HOLY SILENCE

"Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One, And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One! Angels with shepherds...

St. Ambrose, good shepherd of Milan and doctor of the Church, please pray for us so we have the courage to defend the Most Holy Trinity,...

"The Virgin's gift to us of 'the Word of God' was different from that of the prophets, and the relationship that was formed and endured...

There is a great difference between teaching about Christ and embodying Him. This is the difference between Mary and the rest of us. She...

"According to this covenant that she took upon herself, she became, as far as she herself was concerned, committed to virginity, and as...

Mary "gave herself to God as His handmaid, or slave, in the sense that she committed herself totally to Him, body, soul, and spirit. By...

Overjoyed by God's gift of a daughter, Mary's parents, Joachim and Anna, brought her into the Jerusalem Temple when she was about three...

According to the Sacred Tradition of the Orthodox Church, at the time of her Dormition, the Theotokos was buried by the Twelve Apostles...

Christ asked His Apostles, "But who do you say that I am?" (Mark 8:29). Should we not ask others the same thing about ourselves? We each...