Acquire an Inseparable Wife (St John Climacus) | Cezanne Still Life w/ Skull | Orthodox Christian Cotton Tank TopAcquire an inseparable wifethe remembrance of death. + St John Climacus Original artwork: Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Skull, 1898.

“Greater love has no man than this

but Thou Thyself

The veneration of the holy martyr in the Russian Orthodox Church was already known in the twelfth century

and there was no more sea

Just become a babe

to St Peter's warning that "the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober

Eternity—oh

lacking any great love for my neighbor

O most glorious supreme commander

And the angel answering

adhere to this same paradigm of a daily repeating cycle of seven more or less fixed prayer “hours”:

the Son of the living God