Remember You Will Die | Antique Medical Textbook Heart Design | Inverted Shadows | Orthodox Christian Hardcover Blank JournalEvery word is preceded by a thought. Remembrance of death and sins precedes weeping and mourning [over one's sins]. And deeds are preceded by thoughts and words. + St John of the Ladder

Mourning knocks at heaven's gate

- St John Climacus

+ St Ephrem the Syrian

O most precious and life-giving Cross of the Lord

These were usually Christians

Nailed to the Cross as a man

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept

when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father

But he said: Nay

whom a saint has said will have greater glory than any monastics from any other age

On one occasion Abba Moses of Patara was engaged in a war against fornication

thou knowest