Yellow Orthodox Cross | Precious and Life-Giving Weapon of Unseen Warfare | Scourge of Demons | Orthodox Black MugI have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. Galatians 2: 20 +++ Lifted up upon the Cross, O Christ, with Thyself Thou didst raise up fallen mankind and didst cast down all the power of the enemy, O Word. Wherefore, I hymn the sufferings of Thee Who suffered and hast delivered me from the passions. Tone 1, Wednesday Matins, From Ode 1

and prevail when Thou art judged

‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself

`I will not boast

is already given to the world in the Church with full graciousness and power

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)

Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia

and my tears

then He will come again

for the coming Christ shall be sudden as a dreadful flash of lightning

and seeing it now brilliantly shedding light-bestowing grace upon the faithful

ye are honourable

Hermippus and Hermocrates were brought before the court of the pagans