Table of Contents Contemplations on the words of the Introduction to the Fraction in the Divine Liturgy: “Your Holy Body and Precious Blood.”“While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the hymn, Piwik (the Bread), which is chanted after Psalm 150 during communion in annual days.The Bread of life….The Bread of life,Who came down,For us...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the Wednesday Theotokia Lobsh.Ezekiel the prophet…Ezekiel the prophet,Has witnessed saying,“I saw a gate to the East,Sealed with a mysterious seal.And no one else entered it,But...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the Wednesday Theotokia.Verse 1All the heavenly multitudes,Declare your blessedness,For you are the Second Heaven,Upon the earth.It is hard for us to picture such a thing!...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the Tuesday Theotokia Lobsh.Verse 1What bodily tongue,Can describe you,O holy Virgin,And Mother of God.“…but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the Monday Theotokia.Verse 1While Adam was sad,God was pleased,to bring him back,to his leadership.Fr. Matthew the Poor, the present Abbot of St. Macarius’ Monastery in...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the Friday Theotokia Lobsh.Verse 1-2What do I call you,O pure Virgin,Who gave birth to the Incomprehensible,And Infinite One?Many are your praises,O who is adorned with...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the Friday Theotokia.Verse 1Blessed are you among women,and blessed is your fruit,O Mary the Mother of God,the undefiled virgin.Indeed, O Mary, you are both blessed...
Table of Contents Contemplations on the Saturday Theotokia Lobsh.IntroductionSt. Paul teaches us saying, “I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also; I will sing praise...
Table of Contents Contemplations on “Jacob’s Ladder” Verse in the Saturday Theotokia.You were likened to the ladder,Which Jacob saw,rising to heaven,With the awesome God standing above it.“Areten-thontee” is a long...