a priest's musings on the journey
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Sweet Kissing... Image of Mary for 04 May
This is one of my favorite imagesof the Theotokos. The first icon I ever prayed with was a Sweet kissing icon. There is such tenderness and compassion in this image. I go to it whenever I feel sorrw and loneliness. I always feel taken up in that embrace and loved by my God and my Mother in Heaven.
Forasmuch as thou art a well-spring of tenderness, 0 Theotokos, make us worthy of compassion; Look upon a sinful people; Man-ifest thy power as ever, for hoping on thee we cry aloud unto thee: Hail I as once did Gabriel, Chief Captain of the Bodiless Powers.
:: posted by Padre Rob+, 8:19 PM
