‘She wipes tears from eyes and banishes darkness from hearts’: Sermon of Bishop Irenei on the Feast of the Mother of God, Joy of All Who Sorrow.
‘The Theotokos takes each broken heart and draws her Son ever closer to it, and us closer to Him; and in the meeting of our brokenness with His purity, divinity, grace and strength, something happens deep within this heart that He has fashioned...’
