The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail No. 2 | Orthodox Christian Hoodie / Hooded SweatshirtThe Church is each one of us who has become a house of God. For if we have been established on the confession of Christ, the gates of hades, which are our sins, will not prevail against us. It was from these gates that David, too, had been lifted up when he said, 'O Thou that dost raise me up from the gates of death' (Psalm 9: 13). From what gates, O David? From those twin gates of murder and adultery. + Blessed Theophylact

Each time we show patience they flee in leaps

The Priest then makes the sign of the cross thrice upon the water

as well as a subsequent tornado and large fire

Then Jesus said to His disciples

And our Lord himself said with his divine lips that such affliction ‘was not from the beginning of the creation’ (Mark 13:19)

merciless power which may attack my body and my soul

a feeling of thankfulness and recognition at His Splendor as great Teacher

in the preaching of the Apostles

and thus go into Eden with haste

6th century

Like the rich man of old I wallow in pleasures

May we be consoled by Thy goodness