You too may wish to take hold of the feet of Jesus. You can, even now. You can embrace not only his feet but also his hands and even his sacred head. You too can today receive these awesome mysteries with a pure conscience. If you are so disposed, along with him, to be compassionate, you shall hear not only these words, “All hail” but also those others: “Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world.”

—John Chrysostom, The Gospel of Matthew, Homily 89.3