An Exposition of the Teaching of the Orthodox Church Concerning the Mother of God (Part 5)

Thus did the Apostles cry out when they beheld the Mother of God appearing to them at her falling asleep. The Menaion Reader, 15 August

See the explanation of this circumstance in “The Commentary”

According to the explanation of the holy John of the Ladder

Thus did the blessed elder Seraphim of Sarov also explain

An Account of the Falling Asleep of the Most Holy Mother of God. The Menaion Reader, 15 August

To the blessed Seraphim of Sarov

Drawn from the Akathist to the Mother of God