Demetriados Ignatius: "Let us hold on to the purple garment of the Blessed Virgin Mary"translated
On this fifteenth of August and throughout our lives, let us grasp the purple garment of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, let us worship her form and rejoice walking with her on the road of common salvation, urges the Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros Mr. Ignatios through his message for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The Message in detail:
"The terms of nature are defeated, in the Virgin Achrante, interest grows, and death is promised to life. the Virgin after birth and after death I live, you save your heritage, O Theotokos." (Ode i)
My dear fathers and brothers, my beloved children in the Lord.
The sunless day of humanity dawned today. Dawned the indomitable hope of the desperate, the unquenchable smile of the sorrowful, the strong support of the fallen, the cheerful consolation of the wounded, the undeniable salvation of all. In the heart of Augustus she emerges, in whose face the laws of nature are overcome and abolished. The blessed day has dawned, "one of the Sabbaths, the queen and lady", on which the Lady of earth and heaven surrenders to her son and Lord, to her God and Maker, to nurse her in...
