January 30, 7534
Luke, reading 54, ch. 10:38–42, ch. 11:27–28 Dear brothers and sisters! Today, the Holy Church celebrates the Nativity of our Most Holy Lady, the God-bearer and Ever-Virgin Mary. This is the first Great Feast of the Twelve in the church year. With it begins the history of the granting of paradisiacal bliss to the perishing…
The Nativity of the Most Holy God-bearer is a fixed Great Feast of the Twelve. Though the Holy Scriptures do not speak of the birth of the Virgin Mary, none would dispute the reality of this event. Nevertheless, the Old Testament is replete with many foreshadowings, proclaiming not only the coming birth of the Savior…
The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady, the God-bearer and Ever-Virgin Mary, is the first of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox Church year. It is first both in the chronology of New Testament events and in the Church calendar, which begins in September and is thus called in liturgical hymns “the beginning of…