The Church remembers on this day that the one who carried Life Himself did not see the corruption of the grave. Her departure from this life is not loss but a passing-over — *metastasis* — to her Son. The apostles, gathered by miracle from the four corners of the earth, lay her body in the tomb at Gethsemane; three days later, when Thomas arrived late, they opened it and found only her burial cloths. We will keep the feast with great vespers on the eve and a festal divine liturgy the following morning.