Remember You Will Die Neon Design No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Art PosterAnd I cannot be silent about the story of Hesychius the Horebite. He passed his life in complete negligence, without paying the least attention to his soul. Then he became extremely ill, and for an hour he left his body. And when he came to himself he begged us all to leave him immediately. And he built up the door of his cell, and he stayed in it for twelve years without ever uttering a word to anyone, and without eating anything but bread and water.

assemble the elders

that so we may be partakers with the hosts of the world above in their hymn of praise

The prefix apo [of the Greek word apolystrosis

Let us patiently endure the sorrows of life

if any one look to heaven and see the beauteous things there

Avoid making idols either of things or of practices

"The man who really loves the Lord

For then there will be great tribulation

How have we been yoked to death

“The word 'ascetic' comes from the Greek root ἀσκητικός

we will find ourselves一definitively and positively一before eternity

Repentance [for killing death] is hid from Mine eyes