Acquire an Inseparable Wife (St John Climacus) | Cezanne Still Life w/ Skull | Orthodox Christian Hardcover JournalAcquire an inseparable wifethe remembrance of death. + St John Climacus Original artwork: Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Skull, 1898.

Step 6: On Remembrance of Death

so the thought of death is the most necessary of all works

The icon is of sufficient importance to have had its history detailed in multiple 16th and 17th century sources

“How—me

The setting and the rising of the life-giving sun are the dying and the rising of the life-giving Son

the pre-eternal God

is the first Order of Celestial Beings which are established about God

rather than the cross

And the angel answering

Saint Marina said:

- Matthew 16:13-20

Taking the quill of the Cross