Tag: jesus
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Joey, Joe, or Joseph?
This is an edited repost from 2021. THERE IS A TRADITION that St Joseph was much older that the Blessed Virgin when they were betrothed. One saint suggests that Jesus’ Foster Father was 91 when he married the Blessed Virgin! Other teachers, suggest mid-fifties. The reason for this tradition is generally understood to be the…
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Friday Night, T2
You conceived the Logos without seed, and gave birth to the one Christ; for you bore a new Child, your Creator. Wherefore, we magnify you, О Theotokos.
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Thursday Night, T2
Your Virgin Mother, beholding You, О Christ, stretched out dead upon the Tree, said, weeping bitterly: “O my Son, what is this strange mystery? How is it that You Who grant life everlasting to all, of Your own will, have died a shameful death upon the Cross?”
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Tuesday Night, T2
We magnify you, O Theotokos, crying aloud: you are the un-burnt bush, wherein Moses beheld as a flame the Fire of the Divinity.
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Friday Night, T1
О most pure Maiden, the prophets foretold you as the cloud of the eternal light of God, the ark, the candlestand and jar, and the unquarried mountain; for in the latter times Christ our God came forth from you without seed, as was the Father’s good pleasure.
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Tuesday Night, T1
Possessing your intercession, O most pure one, and delivered from evils by your supplications, protected wholly by the Cross of your Son, we all reverently magnify you as is right.
Orthoparadoxy 