May I ask why you are ‘sighing’?
“May I ask why you are ‘sighing’?”
Because sometimes MD is still such an Anglican!
Among the Orthodox we almost all of us, individually and as families have a special saint or saints to whom we feel a particular kinship. For example, I have a particular devotion to +John Chrysostomos and +Aidan while my family has a familial devotion to +Nektarios of Aegina. We will pray that they intercede for us, we keep icons of them in our icon corners and down in Greece some families, mine for example, will have small free standing family chapels named after a saint to whom the builder of the chapel had a special devotion. Its something like in your family. I have several cients who are Indian and it is fascinating how many of our Orthodox customs, especially surrounding commemoration of the dead, seem to have a remarkable similarity to Indian practices.