Orthodoxy Definition: Trampling Down Death By Death | Christ is King | Memento Mori | Pascha | Minimalist Orthodox Christian Art PosterThe gates of death opened unto Thee in fear O Lord, and the gate keepers of Hades were terrified at the sight of Thee, for Thou hast smashed the gates of brass, and crushed the bars of iron to powder, leading us out of the darkness and shadow of death rending asunder our bonds. Tone 2, Resurrection Great Vespers, Lord I Have Cried

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation

“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel

And He said unto me

redemption] intensifies the sense that the body at the second coming will be completely and totally delivered from corruption by the grace of the Lord who abolishes the final enemy

Even though our outward man is perishing

I have overcome the world

And our Lord himself said with his divine lips that such affliction ‘was not from the beginning of the creation’ (Mark 13:19)

these bones are the whole house of Israel

Herman of Alaska

His angels and His saints

- Elder Ephraim of Arizona

Speaking of death