“But if her Son, God Himself, died, was buried and rose again, she too chose to die, like all of us, and to be laid in the tomb. Yet the tomb could not contain her.

“По неверию вашему; ибо истинно говорю вам: если вы будете иметь веру с горчичное зерно и скажете горей сей: „перейди отсюда туда“, и она перейдет; и ничего не будет невозможного для вас; сей же род изгоняется только молитвою и постом

“You have filled all with joy, O our Savior, by coming to save the

“Before Thy Cross we fall down in worship, O Master, and Thy holy Resurrection we glorify

“The ointments are appropriate for mortal men, but Christ has been shown to be a stranger to decay. So go and cry aloud, The Lord has risen and granted the world His great mercy.

“Your Beatitude, adorned with the noble labor of monastic life and wise archpastoral ministry, you are for all of us an example of sincere steadfastness in the Truth.

“In your Dormition, O Theotokos, you did not abandon the world.