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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 Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 weekSeptember 21, 2023 ago
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The Holy Forebears Joachim and Anna

Lambros Skontzos, Theologian   Joachim and Anna, the forefather and foremother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, occupy an important place of honor in the hagiology of the Church. At almost every service, there’s a separate reference to these venerable persons, with the celebrating clergy invoking their prayers to God. They’re Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksSeptember 9, 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 Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksSeptember 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 Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 weeksSeptember 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 Read more…

By Dimitris Iliopoulos, 1 monthAugust 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 Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsAugust 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 Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsAugust 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 Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsAugust 12, 2023 ago
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How magnificent Our Lady is

Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki   What a magnificent person our Lady is. She shows us the path and provides us with the way to deification, that is, how each of us can attain a state of likeness with God and communion with him. Our Lady is also Read more…

By Dimitris Iliopoulos, 2 monthsAugust 9, 2023 ago
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‘Had you not shielded and interceded for us…’

Archimandrite Theofilos Lemontzis, D. Th.   ‘We, though unworthy, never cease from telling your mighty works, Mother of God; for had you not shielded us and interceded for us, who would have delivered us from such dangers’. We raise our voices and sing this in the supplicatory canons, in recognition Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 monthsAugust 8, 2023 ago

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