What I Am You Will Be | Memento Mori | Remembrance of Death | Mt Athos Monk Skull | Ascetic Ethos | Christian JournalOur mind is so darkened by the fall that unless we force ourselves to remember death we can completely forget about it. When we forget about death, then we begin to live on earth as if were were immortal, and we sacrifice all our activity to the world without concerning ourselves in the least either about the fearful transition to eternity or about our fate in eternity. Then we boldly and peremptorily override the commandments of Christ; then we

walk by the Spirit

he administered the third and final level of temptations himself

- Matthew 6:9 (most English translations do not preserve the plural)

after the first man Thou art the only New Man

Thou hast enjoined Thy commandments

I make all things new

and that their (temporary) separation at the death of the body is an unnatural state of affairs precipitated by the Fall

may I be sick

when they speak

In the Mystery of Baptism and Chrismation a man “puts on Christ” and the Holy Spirit (Gal

although he did not enter a monastery

will instantly disappear