Matched set of icons: Theotokos "Eleusa-Kiksk" & PantocratorA matched pair of icons of the Mother of God and Our Lord Each icon is 7 inches tall. originals from 1670 by Simon Ushakov, Moscow Here is a 1668 icon of the Virgin by Simon Ushakov, the founder of the famous Armory school of iconography and now hangs in the Tetrakov Gallery in Moscow. It is a part of our last and sixth set of Matched icons. The sweetness of expression of Mother and Child in their faces and their movements reminds us that God is

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will impart a universal enlargement to the heart

more than ever before

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physical realm and the invisible to most—but no less real—spiritual realm

spirituality--these words have become popular in our day among those despairing at the banality and emptiness of the contemporary scene

combined with a thorough understanding of the soul of contemporary people

ISBN:978-0-88141-696-1

The 2011 printing has a green cover and a notch binding for durablilty

He gave the pattern and the example in the Person of His Son

this volume is made up of 382 letters of spiritual counsel by the Optina Elder Hieroschemamonk Anatoly (Zertsalov) to nuns