Prayers to Our Lady East and West

Deacon David Lochbihler

• Publisher: Orthodox Logos
• Year: 1905
• eBook ISBN: 9781914337109
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

I learned about the Blessed Virgin Mary as a child attending a superb Roman Catholic grade school and as a teenager studying at an excellent Catholic high school. My friendship with Our Lady was nurtured at the University of Notre Dame and deepened throughout my adult life. Later as a Wesleyan pastor, I missed the Virgin Mary as an intimate and important part of my life. Finally coming home, called in significant part by my yearning for Our Lady, I fell in love with the Theotokos as a Deacon in the Orthodox Church. This book offers a researched comparative analysis of the Eastern Prayer Rule of the Theotokos and the Western Rosary. Deacon David Lochbihler currently serves at Saint Patrick's Orthodox Church in Bealeton, Virginia. He teaches fourth grade at The Fairfax Christian School in Northern Virginia. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law. Deacon David worked as a Chicago attorney for three years before becoming a teacher and coach. He also earned Master's degrees in Elementary Education, Biblical Studies, and Applied Orthodox Theology. His varsity high school basketball and soccer teams captured four N.V.I.A.C. conference championships.

Notes

Introduction

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Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Through the Centuries (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996), 55.

Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church (London: Penguin Books, 1997), 257-258.

Andrew Louth, “John of Damascus on the Mother of God as a Link Between Humanity and God,” Chap. 10 in The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium, ed. Leslie Brubaker and Mary Cunningham (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2011), 154.

Mary Christine Athans, In Quest of the Jewish Mary (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2013), 27.

Andrew Gary Podolak, “Most Holy Theotokos, Save Us,” Master’s thesis, Balamand University, 2015, 12.

Luigi Gambero, Mary and the Fathers of the Church: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999), 153.

Brian K. Reynolds, Gateway to Heaven: Marian Doctrine and Devotion Image and Typology in the Patristic and Medieval Period, vol. 1 (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2012), 54.

Miri Rubin, Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2009), 27.

John Anthony McGuckin, The Harp of Glory: Enzira Sebhat (Yonkers, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2010), 63.

Jacob of Serug, On the Mother of God (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1998), 41.

Robert L. Fastiggi, “The Immaculate Conception: Historical and Ecumenical Perspectives,” in De Maria Numquam Satis: The Significance of the Catholic D...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Prayer Rule of the Theotokos
• The Rosary
• Theological Reflection
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Notes