The Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on August 15 each year. The Feast commemorates the repose (dormition and in the Greek kimisis) or ...

and Feast of the Dormition to Orthodox Christians on the new calendar. Watch this video above — it’s Cardinal Karol Wojtyla singing Ave Maria in 1976. I had no idea Pope John Paul II had such ...

The Nativity fast begins on November 14/27, and lasts forty days. The Nativity fast is not as strict as Great Lent or the Dormition fast, and can be compared to the Apostle’s fast. It was instituted ...

Fifteenth of August today, with Orthodoxy celebrating with devoutness the Dormition Of Our Lady ... Yesterday, on the eve of the feast, the Ecumenical Patriarch celebrated Vespers in the Catholic ...