NIKA Cross Flag No. 1 | Orthodox Christian Lightweight Cotton Unisex T-ShirtThe Good God provides each of us with a cross to bear analogous to the strength of each not to punish us, but to enable us to climb from that cross to Heaven because in essence, the cross is a ladder to Heaven. + St Paisios of Mount Athos

but we are elated by it

someone says

or as a busybody in other men's matters

they just bring their junk out into the bazaar

This day stimulates our eyes to weeping

I am Christ

and will cause flesh to come upon you

Pantoleon came to the attention of the emperor Maximian (284-305)

and it is he who “has salt

How great art thou

to a greater degree than before

Pantoleon was baptized by Saint Hermolaus with the name Panteleimon (meaning “all-merciful”)