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Today is the Leavetaking of the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos Into the Temple. I would like to share a wonderful passage from the book by Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou, MARIAM - The Mother of the Lord and Mother of Our Life. It is a fitting passage, indeed, as we continue our movement toward the Feast of the Incarnation of the Word of God:
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The fall of our forefather did not bring to nought God's will for the creation of His reasonable creature. For centuries God looked down from heaven to see if there was one person who would 'do righteousness' and cooperate with Him as His minister in the great work of the salvation of mankind. He needed someone whose spiritual state corresponded as closely as possible to the divine state, which is the prerequisite for grace to dwell in the heart of man. Such was the state of the Mother of God. Her utter purity and selfless love for God was commensurate with the unfathomable measure of grace that would come to dwell within her. When God perceived the supernatural humility and purity in the godly child Mariam, 'He bowed the heavens and came down.'
