Thursday, November 20, 2025

Nativity Meditation from SVOTS - Forefeast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos

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So by His true and praiseworthy repentance the Lord showed us that even after negligence He accepts those who desire to amend… 

Just as the Fathers lay down that perfect love knows no sin, so I for my part declare that a perfect sense of death is free from fear…

The remembrance of death, like all other blessings, is a gift of God… 

He who has died to all things remembers death…

+St. John Climacus: Ladder of Divine Ascent