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| The famous "Vladimirskaya", 12 sec, Moscow |
Fathers put the beginning Church of Paradise. God came in the cool evening " (Genesis 3:8) to converse with humans. The essence of the Church and expressed in the communion between God and man, and culminates in the mystery of the Incarnation, the total communion of the divine and the human realized in the Person of the Word.
Except for rare exceptions (Orante, Pokrov), the icon of the Virgin with the Child has always, in fact, is precisely the icon of the Incarnation and the Church, the Communion ultimate divine Child-Word, and the human: the Mother. With an incomparable art and the greatest simplicity, the icon of Vladimir describes the overwhelming love for each other, the divine philanthropy, "mad love" from God to man, and in response, all the passion of man for his God. This is the pre-eternal desire of God becoming man that man might become god. icon offers us the contemplation of the mystery of God himself.
on the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir, the gaze of her grandmother opened at infinity is at the same time turned inside. He speaks of his great mercy toward the sky like the pain, inescapable fact of human existence and which raises the Cross. Countless souls have brought their suffering before this icon for so many centuries. Mother's eyes follow the fate of every man, nothing interrupts his eyes, nothing can stop the momentum of his heart.
Paul Evdokimov,
Orthodox theologian in "A theology vision "
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