“In the person of the Mother of God, the transition from the Old Testament to the New is already complete. She’s in the temple, and will soon herself become the Temple of the Son and Word of God. She’s a more holy Temple than the one in Jerusalem and the greatest of all Temples, that is, she is that which all of us have as our objective to become, given the premises created by the Resurrection and by the Descent of the Holy Spirit.”
(Heirodeacon Filaetos of Kalavryta)