The Present Day As the Last Day of Our Life | St John Climacus | Skull with Red Orthodox Cross | Memento Mori | Orthodox Christian Tank TopIt is impossible, someone says, impossible to spend the present day devoutly unless we regard it as the last of our whole life. And it is truly astonishing how even the pagans have said something of the sort, since they define philosophy as meditation on death. + St John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death, section 24 +++ Even the Pagans Meditated on Death An Example of "Logos Spermatikos" The Phaedo of Plato

In this way then

and they loved not their lives unto the death

Prayer is always possible for everyone

give rest to those whom Thou hast chosen

and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle

A very strong proof of this destruction of death and its conquest by the cross is supplied by a present fact

at the Blessing of Water

and lifted up thereon bodily

which call thee by thy name

“Good Teacher

they have become corrupt and have oppressed the poor and the weak (v

You will get over them