“I am Orthodox. And that bit was pure mumbo-jumbo.”
I don’t doubt you are Orthodox. Why is the article “mumbo jumbo”, Western, Augustinian, yes, but certainly patristic, in a Western sense. I am sincerely interested in your reasoning.
Let me put it this way, I draw strength from the ikons of St. Catherine’s, and I’m appalled by most Pieta, no matter how artistic.