The Present Day As the Last Day of Our Life | St John Climacus | Skull with Red Orthodox Cross | Memento Mori | Lightweight Cotton Unisex TeeIt 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 of Divine Ascent, Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death, section 24 +++ Even the Pagans Meditated on Death An Example of "Logos Spermatikos" The Phaedo of Plato

and all ye abysses

and He shall exalt the horn of His people

When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions

when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God

that in me ye might have peace

Stephen De Young

Avoid making idols either of things or of practices

Where is their God

for joy that a man is born into the world

God’s hand to guide me

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass

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