Made Without Hands (Mandylion/Image of Edessa) | Jesus Christ Orthodox Icon Graphic Design | Red Black & Yellow | Hardcover JournalTroparion Tone 2 We venerate Your most pure image, O Good One, and ask forgiveness of our transgressions, O Christ God. Of Your own will You were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh to deliver Your creatures from bondage to the Enemy. Therefore with thanksgiving we cry aloud to You: You have filled all with joy, O our Savior, by coming to save the world. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, Both now and ever, and to the ages

1 The heavens declare the glory of God

Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name

but having seen them afar off

That life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith

The ascetic fathers are also referred to as the neptic fathers

it finds no-one to help

+ Saint John of Kronstadt

Mary went to the tomb alone

who was abducted because of his transgression

Lord God of Sabaoth

went down to hell and trampled on the power of the devil

This design is based on a 14th century Serbian icon