I Am the True Vine (John 15:1) | Orthodox Cross Vine Monogram | Red and Black Floral Design | Orthodox Christian Tank TopI am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in

and again with my own hands I demolish it

his passionate self

The ascetic fathers are also referred to as the neptic fathers

From Strong's Dictionary of New Testament Greek:

and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil

“Akathist to Jesus

which is to say

with every Prayer you utter

“For though we walk in the flesh

and during the funeral all sorrows dissolve into unexpected joy

unassailable by hostile powers

the man is kept down by it