Circular of the fifteenth of August 2026translated

No. Prot. 1.927/F.5.1 In Kissamos, on July 9, 2026

TO:

The Holy Clergy, the Monastic Brotherhoods

and the pious and God-loving people

of the Provinces of Kissamos and Selinos

"She of the heavens above, and of the Cherubim within,

and of all creation more honorable, or because they exaggerate purity,

of the essence of the serpent born, in the hands of the Son,

today, on the feast day, a soul is offered,

and with her the universes of joy are filled,

and we are given the great mercy".

(Praise of St. John of Damascus, at the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

Dear children of Our Lady,

Our Virgin Mary's love requires us to celebrate Her Ascension and Ascension to Heaven again this year, as Her Ascension does not mark the end of Her presence in the world, but Her transition "toward life", where she continues to intercede in favor of the world. In other words, to be a refuge for every suffering soul. Saint John the Damascene, in his famous speech "in the Dormition", proclaims that the Virgin "moved to true life", because She who entered the Life-giver could not be kept from the decay of death. And the saint...