When you have learned to venerate the icons of Christ, of the Most Holy Mother of God, and of the saints, to venerate them bending the whole of your being towards them, them you have learned the path which brings you to the spring of life without end. “Come, ye faithful, let us approach the tomb of the Mother of God, and let us embrace it, touching it sincerely with our hearts’ lips and eyes and foreheads. Let us draw abundant gifts of healing grace from this ever-flowing fount.” [Second Canon of the Dormition, Ninth Ode]
Archimandrite Vasileios of Stavronikita
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