Behold the Bridegroom No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Art PosterBlow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations. Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns.

there will be no calm on the earth

It is the Passover

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now

God has taken His place in the divine council

but as means to the end of salvation

They have neither knowledge nor understanding

then later to the Dormition Cathedral

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins

Grace and peace to you from him who is

the Christian is called to "bear" Christ in his or her own soul through gradual purification unto passionlessness

and chanting psalms

ye are yet in your sins