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Elder Cleopa on the Theotokos as protectress and a daily prayer rule
The post shares counsel attributed to Elder Cleopa of Romania urging the faithful to keep an icon of the Theotokos at home with a burning vigil lamp. He advises taking her as protectress and helper, calling her Mother in heaven and on earth, Queen of heaven and earth. The recommended practice is to read an akathist to her each morning with the lamp lit and a supplicatory canon each evening.
The elder states that those who do so will receive help in life, at the hour of death, and on the Day of Judgment. The post adds a rhetorical question about the power of the Theotokos before the Throne of the Holy Trinity and remarks that without her intercession the world would have perished long ago. The image shows Church Slavonic abbreviations for Mother of God, faith, blessed, and Jesus Christ.
Main points
- Elder Cleopa recommends a home icon of the Theotokos with a vigil lamp
- Daily rule: morning akathist and evening supplicatory canon before the icon
- Promise of help in life, at death, and at the Last Judgment
- Emphasis on the Theotokos's intercessory power before the Holy Trinity
- Image contains Church Slavonic abbreviations for Marian and Christological titles