The Annunciation of the Theotokos - Exploring the Feasts of the Orthodox Christian Church
In this video, we learn about the “Good News before the Good News,” as the
Archangel Gabriel announced that the Virgin Mary would conceive and give
birth to Christ. We follow the Orthodox Church’s commemoration of the
event, and the different elements involved in its celebration.
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Feast of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary
The Feast of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and
Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on March 25 each year. The Feast
commemorates the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary
that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God, would become
incarnate and enter into this world through her womb.
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Hymns of the Feast of the Annunciation
Listen to the hymns from the Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos
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Archpastoral Reflections on the Annunciation
Throughout this month, we venerate the Holy Virgin Mary through special
services. These services include the Holy Salutations held on each Friday
of Lent, which comprise the portions of the beautiful, rich, and
illustrious hymn of the Akathist to the Theotokos. We also celebrate on
March 25 the glorious Feast of the Annunciation to the Theotokos, when the
Archangel Gabriel told Mary that the Holy Spirit would come upon her and
that she would give birth to a Son, whose name would be Jesus (Luke
1:26-38).
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Ambassadors of the Faith: Sharing the Light and the Love of Christ
In the Annunciation we learn, happiness comes not when we reluctantly
accept a new situation, a burdensome challenge or difficult responsibility,
but when we embrace it and thank God for the opportunity to grow. Mary did
not simply resign herself to her fate. She saw God acting, God loving, God
offering, and she whole-heartedly embraced the new reality and burst into a
song of praise and thanksgiving. She found true happiness in a life filled
with gratitude.
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The Greatest Calls in History
If you tried to summarize the entire Bible into one theme, what would that
theme be? One answer to that question was proposed by the late rabbinical
scholar Abraham Heschel. For Heschel, there was one dominant and prevailing
theme that pervaded the entire TANAK or Old Testament. That theme was “God
in search of humanity.”
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Feasts of the Church
- Great and Holy Pascha
- Advent Resources
- Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha
- Nativity of our Lord
- Epiphany of our Lord
- Palm Sunday
- Ascension of our Lord
- Holy Pentecost
- Presentation of Christ to the Temple
- Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- Transfiguration of our Lord
- Nativity of the Theotokos
- Annunciation of the Theotokos
- Dormition of the Theotokos
- Entrance of the Theotokos to the Temple