The Supplication of the Virgin Mary to Panagia Sumela in Vermiotranslated

On Sunday, August 9, in the afternoon, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Berea, Naoussa and Campania Mr. Panteleimon officiated at Vespers and the Great Prayer Rule of the Virgin at the Holy Pilgrimage of Panagia Sumela in Vermio. The Most Reverend Bishop of Domenikos, Mr. Athenagoras, concelebrated with him. The Holy Mass was broadcast nationwide by the Radio Station of the Church of Greece.

His Excellency's Speech:

"What gift shall I bring you in gratitude, because I am overjoyed, of your gifts and of your immeasurable usefulness?"

A few days separate us from the great feast of Theotokos, the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, and her pious children flock to the holy temples and monasteries that are dedicated to her grace, and they ascend in great numbers even here, in her holy mosque, in the Holy Pilgrimage of Panagia Soumela, following the holy tradition of their fathers and mothers, who gathered from all parts of the Pontus in the historic Monastery of Panagia Soumela to worship and worship the miraculous icon of their Panagia mother, to pay her their honor and respect and to express their love infinite love...