It is Truly Meet To Bless Thee Iconographic | Axion Estin Hymn to the Mother of God Theotokos | Orthodox Christian Blue Denim JacketIt is truly meet to bless you, O Theotokos, ever blessed and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim, without defilement you gave birth to God the Word. True Theotokos we magnify you! "Axion Estin" Prayer to the Theotokos With the fall of the crown of creation, man, a change took place throughout the world, for sin brought all its consequences. The whole world has

With the obedience and loyalty of a dutiful servant to his Master and God

When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions

‘The world will hate you

I cry out of wrong

I am the first one who does not have it

Explanation of the Gospel According to St Luke (21:28-33)

seeing the shroud and winding cloths

for joy that a man is born into the world

- Dismissal from Vespers

and all the world is conquered

for sin brought all its consequences

and to the harassments of the devil