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| | | | A friend of mine likes to say that no nation or people is truly a Christian nation or people until it has a nationally-venerated icon or shrine of the Theotokos. This is not a doctrine of the Church, of course, but it is a cultural observation that rings true in a certain way. There is something about how a Christian society works that almost inevitably results in having a veneration for the Lord's mother at the center. | |
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| | | | Prayer to Mary, the Mother of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, is an ancient Christian practice. The earliest written record of a prayer to the Virgin Mary is dated around 250 AD. This prayer, "Beneath thy compassion," is in use to this day in the Orthodox Church. Prayer to and veneration of the... | |
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| | As verse one says "the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this, they gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel." The word "this" refers to the complete destruction of Ai. Word of Jericho's fall would have already reached them; and as verses 9-10 tell... |