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

he will soon despise this life

The iniquitous made holes in Thy hands and feet

Christ at my left

making God’s Mercy inaccessible to me

Little Vespers

bringing my recompense

but I must decrease

whom Isaiah in the Holy Spirit saw standing around the throne of God

In former times

The gates of death opened unto Thee in fear O Lord

I called to mind the Prophet’s words

pure as an angel