As I stood in Awe before your Holy Myrrh streaming icon and as I watched the myrrh abundantly streaming filling the air with the sweet breath from heaven. I wondered how I reverent you who are blessed among all women and Mother of God. How dare I stood before your holy Image and venerate you I the undeserving sinner. How do others dare to call you, a human being, more honorable than the cherubim and more glorious than the seraphim? Most Pure and Blessed Maiden, how could they fail to chant this hymn to you? The seraphim stand near the throne of God and worship at His footstool but you, O Virgin, became the very throne of God. O Theotokos, when God dwelt in your womb, did the seraphim not bow in awe before you as before the very throne of the Living God? The cherubim hover round about the throne of God and veil their eyes with their wings because they cannot behold His glory or draw near to touch Him. But you, most pure virgin, held Him in your arms and nursed Him at your breast. Who could others be so spiritually blind or so empty of faith that they would not reverence you and deny you as the living palace of the King and the very throne of God? How could they not praise you, O Theotokos, and venerate you above all other humans? O Virgin, you proclaimed from the Holy Spirit, All generations shall call me blessed. We understand, therefore, that those who do not call you blessed, O Pure and Ever Virgin Mother, are not numbered among the generations whose names are written in the Lambs Book of Life. You were made higher than the heavenly throne and above all angelic powers, for the Lord of Hosts made you His throne room and was nourished by you Whom He had created. God came into the temple to speak to man, but in your womb, O pure one, God was truly united with man. O Most Pure Mother, for God cannot be contained by the whole universe, and yet He chose to be contained in your womb for the sake of our salvation. God chose you out of all ages and generations to be the pure, virginal chamber in which He would take on our flesh and our nature. Knowing all that, still undeserving I stood in Awe before your Holy Myrrh streaming icon and watched the myrrh abundantly streaming filling the air with the sweet breath from heaven. I wonder what made me deserve to have and live this moment that will not let go but continued to linger more and more.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:56:53 +0000
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