What I Am You Will Be | Memento Mori | Remembrance of Death | Mt Athos Monk Skull | Ascetic Ethos | Orthodox Hooded ShirtOur mind is so darkened by the fall that unless we force ourselves to remember death we can completely forget about it. When we forget about death, then we begin to live on earth as if were were immortal, and we sacrifice all our activity to the world without concerning ourselves in the least either about the fearful transition to eternity or about our fate in eternity. Then we boldly and peremptorily override the commandments of Christ; then we

Trinity in unity

Death was swallowed up in victory

Then will the Lord be jealous for his land

let us ask Christ to give rest to the departed and to grant our souls great mercy

For everyone will be seasoned with fire

+ St Kosmas Aitolos

… For if Thou hadst desired sacrifice

Let him come face to face before Thy servant

excess of wine

Every man shall then bear his own burden

social and temporal capital

In the spiritual tradition of the Church