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Miracles of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God of the Holy Monastery of Choziba

In our narration of the miracles of our glorious Lady, full of grace, the Mother of God, we shall draw some drops from the boundless sea, to the honor of the all-praised Mother of God. 1. No woman had ever entered the Monastery of Choziba. This is the reason why […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsSeptember 21, 2023 ago
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On the Birth of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God – 2

Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople   But once He had granted the usufruct and overlordship of all things in Paradise, He had to train the people he had entrusted with such great authority. He gave them a law, which was neither difficult to observe, nor extremely easy to […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsSeptember 8, 2023 ago
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On the Birth of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God – 1

Saint Photios the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople   Today, the Virgin Mother is born from a barren mother and the palace is bedecked for the coming of the Lord Christ. Today, the bonds of sterility are broken and the gates of the Virgin are barred. Because, as the barren womb […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsSeptember 7, 2023 ago
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The respect shown by the faithful to Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God

Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis   The degree of respect, honor and love shown towards the Mother of God by the faithful is second only to that shown to God. The respect for the Mother of God dates back to the 1st and 2nd centuries and was decreed by Scripture itself which mentions […]

By Dimitris Iliopoulos, 2 yearsAugust 23, 2023 ago
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A Transition to Life: The Dormition of the Mother of God

Elder Ephraim of Arizona †   Every time we celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God, it’s as if we’re having Easter – the Easter of the summer. Our Lady the Mother of God prepares Easter for us. A glorious crossing “from death to life”. A second Easter, holy […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
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The Holy Dormition of our Most Pure Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary

Saint Gregory Palamas   If ‘the death of the saints is precious and the memory of the righteous is blessed’, with how much greater praise should we keep the memory of the ‘saint of the saints’ through whom the whole of sanctity came to them, that is the memory of […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsAugust 14, 2023 ago
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The Dormition of the Mother of God: a liturgical approach

Ioannis Foundoulis   The feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God is celebrated on August 15 by the Christian world and is the greatest of those established by the Church in honour of the Mother of the Lord. It may be the oldest of all. The first evidence […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsAugust 12, 2023 ago
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The Canaanite woman and the Mother of God

Archbishop Christodoulos (Paraskevaïdis) of Athens (1998-2008, †)   Today’s Gospel is about a Canaanite woman. You heard how she called out to the Lord, followed Him, and was ignored by Him. His disciples were at a loss to understand why He didn’t either help her or tell her to go […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsJanuary 29, 2023 ago
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The Incarnation of God, the Good News of the New Testament and the Mother of God

Alexandros Christodoulou   With His incarnation, His humanization, God entered the innermost core of our lives in the most obvious way. He entered our circulatory system, our heart, the centre of everything, the centre of the universe. After He’d been expelled from our world, our body and our soul through […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsDecember 30, 2022 ago
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The Feast of the Entry of Our Lady the Mother of God

Metropolitan Serafeim of Zimbabwe   The feast of the Entry of our Lady connects us to God’s providence and Christ’s salvation of humanity and of the whole of God’s creation. The plan of divine dispensation for our salvation, however, also included the participation of holy people who, with their devotion […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsNovember 22, 2022 ago
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The Grandeur of the Mother of God [3]

Monk Arsenios of the Skete of Koutloumousiou, the Holy Mountain   If we see that some saints enjoy greater glory than others, this is due to the fact they have even a little bit more of Christ’s humility within them, nothing else. There are saints who have astonishing ascetic achievements […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsSeptember 2, 2022 ago
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The Grandeur of the Mother of God [2]

Monk Arsenios of the Skete of Koutloumousiou, the Holy Mountain   So humility which comes as a natural result after we sin, especially when these are mortal sins, is one thing, and the humility of Christ is another. For sinful people, humility’s absolutely necessary for them to stay alive, so […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsSeptember 1, 2022 ago

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