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Fr. Maximos (Constas)
We’re all drawn to beautiful things, and of course the beauty that inheres in all beautiful things is the beauty of the Divine. The ultimate beauty that exerts its magnetic pull on us is not a beautiful face, or landscape, or piece of music, but it is the beauty of the Divine which is refracted or reflected in these earthly beauties. “Philokalia” means the love of the beautiful.
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Paul Gilbert
The church takes its name from the eponymous Ukrainian Baroque cathedral that was built in 1718-35 in place of an earlier church commissioned by St. Mitrofan of Voronezh; it was destroyed by the Soviets in the 1950s. The existing bell tower echoes the one designed for the old cathedral built by Giacomo Quarenghi.
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Archpriest Alexander Shargunov
The Most Pure Virgin Mary’s answer is the joyful, prayerful concentration of all ages of Christian sanctity; the fate of every person, into which we are all called to delve. Let everyone who turns his mind and heart to the Lord always stand before this mystery, and with thankfulness witness the joy of today’s feast. The Annunciation has happened. Be it unto me according to thy word.
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Fr. Barnabas Powell
There are certainly great events taking place right now in politics and global affairs. I could’ve written about those. But none were as important as this simple, Lenten, daddy-daughter day.
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The services for the feast of the Annunciation present a broad and profound exegesis of the Gospel reading on the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary before she conceived in her most pure womb the incarnate Logos. The stichera and canon for the feast explain the Archangel’s greeting to the Most Holy Theotokos and her answer to this greeting (Lk. 1:26-38). Thanks to this exegesis the entire mystery and meaning of this event is presented to the faithful in all its universal significance.
