"You carry your snare everywhere and
spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment. ... When you have made another sin in his heart, how can you be innocent? Tell me, whom does this world condemn? Whom do judges punish; those who drink poison or those who prepare it and administer the fatal potion? You have prepared the abominable cup, you have given the death dealing drink, and you are more criminal than are those who poison the body; you murder not the body but the soul. And it is not to enemies you do this, nor are you urged on by any imaginary necessity, nor provoked by injury, but out of foolish vanity and pride."
-Saint John Chrysostom
For Reflection:
Do I dress or carry myself in provocative ways? Is my “fashion” sense so up to the minute that modesty is forsaken? Are my exercise clothes and at home or casual clothes so revealing as to cause another‘s sin? Please, Lord, give me the grace to see myself as others see me, so that I might dress appropriately before walking out my door.
