Black Orthodox Cross on Red Background | By His wounds you have been healed | Orthodox Christian Gym Duffel BagTruly this symbol is thought despicable, but it is so in the world's reckoning, and among men; in heaven and among the faithful it is the highest glory. + St John Chrysostom, Commentary on Galatians +++ Though Thou art exalted far above all honor, O Master, Thou didst deign to be dishonored, enduring a violent death upon the Tree, that when Thou didst die in the flesh, O Almighty, through it the race of mankind might embrace immortality and receive

titled variously as “The Hospitality of Abraham” or “The Holy Trinity

but we shall all be changed

- Archbishop Averky

to them that were sitting in darkness

Choir: Amen

let him deny himself

” Then flew one of the seraphims unto me

revealing in this humiliation His genuine divine kingship

“The word 'ascetic' comes from the Greek root ἀσκητικός

one of the soldiers struck him with a sword

he confesses that Christ is his true life

- Revelation 21:13