'Theotokos'?

[dvdjs]

Just to be a little more concrete, the most common, repeated reference in the Byzantine Divine Liturgy is not to Mary, but to:
our all-holy, immaculate, most blessed, and glorious Lady Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary .

 

[Silyosha]

Just to be a little more concrete, the most common, repeated reference in the Byzantine Divine Liturgy is not to Mary, but to:
our all-holy, immaculate, most blessed, and glorious Lady Theotokos and ever-Virgin Mary .

Just as it should be.

 

[NoWings]

I’ve noticed that some in the Orthodox church refer to Our Lady as ‘Theotokos’ or ‘the Theotokos’. I’m curious as to exactly what this means–as in, is it similar to ‘Mother of God’?. Is it okay for me, a traditionalist Catholic, to refer to Our Lady as ‘Theotokos’ or would that not be appropriate? I kind of like the sound of it but I have a very vague idea of what it means. Thanks, everyone!

If it helps you to hear it from the official source, this term is used in the Catechism:

Mary’s divine motherhood

495 Called in the Gospels “the mother of Jesus”, Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as “the mother of my Lord”.144 In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father’s eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly “Mother of God” (Theotokos).

 

[Silyosha]

If it helps you to hear it from the official source, this term is used in the Catechism:

Mary’s divine motherhood

495 Called in the Gospels “the mother of Jesus”, Mary is acclaimed by Elizabeth, at the prompting of the Spirit and even before the birth of her son, as “the mother of my Lord”.144 In fact, the One whom she conceived as man by the Holy Spirit, who truly became her Son according to the flesh, was none other than the Father’s eternal Son, the second person of the Holy Trinity. Hence the Church confesses that Mary is truly “Mother of God” (Theotokos).

That does help, thank you.