The Theotokos Message of Archbishop Makarios of Australiatranslated

The Most Reverend Archbishop of Australia Mr. Makarios, in his Message for the Mother of God feast of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, addresses the paternal exhortation to turn our gaze with trust to the Virgin Mary in the difficulties, trials and anxieties of our lives. "The Virgin Mary knows human pain", he underlines, as "she knew refuge, agony, silence, contempt, injustice, slander and, above all, the pain of the Cross of her Son". "That's why he can understand every tear", he points out, "every fear and every wound of the human heart. Our Lady can hear the silent cry of every suffering soul."

The entire Message of the Reverend Archbishop Mr. Makarios:

Venerable brother co-bishops and my dear children,

The great feast of the Assumption of the Virgin gathers us again around the holy face of our Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Lord and Mother of all Christians. Today the Church does not mourn a death, but celebrates a transition; it does not mourn a separation, but celebrates the transition from the temporal to the eternal, from earth to heaven, from decay to incorruption, from the futility of...