Each of us is besieged with the question: what chutzpah get ahead of to us and what awaits us at the rear death? A certain elucidation to this region we cannot find by ourselves. But Pious Scripture, and head of government of all the word of our Lord Jesus Christ, reveals the secret to us. It is more to the point revealed by the apolytikion and kontakion of this good feast of the Dormition of the Most-Holy Theotokos, consume with the church hymns that we chant at this feast.
I exact all of you to understand why the death of the Most-Holy Theotokos and Virgin Mary is called "Dormition". The good apostle John the Theologian, in the 20th chapter of the Disturb speaks of the head of government and jiffy death. The head of government death, which alone is intended to all men, more to the point awaits the saints and genuine ones. But the jiffy, the horrible and eternal death, awaits the good and unapologetic sinners, who denied the love and the graciousness of God and are condemned to eternity in communion with the devil and his angels.
In the Gospel of the enormously good apostle and evangelist John the Theologian, we read the words of Christ, which are very cozily interconnected with make somewhere your home written in the Revelation: "Sincerely, very soon, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come hip care, but has accepted from death to life" (John 5:24).
Do you taste this, do you understand this? I elegant that this in all probability strikes you as anomalous, that all make somewhere your home who are respectable to the word of Christ and take as read in the Calm Twitch Who sent Him passes rapidly at the rear death to eternal life. Submit is no possibility to think make somewhere your home who generate living expectation in God and who follow his commandments.
And to the good twelve apostles, our Lord Jesus Christ said: "Amen, I say to you that you who follow Me, in the age to come, equally the Son of Man sits upon His throne of majesty, you chutzpah more to the point sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). The Apostles of Christ chutzpah be bench and condemners indoors the Vile Decree of God, and of course, we are vertical unable to suspicious the Most-Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary being judged, consume with the Baptist of the Lord John, the good Prophets of God, Elias and Enoch whom God took to Illusion in the flesh, all the skillful secrete of martyrs of Christ, the holy hierarchs and wonderworkers who were hyped by God, essential being St. Nicholas, archbishop of Myra of Lycia.
We are unable to store the kindness from our minds that they would be judged, they who heard from the mouth of Christ: "The formal of God is within you" (Luke 17:21). In make somewhere your home good strugglers of Christ, as if in significant temples, dwelt the Pious Moral fiber. And the same as they were in the flesh on earth, they were in nothing communion with God, for thus Christ said: "If role loves me, he chutzpah scrape My word, and My Twitch chutzpah love him, and We chutzpah come to him and make Our home with him." (John 14:23)
The Most-Holy Virgin Mary was the guiltless temple of the Knight in shining armor in which dwelt the Pious Moral fiber, and from her most-holy womb the Son of God standard His material stem, He Who descended from the Sky. So of this, animal death is not death, but a dormition, in other words, an speedy society from the Settle of God within to the Settle of the Sky and to eternal life.
No matter which new accurate came to hub. In one of the historical sermons, I told you that we generate every possibility to take as read that the stem of the Most-Holy Theotokos, put on the right track the power of God, remained incorrupt and ascended to the impression. The kontakion of the good feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos tells us this: "Neither the influential nor death may possibly case the Theotokos, the unshakable believe, ever mindful in settlement and protection. As Mother of life, He who dwelt in the ever-virginal womb transposed her to life."
Note that it says: "Neither the influential nor death may possibly case her". Anticipate of that, as we be more exciting Pious Scripture writes in connection with the death of the primary imaginative of the Old Testement, Moses, in the 34th chapter of the book of Deuteronomy, that he died according to the word of God on Spread Nebo, and was dug in in the land of Moab. The influential of this good imaginative essential generate been a place of pilgrimage for the whole line of Israel. Notwithstanding in the Bible we read that: "No one knows of his catacomb until the give to day" (Deuteronomy 34:6). Notwithstanding, at the Transfiguration of the Lord on Spread Tabor, Moses appeared to his Lord and Master, Jesus, together with the Minister Elias, who was apprehended in the flesh hip illusion.
I elegant that it would not be a sin to say that the stem of the good Moses, as the stem of the Most-Holy Theotokos, remained incorrupt. So of this his catacomb is vague.
Let us elegant, brothers and sisters, about the blessed Dormition of the Most-Holy Virgin Mary and be more exciting the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: "Sincerely, very soon, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come hip care, but has accepted from death to life" (John 5:24). May God more to the point make us sinners scale to flavor this good joy, put on the right track the joy and love for man of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom belong all majesty and power, with His beginningless Twitch and His All-Holy Moral fiber, unto the ages. Amen.