PS Varlaam Ploieșteanul about the Ascension of the Mother of God: It is a joy of life, a declaration of our hope in the resurrectiontranslated

"The song that we performed tonight, from one end to the other, is a joy of life, it is a declaration of our hope in the resurrection of each of us and in the resurrection of the communities," said the Patriarchal Vicar Bishop Varlaam Ploieșteanul at the Patriarchal Cathedral on Friday evening.

His Eminence officiated the Vespers service, followed by Matins, during which the Prohod of the Mother of God was sung.

The patriarchal vicar bishop explained that this prohod is more than a song of lamentation.

"It is a testimony of the holiness of the Mother of God, whom we call more honorable than the cherubim and more magnified without comparison than the seraphim."

"It is also a song through which we confess the divinity of the One who was born from it, our Savior Jesus Christ. It is a song of praise dedicated to the Mother of God, it is a song of prayer, because through many of these works, we ask the Mother of God to protect the Church, to protect all the faithful and to protect those who sing this prohod and sing to the Mother To God," added the hierarch.

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