“With the setting of the sun, spring passes over into dead winter! But with our spiritual gaze we follow our earthly pilgrimage-life is not fading away, but on the contrary, an ascent from strength to strength, the acquisition of the spiritual gifts bountifully distributed by the Lord to those who seek Him, given through the Church of. Christ. How sweet is the awareness that still here on earth we have the promise of the victory of good over evil, the pledge of a joyful resurrection…”
(Fr. Valery Lukianov, Orthodox Word Issue 11)