Adoration of Holy Cross IconoGraphic | Striking Red, White, & Black Russian Cross Design w/ Angels | Orthodox Christian Art PosterThe Good God provides each of us with a cross to bear analogous to the strength of each not to punish us, but to enable us to climb from that cross to Heaven because in essence, the cross is a ladder to Heaven. + St. Paisios of Mount Athos This design is an edit of a modern rendition the Adoration of the Holy Cross icon of the Novgorod school.

- Abba Agathon

then appeared the tares also

But these same virtues both produce the remembrance of death and are also produced by it

and he went and informed Abba Isidore of it

Before the end and bitter death and a harsh answer befall thee

“So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption

“Desiring to save the human race

“Peace I leave with you

it's because the icon depicts the Annunciation

Only when man is reconciled with God can inward and outward peace come

’ She said then: ‘How could that be

the first icon was created while Christ still walked among us