Live Sacramentally, Die Salvifically | Remember You Will Die | Memento Mori | Red Orthodox Cross White Circle | Orthodox Christian Art PosterRepentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. + St John Climacus

ye may sing praise to the Father

The King of Israel

Christ below me

take up the cross

death and famine unto all the ends of the earth

He had been bitten by a great snake

like an old garment hung out on a thorn—such are all human victories and defeats

it is still just wood

- Isaiah 6:1-7

But if we walk in the light

"I lament and weep whenever I see death and look upon our beauty

and proclaim to the world that Thou art of a truth the Effulgence of the Father