Joy of All Joys Tenderness Theotokos Iconographic Based on Traditional Orthodox Iconography | Red Design | Orthodox Christian Black MugThe 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

He was oppressed and He was afflicted

to rise again

were four beasts full of eyes before and behind

Grace and peace to you from him who is

So that reward may come to me in abundance

St Paul was the noblest of men and the most outstanding example of the nobility of human nature and of its possibilities for virtue

And One Who was dead

it is within our power (through the help and compassion of God) to get ready to meet this moment with our soul prepared as much as possible

Fragrant Flower

never let it become a matter of habit

God's might to uphold me

the brightness of the sun