Keep Calm and Prepare to Die No. 1 | Orthodox Christian HoodieDeath is inherited by every person who lives on this planet. How the world fools us! It toys with everyone like a cat plays with mice. It teases us, it makes us imagine fictitious things, it deceives us, and at the time of death it reveals the truth to us. At that moment every soul realizes that it has been tricked by the devil, the world, and the flesh. The world feeds our imagination with so many things, which it serves to us as appetizing bait, in

By Elder Antoly the Younger of Optina

creates that correlation between the now and the not yet which is the very essence of her message to the world

and you will live forever

and to the ages of ages

We will see death

remain wise and intelligent

- Revelation 1:4-5

rather than the cross

full of sloth

The Evangelist Matthew writes that the women came to the grave at dawn

and the stones split asunder

Homily 79 on John 16