Nativity of the Theotokos Resource Page

Verses

Anna, all mothers truly you surpassed,

Until your daughter should become your Mother.

Anna brought into the light on the eighth of this month God’s own Mother.

About the Feast

Synaxarion of the Nativity of the Theotokos

Nativity of the Theotokos: Gospel and Epistle Reading

On the Nativity of the Theotokos - Various Church Fathers

Oration on the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos Mary (St. John of Damascus)

Why Was the Virgin Mary Born of a Sterile Woman? (St. John of Damascus)

On the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. Andrew of Crete)

Homily on the Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos (St. Photios the Great)

Encomium on the Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos (St. Nicholas Cabasilas) - 1 of 5

Encomium on the Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos (St. Nicholas Cabasilas) - 2 of 5

Encomium on the Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos (St. Nicholas Cabasilas) - 3 of 5

On the Saving Nativity of our Most Pure Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary (St. Gregory Palamas)

On the Nativity Of The Theotokos (St. Dimitri of Rostov)

Homily on the Day of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

Homily on the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. John of Kronstadt)

On the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)

Homily on the Nativity of the Theotokos (St. Luke of Simferopol)

The Immense Joy of the Birth of the Theotokos (Elder George Kapsanis)

The Nativity of the Theotokos as a Feast of Universal Joy (Elder George Kapsanis)

Sermon for the Nativity of the Theotokos

The Historical Development of the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

An Explanation of the Icon of the Birth of the Theotokos

Interpreting the Icon of the Nativity of the Theotokos

The Blessing of the Panagia by the Priests When She Was a One Year Old

Saints Joachim and Anna Resource Page

Shrines and Icons Celebrated on September 8th

Panagia Tsambika in Rhodes

Panagia Tsambika, the Panagia of the Childless (video)

Panagia Skiadeni in Rhodes

Panagia Vrontiani in Samos

Panagia Sikelia in Chios

Panagia Vourniotissa of Tinos

Panagia Kalamiotissa in Anafi

Panagia Kathariotissa in Ithaca

Panagia Plataniotissa in Kalavryta

Synaxis of Panagia the Giatrissa in Loutraki of Corinth

Panagia Katsimikados in Kyparissia

Synaxis of the Panagia the Gladness of All Generations at Agiou Demetriou

The Cave of Panagia Sarantaskaliotissa (or the Cave of Pythagoras) in Samos

The Athonite Island of Kyra Panagia

A Church Where the Theotokos Confirms the Practice of Fasting

Panagia Stomiou Monastery in Konitsa and Elder Paisios

Vespers in the Ruins of a Church Dedicated to the Virgin Mary in a Deserted Albanian Village

The Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God of Kiev

The Wonderworking Kursk Icon Returns Home


Miracles of September 8th

The Miracle of the Panagia Skripou in Orchomenos on September 10, 1943

Crowds Continue to Flock to a Suburb of Athens to Venerate a "Weeping" Icon of the Virgin Mary


Immaculate Conception?

The Immaculate Conception and the Orthodox Church

Patriarch Bartholomew on the Immaculate Conception

The Error of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin