MY JOYFULNESS, PANAGIA !!!

 MY JOYFULNESS, PANAGIA !!!

There was an elder Monk who cried like a small child every time he would hear the name of PANAGIA.

There was a Monk from Kafsokalivia who was singing the hymn «It is truly right to call you blest» every time he would change side at night.

There was an Abbot of Holy Monastery Grigoriou who had blotted away the paint from Her icon by constantly venerating it. 

There was a Monk from Newskete who was pleading each and every one he would meet to sermon, or write or publish anything that could be found about PANAGIA. There was a reposed Monk from Iviron Holy Monastery, who had a passionate respect to PANAGIA Portaitissa. A Monk from Filotheou Holy Monastery was saying: We have committed our hopes unto Glicofilousa.

PANAGIA !!! The Mother of the Athonite Monks, the Mother of the faithful, the Mother of  Christians!!!!

PANAGIA !!! above all female and male Saints !!!

 Mother of God and of the humans!!!

The best solace !!!

The sure, the surest intercessor for the faithful .!!!

The most Humble!!!

The Good one!!!

The Modest one !!!

The most Obedient !!!

The most patient  !!!

The most quiet !!!

The Brave  !!!

The First !!!

The Queen !!!!

The LADY!!!

Our Protection!!!!

The One who takes care of our needs !!!

The light-bearing Cloud !!!·

The vessel filled with Manna !!!

The enclosure of the One Who cannot be enclosed !!!

The  dawn of Dawn! and dawns!!!

The Hope of the faithfuls !!!

The Tower of the Church!!!

The boost of Orthodoxy!!!

It is a gladness to face Her!!!

Pleasure to beseech Her !!!

Blessing when She visits you !!!

Sure hope to plea Her !!!

Her Shelter is a great help!!!

Where to find beautiful words to praise Her?

How poor can our language be to speak for the heavenly names!!!

How much have the words been corrupted and have changed through the every day use!!!

So, you keep quiet  !!! and you have said everything !!!

Likewise the silence in which SHE was following Christ to the cross!!!

Athonite Maid !!!

Maid with the million names!!!!

PURE VIRGIN LADY!!!

The everlighting oil lamp, the pure candle, the Salutations, the Paraklesis, the THEOTOKARION,  are not enough to you !!!

Not kneeling prostrations, nor offerings, tamata and prayers with the praying knots!!!

What you are asking for is the purity of the heart, so as your Son to come, and bring God-bearing, and God birth-giving moments, hours of hallowed enlightenment and divine visions.

Mother of God !!

Μother of humans !!!

Μother of those in pain!!

Μother of life !!!

Μother of love !!!

Μother of those that suffer!!!

Mother of Family!!!

Μother of the hopeless !!!

Abbess of the lonely fighters and of God’s battlefront soldiers, of the monks!!!

MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS, save your flock, your Church, your monks, your Holy Mountain, your youths, your nation and all your nations, your whole  world. 

everyware, all of us, always, we fall before You and we sing,  we praise you and we cry out ...

rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, O !!! rejoice, Bride, without bridegroom!!!

From the book «Athonite apodipno», Monk Moses, the Athonite