#Apolytikion
Fourth Mode
Your birth, O Theotokos, brought joy to the whole world, for from you dawned the sun of righteousness, Christ our God. Freeing us from the curse, He gave us His blessings. Abolishing death, He granted us eternal life.
#NativityOfMary #Marymas #Theotokos #ChristianOrthodoxy

Weeping Theotokos. #art #mastoart #watercolor #theotokos #orthodoxart #sorrow

Seasonal #Kontakion in the Second Tone

O Protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, mediation unto the creator most constant: O despise not the voices of those who have sinned; but be quick, O good one, to come unto our aid, who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, O thou who dost ever protect, O #Theotokos, them that honor thee.

#Apolytikion
Fourth Mode
O Fervent intercessor, Mother of the Lord Most High, thou prayest for all to thy Son, Christ our God, and thou causest all to be saved who have recourse to thy powerful protection. O Sovereign Lady and Queen, help and defend all of us who in troubles and trials, in pain and burdened with many sins, stand before thy most pure icon in thy presence, and pray to thee with compunction of soul, contrition of heart, and with tears, and who have unflagging hope in thee. Grant to all what is good for us, deliverance from all evil, and save us all, O Virgin Theotokos, for thou art a divine protection to thy servants.
#Kontakion
Plagal Fourth Mode
Let us run, O ye peoples, to that quiet and good haven, to the speedy helper, to the ready and warm salvation, to the Virgin's protection. Let us hurry to prayer and hasten to repentance; for the most pure Theotokos poureth out of us unfailing mercy, anticipateth our needs with her help, and delivereth from great disasters and evils her upright and God-fearing servants.
#Theotokos #MotherOfGod #VirginMotherQueen #Christianity #OrthodoxChristianity #ChristianOrthodoxy #DailyPrayers

O Lady graced by God, you reward me by letting gush forth, beyond reason, the ever-flowing waters of your grace from your perpetual Spring. I entreat you, who bore the Logos, in a manner beyond comprehension, to refresh me in your grace that I may cry out, "Hail redemptive waters."

#RenewalFriday #Pascha #Theotokos #ChristianPrayer #Christianity #VirginMary #MotherOfGod #MaterDei #OrthodoxChristian #ChristianOrthodoxy #Kontakion

O Theotokos, your church is like the Garden of Paradise, since it pours out healings and cures like ever-living rivers. We come to it with faith, and we draw strength and eternal life from its water, through you who are the Spring that received Life himself. For you intercede with Christ our Savior, who was born from you, and you entreat Him to save our souls.

#RenewalFriday #Pascha #Theotokos #Apolytikion #ChristianPrayer #Christianity #VirginMary #MotherOfGod #MaterDei #OrthodoxChristian #ChristianOrthodoxy

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: a 14th CE mosaic - Theotokos with Christ child. It's in the Archaeological Museum of Sofia.

#icon #mosaic #theotokos #christ #sofia #ArchaeologicalMuseum #byzantine

We ever thank you, O all-holy Theotokos, * and magnify you the all-pure one; and we worship * and extol your divine Son, Maiden highly favored. * All-merciful Virgin, therefore we cry aloud * unceasingly praying, Save us, since you are good. * Snatch me out from the frightening * examination of accounts * by demons in the hour of trial. * May we your servants not be ashamed. Amen.

#Theotokos #Theotokion #VirginMary #ChristianPrayer

Today is the fountainhead of our salvation and the manifestation of the mystery which was from eternity. The Son of God becometh the Virgin's Son and Gabriel announceth the good tidings of grace; Therefore, let us cry to the Mother of God with the Angel: Rejoice, O woman, full of grace; the Lord is with thee! #TheAnnunciationOfTheVirginMary #Theotokos #BlessedVirginMary #VirginMary #MotherOfGod #MaterDei

0 Theotokos and Virgin, rejoice, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Saviour of our souls. #OrthodoxChristian #ChristianPrayer #Theotokos (orthodox Hail Mary!)

Me: Is there a third character?
My twelve-years-old: Maybe it's God?
(You can use hints from the description.)

A painting by Fatma Haddad (spouse Mahieddine): "Femme et enfant en bleu" (Woman and child in blue), 1947. Courtesy of the Grey Art Gallery, collection of Isabelle #Maeght, #Paris.

#visualArt #christianArt #catholic #Madonna #Theotokos #VirginMary #iconography #Algeria #Baya #peacock #surrealism #artHistory #womenInArt #brain #games #art #decolonial

Happy Christmas to all. If you find this time of year hard... (like people I know] hang in... this too shall pass. #incarnation #theotokos

"Today is the prelude of God’s good will and the heralding of the salvation of mankind. In the temple of God, the Virgin is presented openly, and she proclaimeth Christ unto all. To her, then, with a great voice let us cry aloud: Rejoice, O thou fulfillment of the Creator’s dispensation."

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/11/21/103357-the-entry-of-the-most-holy-mother-of-god-into-the-temple

#OrthodoxChristian #Theotokos

«The Military Use of the #Icon of the #Theotokos and its Moral Logic in the #Historians of the #Ninth-Twelfth Centuries» de A. #Kaldellis en #EstudiosBizantinos 1 (2013) http://publicacions.ub.edu/revistes/estudiosbizantinos01/default.asp?articulo=919&modo=resumen También en https://academia.edu/42056183/The_military_use_of_the_icon_of_the_Theotokos_and_its_moral_logic_in_the_historians_of_the_ninth-twelfth_centuries

#nativity of #Theotokos #orthodox #church at #agiosthomas #tanagra #viotia #CentralGreece
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