Joy of All Joys Tenderness Theotokos Iconographic Based on Traditional Orthodox Iconography | Red Design | Orthodox Christian Blue Denim JacketThe Tenderness Icon is remarkable since the Theotokos is depicted without her Child, or even before His conception at the moment of the Archangel's greeting, when she is the Most Pure Vessel of the Holy Spirit Saint Seraphim [of Sarov] commanded us to call this Tenderness Icon [the one he kept in his cell], the Joy of all Joys. Fr. Pavel Florensky

This is the Way

otherwise than by dying to sin

at the Anaphora: Let us stand aright

“Prophesy over these bones

Thou dost remain indivisible in the Trinity

- 1 Corinthians 1:23 (King James Version)

Avoid making idols either of things or of practices

Its path lies in the fruitless

then those who are Christ’s at his coming

and the stars withdraw their shining

takes pity on me and bestows His Grace upon me

Some prophets name the expected life [of the resurrection] “that great day” (Mal 4