Favorite Marian Title?

[RileyG]

Madonna, Mother of God, star of the sea

 

[JM]

Saint Mary.

 

[George95]

• Bride of God
• Protection of Christians
• All Spotless One

 

[RileyG]

Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes

[if those count]

Mother, most pure

 

[Clare73]

Madonna, Mother of God, star of the sea

"Highly favored, the LORD is with you."

 

[RileyG]

"Highly favored, the LORD is with you."

Amen!

 

[All4Christ]

Lady Full of Grace

(This makes me think of one of my absolute favorite hymns for the Theotokos, coming up in just a few months at Pascha!)

 

[Ohorseman]

Woman.

Jesus called her that. Pope Francis called her that. It was the name that Adam first gave his wife (AFTER the Fall he re-named her Eve). Satan has worked hard to degrade that name and title, to make it demeaning, a way to reduce. We should restore it to its high and holy place, in the manner that Adam used it before the Fall and how Christ used it.

God created us in His image, male and female He created us. Satan wants to deface that holy image by defining man in degrading ways and woman in degrading ways. We need to stop listening to Satan and his wicked ones.

 

[George95]

Lady Full of Grace

(This makes me think of one of my absolute favorite hymns for the Theotokos, coming up in just a few months at Pascha!)

The angel cried to the Lady Full of Grace: Rejoice, O Pure Virgin!
Again I say: Rejoice!
Your Son is risen from His three days in the tomb!
With Himself He has raised all the dead!
Rejoice, all you people!

Shine! Shine! O New Jerusalem!
The Glory of the Lord has shone on you!
Exalt now and be glad, O Zion!
Be radiant, O Pure Theotokos,
in the Resurrection of your Son!

The Angel Cried | St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church of Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Megalynarion of Pascha

www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org

 

[joymercy]

1) Virgin Most Powerful

2) Our Lady of Sorrows

 

[The Liturgist]

The angel cried to the Lady Full of Grace: Rejoice, O Pure Virgin!
Again I say: Rejoice!
Your Son is risen from His three days in the tomb!
With Himself He has raised all the dead!
Rejoice, all you people!

Shine! Shine! O New Jerusalem!
The Glory of the Lord has shone on you!
Exalt now and be glad, O Zion!
Be radiant, O Pure Theotokos,
in the Resurrection of your Son!

The Angel Cried | St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church of Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Megalynarion of Pascha

www.stmaryorthodoxchurch.org

Indeed, that is one of my favorite hymns.

By the way, there are now at least four versions of the Pentecostarion available on line, one using the /// notation for Byzantine chant (I forget where, but I can try to find it), one from St. Sergius Russian Orthodox Church (which also has an octoechos, triodion, and monthly menaion), one in contemporary language from Archimandrite Ephrem, memory eternal (whose website with liturgical texts is preserved on the Internet Archive), and also most recently the St. John of Kronstadt Pentecostarion which I also own in hardcopy form.

So if anyone is looking to bolster their liturgical library whether with Eastern Orthodox liturgical material or other liturgical material, feel free to send me a PM and I can link you to the different projects, some of which are the result of efforts to create automated software for keeping track of propers, and are also on github. I recently encountered a veritable treasure trove of material pertaining to the Mozarabic Rite, which is of interest from a Catholic, Anglican, and particularly the Western Rite Orthodox due to its similarities with the Byzantine Rite (a shared characteristic of the Gallican Rites; I would note the Roman Rite also had similarities to our liturgy, particularly in the Paschal Triduum, due to the influence of St. Gregory the Dialogist, until the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII in the 1950s).

 

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[George95]

Anyone else have any other titles?