But when their images I kiss, my heart is at ease

Christ the Bridegroom

Christ Pantocrator

Theotokos of Vladimir

Archangels Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael

St Ruth the Moabitess

St Elizabeth the New Martyr

St Monica of Africa

St Xenia of St Petersburg, the Fool-for-Christ

                                                                                            

St Mary of Egypt

To what, in such a manner, do you my Christian bow,

When you, O my Christian, venerate the icons?
Before the Living God the Creator, I am bowing down,
With all my soul, heart and mind, I bow down to Him.
Mortal am I and, am unable upon Him to gaze,
Therefore, before His image I bow;
What, my Christian, do you so fervently reverence,
When, the icon O my Christian, you kiss?
Christ the God and Savior, I am kissing,
The choirs of angels, the saints and the Mother of God.
Mortal am I and, therefore am unable them to touch,
But when their images I kiss, my heart is at ease.

~ St. Nikolai Velimirovic, The Prologue of Ochrid: Lives of the Saints, Reflections and Homilies for Every Day of the Year,

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