![]() ![]() Multitudes of people come to venerate the holy icon and to ask for healing from bodily illnesses (including cancer), for consolation in sorrows and afflictions of life, for the softening of their own hearts and those of their neighbors, for help and support for their spirits and souls. Everywhere, the icon is received with joy and hope. ![]() ![]() In an interview with the guardian of the icon, Sergei Fomin, he speaks of the many healings that occur. On Pascha night, 2020, bright red drops resembling blood appeared on the icon. ![]() The icon first began to stream myrrh in 1998 and continues to stream, often in response to occurrences in the world, including the 9-11 terrorist attack and the Beslan school massacre. The icon depicts the boundless sorrow and pain of heart that the Theotokos experienced during her earthly life, as prophesied by Simeon the Godreceiver, a sword shall pierce through thine own soul also. The wonderworking, myrrh-streaming icon of the Mother of God, “Softener of Evil Hearts,” is one of the sacred treasures of the Russian Orthodox Church today. Also included in the publication is a beautiful Prayer for Children, composed by St. Nectarios, the Guardian of the Wonderworking “Hawaiian” Iveron Icon of the Holy Theotokos, as well as a Brief Life of the saint, which portrays the fascinating account of the history surrounding the saint’s holy relics. The publication includes a Foreword by Fr. For us the faithful, sorrowing over the serious sins against the youth of our own times (such as the victims of the multi-billion-dollar child-trafficking industry), we offer this publication as a means for prayer for the protection of any child who is in a vulnerable situation: those who have fallen prey to abductors, who are being abused, or those being neglected even in their own homes. Miracles of the saint’s intercession abound. This innocent child, at the age of six, was abducted and subjected to cruel torture, yet heroically proved himself to be a true passion-bearer for Christ, attested by his wondrous incorrupt relics. Though the saint lived in the late-seventeenth century and on the other side of the world from us, he is nonetheless a ready intercessor for our times. This new addition to the Series of Akathists is to the Child-Martyr Gabriel of Poland. The word akathist itself means "not sitting." (Source: ) What is an Akathist? An akathist (Greek, akathistos) is a hymn dedicated to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity. This manuscript notebook with the Akathist has been kept up to the present day in the personal library of Father Justin the New of Celije, of blessed memory. Probably in response to the sincere presentation of the Prayers by the Lake, Bishop Nikolai in his own hand wrote this highly poetic and deeply theological Akathist to the Resurrected Christ, in a notebook on pages without lines, inscribing at its end:Ĭomposed and dedicated to Hieromonk Justin by monk Nikolai. Soon after being issued, the Prayers were very cordially and thoughtfully introduced and praised by Hiermonk Justin Popovich, at that time in a professor of St. Earlier he had composed and published his famous Prayers by the Lake. This Akathist to Jesus, Conqueror of Death, was prayerfully and masterfully written by St. Income from the publication assists the Foundation in bringing the Holy Icon throughout the Orthodox world, as well as toward the memorial shrine being built in honor of the Holy Icon, in Hawaii. The publication includes a Foreword by His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, an Introduction about the Holy Icon, and Troparia to Iveron Icons “of Hawaii,” “of Montreal,” “of Mount Athos,” and “of Moscow.” We are so very blessed that God has shown His love toward us by allowing us a small foreshadowing of what the saints call ‘the true odor of sanctity.’ ” People have commented that just being in the presence of this Icon, one feels such an abundance of love and joy. As expressed in the introduction, “Wherever the Holy Icon goes, the Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother abound. In honor of the upcoming 15th anniversary of the wondrous appearance of the miraculous Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God of Hawaii (2022), the Orthodox Hawaiian Iveron Icon Association has published this Akathist. ![]()
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