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“One, and only one has spoken to us clearly and definitely about all that will come to pass at the end of time: the Lord Jesus Christ… For human understanding and logic, however great they may be, are too puny to reach to the world’s beginning and its end. Understanding is useless where vision is needed. We need a seer, who sees as clearly as we see the sun – to see the whole world, from its beginning to end…their has only been one such: the Lord Jesus Christ….” (St. Nikolai of Zicha, Homily on the Last Judgment. Homilies.)

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…When our great Lord and God dies as a man, bowed down by men’s sins, who cares for Him dead, of all those for whom He has cared from all eternity? Who visits His tomb? Who shows love for the Dead? Women. Not each and every woman, but the Myrrh-Bearing Women, whose souls had been anointed by the immortal love of Christ the Lord.

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