On Friday, many Orthodox Christians celebrated the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate this feast until later this month, but I thought I’d ...
Here is part of the conclusion of the oldest surviving Greek homily for the Feast of the Dormition ... who bestowed glory on His immaculate Mother Mary Theotokos, will also bestow glory on ...
On the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple, we remember that when the Virgin Mary was a little girl, her parents Joachim and Anna took her to live in the Temple in Jerusalem. They ...
We do make them on great feasts of the Theotokos, unless they fall on a Sunday. Keeping the above in mind, at Liturgies that do not fall on Sundays or Feasts of the Lord, there are five points at ...
Consequently for Nestorius, Mary cannot be called "theotokos" (Mother of God), at least in the real sense demanded by the hypostatic union (the union of two natures, the human and the Divine, in the ...
All Saints Orthodox Church in Olyphant celebrated the second day of Christmas in honor of the Theotokos on Dec. 26.