Live Die Repeat | Monk by Russian Artist Mikhail Nesterov | Die Every Day, Live Forever | Ascetic Christian | Orthodox Canvas Wall ArtDie every day, and you will live forever. + St Antony the Great +++ Source Artwork: Monk by Mikhail Nesterov, 1913.

shedding light upon the faithful

Antichrist

the day of the Lord comes

like men you shall die

Though they go mad they shall be sane

and breathe on these slain

(Luke 1:38) The cosmological importance of the Incarnation of Christ is reflected in the later vision of St John the Theologian (who was given to Mary as her adopted son by Christ while He hung on the cross)

And only when you have seen your imperfection

I will send thee to Jesse

and hath compassed me with his net

so let the demons perish from the presence of those who love God and who sign themselves with the Sign of the Cross and say with gladness:

2 Day unto day poureth forth speech