Sunday, August 15, 2010

East & West Celebrate the Dormition/Assumption of Mary the Godbearer/Theotokos

AKATHIST HYMN

In giving birth thou didst preserve thy virginity; /
in thy dormition thou didst not forsake the world, O Theotokos. /
Thou wast translated unto life, / since thou art the Mother of Life; //
and by thine intercessions dost thou deliver our souls from death.

Kontakion, Tone 2:
The grave and death could not hold the Theotokos, /
who is sleepless in her intercessions and an unfailing hope in her mediations. /
For as the Mother of Life she was translated unto life //
by Him Who dwelt in her ever-virgin womb.

Exapostilarion:
O ye Apostles from afar, being now gathered together 
here in the garden of Gethsemane, give burial to my body; 
and Thou, my Son and my God, receive Thou my spirit.

AVE MARIA

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