The Art of Myrrhbearing: Encountering Christ through Serving Others prayer card Before going to the monastery

Before going to the monastery

given by God to contemporary man

and in the desert monasteries they developed into the daily prayers of the Church that we still use today

Thus the work will be of interest to those who love the saint

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The Art of Myrrhbearing: Encountering Christ through Serving Others prayer card Before going to the monasteryby Elissa Bjeletich Davis Each year after Pascha, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Holy Myrrhbearers, who cared for Jesus body after He was crucified. But myrrhbearing has a broader definition; it can serve as a metaphor for the practical, incarnate love to which Christ calls His followers. In The Art of Myrrhbearing, author Elissa Bjeletich Davis explores the lives of grace filled, myrrhbearing saints in Scripture and throughout the life of the