Our Morning Offering – 2 May – “Mary’s Month” – Saturday of the Third Week of Easter, the Memorial of St Athanasius (c 295-373) – Father and Doctor of the Church, “The Father of Orthodoxy”
Mary, Mother of Grace
St Athanasius (297-373) Father & Doctor
It becomes you to be mindful of us,
as you stand near Him who granted you all graces,
for you are the Mother of God and our Queen.
Help us for the sake of the King,
the Lord God and Master, who was born of you.
For this reason,
you are called full of grace.
Remember us, most holy Virgin,
and bestow on us gifts
from the riches of your graces,
Virgin full of graces.
Amen
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“No learned man will judge that this discourse is spurious, when the discrepancy between his style and that of Athanasius is more glaring than the sun. For the speech of Athanasius is clear and pure: on the contrary, that of this writer is so perplexed and obscure that it is scarcely understandable: which is, says Tullius, a fault or the greatest in speech. To this trifle there appear here very many things, unworthy of any sagacious man, not to say Athanasius, such as that unsound etymology of the word οὐσία, from ἰσία, and others of the same kind: and many words unknown to Athanasius, such as those, Θεουπόστατος, άνθρωυπόστατος, άρχίθεος and ύπεράρχιος, and others which this writer has brought here for the sake of the brevity of the work; so that it smells of a completely inferior Greekness. And of course, those about the hypostasis of Christ. And he argues subtly about the two natures in Christ, they suggest that he wrote after the synods of Ephesus and Chalcedon. He also uses the very words of these synods in the places to be noted below. But since he discusses the two wills in Christ, they seem to argue that he lived after the widespread heresy of the Monothelites. But I would like to add Baronius’ dissertation on this matter, transmitted to us by our brothers in Rome, here. That most illustrious writer of the Annals, when he read the Latin version of Nannius, which is clearer than the text of Gracchus, did not notice the astonishing perplexity of the style.” J.P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca (Volume 28, column 940)
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“It becomes you to be mindful of us, as you stand near Him Who granted you all graces, for you are the Mother of God and our Queen. Help us for the sake of the King, the Lord God Master Who was born of you. For this reason, you are called “full of Grace”…” – Pseudo-Athanasius, Sermon on the Annunciation of the Mother of God (c. 700+)
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