“Rejoice, Blessed One, the Lord after you.”
“Today is the chapter of our salvation and the revelation of the eternal Mystery. The son of God becomes the son of the Virgin and Gabriel evangelizes her for her sake. May we, together with this Theotokos, help: Hail, Blessed One, the Lord after you “.
Liturgical tradition and orthodox spirituality place a special place on his present day Annunciation of the Virgin.
The Church celebrates proclamation of the joyful news of the divine incarnation. THE theostalt archangel Gabriel presented in Virgin Mary and announces to her that will give birth to the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
According to evangelist Luke (a ’26-38), the Annunciation of the Virgin took place six months after the miraculous arrest of John the Baptist by Elizabeth, his wife Zacharias. At that time, Mary was living in Nazareth, Galilee, and was engaged to the carpenter Joseph. Gabriel suddenly appeared in front of Mary and greeted her: “Hail, Blessed One, the Lord is with you.” It was reasonable for the young woman to panic, but the Archangel reassured her: “Do not be afraid, Mariam, for the sake of God. And, behold, there cometh a son in the womb, and a son, and calleth his name Jesus.
As soon as she recovered from the riot, Maria, full of wonder, asked the Archangel how she would conceive, since she did not know the man. Gabriel answered her that the Holy Spirit would cover her like a cloud and act invisibly and mysteriously to conceive the Son of God. And to make it more credible, he referred to the miraculous arrest of John the Baptist by Elizabeth. Mary was convinced by the words of Gabriel (“Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me according to thy word”) and the Archangel Gabriel “departed”.
The principles of the feast of the Mother of God are not exactly known. However, it was established to take place just nine months before Christmas. And while it is inside Lent (that we have neither feasts nor a perfect Divine Liturgy), the usual Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and we have catalysis fish (fish eating). It is common for the cod of the day to be the cod (cod) garlic. The salted cod that we consume appeared on the Greek table around the 15th century. and over time it was established as the dish of the feast. With the exception of the islands, where there was always fresh fish, in the rest of Greece salted cod was the cheap and easy solution.
Most of the churches and monasteries that are dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin, starting from the Orthodox Cathedral of Athens.
After all, the conception of the Godman by the Virgin Mary was a source of inspiration for many important visual artistssuch as Ducio, Leonardo da Vinci, Paolo De Mateis, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Giotto, Rubens, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) and Donatello.
However, our poet Aristotle Valaoritis “painted” it with words, in an excerpt from the “Twenty-fifth of March Evangelism – Hellenism”: “Once the sky opens the clouds part, the worlds remained silent, paralyzed, they look A flame shines ψ psalms and melodies are heard… It flies to a star… it stops in front of Maria… ” Hail, he says to her, eternal, blessed, hail! My Lord is with you. Rejoice, Maria, rejoice! ” ».
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