On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies #18

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1998
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: viii + 269
Dimensions (l × w × h): 18.4 cm × 12.7 cm × 2.0 cm
ISBN-10: 0‒88141‒177‒9
ISBN-13: 978‒0‒88141‒177‒5

   
Translation and Introduction by Brian E. Daley, S.J.

Number 18 of Popular Patristics Series

“This collection brings together, in English translation, the earliest extant theological interpretations of the story and the liturgical celebration of Mary’s Dormition: her serene and holy death, and her entry, in the fullness of her humanity, into the divine glory of her risen Son. [...T]hey are important for contemporary Christians in a number of ways: as clues to the original understanding of a feast whose origins are obscure, but which has been solemnly celebrated by the Eastern and Western Churches since the end of the Patristic era; as theological reflections on the meaning, for Christian faith and hope, of Mary and her death; and as works of moving piety and high rhetorical art, representing both the peculiarly poetic character of ancient Christian literature on Mary, and the particular solemnity and importance of the Dormition festival.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

Introduction
The Dormition of Our Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgon Mary
   By John, Archbishop of Thessalonica
An Encomium on the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God
   By Theoteknos, Bishop of Livias
An Encomium on the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, Mary, Mother of God and Ever-Virgin
   By Our Father the Holy Modestus, Archbishop of Jerusalem
On the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God
   By St. Andrew of Crete
On the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God
   By St. Andrew of Crete
On the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God
   By St. Andrew of Crete
On the Most Venerable Dormition of the Holy Mother of God
   By Our Holy Father Germanus, Archbishop of Constantinople
An Encomium on the Holy and Venerable Dormition of Our Most Glorious Lady, the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary
   By Our Father St. Germanus, Archbishop of Constantinople
On the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God
   By John, Lowly Monk and Sinner, Servant of the Servants of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Old Lavra
On the Holy and Glorious Dormition and Transformation of Our Lady Mary, Mother of God and Ever-Virgin
   By Our Holy Father John, Monk of Damascus and Son of Mansour
Appendix I: Euthymiac History
A Discourse on the Dormition of Our Lady, the Mother of God
   By John of Damascus, Monk and Presbyter
Canon for the Dormition of the Mother of God
(Tone IV)
Appendix II: Metrical Pattern, Canon for the Dormition
Encomium on the Dormition of Our holy Lady, the Mother of God
   By St. Theodore the Studite
Index
index of Scriptural References