Posted on 02/17/2008 4:37:32 PM PST by Kolokotronis
http://www.lent.goarch.org/media/qt_player.asp?videoTitle=The%20Akathist%20Hymn&location=/en/services/akathist/eikona/akathist_MSTR.mov
Akathist Ping to those of you in Western Lent. Please ping your lists. BTW, this is the chant which proclaims the Theotokos as “Butter Mountain”!
I love the colors and the gold dangly-things on that Icon. I have my own copy of the Akathist now (Byzantine Catholic, I think). I like to get it out and read a few estrofas when the Grumps hit.
I hope to go back to St. Nektarios during the Greeks’ Lent this year. I saw their priest at Sam’s Club last week; he didn’t want to buy Girl Scout cookies :-). The next day we saw a Chabad Jewish man!
I guess we’ll have to listen to a batch of YOPIS-based lectures on how the term “Mother of God” can be mis-read by those who don’t know any better.
“I guess we’ll have to listen to a batch of YOPIS-based lectures on how the term “Mother of God” can be mis-read by those who don’t know any better.”
You know, FL, when it comes to Panagia, I just don’t care anymore what they think or say.
I sometimes wonder what people who attack the Lord’s Mother say about their own mothers, or their mothers-in-law. Somewhere in it, I think there’s a deep-seated rejection of the entire concept of motherhood.
Wow, that was wonderful! (I had to update my Quicktime player in order to listen to it but it was well worth it!) Thank you for posting that, and God Bless.
“Wow, that was wonderful! (I had to update my Quicktime player in order to listen to it but it was well worth it!) Thank you for posting that, and God Bless.”
You are very welcome.
“I hope to go back to St. Nektarios during the Greeks’ Lent this year. I saw their priest at Sam’s Club last week; he didn’t want to buy Girl Scout cookies :-)”
Probably a cheapskate!
“The next day we saw a Chabad Jewish man!”
OK, I’ll bite. Did he buy any cookies?
Not at all...But we're talking about God here...
Just look at the picture...You have Mary bigger than life and then who's that midget??? The runt of the litter???
The picture is so disproportionate that it ofcourse had to be intentional to put ALL of the focus on Mary and none on God...
The pagan Magi following the light of the star, praise Her for revealing the light of the world.
Each longer stanza ends with the refrain: "Rejoice, O Bride Unwedded."
The fourth and the last part is once more a lyric and rhetorical appraisal of Virgin Mary, whom the poet adorns with the most beautiful of adjectives asking her to accept his poetical offering and to intercede for the salvation of human race from the earthly sin.
You attempt to insult us and tell us we have no love for our mothers because we won't blindly follow your heretical religion...
You can increase Mary and decrease Jesus all you want...Doesn't affect me at all...
I'm counting on the shed blood of Jesus Christ to get me to heaven...Apparently, you guys are counting on his mother, Mary...
No, but he did smile at the girls. I'm sure the cookies aren't kosher!
The other Catholic girl in the troop recognized the Greek priest's outfit (he'd probably already bought cookies from girls in his congregation :-), but none of them were familiar with the Lubavitcher Chabad clothes.
Have you bought Girl Scout cookies, since it's not your Lent yet?
“Have you bought Girl Scout cookies, since it’s not your Lent yet?”
Yup...and you give me far too much holiness credit. Lent NEVER stopped this old sinner from buying and eating Girl Scout cookies!
I give up Girl Scout cookies for Lent during the years I’m not pregnant. I have a dreadful case of vanity!
Excellent demonstration.
It's Jesus as a baby. Did you think we was born six-feet tall? ;-D
He was, that is.
FormerLib discreetly reads the label of the Girl Scout cookie box lying next to the computer while saying nothing...
If you'll note, the iconographers have inscribed his halo with a cross so even the dull and ignorant would be able to figure it out.
What a beautiful icon — and beautiful prayer! Thanks for posting!
They stand for "Xristos Iesous", Christ Jesus.
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