Hieromartyr Thaddeus (Uspensky)
Rating: 2|Votes: 2
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?
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?
Priest Valery Dukhanin, Priest Nicholai Bulgakov
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
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.
Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)
Orthodoxy has preserved the faith of the early Church in the same form it received it from the beginning; it neither added to it nor subtracted from it even a letter.
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 7,2|Votes: 15
Anyone who is able can serve the function of a Reader, when needed. And there are many people who are not tonsured as Readers who do.