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

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

 

Homily Three 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