord of all.
[From the Basilica Hymn fro the Fourth Week of Lent, in The Book of Before and After: The Liturgy of the Hours of the Church of the East, Fr. Andrew Younan, ed. and tr., The Catholic University of America Press (Washington, DC: 2024), p. 481.]
