Mother of the Light: Prayers to the Theotokos theology motivated by deep respect for

motivated by deep respect for these revered saints and devotion to those martyred during the communist persecution of the 20th century

and dignity in a world where these are increasingly under threat

but also his feet and his eyes—he did all these things understanding that God had sent him an angel to teach him the spiritual life

and in the desert monasteries they developed into the daily prayers of the Church that we still use today

Mother of the Light: Prayers to the Theotokos theology motivated by deep respect forMother of the Light, translated by the V. Rev. Archimandrite Maximos Constas, is a collection of 13 prayers and 3 canons to the Mother of God. The prayers, originally written in Greek, are ascribed to St Ephraim the Syrian (and are the first published English translations of the Greek Ephraim in 300 years). The canons are the works of St Theodore the Studite, St Methodios of Constantinople, and St John of Euchaita (Mauropous). The prayers and canons