The Present Day As the Last Day of Our Life | St John Climacus | Skull with Red Orthodox Cross | Memento Mori | Hooded Cotton ShirtIt is impossible, someone says, impossible to spend the present day devoutly unless we regard it as the last of our whole life. And it is truly astonishing how even the pagans have said something of the sort, since they define philosophy as meditation on death. + St John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death, section 24 +++ Even the Pagans Meditated on Death An Example of "Logos Spermatikos" The Phaedo of Plato

As for the second path

it has as though blinded them

At the end of the ages it will also be said: the time is fulfilled

Who hath ears to hear

Restoration of the ancient icon was begin in 1920 and completed in 1935 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow

For it is not my desire to act towards you as a man-pleaser

and resurrection to the Heavenly Father

Thus was the destruction of the town narrowly averted

then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised

” The same is true of the Hebrew word tov

"The world is crucified to him and he to the world

the heavens tremble