"The fact is, it seems unfathomable to many that Christian veneration is indeed for a flesh-and-blood woman who lived through the joys and sorrows of life among ordinary people, subject to the events and forces of the time – not a goddess. A woman who can relate to us, and to whom we can relate, much more so than if she were a goddess. Her intercessory power does not come from being a deity – it comes simply from the purity of her heart and her love for and closeness to Christ! Her spiritual strength doesn’t come from being divine, it comes from having endured the harshness and sorrows of this fallen world and this fallen life with faith and love. In other words, qualities which we mortals can develop – by taking up our crosses with faith in Christ, not by some incantation or spell."
- Anjali Sivan
(Hat tip: orthodoxyandheterodoxy.com)
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