Our Humble Laudation to the Theotokos
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit!
Human life, brothers and sisters, is full of grief and sorrow: countless worldly sorrows oppress the soul and frequent illnesses depress the body, as though reminding us that the day on which we must give an answer for all our deeds to God, the Righteous Judge, is by no means far away. And who has not sinned? How, then, can our hearts not rejoice and be glad when we hear – or, more precisely, when we recall – that we have a merciful and loving Intercessor who comforts the sorrowful, heals the afflicted, strengthens the faint-hearted and, most importantly, constantly mediates before the Lord for our eternal salvation? This Intercessor, this Mediatress, is the Mother of God – the Mother of all Christians, the Most Pure Virgin Mary.
