Monday, August 15, 2011

Did You Know Series # 17

Dormition of the Theotokos
Did You Know?

“One important way to grow in mutual understanding and unity consists precisely in improving our knowledge of one another.  The children of the Catholic Church already know the ways indicated by the Holy See for achieving this: to know the liturgy of the Eastern Churches; to deepen their knowledge of the spiritual traditions of the Fathers and Doctors of the Christian East” (Orientale Lumen 24, Pope John Paul II).

The Feast of the Dormition of Mary and her Assumption into heaven was a feast of the East long before the Roman Catholic church accepted it.