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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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| | | | 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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| | Clouds over the Delaware River The wind whispers, stormsover river dreams, the river seemsawake and wild, shimmering-riledby ancient breath or humming moon. The wind whispers, storms-too soon the blue, the hueof water-sky. So high the ospreys flythrough shifting clouds, the rustling loud as the wind whispers, storms,through trees, bent but proud.The squirrels chitter, the deer... |