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

Just as salt preserves meat

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

And they said

He asked Mary

In proportion to your humility you are given patience in your woes

O lawless one

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten

but this requires work and time

and the devil lead us astray and throw us into forgetfulness—and suddenly a voice is heard: “Behold

“‘Forgive me

They do not jostle one another

The victorious one is the person defeats these three things: the world