Remember You Will Die Shakespearean Design | Memento Mori | Classic Woodcut Illustration Aesthetic | Orthodox Christian Black MugThis day stimulates our eyes to weeping, our hands to gestures of woe, and our mouth to lamentation: Lord! Be Thou my comforter! This day invites very many to shed tears, for whoever enters or departs, his mouth is full of morning: May we be consoled by Thy goodness! This day makes void the covenant of espousals, and in place of a bridal chamber prepares a sepulcher: Let them rejoice at Thy marriage feast! This day dismisses the body from life, and

for He has prepared for them a city

Homiliy 13: On the Words "Crucified and Buried"

although all the faithful are exhorted to practice lesser forms of ascesis through the Church's regimen of prayer

Restoration of the ancient icon was begin in 1920 and completed in 1935 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

They commit the same (in fact any) sins because they are sinners

a God whom he knows not

Repentance is Our True Culture

I await the voice of the archangel

" Having said that he did say a prayer for them and let them go

requires a commitment that involves every aspect of our lives

may the smell of the Holy Spirit be in my nose

When the Judge shall take His seat and the angels stand before Him