In America, it is said that when your President calls on you with a request, you just do it. Now just imagine if God and His Mother tell you to do something. In this context, please take a silent minute and contemplate this: the God-Man Himself and his Holy Mother … together … appeared to the Bishops at this first Ecumenical Council and gave them their marching orders.[ii] What an awesome message, which is, by the way, the word we use to describe Christ in every Divine Liturgy; we also revere and venerate the motherly love, kindness and holy protection (αγια σκέπη) that the Theotokos, the ever-Virgin Mary, imparts on us – and especially monastics – when we (and they) need it most. https://orthodoxreflections.com/who-will-be-our-st-nicholas-vis-a-vis-archbishop-elpidophoros/