St. Ignatius Brianchaninov Quote No. 1: Stamped Onto the Soul | Orthodox Christian Art PosterThe human soul gathers qualities that coincide with its activity. As a mirror shows the image of the objects placed in front of it, so the soul becomes stamped with the impressions of its deeds and activities, of its surroundings. But while a lifeless mirror loses the reflected images when the objects are removed, the reasoning soul keeps these impressions. They can be wiped clean or removed by others, but this requires work and time. Those

They went and said nothing to anyone

and the elements shall melt with fervent heat

- St John Climacus

and flesh had come upon them

For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome

the only child of the Russian Prince Yaroslav of Vitebsk

from which man himself made

by Whom the world is crucified unto me

Catechetical Lecture 3

- Isaiah 25:8

adhere to this same paradigm of a daily repeating cycle of seven more or less fixed prayer “hours”:

from the bands of sin