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Feastday Epistles and Gospels | Dormition of the Virgin Mary

Now as they went on their way, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha received Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to His teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to […]

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 11 monthsAugust 15, 2024 ago
The Prayer Team

The Five Feasts of the Virgin Mary | GLORY—The Dormition of the Virgin Mary

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted. Psalm 8:1 The Feast of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15, preceded by a fourteen-day period of preparation and fasting. For this past week, we’ve discussed […]

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 11 monthsAugust 13, 2024 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

A Transition to Life: The Dormition of the Mother of God

Elder Ephraim of Arizona †   Every time we celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God, it’s as if we’re having Easter – the Easter of the summer. Our Lady the Mother of God prepares Easter for us. A glorious crossing “from death to life”. A second Easter, holy […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
The Prayer Team

Dormition of the Virgin Mary

Now as they went on their way, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha received Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to His teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to […]

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 2 yearsAugust 15, 2023 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

The Holy Dormition of our Most Pure Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary

Saint Gregory Palamas   If ‘the death of the saints is precious and the memory of the righteous is blessed’, with how much greater praise should we keep the memory of the ‘saint of the saints’ through whom the whole of sanctity came to them, that is the memory of […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsAugust 14, 2023 ago
Articles

The Holy Monastery of Iviron is dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin

Monk Chariton of Karoulia   The monastery was founded in 980 by the Iberian noble and distinguished general John Thornic, who essentially enlarged and renamed the old monastery of Clementos granted to him by the emperor Basil II. Of this earlier monastery’s only part of the katholikon seems to have […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsAugust 13, 2023 ago
Pemptousia Partnership

The Dormition of the Mother of God: a liturgical approach

Ioannis Foundoulis   The feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God is celebrated on August 15 by the Christian world and is the greatest of those established by the Church in honour of the Mother of the Lord. It may be the oldest of all. The first evidence […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsAugust 12, 2023 ago
Articles

The Dormition of the Mother of God – Transition to Life [2]

Elder Efraim, Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, the Holy Mountain   After the Lord’s Resurrection, it was Our Most Holy Lady who was the support of the Apostles and the newly-founded Church of Christ. It was she who taught the new Christians, guided them and comforted […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsAugust 15, 2022 ago
Articles

The Dormition of the Mother of God – Transition to Life

Elder Efraim, Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, the Holy Mountain   Every time we celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God it’s as though we have Easter again. The summer Easter. Our Lady the Mother of God prepares Easter for us. A glorious crossing ‘from […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsAugust 14, 2022 ago
Articles

The Dormition Fast

From the 1st to the 14th of August we fast in honor of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God. It’s a strict fast, with fish eaten only on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Savior (6 August). If 15 August falls on a Wednesday or Friday there […]

By Pemptousia Partnership, 3 yearsAugust 1, 2022 ago
The Prayer Team

Dormition of the Virgin Mary

Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to […]

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 4 yearsAugust 15, 2021 ago
The Prayer Team

Dormition of St. Anna (July 25)

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise. Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is form Mount […]

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 4 yearsJuly 24, 2021 ago

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