To Live is Christ, to Die is Gain (Philippians 1:21) | Skull with Cross on Gold Manuscript Texture | Orthodox Zipper Hoodie (Back Design)Even in dying, he means, I will not have died, for I have life in myself as long as Christ is with me, even though death may overtake me, still I live, and in this present life, not this, but Christ is my life That life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, so I say in that state also, "I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2: 20). Such ought a Christian to be! The word "life" is very significant, beloved, as also is the word

” I went also to the tombs

- Gerondissa Makrina (Vassopoulou)

often accompanied by similar Greek monograms for "Jesus" (IC = ΙΗΣΟΥΣ) and "Christ" (XC = ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ)

Let the priests

And behold thy cousin Elizabeth

- St John Climacus

For so in the beginning also death came in last

though it seems to be near

When we want more that these necessities it is easy to sin

With my whole heart have I sought after Thee

proclaiming

in order that the guard should become powerless