Those Who Mourn Over Their Sins (St John Climacus) No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Lightweight Cotton Unisex TeeA proud soul is a slave of cowardice; it vainly trusts in itself, and is afraid of any sound or shadow of creatures. Those who mourn over their sins but are insensible to every other sorrow do not feel cowardice, but the cowardly often have mental breakdowns. And this is natural. For the Lord rightly forsakes the proud that the rest of us may learn not to be puffed up. + St John Climacus Original art: "Saint George and the Dragon" by Gustave Moreau,

And whence shall we propitiate Him

This icon reproduction is intended to commemorate the historic restoration of the original icon to the ownership of the Russian Orthodox Church on May 15

sinful deed

Death is swallowed up in victory

While icon painters typically take as their templates forms long-ago established by the Orthodox Church (and documented in such sources as The Painter's Manual of Dionysius of Fourna)

- Archpriest Michael Gillis

I set you free from bondage under the law

- Abbot Nikon Vorobiev

and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him

which He warns against and makes abundantly clear

taking the form of a bondservant

plan for life eternal