Οἶκος Β'
The Mystery of the Seedless Conception
Mary questions the angel Gabriel regarding the impossibility of a virginal conception.
Seeing herself pure, the Holy One says boldly to Gabriel: The strange paradox of your words seems hard for my soul to accept; for how can you speak of a conception without seed while crying, Alleluia?
Read the original Latin
Βλέπουσα ἡ Ἁγία, ἑαυτήν ἐν ἁγνείᾳ, φησὶ τῷ Γαβριὴλ θαρσαλέως· τὸ παράδοξόν σου τῆς φωνῆς, δυσπαράδεκτόν μου τῇ ψυχῇ φαίνεται· ἀσπόρου γὰρ συλλήψεως, τὴν κύησιν πῶς λέγεις κράζων· Ἀλληλούια.
Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos companion
Never lose the rhythm again
Chosen Portion delivers your morning, midday and night office to your phone — the Hours, without the bells.
Chosen Portion is a modern Book of Hours: it turns the fixed-hour structure this collection preserves into scheduled, tappable daily prayer on your phone.
- Three daily prayer moments scheduled around your real calendar, not a monastery's
- Psalms and historic prayers sequenced for you — no page-flipping or decision fatigue
- A visible streak of completed offices, so the rhythm compounds instead of collapsing