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Sung from the first to the fifteenth of August, and at times of illness and distress, the 'Paraklesis is a supplicatory song, a canon of praise, a collection of eight odes of love, a series of poems celebrating with honor the mother of Jesus our Lord.' Father David Smith shares his own personal meditations on Mary, based on his reflections on the Paraklesis service.

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