Category Archives: Theotokos

“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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“O holy bier, bearing the holy dwelling place—greater than all the world—of the God whom no place contains!”

Posted on 15 August 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What a marvel! She has fallen asleep! She has fallen asleep! She who gave birth to the life and resurrection of the world has fallen asleep! By the grace that came from her, every spiritual and intellectual nature shares eternal … Continue reading →

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“The Virgin Mother, and she alone, is the frontier between created and uncreated nature”

Posted on 19 December 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When the Virgin saw the Archangel, she was afraid lest he be a deceitful messenger beguiling unwary women like Eve, and she did not accept his greeting unquestioningly. As she did not yet clearly perceive the bond with God which … Continue reading →

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“All the angels and archangels rushed through the air to gather in a joyful visit to this world, sent from heaven by God to be the celebrants of her holy falling-asleep”

Posted on 15 August 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

How amazing, my brothers and sisters in the love of Christ! Today she who gave birth to the life of all people has moved on to be a sharer in that life. The life which was begotten before the ages … Continue reading →

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