[...] The material of this new journey was gathered from all the sources of faith and life of the Church. The elements (words, terms, types, images, etc.) used to ignite the spark of thoughts and reflections in this book were carefully and devoutly collected from the vast spiritual meadow of the Church, from the precious treasury of Orthodox faith and life, because all these together are the living tesserae that compose the mosaic of the theotokos form.
And this new study was written in the form of concise notes, which can be easily used for daily readings. In this case, the relevant troparion or hagiographic text, of which the heading of the note is a part, should be read beforehand. [...]
(From the introduction of the book)