The Church Will Be the Bride of Christ No. 2 | Orthodox Christian Art Posterthe Church will be the Bride of Christ even to the end of the world and will meet Christ the Bridegroom at His Second Coming pure and undefiled by adulterous union with the apostasy of this age. But the great question of our times for all Orthodox Christians to face is a momentous one: the Church will remain, but how many of us will still be in it, having withstood the devil's mighty attempts to draw us away from it? Our times are much like those of

Saint Marina continued to pray

“In the divine-human organism of the Church every believer is like a living cell that becomes an integral part of it

who would later father Jacob (Israel)

I was thirsty and you gave me no drink

It teases us

and the crown of victory is also ours

and with tears pray thy Guardian Angel to pray for thee to the Master at the dread judgment to come

But these same virtues both produce the remembrance of death and are also produced by it

Avoid making idols either of things or of practices

covering the nakedness of mine evil and enlightening my form

“Neither by the blood of goats and calves

but to hang loose from them