These consist of the Great Paraklesis and the Small Paraklesis, both services of supplication and prayer for the intercessions of the Theotokos. The Feast of the Dormition is celebrated with the ...

Your birth, O Theotokos, brought joy to the whole world ... They remained faithful to God, but their prayers for a child were unanswered. One day, when Joachim came to the temple to make an offering, ...

The Theotokos heard the prayers of those who had faith in her. At the same time when people were meeting the icon on banks of the Moscow River, Tamerlane lay sleeping in his tent. He saw a vision – ...

Prayers at the Graveside Aside from the time of mourning, the month of November, including especially All Saints' day and All Souls' day, is a traditional time for visiting graves, as is the ...

“The icon begins in prayer, stays in prayer, and ends in prayer,” Crombie ... With Our Lady, she is the Theotokos, the ...

It was in A.D. 431, at the Third Ecumenical Council, in Ephesus, that she was officially named Theotokos ... who advocated going straight to God in prayer. But Mary gained millions of new Catholic ...

A family that prays together, stays together. May our Lord, through the prayers of the Holy Theotokos and our Father St. Theodosius, help us! Firefighters at one point, according to the department ...

A family that prays together, stays together. May our Lord, through the prayers of the Holy Theotokos and our Father St. Theodosius, help us! Firefighters at one point, according to the department ...

Some Christians practise meditational prayer. In this type of prayer, a worshipper thinks deeply about God, on their own and in silence. Some Christians, including Quakers, meditate together ...

Christians talk to God through prayer: We see examples of children's prayers and how and when they pray. Children talk about asking for guidance, being grateful, asking for help and how praying ...