Entrance of the Theotokos Resource Page

On November 21st the Church Celebrates 
the Feast of the Entrance of our Most Holy Lady 
the Theotokos into the Temple.

Verses

Within the temple, Gabriel feeds you, O Daughter,

And shortly he shall come and shall say to you: Rejoice.

On the twenty-first Mary entered the sacred temenos. 

 

ABOUT THE FEAST 

 

Forefeast of the Entrance Into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos 

 

Synaxarion for the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple 

 

Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos Into the Temple: Epistle and Gospel Reading 

 

On the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple (St. Gregory of Nyssa) 

 

First Homily on the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple (St. Germanos of Constantinople) 

 

Second Homily on the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple (St. Germanos of Constantinople)  

 

Panegyric for the Entrance of our Most Holy Theotokos (St. Tarasios of Constantinople) 

 

Homily on the Entrance of the Theotokos Into the Temple (St. Theophylact of Ochrid) 

 

Homily on the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple (St. Gregory Palamas) 

 

Homily on the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos Into the Temple (St. Philaret of Moscow)

 

Homily One on the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Homily Two on the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Reflection for the Feast of the Entry of the Mother of God (St. Theophan the Recluse)

 

The House of God: A Homily for the Entry of the Theotokos by St. John of Kronstadt 

 

Homily on the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Temple (St. Nektarios of Aegina)

Homily One on the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Two on the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos (St. Luke of Simferopol)

Homily Three on the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Four on the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos (St. Luke of Simferopol)

The Entry Into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos (St. Nikolai Velimirovich) 

 

The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple (Sergei V. Bulgakov)

 

The Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos Into the Temple and Sacred Nepsis (Archimandrite George Kapsanis)

  

The Entrance of the Theotokos as a Time of Preparation (Archimandrite Placide Deseille) 

 

The Theotokos as a Model for our Life (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

History of the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple  

  

How the West Came to Celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary 

  

Customs for the Entrance of the Theotokos in Rural Greece

 

 

THEOLOGY OF THE FEAST 

 

The New Testament Apocrypha and Agrapha in the Orthodox Church 

 

A First-Fruit Offering to the Temple of the Lord 

 

A Feast That Celebrates the Multidimensional Purity of the Theotokos 

 

The Place of the Theotokos in the Orthodox Church (1 of 2) 

 

The Place of the Theotokos in the Orthodox Church (2 of 2) 

 

The Silence of the Panagia 

 

The Monasticism of the Panagia 

 

The Theotokos as a Teacher of Asceticism and Noetic Prayer 

 

The Love for Mankind of the All-Holy Theotokos   

 

The Panagia: the Joy of All Christians

 

 

SHRINES DEDICATED TO THE FEAST 

 

A Church Beyond Compare - The Nea Church, or the Basilica of Saint Mary the New in Jerusalem (543-614) 

 

Iconography of the Entrance of the Theotokos at Hilandari Monastery 

 

The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa in Amorgos 

 

Panagia Malteza of Santorini 

 

Panagia Odigitria of Kimolos 

 

The Monastery of Panagia Kounistria (Eikonistria) in Skiathos 

 

Synaxis of Panagia Katapoliani in Tinos 

 

The 11th Century Church of Panagia Kapnikarea in Athens 

 

The Church of the Panagia of Vlassarou in Athens 

 

The Monastery of Panagia of Machairas in Cyprus 

 

Saints Neophytos, Ignatios, Prokopios and Neilos, Founders of Machairas Monastery