Anyone who does not take his cross.
And follow in my footsteps.
Is not worthy of my cross.
And is not making the right steps .I went today to an orthodox service.
For the murdered Russian royal family.
In its moving beauty, something not to miss.
Everything proceeds calmly , slowly.

Were they actually saints.
But they did not deserve what they got.
Their murder saw the end of all restraints.
All civility, freedom and law left to rot.

A hundred years later .
It is only right to remember.

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You take up the cross
And you follow his footsteps
There’s no other way

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See Matt 10