Sunday, April 21, 2024

Example of Eastern Orthodox Opposition to the Immaculate Conception

In the Matins for “The Service of the Holy Eight Oecumenical Council” (Changed on the 1st Sunday of the month of February. A composition of Nun Thecla of Saint Stephen’s) we read:

 

Theotokion

 

Immaculate Maiden, thou in thy womb conceiv’dest Christ, surpassing all of nature’s laws, but according to nature wast thou conceived; we say, therefore, that belief in thy spotless conception is delusional. (The Divine Service of the Holy Eight Oecumenical Council Convoked in Constantinople in the Years of Our Lord 879-880 [trans. Gergory Heers; Uncut Mountain Press, 2024], 71)

 


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