The Day of the Lord No. 3 | Orthodox Christian Cotton Tank Top / Sleeveless ShirtBy 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

- St Ephraim the Syrian

for My name’s sake

- Psalm 16:10 (MT)

for God has created you with that power

but did not find them

- Revelation 1:4-5

who wished to appoint him as royal physician when he finished his schooling

so that neither mortality nor the vanity of the world may sweep me away this year

I thank thee

robbed of all higher meaning

their like has never been before

If you are not willing to repent through freely choosing to suffer