The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America ^

[Kolokotronis]

Synaxarion:

Concerning the Dormition of the Theotokos, this is what the Church has received from ancient times from the tradition of the Fathers. When the time drew nigh that our Savior was well-pleased to take His Mother to Himself, He declared unto her through an Angel that three days hence, He would translate her from this temporal life to eternity and bliss. On hearing this, she went up with haste to the Mount of Olives, where she prayed continuously. Giving thanks to God, she returned to her house and prepared whatever was necessary for her burial. While these things were taking place, clouds caught up the Apostles from the ends of the earth, where each one happened to be preaching, and brought them at once to the house of the Mother of God, who informed them of the cause of their sudden gathering. As a mother, she consoled them in their affliction as was meet, and then raised her hands to Heaven and prayed for the peace of the world. She blessed the Apostles, and, reclining upon her bed with seemliness, gave up her all-holy spirit into the hands of her Son and God. With reverence and many lights, and chanting burial hymns, the Apostles took up that God-receiving body and brought it to the sepulchre, while the Angels from Heaven chanted with them, and sent forth her who is higher than the Cherubim. But one Jew, moved by malice, audaciously stretched forth his hand upon the bed and immediately received from divine judgment the wages of his audacity. Those daring hands were severed by an invisible blow. But when he repented and asked forgiveness, his hands were restored. When they had reached the place called Gethsemane, they buried there with honor the all-immaculate body of the Theotokos, which was the source of Life. But on the third day after the burial, when they were eating together, and raised up the artos (bread) in Jesus' Name, as was their custom, the Theotokos appeared in the air, saying "Rejoice" to them. From this they learned concerning the bodily translation of the Theotokos into the Heavens.

These things has the Church received from the traditions of the Fathers, who have composed many hymns out of reverence, to the glory of the Mother of our God.

Apolytikion in the First Tone

In birth, you preserved your virginity; in death, you did not abandon the world, O Theotokos. As mother of life, you departed to the source of life, delivering our souls from death by your intercessions.

Kontakion in the Second Tone

Neither the grave nor death could contain the Theotokos, the unshakable hope, ever vigilant in intercession and protection. As Mother of life, He who dwelt in the ever-virginal womb transposed her to life.

[Mr Rogers]

As an adult? Not really. On the whole, he acts dismissive of her, not adoring.

[narses]

Really? An odd view of Our Lord dishonoring His Mother.

What were His last words to Mary and about Her?

[narses]

[Petronski]

What does the last verse of +John’s gospel say, d?

In its own way, it says sola Scriptura is false.

[Petronski]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Nestorian heresy:

Jesus, the 2nd part of the Trinity had no mother...

[wagglebee]

No doubt the Nestorians rejected your religion long before 431 AD...I'll take the side of the Nestorians...

So, you DO NOT believe our Lord, Jesus Christ was fully man and fully God?

Which part WASN'T He?

[wagglebee]

Read post #27.

[Petronski]

I'll take the side of the Nestorians...

Rejecting the God-given gifts of logic and common sense will do that to a man.

[jude24]

don’t delude yourself into believing that those Greek bishops who canonized the books of the NT allowed ANYTHING into their canonized scripture which conflicted with what they preserved as Holy Tradition.

I agree with this. The part that makes me still Protestant, however, is this question: How do you determine what is valid "holy tradition"?

As a Protestant, I don't have an answer.

[Petronski]

Yeah, it’s amazing, isn’t it? And sad.

[wagglebee]

At least they are now acknowledging that their hatred come from embracing the Nestorian heresy.

[Petronski]

If hatred of the Catholic Church requires embracing Nestorius, so be it.

Whatever it takes, right?

[wagglebee]

If hatred of the Catholic Church requires embracing Nestorius, so be it.

What they fail to understand is that embracing Nestorianism requires REJECTING our Lord, Jesus Christ, because if He isn't fully man and fully God, He isn't eternal.

[Iscool]

So, you DO NOT believe our Lord, Jesus Christ was fully man and fully God?

Not BEFORE He was born in the flesh...

[Petronski]

We’re all familiar with the Nestorian heresy. No need to explain it further.

[Iscool]

Rejecting the God-given gifts of logic and common sense will do that to a man.

Just because God gave the ability doesn't mean that you have figured out how to use it...

Even then, it doesn't apply to the scriptures...

[Iscool]

What they fail to understand is that embracing Nestorianism requires REJECTING our Lord, Jesus Christ, because if He isn't fully man and fully God, He isn't eternal.

Was God eternal before he became God in the flesh???

[Iscool]

We’re all familiar with the Nestorian heresy. No need to explain it further.

And they were familiar with the Roman heresy...That's why they remained Nestorian...And that's why your side tried to kill them off...

[Petronski]

Sliding into ad hominem so soon?

[Petronski]

And they were familiar with the Roman heresy...

What an interesting epithet for Christianity.