Category Archives: Theotokos

Two Loose Threads: Antinomy and Apuleius

Posted on 9 October 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Matthew Milliner, Ph.D. Permit me a follow up to my essay on universalism, and how the Virgin Mary—and the gospel she represents—unravels the pagan loom of doom.  First Thread: On Really Not Knowing Of course I’ve read DBH’s own … Continue reading →

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“For at present she is the only one who has a place in heaven with her divinely glorified body in the company of her Son”

Posted on 15 August 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

In ancient times there were many who attained to divine favour, glory, and power. As David says, “How precious also are thy friends unto me, O God! How great is their authority! If I should count them, they are more … Continue reading →

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“You are about to become heaven, a God-containing tabernacle, a living temple of God, wider and higher and more wondrous than the seven firmaments”

Posted on 25 March 2023 by Fr Aidan Kimel

The Angel Hear, most blessed one, hear the hidden words of the Most High: “Behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and you shall produce a son, and shall call him Jesus” (Luke 1.31). Prepare then for Christ’s coming. For … Continue reading →

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“Today the treasury of life, the abyss of grace is wrapped in a death that brings life”

Posted on 15 August 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Today the holy, incomparable virgin enters the heavenly sanctuary that lies above the universe. She so longed for virginity that she was transformed into it, as if consumed by the purest fire. Every virgin, after all, loses her virginity in … Continue reading →

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St Thomas Aquinas and Henri de Lubac on the Natural Desire for God

Posted on 24 March 2022 by Fr Aidan Kimel

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Immaculate Virgin: Postdestined Before the Ages

Posted on 28 September 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

“Most holy, most pure, most blessed and glorious Lady, Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary.” Panagia, Achrantos, Theotokos, Aeiparthenos—the titles abound, not only in the private prayers of Eastern Orthodox Christians but in the public liturgies and offices. A prayer … Continue reading →

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“God of all things, having known in advance your worth, loved you; and because of this love, he predestined you, and at the end of times he brought you into being and revealed you as Theotokos”

Posted on 25 September 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

O ever-virginal little daughter who needed no man to conceive! He who has an eternal Father was borne in the womb by you! O earth-born little daughter who carried the Creator in your God-bearing arms! the ages competed as to … Continue reading →

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The Immaculate Conception and the Orthodox Church

Posted on 23 September 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Father Lev Gillet I. It is generally agreed, I think, that the dogma of the Immaculate Conception is one of the questions which make a clear and profound division between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Is this really … Continue reading →

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