Great Prayer Rule to the Most Holy Theotokos in the Holy Monastery of Panagia Paplinou, Ierapetratranslated

The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Ierapytni and Sitia, Mr. Kyrillos, officiated during the Vespers Service and the Great Canon of Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, blessed the bread and preached the divine word in the once-shining Holy Monastery of Panagia Paplinou of the Parish of Vainia, Ierapetra on Tuesday afternoon August 4, 2026. After the blessing of the offered breads, His Eminence Metropolitan Mr. Kyrillos spoke in a simple and direct manner to the pilgrims, who came reverently and worshiped in the historic monastery, referring to the personal contribution of the Virgin Mother of our Lord to the salvation of the world, as a vessel of election, as well as to her gifts, and above all to her excessive purity, to obedience her to the will of God and to her deep humiliation.

As the Most Holy Theotokos emphasized, she is our heavenly and spiritual Mother, the consolation in our sorrows, the plea to the bereaved, the protector of Christians, the cure for the sick, the hope of the desperate, the refuge, the willing and quick help of all of us.

Concluding, His Holiness, after emphasizing that the site of the Monastery is sanctified by the blood of the martyrs...