Trampled Down Death By Death No. 1 (Red Design | Orthodox Christian Hoodie / Hooded SweatshirtThe moment of death is near, my Jesus, and all the world is abandoning me as a castaway and turning its face from me; on one side the entire universe has turned its back on me, and on the other death and I are face to face. Almighty Lord, how horrific it is to remain alone with death, how unutterably horrible to remain without God and a friend, without the world, without a companion, all alone with an enemy stronger than myself. One moment of

more deceptive than a dream

to rise again

I hymn the sufferings of Thee Who suffered and hast delivered me from the passions

to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever

While icon painters typically take as their templates forms long-ago established by the Orthodox Church (and documented in such sources as The Painter's Manual of Dionysius of Fourna)

An Example of "Logos Spermatikos"

despise me not

to be born

and should not discontinue his hot and fiery streams of tears and voiceless heartfelt groanings until he

All three confessed their faith in the Savior and were beheaded (July 26)

when we note the Sun with twelve stars around the holy head of the Theotokos

setting aside Thine own will