Grade 8 Lesson 5


Grade 8 Lesson 5: Yoldath Aloho, the God Bearer

Learning Outcomes

Theotokos

  • G8.LO12 - Correlate that St. Mary is Theotokos.
  • G8.LO13 - Explain that we venerate St. Mary, not worship her.
  • G8.LO14 - Examine Old Testament prophecies and typologies of St. Mary.
  • G8.LO15 - Discuss the early life of St. Mary, including her parents.
  • G8.LO16 - Examine the Feast of the Theotokos in the Temple.
  • G8.LO17 - Distinguish why we reject the theory of immaculate conception.

Textbook Lesson

Expanding Thoughts on Lesson

  • St. Mary: Our Role Model
    • The Act of Veneration, Fr. Stephen Freeman (Ancient Faith Ministries)
    • In the Intercession to the Theotokos (Page 356-362 of HQ service book), we are asking St. Mary to intercede for us to God. We ask God to have mercy on us through the prayers of St. Mary. The prayers are asking for the intercession of St. Mary
    • Ancestral Sin: The Fall and its Consequences, St. John the Evangelist Orthodox Church
  • St. Mary is Theotokos
    • [St. Gregory of Nazianzus] “Anyone who does not admit that holy Mary is the Mother of God is out of touch with the Godhead. Equally remote from God is anyone who says that Christ passed through the Virgin as through a channel, without being formed in her in a manner at once divine and human - divine because without the agency of a man; human because following the normal process of gestation.”

Lesson Resources

Connecting Materials

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