In front of this icon, they pray to the Mother of God and Her Divine Infant as a source of higher wisdom and reason. They ask for "addition of the mind", for the gift of help in learning, as well as for spiritual enlightenment and help in raising children.
Size 3 x 2 inches
September 4 - Commemoration of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, called "The Addition of the Mind" ("Giver of the Mind").
An old legend has been preserved explaining the origin of the name of the icon: “In the near future, after Patriarch Nikon, a pious man lived in Moscow. He read a lot of church books from the time of Joseph, and then began to read books corrected by Patriarch Nikon. Having read those and other books, he began to think and reflect a lot: would he be right before God and what books should he follow in order to be saved; he thought for a long time, but could not solve the problem and went mad. When consciousness returned to him, he prayed to the Mother of God so that she would return his mind to him. Through his prayer, a vision of the Mother of God followed him. She commanded him to write the image in the form in which She appeared to him, and pray before him, and promised that if he did this, he would be healthy. The man was an icon painter. After the vision, when consciousness returned to him and his mind cleared up, he began to paint the image of the Mother of God. But since the vision was brief, he forgot how to write the image. Then he again prayed to the Mother of God and continued to write as God inspired him. In this way he painted an icon and called it "The Addition of the Mind".
Troparion, Tone 4
O Most Glorious Mother of Christ our God, good Giver, with Your mercy preserve the whole universe, grant us, Your servants, wisdom and intelligence, with the light of Your Son's soul, enlighten our soul, One sung, glorified from Cherubim and Seraphim.
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