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December 18, 2011
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“find in us a mansion”This is a poem/prayer I wrote a few years ago while meditating on the icon The Virgin of the Sign, or Panagia, as it is also known. The “sign” refers to Isaiah 7:14 – Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel. This type of icon is also called Platytera ton aouranon, or, “more spacious than the heavens.”
December 18, 2011
http://www.edgeofenclosure
“find in us a mansion”This is a poem/prayer I wrote a few years ago while meditating on the icon The Virgin of the Sign, or Panagia, as it is also known. The “sign” refers to Isaiah 7:14 – Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel. This type of icon is also called Platytera ton aouranon, or, “more spacious than the heavens.”
Platytera ton ouranon, Kiev School c. 1114, Our Lady of the Sign
She looks upon you,
She looks beyond you
She looks through your soul
and into the eternity
behind your soul.
But suddenly, she is a mirror
For you are looking at yourself
Eternity
dwelling
in your own
fragile flesh.
Come to the Garden 
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