Mama wa Mungu

Katika nakshi hii iliyopo kwenye Basilika la Hagia Sofia, huko Istanbul herufi za Kigiriki ΜΡ ΘΥ zinamaanisha Mama wa Mungu.

Mwaka wa liturujia
Magharibi
Majilio Krismasi Kipindi cha Noeli Mama wa Mungu Epifania Ubatizo wa Bwana Kwaresima Siku tatu kuu za Pasaka Pasaka Kipindi cha Pasaka Kupaa Bwana Pentekoste Kugeuka sura Kipindi cha kawaida
Mashariki
Sikukuu ya msalaba Mfungo wa Krismasi Krismasi Epifania Kwaresima kuu Pasaka Pentekoste Mfungo wa Mitume Sherehe kuu Kugeuka sura Kulala kwa Mama wa Mungu Ulinzi wa Mama wa Mungu

Mama wa Mungu (kwa Kigiriki Θεοτόκος, Theotókos; kwa Kilatini Deipara au Dei genetrix, yaani Mzaa Mungu) ni sifa kuu ya Bikira Maria mama wa Yesu Kristo.

Msingi wa imani hiyo

Kwa kuwa wafuasi wa Yesu wanasadiki kuwa yeye ni Mungu sawa na Baba, wengi wao wanakubali kuwa aliyemzaa kama binadamu anastahili kuitwa Mama wa Mungu.

Dogma

Sifa hiyo ilianza kutumika katika karne ya 2 labda Misri, ikathibitishwa na Mtaguso wa Efeso (431).

Heshima katika sala

Kwa namna ya pekee, Maria anapewa sifa hiyo katika sala ya Salamu Maria, iliyo maarufu zaidi kati ya sala za magharibi kwa mama wa Yesu.

Adhimisho katika liturujia

Sikukuu yake inaadhimishwa na Kanisa Katoliki linalofuata mapokeo ya Kanisa la Roma tarehe 1 Januari, siku ya nane (Oktava) ya Noeli, lakini Wakatoliki wengine wanaiadhimisha siku tofauti, kwa mfano huko Milano ni Jumapili kabla ya Noeli.

Picha

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  Theotokos of Vladimir

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  Panachranta Theotokos, illumination from the Gertrude Psalter.

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  Mother of God, mosaic icon, Hagia Sophia

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  Theotokos of St. Theodore

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  The Iveron Theotokos (Iverskaya), an 11th century Russian icon based on the 10th-century Hodegetria type, Iviron Monastery, Mount Athos.

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  Theotokos Panachranta from Svensky Monastery, by St. Alypios of Kiev

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  mosaic (ca 1130), Gelati Monastery, Georgia

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  Blachernae Icon of the Theotokos

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  Russian icon painted after the fall of the Soviet Union in the pre-Petrine style

Marejeo

• Sirili wa Aleksandria, On the Unity of Christ, John Anthony McGuckin, trans. ISBN 0-88141-133-7
• McGuckin, John Anthony, St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy (1994, and reprinted 2004) ISBN 0-88141-259-7 A full description of the events of Third Ecumenical Council and the people and issues involved.
• John wa Shanghai na San Francisco,""The Orthodox Veneration of Mary, The Birth Giver of God"(2004, Sixth Printing, Third Edition). ISBN 0-938635-68-9
• Ware, Bishop Kallistos, "The Orthodox Way" (1979, Revised Edition, 1995, and reprinted 1999). ISBN 0-913836-58-3
• Maunder, Chris (ed.), The Origins of the Cult of the Virgin Mary , (2008, burns & oates/continuumbooks). ISBN 978-0-86012-456-6

Viungo vya nje

• Theotokos article on the Orthodox Wiki
• Resources on the Theotokos
• Study of the Mother of the Lord the All-Holly Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary by St. Nectarios (in Greek)