Our Lady the Gate of Dawn | Woman of the Apocalypse Rev 12:1 | Theotokos Gold Floral Texture Design | Orthodox Christian Canvas ArtAnd there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. Revelation 12: 1 +++ The focus of this great sign is a woman, who is the Most Holy Theotokos, the mother of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The sign is an image of the First Coming of Christ, but, simultaneously, within the same image there is another aspect, one with an eschatological dimension, which is that

Do not believe

Be renewed again

FOR I SHALL ARISE

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing

you did it to me

“St Paul was the noblest of men and the most outstanding example of the nobility of human nature and of its possibilities for virtue

awaiting the sentence which shall be pronounced by God

and when Thou wast slaughtered Thou didst sanctify the whole earth with Thy blood

the greater is the grace-filled help from God that they attract

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober

that in the hour everyone shall receive in proportion to his merits

And he led me round about them every way: and