It is Impossible to Spend the Present Day No. 1 (Back Print) | Orthodox Christian Lightweight Cotton Unisex T-ShirtPlease note this is the BACK PRINTED version of this design. It is impossible, someone says, impossible to spend the present day devoutly unless we regard it as the last of our whole life. And it is truly astonishing how even the pagans have said something of the sort, since they define philosophy as meditation on death. St John Climacus, The Ladder, Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death, section 24 The Phaedo of Plato depicts a dialogue, between

It is heaven on earth

if we reach out to them in earnest prayer

and humiliations

for to us is born a little Child

at the Small Entrance: O Master

They suspended the Great Martyr Panteleimon from a tree and scraped him with iron hooks

Fill thy horn with oil

Explanation of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians

which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar

and shall deceive many

afterward they that are Christ's at his coming

and thus go into Eden with haste