Let Us Conquer the World, Let Us Run To Immortality | John Chrysostom | Unseen Warfare | Ascetic Christian | Christian Long SleeveWe therefore are not mortal, because of our struggle with death, but we are immortal, because of our victory Does death corrupt our bodies? What of that? This is not so they may remain in corruption, but so they should be made better. Let us then conquer the world; let us run to immortality; let us follow our King; let us also set up a trophy; let us despise the world's pleasures. We need no toil to do so. Let us transfer our souls to heaven, and all

in every situation of life—or one is not really Orthodox at all

someone says

So the servants of the householder came and said unto him

elders with the younger

The icon is of sufficient importance to have had its history detailed in multiple 16th and 17th century sources

because there was much water there

This event was recorded by the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council in 325

and leisure of this age are filled with sadness and grief

when they speak

I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come

As to the fatalism of those who believe that man must be a slave to the spirit of the age

- Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann