Alpha & Omega New Jerusalem Crown with Orthodox Cross | Revelation | Second Coming | Orthodox Christian HoodieThe Logos is the Beginning of all things because from Him flow the creative outpourings, the particular logoi of creatures. He is the End of all things because He is the center toward which all created beings tend. This is the mystical meaning behind His words: I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending (Revelation 1: 8). Hieromonk Damascene (Christensen), Christ the Eternal Tao

This is why in church the [doxology] begins with

- St Neilos the Ascetic of Sinai

One must arrange things so that others see our deeds and praise the Lord

And while the Greek philosophers had the good sense to see that “there is something in store for the dead

The peculiarity which distinguishes the Great Martyr Marina from other holy virgins

through divine grace that has the power to give birth

for whom the doctors held out no hope

No one is good but One

“Assuredly I say to you

despondency

3 There are no tongues nor words in which their voices are not heard

Christ with me