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REDISCOVERY

Leonid Ouspensky

talented painter and atheist before finding random path Christ, the Russian immigrant in France Leonid Ouspensky (1902-1987) dedicated his life to a rediscovery of the icon. He said rightly that if undivided church of the first millennium fought for the icon, the time has come when the icon is fighting for the Church. Suffice it to say instead of the icon in the catechism, but it is still necessary to know enough and avoid the pitfalls common now reduced to a single religious image, it is not.

Quenot Michel, Orthodox priest, an academic expert on the icon

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Jacob's Ladder, fresco, 1546-47
Dyonisiou Monastery, Mount Athos

The Old Testament reveals images, figures and symbols that which Isaiah wrote: "The Lord Himself will give you a sign "(Isaiah 7:14 ). Mother of the Saviour, the Virgin Mary plays an undeniable role in the victory against the evil forces.

messianic prophecies have announced as the urn, the bat, the tables of the Act, the mountain inviolate.

On the scale contemplated in a dream by Jacob (Genesis 28.12 to 13), the angels come and go between two worlds. Tradition sees the foreshadowing of the Virgin by God that link earth to heaven. In the burning bush that burns without being consumed Moses sees the symbol of that which brought the fire of divinity without being consumed ( Exodus 3, 1-18 ). The prophet Daniel

the announcement as "the holy mountain which was carved without the man's hand had touched, the cornerstone that struck the statue of the tyrant spiritual" (Daniel 2.34) .

Quenot Michel, Orthodox priest, academic specialist
icon in " Mother of God icon of the new humanity"

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prophesied SIMEON

Икона "Умягчение злых сердец"

Mary "which flexes the hardened hearts"

In the Byzantine tradition the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple or "Holy Meeting "is unique because it combines elements of the great Feast of the Lord and the great Feast of the Theotokos (Mother of God). The party started yesterday and continues for seven days.

The holy Meeting was opened by a vigil all night, followed on the morning of the celebration of Divine Liturgy. Previously held by the blessing and sprinkling incense candles traditionally made by the assembly of prayer. The liturgy includes the major hymns written by St. Andrew, Bishop of Crete 7th century, and St. John of Damascus, 8th Century, among other great composers hymns of the first millennium.

is also that day that the Orthodox honor the miraculous icon of the Theotokos known as "The one flexes hardened hearts" or " Simeon prophesied. This icon depicts the Virgin Mary in prayer and the heart pierced by seven swords.

Wikipedia: Presentation of Jesus in the Temple , online

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