Adoration of Holy Cross IconoGraphic | Striking Red, White, & Black Russian Cross Design w/ Angels | Canvas IconoGraphic | Orthodox Christian ArtThe Good God provides each of us with a cross to bear analogous to the strength of each not to punish us, but to enable us to climb from that cross to Heaven because in essence, the cross is a ladder to Heaven. + St. Paisios of Mount Athos This design is an edit of a modern rendition the Adoration of the Holy Cross icon of the Novgorod school.

but she did not recognize Him

Deacon: For the peace of the whole world

for the age or æon itself is His creation

which set a prototype which is still in use to this day in the Church

Before the end and bitter death and a harsh answer befall thee

All these words will find you at the end of days

joined to their resurrected bodies

and he could not endure being in his cell

/ But return to soberness and cry aloud:/ Holy

and praying always

“The true Christian is a warrior fighting his way through the regiments of the unseen enemy to his heavenly homeland

He is baptizing