The Art of Myrrhbearing: Encountering Christ through Serving Others prayer card and in the desert monasteries

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

for while enduring physical infirmities and deprivations he never spared himself in his pastoral labors

Through a life of terrible hardships and excruciating physical ailments

given by God to contemporary man

The Art of Myrrhbearing: Encountering Christ through Serving Others prayer card and in the desert monasteriesby 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