With yesterday being the Presentation of the Theotokos, I mentioned this on a thread last night and was encouraged to post this as a thread of its own.
This is a beautiful essay which, I believe, encapsulates the Orthodox Christian view of Mary.
May my friends here, Protestant as well as Orthodox and Roman/Latin, enjoy this.
1 posted on
11/22/2009 5:19:07 AM PST by
Yudan
To: Kolokotronis
2 posted on
11/22/2009 5:23:14 AM PST by
Yudan
(Living comes much easier once we admit we're dying.)
To: Yudan
Thank you, that was a beautiful piece.
To: crazykatz; JosephW; lambo; MoJoWork_n; newberger; The_Reader_David; jb6; wildandcrazyrussian; ...
Most Holy Theotokos ping! This is a wonderful essay.
4 posted on
11/22/2009 5:58:58 AM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: Yudan
5 posted on
11/22/2009 7:41:44 AM PST by
Tax-chick
(Buy me a "Land Shark" and take me to Anguilla.)
To: Yudan
"Thus Mary has what the hymnographers call “motherly boldness” in interceding with Christ—and as our mother also, she is always ready to intercede on our behalf. " Bump.
6 posted on
11/22/2009 9:36:50 AM PST by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
To: Yudan; Kolokotronis
How uplifting-—thank you and the Lord Jesus Bless Saint John of Damascus too. His Holiness the Saint transcends the temporal world here.
7 posted on
11/22/2009 10:07:58 AM PST by
eleni121
(For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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