“The Christian passes in soul from transient earthly life to eternal heavenly life while awaiting the resurrection of the dead—that is, eternal life for the body as well
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“For a Christian, death is not annihilation, describing it as a passage from time into eternity. Even amid grief, the light of the Resurrection remains burning.
“Although the Mother of God passes through death and is then taken up to heaven in body as well as in soul, she remains forever present in the world through her prayers
“However much we may avoid this thought, each of us is moving towards the day when we will leave this world. But the Christian does not ask only: How will I die? The far more important question is: How do I live before I die?
“the Dormition calls every Orthodox Christian to prepare for the passage from earthly life to heavenly life
“complete salvation concerns not only the soul but also the body, through which the human person lived and acted in history
“Our faith is that, like the Mother of God, by being filled with Christ and receiving God within us, we pass from death to life.
“the Dormition is not simply a translation to heaven, but a passage from earthly, perishable life to an incorruptible existence