Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos

The Small Paraklesis to the Theotokos - You can now listen to this service as chanted in Greek by Eikona and the Byzantine Choir of Theodore Vasilikos. This link leads to a page on the web site of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

The Feast of the Dormition - From the web site of the University of Balamand, Deir El-Balamand, El-Koura, North Lebanon. Included at the site are:

The Apparitions Of Virgin Mary at Zeitoun Church, Egypt - By Rev. Father Boutros Gayed, the late rector of the Virgin Mary Church at Zeitoun, and brother of H. H. Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. With actual photos.

Akathist to the Holy Virgin - From the web site of the Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church (ROCOR) in Los Angeles, CA.

The Passing of Mary: First Latin Form - concerning the passing of the Blessed Virgin Mary. From the New Advent Roman Catholic web site.

The Account of St. John the Theologian of the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God - From the New Advent Roman Catholic web site.

The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the Chastisements - From the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College. This translation of this Apocalypse is made from the text as published by M. R. James in Texts and Studies, ii., 3, from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library, which he assigns to the eleventh century. The original he conjecturally assigns to the ninth century, and regards it as a late and clumsy compilation based on (1) the Assumption Legends and (2) the Apocalypse of Paul. Its main feature, intercession for the lost, it has in common with the Testament of Abraham, the Apocalypse of Paul, 4 Esdras, the Apocalypse of Baruch, the Apocalypse of Esdras and the Apocalypse of Sedrach. Parallels are pointed out in the notes.

The Ever-Virgin Mother of God - By Archpriest George Florovsky, a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. This is one of the best articles on the internet explaining Orthodox belief about Mary, the Theotokos, as compared with dogmas about her in other churches. From the web site of the Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church (ROCOR) in Los Angeles, CA.

Feast Days and Services to the Theotokos - A presentation given by His Grace Bishop Demetri at the First Biennial Antiochian Archdiocese Clergy Symposium, Chicago, IL, July 1978.

The Theotokos as Example - An article that was first published in the Way of the Pilgrim magazine, August 1998. From the web site of Saints Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Topeka, KS.

The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary - By Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos of Nafpaktos, a hierarch of the Church of Greece. From the web site of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia.

Nativity of the Theotokos - Commemorated Sept. 8. From the web site of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.

On the Ever-Virginity of the Theotokos (Mother of God) - Adapted from The Ever-Virginity of Mary, the Title Theotokos, and the Veneration Shown to Her, by Bishop Lazar Puhalo, Synaxis Press. From the web site of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.

Mother of God - From The Ever-Virginity of Mary, The Title Theotokos, and The Veneration shown to Her, by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, Synaxis Press, pp. 1-2. From the web site of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.

Miraculous Icon of Axion Esti - By Father G. Poulos. From the web site of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.