10/13/2022
Priest Valery Dukhanin, Priest Nicholai Bulgakov
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
The feast of the Protection of the Mother of God is a feast very warm and dear to us, because in it is expressed the special closeness to us of the Most Pure Virgin. She spreads her veil over all those who pray, regardless of how righteous or pious we are, if only we turn to her with our whole heart.
Fr. Myron Oryhon
Rating: 5.5|Votes: 2
"Let us be vigilant to see with purity, to interpret with purity of heart and to act with love. Then we shall be able to see freely the divine light shining on the world and in the world. In this manner we can better love, serve, and be part of the world which God given us."
Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov, Priest Dimitry Shishkin
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 4
In the life of the Church there is much that is visible, yet mysterious, and completely inexplicable, because the ways of the Lord are unsearchable.
St. Alexis Toth
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
But anyplace wherever we would be, the Lord's Mother is with us! She hears our prayers to Her. She is also here in Minneapolis and She hears our prayers. She sees when you put candles before her icon requesting for yourself, your homeland and your friends Her assistance and protection.
St. Nicholai Velimirovich
Rating: 7.2|Votes: 9
That the righteous inherit the Kingdom of God is witnessed by the Most Pure Mother of God through her appearance in glory and light, with her protecting veil, with which she protects from evil all who run to her with tears, prayer and faith. She appeared and she still appears—not just for the sake of appearing, but in order to open the spiritual eyes of those without faith, so that they would learn of eternal life in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Holy Hierach Innocent (Borisov)
Rating: 7|Votes: 2
For those who celebrate the commemoration of the miraculous appearance of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God, nothing could be more joyous than if we announced that this grace-filled Protection is spread even over us. But who could be the bearer of these glad tidings? Whose eye is capable of seeing the Most Holy Intercessor, “in the air, praying to Christ for us?” There are no obvious mystical seers like blessed Andrew and Epiphanius among us; and the hidden mysteries known only to the Lord will remain hidden unto the ages.
Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
But during this present, difficult time, when the earth has grown old, is burdened by faithlessness, lawlessness, and ignorance of the knowledge of God’s commandments, has our Fervent Intercessor turned away from us in her zeal for the glory of her Son and God? No, my dears, this could not be. Needy children are dearer to a mother.
Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky)
Rating: 9.6|Votes: 5
When I have occasion to speak about how the All-Pure Virgin covered the worshippers in the Blachernae Church with her omophorion, I always point out that there were, of course, different people in this church: the pious and godly; the not very pious; perhaps some who had grown cold; and perhaps even the very sinful. But did the Mother of God inquire into this?
Vladimir Kuzmin, Archpriest Nicholas Karipoff
—We tried our best to use contemporary materials and technology but to build the church in the Yaroslav style of the 16th-17th centuries. The philosophical basis of this was provided by Fr Dimitry, who later became Bishop Daniel (Alexandrov). He was a sort of Leonardo da Vinci: he knew 15 languages, was a wonderful icon-painter, built several churches in America, and was just a remarkable person in general. He clearly, and strictly, advised us to build in the Yaroslav style, because that was the last genuinely-Russian church style.
The Protection of the Holy Virgin is one of the most popular Orthodox holidays in Russia. Thousands of cathedrals were built in Russia in honor of this holiday.
Rating: 4.5|Votes: 12
The Church has always glorified the Most Holy Mother of God as the Protectress and Defender of the Christian people, entreating, by her intercession, God's loving-kindness towards us sinners. The Mother of God's aid has been clearly shown times without number, both to individuals and to peoples, both in peace and in war, both in monastic deserts and in crowded cities.
St. John of Kronstadt
Only a very pure heart can love all people, and no person has ever had such a pure heart as the Mother of God.
Hieromonk Kirill (Popov)
This feast is a vivid testimony of the Mother of God’s care for the world.
Hieromartyr Thaddeus (Uspensky)
In simplicity and humility of heart, those who resort to the prayers of the saints, especially to the Mother of God before her icons, which are everywhere glorified by miracles, will never be ashamed in their hope, but will receive ever-present help.
St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky)
I would like to deepen your attention and focus it upon the very important characteristics, which distinguish her wondrous appearance in the Blachernae church on the great day of her Protection.
Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)
When God is greatly angered at a sinner, can anyone intercede before Him, assuage His anger, and turn it to kindness and mercy?
Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov
So, people come to the Church, and during their first years are amazingly fruitful and strong in their spiritual life, getting to know God, coming to Church and beginning to live a new life. Why?
Archpriest Victor Potapov
Rating: 9.9|Votes: 17
What for us is the Protection of the Theotokos, the symbolic appearance of which was revealed to St. Andrew, Fool for Christ, in Constantinople’s Blachernae church?
Rating: 4.7|Votes: 3
Even if only St. Andrew and Epiphanius saw the Protection of the Mother of God, don’t we know that her Divine Protection invisibly spreads across the whole world? Could it be that the one who from the very first days when her Divine Son began His preaching to the world asked Him about the wine running out at the marriage in Canaan of Galilee, would after departing to heaven cease to ask and pray for the human race?
