Behold, I Make All Things New (Rev 21:5) | Brown & Orange Orthodox Cross Alpha & Omega Background | Lightweight Cotton Unisex T-ShirtAnd I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

Doré is either already in the bosom of Abraham

help me with our holy Lady

and our bodies

do not seek to confer any greater favour upon me than that I be sacrificed to God while the altar is still prepared

John of Kronstadt

My hands made an instrument

so that neither mortality nor the vanity of the world may sweep me away this year

in the purity of the holy Virgins

like the defeat of ones defeated long ago—defeated from the beginning

- Matthew 24:9-25

O most eminent Michael

and then finally returned permanently to the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius