08/15/2026
The Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Today, we celebrate the feast of the Dormition (falling asleep) of the Most Holy Mother of God. As we observe this feast today, let us think about the Mother of God and her life.
She served the Lord, unbegrudgingly and unreservedly, and she did not truly understand. Her response to Archangel Gabriel and to the Lord was "let it be done to me as you please," and she continued her life in faith, blindly in human terms; truthfully and loyally in terms of her divine Son.
She set off in uncharted territory and did so for love of her God. How many times are we called to do the same? How many times in our own world are we called upon to defend our faith and easily relinquish it because of peer pressure and attempting to fit in with those around us?
The Mother of God gave up her entire life from a young girl to her death for our Lord while being human like us--she rejoiced in our Savior's birth; she lamented at His death on the Cross.
Her example shows us that faith should be a living, breathing faith, a faith of love, a faith of testament, a faith of endurance unto death. We pray that we can live by the Theotokos' example and allow our love of our faith to shine forth and to help guide those that are lost on the path of life, those that are despondent, those that are hateful and vengeful, those that proclaim to be faithful, yet seek to undermine the teachings of our faith.
Let us pray to the Theotokos so that we continue to live a life of faith, not nominally, but through everything that we do and all of the lives that we touch.
