Gregory the Arachno Crusher

Thou didst shatter the weapons of false believers, holy bishop, destroying the arrogance of Barlaam and the powers of the heretics, as a large rock destroys a spider’s web.
Canon, Second Sunday of Lent (St. Gregory Palamas)

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On the Dormition

But after that unutterable nourishment [of being raised in the temple], a most mystical economy of courtship came to pass as regards the Virgin, a strange greeting surpassing speech which the Archangel, descended from above, addressed to her, and disclosures and salutations from God which overturn the condemnation of Eve and Adam and remedy the [...]

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She who is more honorable than the Cherubim

… while she alone stood between God and the whole human race, God became the Son of Man and made men sons of God; she made earth heavenly, she deified the human race, and she alone of all women was shown forth to be a mother by nature and the Mother of God transcending every [...]

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