The commandment of the Most Holy Theotokos

The holiest of all saints - the Mother of God - fell asleep in the sleep of the earth; but as She was alive to the very depths of Her nature, so She remained alive: a living soul that ascended to the throne of God, a living and resurrected body of Her, to whom She now stands and prays for us.
Indeed, She is the throne of grace; the Living God dwelt in Her, in Her womb He was, as on the throne of His glory.
And with what gratitude, with what amazement we think of Her: the Source of life, the Life-giving Source, as the Church calls Her, the Mother of God, ends Her earthly life, surrounded by the trembling love of all.
But what does She leave us?
There is only one commandment and one wonderful example.
The commandment is the words that She said to the servants in Cana of Galilee: Whatever Christ said, do it ... And they did it; and the waters of ablution became the good wine of the kingdom of God.
She leaves this commandment to each of us: understand, each of us, the word of Christ, listen to it and do not be only a listener, but fulfill it, and then everything earthly will become heavenly, eternal, transformed and glorified ...
And She left us an example: the Gospel says about Her that every word about Christ and, of course, every word of Christ, She put into Her heart as a treasure, as the most precious thing that She had ...
We will also learn to listen in the same way that they listen with all our love and all our reverence, to listen attentively to every word of the Savior.
The Gospel says a lot; but the heart of each of us responds to one thing and then to another; and what my or your heart responded to is the word spoken by the Savior Christ to you and to me personally ...
And we need to preserve this word as a way of life, as a point of contact between us and God, as a sign of our kinship and closeness with Him.
And if we live this way, listen this way, put the word of Christ in our hearts like sowing a seed into a plowed land, then what Elizabeth said to the Mother of God when She came to her will be fulfilled over us: Blessed is she who believed, for everything will be fulfilled. spoken to you from the Lord ...
May it be with us; let the Mother of God be our example; let us accept Her only commandment, and only then will Her glorification by us be true, because then we will worship God in Her and through Her, both in spirit and in truth. Amen.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh