Trampling Down Death By Death No. 3 (Skull Street Sign) | Orthodox Christian Lightweight Cotton Unisex T-ShirtCruel death only respects the slave of Christ. Since it was trampled down by Christ, it respects only the life in Christ. Often, a heavenly messenger comes to tell the servants of Truth of their imminent passase into blessed eternity. Those who were prepared for death by their life, who were consoled both by their clear conscience and a message from above, quietly, with a smile on their faces, fall asleep into the long sleep of death. Has anyone ever

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“O wretched man that I am

when they beheld Thee suspended unjustly upon the Tree

the hour cometh

to prayer instead: how much more time would I spend in prayer

This is your world

- 2 Corinthians

while Magi journey with a star

The Orthodox Church uses this same verse in every service dedicated to the apostles or saints who are “equal-to-the-apostles”: as the prokeimenon hymn in tone 8

the olive tree to which the saint was tied became covered with fruit

while now the Orthodox people have been long prepared for the approaching "ecumenical" merger of all churches and religions by decades of laxness

for the bond of many possessions is more tyrannical