Remember You Will Die Shakespearean Design | Memento Mori | Classic Woodcut Illustration Aesthetic | Orthodox Christian Tote BagThis day stimulates our eyes to weeping, our hands to gestures of woe, and our mouth to lamentation: Lord! Be Thou my comforter! This day invites very many to shed tears, for whoever enters or departs, his mouth is full of morning: May we be consoled by Thy goodness! This day makes void the covenant of espousals, and in place of a bridal chamber prepares a sepulcher: Let them rejoice at Thy marriage feast! This day dismisses the body from life, and

the which when a man hath found

attacks on all fronts and strives by all means not merely to divert believers from the path of salvation shown by the Church

” The time for repentance and labours of self-improvement will have ended: let everyone give an account of what good or evil things he did in his body

- 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

and my light

Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible

not a true Orthodox icon

We will lower our head in shame because we did not do the will of God

and shall deceive many

and character

because the Father is with me

Thou didst shake the whole earth