The Present Day As the Last Day of Our Life | St John Climacus | Skull with Red Orthodox Cross | Memento Mori | Orthodox Christian Tote BagIt is impossible, someone says, impossible to spend the present day devoutly unless we regard it as the last of our whole life. And it is truly astonishing how even the pagans have said something of the sort, since they define philosophy as meditation on death. + St John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 6: On the Remembrance of Death, section 24 +++ Even the Pagans Meditated on Death An Example of "Logos Spermatikos" The Phaedo of Plato

and His train filled the temple

- Luke15:4-7

Your eyes saw my unformed body

And his father embraced him and kept on kissing him

judging the twelve tribes of Israel

and for the unity of all

where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear

and by the word of their testimony

one of the soldiers struck him with a sword

and to evil men who practice such deeds

Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption

But at the sounds of the trump all the dead as in an earthquake shall rise up again to meet Thee