St Peters Orthodox Church

Christ has forever taught through His Holy Church that the Christian life is one lived always preparing for the day the soul will be separated from the body. The secularization of death is deeply rooted in the Satan lie that we should abhor death, don't look at death, it is too painful and too final; live for the pleasures in this life as distractions to this morbid reality. In reality, the Christian has been given one of the most powerful gifts and weapons so useful to our experience of the salvation of Christ our God, our mortality. Our mortality, living in this one blessed day, which is the only day we are guaranteed, thrusts us so dependently upon the mercy and grace of God. For those who live preparing daily for their falling asleep in this way, death becomes the very gateway to the experience of the eternal joys and bliss of Paradise through Christ our God.