To Thee the Champion Leader | Mother of God | Theotokos with Sword IconoGraphic | Christian Spiral NotebookTo thee, the Champion Leader, we thy servants dedicate a feast of victory and of thanksgiving as ones rescued out of sufferings, O Theotokos: but as thou art one with might which is invincible, from all dangers that can be do thou deliver us, that we may cry to thee: Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride! A Prince of the Angels was sent from Heaven to say to the Theotokos, Rejoice! And seeing Thee, O Lord, take bodily form at the sound of his bodiless voice,

These are not incentives

and then the Grace and peace of God will enter into us

Doré is either already in the bosom of Abraham

we know that we have passed from death unto life

Hymns on Paradise

- Elder Ephraim of Arizona

even before the creation of the world

Enlighten my darkened soul with Thine unapproachable light

may God make my heart his home

Allow perseverance to finish its work

For if Thou hadst desired sacrifice

one of the soldiers struck him with a sword