On the Theotokos in the Upper Room
Our liturgical celebration today is again a “station liturgy”—the station of the Sunday after the Ascension of Jesus, that is, day three of nine that the 120 apostles were in the Upper Room before Pentecost, we are drawn into the Upper Room, as if were are among the 120 apostles worshiping, as Saint Luke says at the end of his Gospel account, “with great joy, continually in the temple praising and blessing God.” It was liturgy, it was fellowship—as it is in every Christian temple ever since, including our Christian temple, under the patronage of S. Paul here. This is how we put ourselves into…
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