01.09.2026
VATOPEDI MONASTERY VIDEO LIBRARY
Preparations for the feast of the Assumption of the Theotokos and Saint Joseph the Hesychast
The feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos and Saint Joseph the Hesychast was celebrated in a climate of sacred emotion at the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The beginning of the worship events was marked by the exit of the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary of Vimatarissa, which was placed in the center of the Catholicon of the Holy Monastery, for veneration and sanctification. The short Vespers and the Table followed. During the Table, Elder Ephraim and Metropolitan of Patras, Chrysostomos, referred, on the occasion of the reading of the Table, to the saintly figure of Saint Joseph the Hesychast, to the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, as well as to the Theotokophilia of the Holy Father, who, following relevant information, fell asleep as a saint on the day of the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos.