Theotokos

St. Mary is the Mother of God; Veneration of St. Mary as Theotokos; Role of St. Mary in Incarnation and salvation; Rejects the immaculate conception theory of St. Mary, First member of Holy Church, Without knowing Mary as Theotokos, we can't know Jesus Christ as God.

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Articles

1. St. Mary the Mother of God by Dr.Yuhanon Mar Dimitrios Metropolitan [dymd Dimitrios, D. Y. M. D. (n.d.). St. Mary the Mother of God. Https://Mosc.In/. Retrieved July 4, 2021, from https://mosc.in/the_church/theology/st-mary-the-mother-of-god]
2. (Need write-up or article to explain that without knowing Mary as Theotokos, cannot know Christ as God)
3. Iconography of Mary as the Mother of God, Iconreader. Icons of the Mother of God. https://iconreader.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/icons-of-the-mother-of-god/
4. The Symbol of Faith:The Incarnation, Orthodox Church of America, The Orthodox Faith by Fr. Thomas Hopko

Videos

1. God's Mother, Our Mother (Be The Bee, Greek Orthodox Church)
2. The Ladder Episode 5 The Theotokos (The Ladder, Northeast American Diocese)

Scripture

1. [Isaiah 7:14] "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and you shall call His name Immanuel."
2. [Luke 1:28] "“Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”
3. [John 19:26–27] "When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home."
4. [Luke 1:42-43] "Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"

Liturgical Resources

Hymns

• Qymotho - 6th Hour Qolo (Service Book of the Holy Qurbono, pg. 148)

Mount Sinai trembled - at Your presence, Lord

Yet the Bless'd Virgin

Carried You, Lord, who carries

All of the heights and the depths

She conceived You without man

And brought You forth wondrously

Magnify - her mem'ry, O Lord.

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• Ma'nitho of Mor Severus (Service Book of the Holy Qurbono, pg. 158)

The Only-Begotten Son,

Word of the Father,

Immortal in His nature

And who by His grace

Descended for all mankind

To bring life and salvation

For our fallen human race;

Who did become incarnate

Of the pure Virgin,

The holy and glorious Theotokos;

He became man without change

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Prayers

(Annunciation - which one??)

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Dormition (which one??)

Promeon and Sedro

(which one?)

Quotes

Patristic Quotes

• [St. John of Damascus] “The burning bush is an image of God’s Mother . . . If, therefore, the ground where the image of the Theotokos was seen by Moses is holy ground, how much more holy is the image itself?”

Other Quotes

• [Fr. Alexander Schmemann] "The veneration of the Virgin Mary is a necessary component of our faith: The image of the Virgin Mary, the Virgin Mother, stands [as] the image of infinite humility and purity, filled with beauty and strength; the image of love and the victory of love. The Virgin Mary, the All-Pure Mother demands nothing and receives everything. She pursues nothing and possesses all. In the image of the Virgin Mary, we find compassion, tender-heartedness, care, trust, humility. We call her Our Lady and the Queen of Heaven and Earth, and yet she calls herself "the hand-maid of the Lord." .. Christ said, 'Do not be anxious. Seek first the Kingdom of God' (see Mt 6:33). Beholding this woman - Virgin Mother, Intercessor - we begin to sense, to know not with our mind, but with our heart, what it means to seek the Kingdom, to find it, and to live by it."

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