The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary - Troparion & Kontakion

Troparion — Tone 1

In giving birth, you preserved your virginity, / and in falling asleep you did not forsake the world, O Theotokos. / You passed into life as the Mother of Life, / and by your prayers, you deliver our souls from death.

Kontakion — Tone 2

Neither the tomb, nor death had power over the Theotokos, / who is unsleeping1 in her intercessions and an unchanging hope in her protection. / For as the Mother of Life, / she was translated into life by Him who dwelt in her ever-virginal womb.


1 Unsleeping (ἀκοίμητος in Greek), which is a poetic contrast to the name of the Feast (Κοίμησις), the Dormition, or Falling Asleep.