Scripture Readings for the Liturgical Feasts of the Most Holy Theotokos

with the titles and images given to her by the Church's Tradition

• Genesis 28:10-17:  Jacob's Dream; Mary as the ladder from earth to Heaven
• Exodus 3:1-8: Mary the bush burned but not consumed
• Exodus 40:1-5, 9-10, 16, 34-35, I Kings 7:51, 8:1, 3-4, 5, 6-7, 9-11, Hebrews 9:1-7:  Ark of the Covenant, Tabernacle, Jar of Manna, Veil of the Temple, Rod of Aaron, Temple never to be destroyed
• Ezekiel 43:27-44:3: The gate facing East, which will remain shut, and no man except the Prince will enter or leave by it
• Proverbs 9:1-11:  Wisdom has built herself a house
• Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28:  (Scriptural reading at liturgies of all feasts of the Theotokos), Martha & Mary (the one thing needful), "blessed are they rather who hear the word of God and keep it."
• Luke 1:24-28:  The Annunciation
• Luke 1:39-49, 56:  Visitation with Elizabeth, the Magnificat

More titles and images for the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary are to be found within the Church's hymnography for the feasts.  See also the service of the Akathist to the Theotokos (www.monachos.net/other/Akathist_to_Theotokos.html)