To Live is Christ, and to Die is Gain No. 2 | Orthodox Christian Lightweight Cotton Unisex TeeTo me, he says, to live is Christ; if you will enquire of my life, it is He. And to die is gain. Wherefore? Because I shall more clearly be present with Him; so that my death is rather a coming to life; they who kill me will work on me no dreadful thing, they will only send me onward to my proper life, and free me from that which is not mine. What then, while thou were here, were thou not Christ's? Yes, and in a high degree. + St John Chrysostom

He has delivered us from the depths of Hell

that a man lay down his life for his friends

granting them more than if He had not allowed them to suffer it

“Death has come and all things have vanished

the enemy that sowed them is the devil

when there was as yet no sun dividing day from night

Let them praise the name of the Lord

perfect love

’ The Lord said to her: ‘Know that I was in your heart

they were amazed

’ says the Lord

and all we that are saved might say