Holy Pascha in Hong Kong (2013)
The Service of Resurrection at Saint Luke Orthodox Cathedral in Hong Kong. Christ is Risen!
Category: Theotokos
On the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary
The two articles that follow below, «On the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary» and «On the ancestral sin of the holy and ever virgin Mary», are the chapters 50 and 51 of the Treasury of Orthodoxy of Bishop Theophilos of Campania (1749 1795). We place them here at this time so that we may be go deeper into the Mystery of the Theotokos and the Incarnation of the Son of God which constitute the Chapter of our Salvation.
The Holy Icon of Panagia of the Akathist
One of the most treasured and revered Icons of Mount Athos is that of Panagia of the Akathist Hymn or Salutations of the Holy Monastery of Dionysiou. It is the oldest Icon chronologically of all of the others of Mount Athos.
It is made of beeswax and mastich, a product derived [...]
The Story of the Miraculous Icon of the Virgin Known as “Paramithia” (Comfort, Consolation) at the Holy Mountain Monastery of Vatopedi
In olden times there came once to the Holy Mountain a band or pirates to enter into and loot one of the wealthiest monasteries of the Holy Mountain, the Monastery of Vatopedi. They arrived in the evening and hid in the bushes around the monastery so that they could enter as soon as [...]
The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
When the Most-holy Virgin Mary reached the age of three, her holy parents Joachim and Anna took her from Nazareth to Jerusalem to dedicate her to the service of God according to their earlier promise. It was a three-day journey from Nazareth to Jerusalem but, traveling to do a God-pleasing work, this journey [...]
The Story of the Miraculous Icon of the Virgin Mary known as “Ktitorissa” at Vatopedi Monastery
About the year 910 AD an army of countless Arabs from Syria conquered Crete and Sicily and all the Greek Islands. Some of them came to the Monastery of Vatopedi, on the eastern coast of the Holy Mountain (Mt.Athos) to raid it. When the Caretaker of the holy Altar (Vimataris) saw them [...]
Truly Theotokos
The theological term “Theotokos” is one of the most fundamental of Christian piety. Writes St.John of Damascus:
“We hold that God was born of her. We do not imply that the divinity of the Word received from her the beginning of its being; but we do imply that God [...]
Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos on the Immaculate Conception
No one is born free of the ancestral sin. The fall of Adam and Eve and its consequences were inherited by the whole human race. Of course even the Panagia could not be freed from the ancestral sin. The words of the Apostle Paul are clear: “for all have sinned and [...]
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the Immaculate Conception
In this interview Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, comments on the Latin dogma of the “Immaculate Conception”.
Interviewer:
The Catholic Church this year celebrates the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of [...]
The Nativity of the Theotokos
The Holy Virgin Mary was born of aged parents, Joachim and Anna. Her father was of the lineage of David, and her mother of the lineage of Aaron. Thus, she was of royal birth by her father, and of priestly birth [...]
A Strange Scene in the Icon of the Dormition
In many icons of the Dormition of the Theotokos, one can see a strange scene near the bottom: an angel invisibly cuts off the two hands of a certain man.
What is the story behind this scene?
