Always Live in Remembrance of Death | Crown of Thorns | Ascetic Christian Ethos | Orthodox Christian Cotton Tank TopAcquire an inseparable wifethe remembrance of death. + St John Climacus

Let everyone hold his mind with attention on the holy sayings of the Lord and Savior

always looking heavenward and expecting help from there

All is feebler than a shadow

but rather ask God to show them your love without words

so the thought of death brings chastity and activity to a state of incorruption

do not make offerings that you have not carefully prepared to please God

because there will be no work or plan or wisdom or knowledge in the lower world

saying the same words

The hour the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles at Pentecost (Acts 2:15)

Since he believes in the real truth

burned him with fire and then stretched him on the rack

and nothing escapes them