What an amazing paradox! While this Feast is called the “Falling Asleep of the Theotokos,” in reality, it’s a celebration of her life and her victory over death.
Jesus promised to make them fishers of men. In the journey that lay ahead of them, He would show them the risk that comes with faith, as the essential element of love.
If only we could know what we are meant to do and be in life. Why is discovering our purpose so perplexing? How do we come to realize what God intends for each of us?
Fifty days after Christ’s resurrection, the Holy Spirit was poured into a frail group of a hundred and twenty disciples who had gathered together in an upper room in Jerusalem that day. How could such frail people become such powerful witnesses?
They gladly went down and began digging. Excited to know that not only were they improving each other’s lot, but also the lives of so many others who might have been struggling like they had.