Just think what the saints have endured! So much suffering!

 Just think what the saints have endured! So much suffering!

So much suffering! So much abuse!

And the soul was within the body.

Because Christ had not yet called it.

And we die not from torture or from illness or from anything else.

We die because Christ wills it.

Shall we not have an incurable disease? Shall we not have anything?

The soul does not go out unless the Lord says so.

Shall we not eat and drink?

Man does not live by bread alone.

+ Fr. Ananias Koustenis