August
24, 2009
Nyack,
NY: "Hawaiian" Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God visits
Holy Virgin Protection Church
On
Friday, August 21, the miraculous "Hawaiian" myrrh-streaming
Iveron icon of the Mother of God visited the Holy Virgin Protection
Parish in Nyack, New York. The icon is a replica of the Iveron Icon
that Brother Jose Muñoz-Cortes
received on Mount Athos, which became a myrrh-streaming as well as
healing icon. Brother Jose traveled to many Orthodox parishes with the
"Montreal" Iveron Icon of the Theotokos until his martyrdom
in Greece in 1997. With his death, the miraculous Icon disappeared.
With reverence and faith toward the Mother of God, many copies of the
icon were printed. The "Hawaiian" icon was printed in Russia
by Sofrino - a large producer of Orthodox icons, vestments, church
articles, and other clerical items. The icon, laminated on a wooden
backing, was given by rector Priest Anatole Lyovin to his Reader
Nectarios of the Orthodox Church in Honolulu, which incidentally was
named in honor of the original Iveron Icon of Montreal. With the
blessing of Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco, and with a ukase from
the Synod of ROCOR, Reader Nectarios travels to all ROCOR, OCA, Greek,
Serbian, and Antiochan Orthodox Churches with the myrrh-streaming
icon.
The
icon was greeted by the rector, Mitred Archpriest George Larin, and
hundreds of faithful who filled the church to capacity for an akathist
and moleben to the Holy Virgin. The rector was co-served by Archpriest
Alexander Donchenko (Poughkeepsie, NY), Protodeacon Paul Wolkow (Sea
Cliff, NY), Protodeacon Serge Arlievsky (Novo-Diveevo, NY) and Deacon
Nathan Mousselli (Lakewood, NJ).
Photo-report
of the akathist
Media
Office of the Eastern American Diocese
