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Theotokos

Pemptousia Partnership

Discourse on the Deposition & Veneration of the Holy Belt of Ever-Virgin Mary – 2

Saint German, Patriarch of Constantinople   And you, All-Pure and All-Good and Most-Merciful Lady, the consolation of Christians, the fervent comfort of those in distress, the immediate refuge of sinners, do not abandon us as orphans, without your divine assistance. For if you do abandon us, where shall we turn? Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsSeptember 1, 2021 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Discourse on the Deposition & Veneration of the Holy Belt of Ever-Virgin Mary-1

Saint German, Patriarch of Constantinople   Discourse on the Deposition and Veneration of the Holy and Honourable Belt of Our Most Pure Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary Through the Holy Spirit, David, the Prophet and King, sang, “Glorious things are spoken of you, the City of God”. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsAugust 31, 2021 ago
Articles

The Elevation of the Bread in Honour of the Most Holy Mother of God

Saint Maximos the Greek   The Only-Begotten Son and Word of God, who became a human person for us (though He was sinless), voluntarily underwent the crucifixion, death and burial so that our human nature, which the father of evil had caused to be cast out of paradise in olden Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsAugust 14, 2021 ago
The Children's Word

Why Do We Celebrate Mary, the Holy Theotokos So Much?

Has anybody ever asked you what your top 5 favorite songs are? Or your top 5 favorite books? Or your top 5 favorite desserts? Could you name them? This Week’s Printable Children’s Word.  Well, in our Church, we have our top 12 big feastdays (plus Easter—Pascha, of course), and today Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 4 yearsAugust 12, 2021 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

From heaven Gabriel cries Hail to the Virgin

Hierodeacon Rafael Misiaoulis, Theologian   ‘From heaven Gabriel cries Hail to the Virgin’ [1]. Glad tidings indeed today for Orthodoxy. A feast of the Lord and the Mother of God. Of the Lord because is has to do with Our Lord Jesus Christ who was conceived in the womb of Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsMarch 26, 2021 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Hail, Scent of Christ’s Fragrance

Anonymous   Every Friday during Great Lent, crowds of the faithful flock to churches to honor the Mother of God, to sing ‘Hail’ to the ‘sweetly-smelling incense’, the ‘precious myrrh’, Our Lady. Orthodox churches are redolent with the ineffable fragrance exuded by the pure figure of the most blessed Mother Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 years ago
Audio

‘To you victorious leader of triumphant hosts’, ancient melody, 4th plagial tone (former Protopsaltis Archon Leonidas Asteris)

  The Akathistos Hymn occupies an important in the reverential period of Great Lent and is one of the most popular and well-known hymns, both in terms of its melody and poetry. Its inclusion in the Triodio can be explained by the fact that the content is linked to the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 4 yearsMarch 19, 2021 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Address on the Feast of Our Most Holy Lady – 2

Archbishop Theofylaktos of Ochrid   This is today’s feast, the event we’re celebrating today, the escorting of the maiden to the Temple and her introduction into the Holy of Holies. What a strange event! What an astonishing thing it is that we hear! A little girl living in the fathomless Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 years ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Address on the Feast of Our Most Holy Lady – 1

Archbishop Theofylaktos of Ochrid   Address on the Feast of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God, when she was taken by her Parents to the Temple All too often the “remembrance of the righteous which is accompanied by encomia” is an opportunity to censure the person praising if Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 years ago
Pemptousia Partnership

Homily on the Birth of the Theotokos

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios   “Your birth, Oh Theotokos, brought joy to the whole world, for from you dawned the sun of righteousness, Christ our God.  Freeing us from the curse, He gave us His blessings.  Abolishing death, He granted us eternal life.” Apolytikion (the Dismissal hymn) of the Nativity of the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 5 yearsSeptember 8, 2020 ago

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