Logging what I saw on the web on the Theotokos on this Latin Feast of the Lady of Częstochowa

Finally, in my morning prayers this morning in the English-language The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship for the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, I found in our New Calendar celebrations a note for August 26 that we should be venerating a completely different – yet possibly more related than we think – icon: the Vyshhorod Icon of the Mother of God (‘Our Lady of Vladimir’). The convergence of these two reminders to venerate these two icons of the Theotokos are particularly meaningful to me, for reasons that I’ll let our catechism Christ Our Pascha point out:

Devotion to the Mother of God has deep roots in the Kyivan tradition. Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise consecrated Rus-Ukraine to the Protection of the Holy Mother of God. Many churches were built and many icons written in her honour. The most famous icons of the Kyivan princely period, written in the Byzantine tradition, are the following: the Vyshhorod Icon (today known as the Vladimir Icon), and the Belz Icon (known today as the Częstochowa Icon). From this tradition, the unique form of Ukrainian iconography developed. The facial characteristics of the Mother of God on Ukrainian icons are kind and gentle; her gaze in warm and heartfelt. (Christ Our Pascha 2016, #314, p. 111, emphasis mine).

All I can say in response is: Most Holy Theotokos, save us!