Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail | Yellow Street Sign Minimalist Pascha Icon | Trampling Down Death By Death | Orthodox Christian HoodieI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. Isaiah 45: 2 3 Note the exactness of expression. He did not say 'opened the gates of brass,' but 'broke in pieces the gates of brass,' in

and lives with wonderworking

and went his way

Let us be radiant

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now

- St Neilos the Ascetic of Sinai

Gazing now upon Thy footstool where Thy most pure feet stood

strong and weak

not bodily

because the days are evil' (Ephesians 5:16)

and watch unto prayer

announces the joy of the Annunciation when the Archangel Gabriel advised the Virgin Mary that she was to give birth to the Son of God

making steadfast the hearts of the faithful