Hieromonk Irenei (Pikovsky)
What do these two strange actions, the driving out of the moneychangers from the Temple, and the cursing of the barren fig tree, signify?
If for the pagans death meant the ruin of life, then for Christians a martyr’s death was gain of the Kingdom of Heaven. Belief in the Resurrection was the greatest treasure for ancient Christians.
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The miraculous appearance of the icon of the Mother of God in the ninth century, during the era of iconoclastic dispute, was literally a confirmation “from above” of what had been pronounced at the Seventh Ecumenical Council on the veneration of icons.
