Candida whispered her prayers, the same way she did when our pilgrims group attended Masses in every church we visited in Israel days before, and asked the intercession of the Blessed Mother to ...

Paraklesis services are performed by most Grek Orthodox parishes worldwide on weekdays before the Feast, which consists of supplication and prayer for the intercessions of the Theotokos. A Great ...

in the hopes of bringing the Great Western Schism to an end through the intercession of Mary. The feast actually originated in Byzantium when the Gospel account of Mary’s visit to her cousin ...

Day of Defenders and Defendresses of Ukraine usually is marked on the day of the Intercession of the Theotokos. This year it is celebrated for the first time on October 1. (Photo by Les Kasyanov ...

Above the Golden Gate, the gate church of the Most Holy Theotokos was built that served as the heavenly protection of the city. The sky above us today is protected by the air defense forces and all ...

The Orthodox Church honors today the church feast of Pokrov Bogorodichen. The feast is both named The Protection of the Theotokos, or The Intercession of the Theotokos as in most Slavic languages, the ...

This news report also hinted that Putin visited the icons at his local village church, the Intercession of the Theotokos Church, where his parents were baptized. In this mystical way, Putin tied ...

a priest at Intercession of the Theotokos Orthodox Cathedral. “If there are pro-Russians in Lviv they are few and silent. The number of Orthodox Church of Ukraine churches is increasing ...