To Thee the Champion Leader | Mother of God | Theotokos with Sword IconoGraphic | Orthodox Christian Accessory | Hardcover JournalTo 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,

they are the only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God

" There is this life of the body

Death is swallowed up in victory:  i

- 1 Peter 4:7

They are the natural results of a chosen lifestyle

Then he will say to those on his left

when they speak

prefiguring the dimming of the heavenly lights when the Master suffered in the flesh upon the Cross

- Ecclesiastes 9:10

but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful

Let this remembrance weaken my hands to the doing of any empty

+ St Paisios the Athonite