Woman surrounded by the suntranslated

Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios Hierotheos

Today we celebrate the great feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and we celebrate it brilliantly, and the Summer season and the holidays that are offered for physical rest and relaxation from the multiple activities of winter also contribute to this. Thus, the feast of the Most Holy Theotokos, our Virgin Mary, as we usually call her, urges us to see even more, as much as we can with our small powers, the glory that surrounds her, the value she has in our Church, but also the glory she has in the heavens.

Much has been written about the Most Holy Theotokos by the Fathers of the Church, who theologize about her, but also the holy hymn writers have written many hymns which we sing for her glorious person, both for the work she accomplished with the Birth of Christ, as well as now that she is in the heavens with the glory that Christ gave her, but also her embassies for all of us. Today I will interpret a vision that the Evangelist John saw and recorded in the holy book of Revelation, which shows its value and its glory.

The Evangelist John writes that he saw in...