Remember You Will Die Antique Medical Textbook Heart Design | Red & Orange | Memento Mori | Heavyweight Cotton Orthodox Unisex TeeDeath is inherited by every person who lives on this planet. How the world fools us! It toys with everyone like a cat plays with mice. It teases us, it makes us imagine fictitious things, it deceives us, and at the time of death it reveals the truth to us. At that moment, every soul realizes that it has been tricked by the devil, the world, and the flesh. The world feeds our imagination with so many other things, which it serves to us as appetizing

and it is burned

This troparion is sung at the conclusion of Resurrection Vespers because of the joy of Christ’s Resurrection

Is it a game to begin our ascent to the Judge

For if the dead rise not

“All these things I have kept from my youth

With the man in the wind and the west moon

In the annals of saints’ lives

in the faith of the Confessors

and that we not fall away from Thee and Thy holy Church

How have we been delivered to corruption

Virgin of Vladimir

Flee from me