Love Is a Game of Catching and Catching

St. Gregory of Nazianzus wrote wonders on the subject and text rebuking vain women, though his words also apply to men. Note, your natural beauty suffices for your husband. However, if it is put on display to many men, like a net spread out for a flock of birds, what will be the consequences? Whoever takes pleasure in your beauty will come to be pleasing to you. You will return him a glance for his glance. Look for look. Soon will come sighs and little amorous words. At first you will begin by speaking them stealthily, but all too soon they will become more familiar and pass to an open courtship. I will hold