service files 15aug.md

INTRODUCTION

At the end of Matins will be found the text of the Polyeleos for the feast, that is to say Psalms 44, 135 and the Selection of verses, together with the short Doxastikon and Theotokion, as sung on the Holy Mountain.

We warmly recommend a most valuable collection of patristic material concerning this feast, On the Dormition of Mary. Early Patristic Homilies, translated by Fr Brian Daley, recently published by . It contains a dozen homilies never previously fully translated into English, including the sets of three homilies by St Andrew of Crete and St John of Damascus.

ON THE 15TH OF THE MONTH

Commemoration of the Falling Asleep of our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary.