Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God

Today, the "second day" of the traditional 12-day long Nativity (Christmas) celebration, is, traditionally, marked by the Orthodox Church as "Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God." During the famous "Christological" debates of the 4th-5th centuries, it was painstakingly slowly, yet convincingly, established that the two natures of Christ, Divine and human, are united in His ONE person (as opposed to the Nestorian heresy, which claimed that there existed two completely different persons of Christ). Therefore, once and forever, regardless of how this can strike a human mind, an obscure, humble teenage girl from Galilee called Mariam, the daughter of Joachim and Hannah, is the Mother of God; and, as St. John of Damascus and other Orthodox theologians explain, God the Word created His humanity not from nothing, but FROM HER. Like we would say today, the eternal Logos created His own humanity from Her DNA.:) "Tin Ontos Theotokon, Se megalinomen!"

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