Dead to This World Alive to the Next | Glowing Gold Cross Red Cityscape | Orthodox Christian Art PosterWhoever keeps death (the inevitable destiny of each person) and eternity before his eyes will laugh at both the sorrows and sweetness of this world. He whose memory of death and eternity is stolen by the enemy will have his temporal life grow into eternal life and his sorrows multiply into countless, irresistible giants. + St Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

The day of death is a bitter day

tell where thou hast put Him

but to account all things secondary to the work of praising Him

but the Holy Fathers recognize it as the beginning of all evil

<< The Cross is the Guardian of the Whole World

rather than the cross

each one of us who has become a house of God

we die a spiritual death

This is the hymn for all His saints

healthy and sick

Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death

Let us be attentive that we may offer the Holy Oblation in peace