In Praise of the Righteous Parents of Blessed Mary
A Reading from a Homily by Kosmas Vestitor, a Byzantine lay preacher who lived in Constantinople and died circa 850.
Today is the day that offers thanksgiving to the progenitors of the Theotokos, through whom the beginning of salvation for everyone has come about. Indeed, the festival of the parents is that of the daughter. For just as a child is glorified too in the glory of its mother, so also is a mother glorified in the blessing of a child. Today there is happiness in remembering the righteous with speeches of praise. It came to pass in times of old that there was a righteous man from the…
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