Through the Prayers of the Theotokos, Save Us!

Today is the Nativity of the Theotokos, and since I am such a bad Eastern Catholic in my ignorant Roman state, I forgot about it. Sometimes I wonder what my great grandmother would have done. But I think I know the answer. She would have gone to church. There should have been a mental hint for me - Immaculate Conception is December 8th...so Nativity of the Theotokos is September 8th.

Why did I not connect the eights?

(Bless me, father, for I have sinned...It's still the only way I know how to go to confession)

I have no Theological insights to impart, no apologetics to share. I have only this to say...

Without her, the Blessed Mother, the Theotokos, I would not have a voice with which to pray in the morning when I committ my children to God. And I would not hear Our Lord as clearly if His Mother was not nudging me when I am bitter or distracted and I begin to turn away...

"Do as He tells you"

I love her more than I could ever express. Without my heavenly Mother, I would not know Christ as He intends to be known. I would not have known to seek Him with all my heart. I could not have know Him if she had not said,

"Be it unto me as you have said," and then welcomed, with human hands, Emmanuel, the One who would save His people from their sins.


"Your nativity, O Mother of God, heralded joy to the whole universe, for from you rose the Sun of Justice, Christ our God, taking away the curse, He imparted the blessings, and by abolishing death, He gave us everlasting life." - Troparion, Liturgy of the Nativity of the Theotokos