The Day of the Lord No. 3 | Orthodox Christian Hoodie / Hooded SweatshirtBy her very nature the Church belongs to the end: to the ultimate reality of the "world to come," the Kingdom of God It is precisely her knowledge and constant partaking of the "end" that relates the world, creates that correlation between the now and the not yet which is the very essence of her message to the world Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

It is the Passover

but as You will

" (Romans 6:2)

’—he comes at midnight

there was in the waters the dragon that draws up the Jordan into his mouth (Job 40

Augustine of Hippo

“Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ

even so minister the same one to another

The Evangelist Matthew writes that the women came to the grave at dawn

Before the end and I utterly perish

May we be consoled by Thy goodness

Like the rich man of old I wallow in pleasures