Live Die Repeat | Orthodox Monk by Mikhail Nesterov | Die Every Day, and You Will Live Forever | Ascetic Christianity | Long Sleeve Cotton ShirtDie every day, and you will live forever. + St Antony the Great +++ Source Artwork: Monk by Mikhail Nesterov, 1913.

and Christ is in His Church

and to cut off the head of the Great Martyr Panteleimon

The field is the world

and without eating anything but bread and water

It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm

and in sins did my mother bear me

to Bethlehem

- Elder Ephraim of Arizona

that he who has put on the faith of the cross despises even what is naturally fearful and for Christ’s sake is not afraid of death

said to her: The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee

- Isaiah 6:1-3

Their appearance is like the appearance of horses