Ознака:Most Holy Theotokos

Services and Sacraments

The First Akathist to the Heavenly Queen Mother

Rejoice, for thou art the throne of the King. Rejoice, for thou bearest the Bearer of all. Rejoice, thou star, announcing the sun. Rejoice, womb, of the divine incarnation. Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded! The time of the Great Lenten prayer,…

Sermons of Bishop Parthenius

Holiness – Our Goal

A sermon of His Grace the Bishop of Antania, Mr. Parthenius, Abbot of the Holy Bigorski Monastery, for the feast of the Introduction of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, spoken at the Divine Liturgy, during the night vigil…

Epistles

If it were not for the Most Holy, we would not have had the Church, nor the Saints, nor the salvation

A word by the Very Reverend Archimandrite Fr. Antipas, Elder of the St. Anna skete in Karyes, Mount Athos, for the feast of the Introduction of the Most Holy Theotokos to the Temple, delivered at the end of last night’s…

Services and Sacraments

The Feast of the Presentation, celebrated with a blessing from Mount Athos in the Monastery of the Holy Virgin

If a tree is known by its fruit and if every good tree bears good fruit, how then does the Mother of Goodness herself and the Parent of eternal Beauty, not surpass all earthly and heavenly goods with her incomparable…

Services and Sacraments

Rejoice, sweet-scented Lily, who gives fragrance to the faithful (First Akathist)

"It was inconspicuous and insignificant, but it became wider than the heavens. It was an endless endurance in sorrows, but it became joy for all. She felt and called herself a 'handmaid', but became Queen of Heaven and Earth. We…

Events

Concelebration in Piacenza, Italy

Archimandrite Dositej, a monk of Bigorski Monastery, celebrated the Divine Liturgy today in the Church of St. Bartholomew the Apostle and St. Prohor of Pčinje in Piacenza, Italy, at the invitation of His Eminence, Metropolitan Pimen of Europe of the…