Idoloclast Idol-Smasher | Jesus NIKA Fist w/ Sledgehammer on Red Background | Smash Your Passions | Orthodox Christian Custom Blue Denim JacketAvoid making idols either of things or of practices. + St. Macarius of Optina The passions are uprooted by keeping the commandments. + St. Maximus the Confessor, Four Hundred Texts on Love, 2. 31 You cannot pass a day tranquilly unless you mortify the passions. + St John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 26: On Discernment He who has conquered the passions has conquered nature, but he who is conquered by the passions is a slave, even if he

After the death of his father

even so in Christ shall all be made alive

and being where He is

attacks on all fronts and strives by all means not merely to divert believers from the path of salvation shown by the Church

deliver us from the deceptive seductions of the coming antichrist

“Depart from me

that the grace of Christ may come upon us

in thanksgiving we cry aloud: O Lord Who wast lifted up thereon and thereby raised us up with Thyself: grant us Thy heavenly joys

And knowing that Satan was cast down beneath thy feet

Did I minister to the sick

I shall exalt all who magnify thee in faith and in love

He spoke her name