Joy of All Joys Tenderness Theotokos Iconographic Based on Traditional Orthodox Iconography | Christian Lightweight Cotton Unisex T-ShirtThe 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

Let us transfer our souls to heaven

+ St Antony the Great

when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father

in winter neither on the Sabbath’ (Matthew 24:20)

Christ at my right

Seeing Me in the tomb

The Therapeutic Strategy of Nepsis

by way of reply to the archangel’s invitation

Jesus was telling him

When thou didst behold Him Who is the never-setting Sun setting upon the Cross

Unto Him that loved us

and a little child shall lead them