Our sister churches also celebrate today, August 15th, the death and resurrection of the body of the Holy Mother of God under the name The Dormition (falling asleep).
Above is their icon - a window into heavenly truth - for today's Feast, for your meditations today; below is their traditional story.
downloaded from https://www.goarch.org/dormition
They traditionally use the Divine Liturgy composed by St. John Chrysostom today, as it is a Great Feast in their tradition as well as our own. The following two prayers from today's liturgy were downloaded from the oca.org website:
In giving birth, you preserved your virginity. In falling asleep you did not forsake the world, O Theotokos. You were translated to life, O Mother of Life, and by your prayers, you deliver our souls from death (Troparion).
Neither the tomb, nor death, could hold the Theotokos, who is constant in prayer and our firm hope in her intercessions. For being the Mother of Life, she was translated to life, by the One who dwelt in her virginal womb (Kontakion).
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