Why Do Homes Fill with the Fragrance of Icons?translated

Question from a Reader:

Greetings. Why do icons in our apartment emit a fragrance? We are an ordinary family. We strive to attend Sunday services.

Daria

Response by the Priest:

Protodeacon Mikhail Samokhin

Press Secretary of the Pyatigorsk and Chechen Diocese; Head of the Information-Editorial Department; Head of the Missionary Department of the Pyatigorsk and Chechen Diocese.

Greetings, Daria!

If you are certain that none of your family members anoints the icons with fragrances out of reverence, and if the fragrance of the icons has a supernatural character, simply accept it as a gift of divine grace to you.

Do not share this with many people or, even more so, boast about it. Thank God and strive to be Christians.

May divine grace always remain with you.

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