The Orthodox holiday Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos means a great triumph of faith and the appearance to the World of the Mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Lord. Her appearance on the Light of God was a miracle, as well as the Immaculate Conception that revealed the Savior to the World.
But in the Russian Orthodox Church there is a widespread version, which was universally adhered to by St. Demetrius of Rostov, that Her birth of God happened in Nazareth, where her parents Joachim and Anna lived.
So ... To the north of Jerusalem, in the mountainous region near the Ezdrelon Valley, lay the small town of Nazareth. This city, like its inhabitants, was not famous for anything significant, therefore, among the Jews there was an opinion that nothing good could come from Nazareth.
But a married couple lived in this town, it was their God who chose to be the parents of the Mother of the Savior of the World. A native of the royal family and the daughter of the high priest, Joachim and Anna, were wealthy people, had wealth, servants and households. But this did not prevent them from reverently treating each other, leading a God-fearing life, and showing deeds of mercy. For these qualities, the townspeople loved the pious Christian family very much.
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But the spouses were very depressed by the absence of children, moreover, in those days it was a sign of God's punishment (anger). But the spouses did not grumble, they constantly begged for the gift of joy in life in the form of a long-awaited baby, although in their advanced years the birth of a child, in principle, was no longer possible.
The virgin and her parents
Once Joachim retired into the wilderness in order to pray earnestly and keep a strict fast. The righteous wife, admitting the guilt of the mischief, grieved greatly and began to pray even more fervently to God for the gift of a child. And then a miracle happened - the Angel of the Lord descended from Heaven and announced to her that the Creator had heard the prayer and that conception would soon take place, from which a daughter, blessed, above all earthly daughters, would be born in the family, and ordered to give her the name Mary.
The same Angel appeared to Joachim. He announced to him the imminent birth of his daughter. In response, the righteous husband promised that if it happens that Anna will give birth to a daughter, he will certainly give her to the service of God.
The righteous went to Jerusalem, where Anna was waiting for him at the golden gates, and together they returned to Nazareth. And after the expiration of the gestation period, the woman gave birth to a daughter, whom her parents named Mary, as the Angel ordered.
Joachim arranged a grand feast, to which many people were summoned. During the feast, the father raised his Daughter and asked the priests to bless her.
Nativity of the Virgin. Fresco by Giotto
It was at a time when the world was experiencing a severe decline in moral values and there was a great need for the revival of faith that the Blessed Virgin was born. It was She who was chosen by the Creator to be the most worthy of those worthy in order to be the Mother of God and to reveal to the world in the image of the human nature of the son of God.
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The birth of Mary brought the earthly world closer to the Kingdom of God, to the knowledge of the truth and eternal life in Christ. And the Mother of God herself was destined to be the merciful Intercessor of Orthodox Christians.
Since the 6th century, believers rush to churches, where solemn services are performed. People praise God and the day when the Lord gave the world in the form of the Most Pure Virgin hope for the coming of the Savior into the world.
The hostesses baked bread with the letters "R" and "B", which meant "The Nativity of the Mother of God." They were distributed to all family members, relatives, friends, and kept under the icon of Jesus Christ, until the day of His Nativity. It was believed that by eating a piece of this bread with prayer, it is possible to recover from all kinds of ailments.
In the Holy Land, Jerusalem and Nazareth on these holidays become the center of pilgrimage. A huge stream of believers flows to the shrines associated with the earthly life of the Queen of Heaven. People especially tend to visit the source of the Virgin Mary and the Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin in Nazareth, the Greek Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Jerusalem. According to Tradition, it was built on the site where the house of Mary's parents used to stand.
On this day, Heaven hears all the prayers of Orthodox Christians, therefore it is necessary to repent of sins, thank the Creator and prayerfully ask for the fulfillment of what is asked.
An important point! On the day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, you must not consume alcoholic beverages, meat and non-fast foods. It's a fast day! Physical work is prohibited, taboo on quarrels, condemnation. It is necessary to maintain spiritual purity, perform virtue, help in word and deed.
Icon "Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary"
September 21 is the day of the autumnal equinox. From this date, daylight hours gradually decrease, while the night, on the contrary, becomes longer. By the weather, people determined what the coming autumn and winter would be like.
The world famous Saint Andrew of Crete (Jerusalem), Christian theologian, preacher and author of spiritual hymns, called the Nativity of the Mother of God "The beginning of all holidays."
Indeed, the birth of the Virgin Mary, the Bride of the Bride, prepared for the incarnation of the Son of God into the earthly world, His sermon, the Sacrifice of the Savior and the great Miracle of the Resurrection.
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Nativity of the Most Holy Lady of our Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary- the first (from the Slavic " two ten"- twelve) church year. He is the first in the chronology of events in New Testament history, and in the church calendar, which starts in September and therefore is called in liturgical hymns “ the beginning of our salvation». Birth of the Mother of God was the fulfillment of the prophecies that Christ, the Savior of the world, would soon come to earth. The holiday is celebrated annually by the Church September 21st (September 8 old style), is intransient and has 1 day of the forefeast and 4 days of the afterfeast.
From the Gospel we learn only the main, most important events of life. Virgin, but it does not say about the circumstances of Her birth, or about Her further life. These details are brought to us church tradition, that is, ancient legends, church historical writings, as well as hymnographic liturgical heritage, that is, the texts of the church service. Parents of the Most Holy Theotokos,Joachim and Anna, The Church calls " godfathers". Joachim was a descendant of the king Davyda, Anna came from the line of the high priest Aaron... They led a righteous and godly life. Tradition says that for themselves they left only a third of the income - the rest was distributed to the needy and donated to the temple. Having reached old age, the spouses remained childless. It should be said that iniquity was considered among the Jewish people. punishment for sins, and therefore Joachim and Anna endured unjust accusations of secret sins. But they did not despair, but hoped for the mercy of God and believed that the Lord, even in old age, could send them a child, as Abraham and Sarah once did.
Saints Joachim and Anna. Fresco from the Monastery of Dionysios on Mount Athos On one of the great Jewish holidays, Joachim came to the temple of Jerosalim to offer a sacrifice to God according to the law of Moses. But the high priest did not accept the gifts of Joachim, accusing him of sins, for which the Lord punishes with childlessness. Saddened, Joachim did not return home, but went into the wilderness, where his flocks were grazing. Anna, learning about what had happened in the temple, was also saddened. However, they did not murmur against the Lord, but fervently prayed, asking for His mercy. Their prayer was answered by the Lord. According to legend, to Joachim in the desert, and to Anna in the garden, there was an angel's appearance with the joyful news that they would have a daughter. Both immediately went to Jerosalim and met at the Golden Gate. In due time they had a daughter, who was named Mary... Joachim and Anna happily thanked the Lord and promised to devote their child to the service of God. The date of the Nativity of the Virgin is exactly 9 months from the date of the Orthodox holiday Saint Anne's conception(December 22).
One of the first mentions of the holiday Nativity of the Blessed Virgin occurs in the 5th century in words Saint Proclus, Archbishop of Constantinople (439-446). The Jacobites and Nestorians, who separated from the Orthodox Church in the 5th century, also have a holiday on September 8 called “ The Nativity of Lady Mary". In the 7th-8th centuries, the Greek Church already celebrated the holiday with great solemnity. The official approval of this holiday in the Byzantine Empire is credited with Emperor Mauritius.
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The service of the feast includes the creations of the monk John Damascene(VIII century) - the first canon; saint Andrew of Crete(VII century) - the second canon; Herman, Patriarch of Constantinople(VIII century) - stichera on verse; Anatoly, Bishop of Thessalon(IX century) - some stichera on the lithium; Stephen and Sergius Svyatogradtsev(IX century) - stichera on "Lord I have cried" and some on litiya and verse. In stichera for the holiday Nativity of the Virgin contains the doctrinal thought that in the person of the Virgin Mary, the Lord prepared for Himself an earthly throne and a royal palace; that the Mother of God surpasses all wives in her majesty, because the Son of God was born from her; that by resolving the infertility of the parents of the Mother of God, the Lord can also resolve our spiritual infertility, i.e. give us the strength to do good. At the same time, in the same stichera, all people, both Old Testament and New Testament (present in the church) are invited to rejoice and glorify the Mother of God, because through Her heaven was united with earth, hell was put to shame, the doors of heaven, i.e. The Kingdom of Heaven was again opened to people, we were renewed and " deified", I.e. become partakers of God's grace.
V paremias, read on the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the first (Gen. XXVIII, 10–17) speaks of Jacob's vision of the ladder, which typified the Mother of God, connecting heaven to earth; the second pair (Ezek. XLIII, 27; XLIV, 1–4) contains the prophecy of Ezekiel, who called the Mother of God the gate through which the Holy Elder and the Holy Master Builder passed; the third (Proverbs IX, 1-11) speaks of the House prepared for itself by the Hypostatic Wisdom, ie. Jesus Christ (this house, built by Wisdom - the Mother of God, the Most Holy Virgin Mary, in which the Lord has moved).
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Thoughts canon holiday close to the thoughts of sticher. The Apostle (Philip II, 5-11) speaks of the self-abasement and humility of the Son of God, who took the form of a servant, humbled Himself to the death of the cross, and for this was glorified above every name. The Gospel (Luke X, 38-42. XI, 27-28) speaks of the stay of Christ in the house of Martha and Mary. The oldest hymn of the holiday, composed, probably in the 5th-7th centuries, is troparion.
Church Slavonic text:
P zhctvo2 is yours, btsde two, joy to glorify2 the whole universe. and 3 out of 8 you will be happy with the truth xrt0c bGy our, ra € rushi1v clstvu, let the blgswenie. and3 ўTo celebrate1 to die, the gifts to us are alive to the eternal.
Russian text:
Your birth, Virgin Mary, announced the joy of the whole universe: because the Sun of Truth, Christ our God, shone out of You, and, breaking the curse, gave a blessing, and, destroying death, gave us eternal life.
Kontakion to the holiday. Church Slavonic text:
Ї waki1мъ и3 нна worn-out of despair, and3 adam and3 є4вва. t aphids2 dead freedom1stasz, especially with ™ hm rzhctv0m your1m. then2 for sale and3 your people2, guilt2 are sinful and3forgiving, crying out loud, it is not fruitful to welcome and3 the nourisher of our life.
Russian text:
Joachim and Anna were freed from reproach for childlessness, and Adam and Eve - from death by Your holy birth, Most Pure One. It is also celebrated by Your people, who have freed themselves from the burden of sinfulness, exclaiming loudly to You: the barren gives birth to the Mother of God and the nourishment of our Life.
Holiday Nativity of the Blessed Virgin also referred to as “ Small Most Pure», « Asposov day". According to popular legend, the time closest to this day was called Opponents, Spozhinki or Mistresses... The scope of the festive festivities depended on the harvest in the new year. With a good harvest, the Lady celebrated for a whole week: the more fruitful the summer, the longer the holiday. The village “feasting”, timed to coincide with the festivities of the church cycle, took place from and to. The feast unfolded in accordance with all the laws of hospitality: they brewed beer according to the number of guests, slaughtered a sheep or a ram, prepared dishes from beef, used the bull's head and legs for jelly, took fish from the kulebyaki, and also, despite the fact that the holiday was moderate, baked pie made from homemade wheat flour mixed with purchased grains. A day or two before the holiday, children summoned relatives to a feast, giving preference to those who are ready to pay for a meal at their holiday. An exception was made for sons-in-law, especially young ones: neither the father-in-law nor the mother-in-law bypassed them with an invitation, even if they themselves did not expect a response. It was very important that good relations exist between the sons-in-law and the father-in-law and the daughter's mother-in-law, as in the proverb: "Not for a son-in-law-dog, but for a sweet child."
The matchmaker and matchmaker with the father-in-law and mother-in-law of their son were the most important guests, who sat down at the table in the front corner, under the very image. The village fun was wider and more varied in the area where there were churches in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin, then in these villages various fairs were held, timed to the holiday.
The oldest images of the holiday Nativity of the Virgin have been known since the 6th century and are widely used in Byzantine and Russian art in the 11th – 12th centuries. By this time, the main elements of iconography ascend: Anna in a red maforia on a high bed, supported by a servant; to the right or to the left below - a scene of the washing of a baby. Three women with gifts approach Anna. The father of the Mother of God, the righteous Joachim, looks out from the window of the chamber.
Nativity of the Virgin. Mid-14th century State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 
Nativity of the Virgin. Double-sided tablet icon. Late 15th - early 16th centuries Novgorod state Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve 
Fragment of the icon of the Nativity of the Virgin. XVI century. Museum them. A. Rubleva 
Nativity of the Virgin. Nevyansk icon. 1830-1840 
Nativity of the Virgin with a life. XVI century. From the local row of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in Ustyuzhna 
Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. From the festive rank. Mid-17th century State Museum-Reserve "Rostov Kremlin", Rostov the Great 
Nativity of the Virgin. Nevyansk icon. Circle of the Bogatyrevs. Second quarter of the 19th century
Temples and monasteries in honor Nativity of the Virgin were built in the XII-XIV centuries throughout Russia. The patronage of the Mother of God in the liberation of the Russian lands from the Tatar-Mongol yoke was reflected in the massive construction of temples dedicated to theotokos holidays.
The Cathedral was dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Bobreneva monastery(1381) near Kolomna and the gate church of the Andronikov monastery.
Bobrenev Monastery near Kolomna The widow of Grand Duke Demetrius Donskoy, Princess Euphrosyne, was founded in the Moscow Kremlin in 1392 Ascension monastery and erected a white stone church in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin in the traditions of Vladimir-Suzdal architecture. The church was painted in 1395 by the outstanding icon painters Theophanes the Greek and Simeon the Black.
Ascension Monastery. 1850-1865 In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Bogolyubsky monastery in the Vladimir region was consecrated. The monastery was founded in the 12th century, and the main church was built between 1158 and 1751. The Nativity of God Cathedral was decorated with carved reliefs and frescoes, copper and gilding, ceramic floors and stained-glass windows. Round, marbled columns supported the vaults. The ancient cathedral collapsed from dilapidation and inept alterations in the 18th century. was replaced by a new one. A bell tower tent was built over the staircase tower. The place of the princely chambers was taken by a cell building. In the XIX century. the ancient gate with a gate church was replaced by the Assumption gate church with a bell tower, at the same time a huge five-domed cathedral was built. On June 3, 1923, the monastery was closed, and in 1991 the revival of the monastery began.
The Nativity of God Cathedral of the Bogolyubsky monastery in the Vladimir region In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Ferapontov monastery was consecrated in the village. Ferapontovo, Vologda region. The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in 1490. Its volume, set on a high basement, ends with three tiers of kokoshniks and a small graceful drum. The facades at the top are ornamented with belts of balusters and ceramic slabs with floral ornaments, at the bottom - with a belt with teratological (animal) and plant ornaments, which is a reminiscence of the white stone carving of Vladimir architecture. Three perspective portals are hewn out of white limestone. Inside, the cathedral is divided by four square pillars into three naves with elevated arches under the drum. In 1924, the Ferapontov Monastery of the Nativity of God was closed. Since 1975, the monastery has been used as a museum. In 2018, the Synod decided to resume monastic life at the monastery.
Cathedral in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village. Ferapontovo, Vologda region In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, a monastery in Moscow was consecrated. The Nativity of God Cathedral was built in 1501-1505. The building of the cathedral was badly damaged by a fire in 1547, but by 1550 it was completely restored. The four-pillar, three-apse temple has one chapter. The lower volume is cubic. The corner parts are covered with cross vaults and are lowered in relation to the central part, which is cruciform in plan. The stepped supporting arches carry a high drum with a helmet-shaped head. The end has a pyramidal appearance. There are two rows of kokoshniks under the drum. In 1676-87. dismantled the belfry of the cathedral and replaced it with a hipped-roof bell tower from the south-west. By the end of the 18th century. The Nativity of God Cathedral was rebuilt: the southern extension was extended along the entire southern facade, and from the north, another volume was erected along the entire length of the facade, which served as a covered porch. In 1835, the cathedral's tent-roofed bell tower suffered from a lightning strike and was dismantled. The Nativity of the Mother of God monastery was closed in 1921. the cathedral of the monastery was partially restored; during the restoration, it returned to its original form. In 1991, the buildings of the monastery were returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The ensemble of the monastery in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Moscow In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Pafnutiev Borovsky Monastery in the village of Roscha, Kaluga Region, was consecrated. Nativity of the Theotokos St. Paphnutiev Borovsky Monastery was founded in 1444 by the Monk Paphnutius Borovsky. Initially, a small wooden church of the Nativity of the Virgin was cut down here, on the site of which a small white-stone church was soon built. At the beginning of the XVI century. defensive fortifications were erected. In 1511 a stone refectory was built, and in the eighties of the same century a cathedral was erected on the site of the church. In 1610 Borovsky Monastery was besieged by the troops of False Dmitry II. The betrayal of the two governors allowed the "Tushino thief" to enter the fortress. In a terrible battle on the territory of the monastery itself, 12,000 people died. The monastery was burned down, and all the documents of its early history were burnt. After the end of the Troubles, much was restored, new towers and temples were erected. In the middle of the 17th century. a bell tower was built. In the middle of the 17th century in the Paphnutiev Monastery at different times the Archpriest Avvakum and the noblewoman Morozova, who died there by starvation in an earthen pit, were twice imprisoned. In 1923, a correctional colony was placed on the territory of the monastery, then an agricultural technical school. Since 1960, restoration work has been carried out. Once again, the Paphnutiev Monastery was transferred to the Church in 1991.
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Svyato-Pafnutyev Borovsky Monastery In honor of the Nativity of the Virgin, a church was consecrated in Volokolamsk, Moscow region. The church served as the cathedral of the Vozmishchensky monastery, known since the 15th century. and abolished in 1764. The building of the church was built in 1535. The brick four-pillar church was originally three-domed. The two eastern drums were disassembled in 1792, when the post-patch roof was converted to a four-pitched roof. The walls are dismembered by shoulder blades into three unequal spinners, completed with semicircular zakomaras. In the middle zakomaras there are round icon cases. The walls in the middle of the height are surrounded by a cornice, which turns into the cornice of the apses. Of the three portals, the northern perspective portal with a keeled archivolt, ceramic capitals and melons has been preserved. The drum is completed with a helmet-shaped head with an openwork cross of the 17th century. The plaster decoration of the drum dates back to the middle of the 19th century. A three-tiered bell tower and a two-aisled refectory were built in 1850. During the years of Soviet power, the temple remained in operation. Only during the Great Patriotic War, services were briefly interrupted, but soon resumed.
Nativity of the Virgin Church in Volokolamsk In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Medvedev Hermitage was consecrated in the Dmitrovsky District of the Moscow Region. The first construction of a wooden church in Medvedeva Hermitage dates back to 1360. In 1547, the construction of a stone church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary began in the village of Medvedeva Hermitage. A small brick, four-pillar, one-domed temple with three equal apses belongs to the cross-domed type. The smooth planes of the facades are dissected by shoulder blades into three equal spinners and decorated at the base of the semicircular zakomaras with a terracotta ornamental frieze. Low slit windows are spaced apart in two levels. The entrances to the cathedral are accented with perspective keeled portals. The covering of the temple has undergone significant changes. Initially, the cathedral ended, in addition to the zakomar, with two rows of kokoshniks, located parallel to the facade planes. Their square plinths are hidden by a late hipped roof. The brick light drum and onion head are new. In the 16th century, a three-tiered bell tower was also built, rebuilt in 1871. At the same time, from the neighboring village. Dulova, the Church of the Savior was transported to Medvedev's hermitage. In the 19th century, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was reconstructed. In 1937, Medvedeva's Theotokos-Christmas Hermitage was closed, and her property was plundered. In 1999, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. The existing temple complex is slowly being revived.
The Nativity of God Church of the same name Medvedeva Hermitage in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Luzhetsky Ferapontov Monastery in the city of Mozhaisk, Moscow Region, founded in 1408, was consecrated. The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in the first half of the 16th century. Rebuilt in the middle of the 18th century, the galleries surrounding the cathedral were dismantled. In the 1960s, it was restored. In 1922, the monastery was officially closed and ruined. In 1994 it was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. The relics of the Monk Ferapont of Belozersky rest in the Mother of God Cathedral.
Mozhaisk Luzhetsky Mother of God Ferapontov Monastery in Mozhaisk, Moscow Region In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery in the town of Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, was consecrated. The monastery was founded in 1398, and the cross-domed four-pillar one-domed cathedral was built in 1405. The facades, the top of the apses and the drum are decorated with belts of white-stone carving. Perspective portals with keeled top. Completion with three tiers of zakomar in the 18th-19th centuries. was replaced by a hipped roof. The onion chapter dates back to the 17th century. In the middle of 1919 the monastery was closed, and in the 1990s. returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Nativity of God Cathedral of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery in Zvenigorod, Moscow Region In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Anthony Monastery in Veliky Novgorod was consecrated. The monastery was founded in 1106. The first Novgorod Chronicle marks the foundation of the cathedral in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1117, and in 1119 speaks of the completion of construction. The building was a three-aisled one-domed temple with a round staircase tower. The cathedral has survived to this day with alterations and restructuring. Instead of narrow ones with a semicircular end, wide ones were pierced. An iron hipped roof was installed over the vaulted roof. Glavki received a bulbous shape characteristic of the late period. The porch galleries surrounding the cathedral were also added later. In the composition of the building, the asymmetrical arrangement of three chapters is interesting, one of which crowns a round tower protruded from the total volume. This tower contains a staircase leading to the "floor" - the modern choir stalls of the cathedral. In 1920, the Antoniev Monastery was abolished. Today the monastery buildings are part of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve. A number of faculties of the Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University are located on the territory of the monastery.
The Nativity of God Cathedral of the Anthony Monastery in Veliky Novgorod In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Tithe Monastery in Veliky Novgorod was consecrated. The first mention of the monastery dates back to 1327. The stone Church of the Mother of God was built in 1397. Originally it was a four-pillar, one-dome, one-apse church. Since 1918, the Novgorod GubChK and the Novgorod department of the OGPU have been located in the Desyatin Monastery. The basement of the Nativity Cathedral was converted into cells for arrested persons, the abbot building - under the Chekists' club. In 1929, the cemetery church of All Saints was demolished and the monastery cemetery was destroyed. The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin was seriously damaged during the Great Patriotic War, but retained the dome and in some places destroyed walls. In the mid-1950s, it was demolished and dismantled into bricks. The monastery has survived in fragments. In addition to the monastery bell tower, the buildings of the monastery premises and the ruins of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin have been preserved.
Tithes monastery before the revolution In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in the Perynsky skete near Veliky Novgorod. The Perynsky Nativity of the Mother of God male skete is a monastery located in the Novgorod tract of Peryn and operating from the XIV century to 1764. It is mentioned in the annals for the first time in 1386, when the Novgorodians burned down the monastery. On Peryn in 995, a wooden church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built, which stood for about two hundred years; practically nothing is known about her. At the same time, the monastery was probably founded, although for the first time in the chronicles it was mentioned in 1386 in the list of monasteries. The stone building of the church in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin dates back to the 30s of the XIII century. The church has a three-blade covering, fragments of fresco painting in the lintels of the drum trench openings. Slightly tapering upward walls, blades, windows, the drum of the church enhance the effect of lightness and aspiration upward. There are three spacious entrances inside the building. They and the widely spaced slender dome pillars contribute to the fact that even with a small size, the church gives the impression of a spacious, high structure. The basis of the building that has come down to us is the masonry of the pre-Mongol period - a combination of limestone and thin brick-plinths, laid on a lime mortar, with an admixture of brick chips (cement). The cross that crowns the church is the so-called "domed cross with a crescent", a typical form for the pre-Mongol period, which comes from the "blossoming cross" or "vine cross". Currently, the monument has been restored in its original form.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Perynsky skete near Veliky Novgorod In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Snetogorsk Monastery in Pskov was consecrated. For the first time, the monastery is mentioned in the Pskov chronicle of the late 13th century, according to which on March 4, 1299, the monastery that already existed by that time was burned during the attack on Pskov by the Livonian knights. In the XIV-XV centuries, the Snetogorsk monastery became the main spiritual and monastic center of Pskov. The main shrine of the monastery, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in 1311. The interior of the cathedral is designed in the form of an equal-pointed cross with volumes adjoining it at the corners of smaller volumes. In accordance with the internal structure of the interior, the side facades of the temple are asymmetrical. Their eastern spans are decorated with high arches corresponding to the height of the branches of the cross. Here are the side portals of the temple, above them there are niches-icon cases and windows intended for painting. The bottom of the western spans are decorated with low arch-niches, corresponding to the lower tier of the western corner rooms. The eastern façade, with its three apses, has largely retained its original shape. The western façade, which originally ended with three zakomaras, is currently closed by the additions to the temple that have arisen in the following centuries. The cathedral is completed by a dome placed in the center of the inner cross, the drum of which is decorated on the outside with an unusual belt of pointed arches, restored during the restoration. In the 15th century, the drum of the dome was raised, and the arched belt was replaced by ribbons of runner and curb. The shape of the roof has changed several times during the history of the cathedral. Initially, the temple was covered with a plank in the shape of a zakomar, and the head of the dome was covered with a wooden ploughshare-scales. In the 16th century, triangular tongs were put on top of the semicircular zakomars, the head of the dome was made bulbous. After 1920, the destruction of the monastery began. The territory of the monastery was occupied by a rest house. In 1934, the Ascension Church-bell tower was partially destroyed. During the Great Patriotic War, the headquarters of Army Group North was located here. The territory and buildings of the monastery were arranged well for German officers. At the same time, a meeting room was arranged in the Nikolskaya Church, a wine warehouse and a shooting gallery in the cathedral, and a garage in the ruins of the Ascension Church. In the post-war period, a rest house and a children's sanatorium continued to exist. In 1993, the buildings of the Snetogorsk monastery were transferred to the Pskov diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Snetogorsk Mother of God Monastery in Pskov In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Solotchinsky Monastery was consecrated in the village. Solotcha of the Ryazan region. The monastery was founded in 1390. In the 1570-1580s, the monastery was considered one of the most important in Russia. In 1618, the Solotchinsky Monastery was devastated by the troops of the Polish prince Vladislav and the Zaporozhye hetman Pyotr Sagaidachny. The monastery flourished again at the end of the 17th century. In 1917, the monastery was closed by the Soviet authorities, and there was a colony for juvenile criminals. Subsequently, the architectural complex of the monastery became part of the Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve. Restoration of buildings began in the 1960s.
Nativity of the Mother of God Cathedral of the Solotchinsky Monastery In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Paleostrovsky Monastery on about. Paley of the Republic of Karelia. The Paleostrovsky Rozhdestvensky Bogoroditsky Monastery was founded in the 15th century. In the 17th century, the monastery became a place of imprisonment for Bishop Pavel Kolomensky. The Old Believers fled to the monastery after the split of the Russian Church, finding many sympathizers. In 1928, the Paleostrovsky Monastery was destroyed, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was officially closed. A colony for juvenile delinquents was established on the island. The monastery is currently being revived.
Nativity of the Virgin Paleostrovsky Monastery in the Republic of Karelia In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Root Hermitage was consecrated in the village. Freedom of the Kursk region. Founded in 1597, in the place where the miraculous icon of the Sign of the Mother of God, called the Root, or Kursk, appeared at the root of the tree. In troubled times, the Root Desert was destroyed to the ground. From 1618 to 1764, the desert was assigned to the Kursk Znamensky Monastery. In 1792 a hostel was set up in it. After the revolution, the monastery was looted and closed. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was blown up, the dome of the bell tower was demolished, and an observation deck was arranged on it for vacationers in a rest house, which became the Korennaya Pustyn. In 1989, the hermitage was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Mother of God Root Hermitage in the village. Freedom of the Kursk region In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Sofroniev-Molchanskaya Pechersk Hermitage was consecrated in the village. New Sloboda of the Sumy region of Ukraine. According to legend, in the fall of 1405, a miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared on the Wonderful Mountain, above the Molche swamp. The locals immediately noticed the shrine. On the site of the miraculous find, people erected a small wooden church of the Most Holy Theotokos. Over time, monks began to settle in her, building nearby caves on the hillsides for living and constant prayers. Subsequently, a small monastery arose here. It was called the Molchanskaya Nativity of the Virgin the wilderness. In the 16th century, the desert grew and turned into a large monastery-prison, so the monks who lived in it acquired several "siege yards", where they erected the Church of Saints Florus and Laurus, and in the 1580s, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was erected in the prison. In 1605, the Sofronievsky Monastery was plundered by the army of False Dmitry I, heading for Moscow. The 17th and 18th centuries were the heyday of the Sofronievskaya Hermitage. Already in the early 1920s, the Soviet government closed the Sofronievsky Monastery. In the first post-war years, the ruins left over from the Sofronievsky Monastery began to be dismantled into bricks for pigsties, collective farm buildings and industrial facilities. So, bulldozers razed the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the ground, and in its place a plot for grazing collective farm cattle appeared. The revival of the monastery began in 1999.
Mother of God Christmas Sofroniev-Molchanskaya Pechersk Hermitage in the village. New Sloboda of Ukraine In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Molchansky Monastery in Putivl, Ukraine was consecrated. The history of the foundation of the Molchansky Monastery is closely connected with the Sofroniev Hermitage. In 1592 the Molchansk hermitage was burned by the Tatars, and in 1593 all the monks moved to Putivl, where there were several "sedimentary yards" and turned the monastery courtyard into a new Molchansk monastery. During 1602-1604, stone fortifications were built and the monastery became a real defensive outpost. The monastery served as a powerful fortress, in which the monks of the monastery and local residents have repeatedly found shelter. From November 18, 1604 to May 26, 1605 False Dmitry I used the monastery as his residence. It was at this time that the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin and other structures were built. Since the cathedral was being erected in the middle of a narrow fortified courtyard, built up on all sides, it was necessary to unite in its building a barn - in the basement and in the basement, the refectory and kitchen - in the basement, the cathedral and a warm church - on the second tier, a battle chamber with loopholes - on the third tier , above the altar. In the architectural plan of the building, there are three extraordinary features: the altar in the form of a square tower, not a semicircular apse; the defense chamber on the third tier of the altar is crowned with a tent; overlapping the nave basement with a system of cross vaults with a pillar in the middle. In 1605, the Molchansk Monastery was assigned to the Putivl Molcha'nsky Monastery, and a monastery apiary was set up on its territory. During the Civil War of the Time of Troubles, a fire broke out in the monastery, as a result of which the building was badly damaged. In 1653 the destroyed monastery was rebuilt. To avoid confusion, the monastery in Putivl began to be called the Bolshoi Molchansky Monastery, and the one restored over the Molcha swamp, the Malaya Molchansky Hermitage. The latter, from the end of the 17th century, began to be called the Sofroniev Hermitage, or the Sofroniev Monastery. From the end of the 17th century, the monastery, like the city of Putivl itself, began to gradually decline. In the post-revolutionary period, the monastery was closed, and the monks were dispersed. Since the 1930s, the territory and buildings of the monastery were occupied by an orphanage, vocational school, and a military plant. Since 1960, restoration work has been carried out in the monastery, and after 17 years the State Historical and Cultural Reserve was created here. In 1991 the monastery was transferred to the UOC.
The Nativity of the Virgin Molchansky Monastery in Putivl (Ukraine) In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in Yuryevo (Veliky Novgorod, MDZ "Vitoslavitsy"). The Nativity of the Virgin Church was built between about 1530 and 1540. The church was transported from the village of Peredki. A crumbly, three-altar, stands on a high basement and is crowned with a high crowned tent. From five sides: the north, north-west, west, south-west and south, the church is surrounded by an open-to-the-outside gallery, resting on support brackets - logs released from the main frame. The north-west and south-west sides of the gallery do not follow the contours of the church walls, but are straightened. In the west, in front of the gallery, there is a porch. The branches of the log cross are covered with gable roofs, the side altars and gallery - with gable roofs. A striking feature of the church: the side walls of the cross in its plan are not parallel, as was usually done in such cases, but are sharply moved out from the middle of the room.
Nativity of the Virgin Church in Yuryev near Veliky Novgorod In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a cathedral was consecrated in Suzdal, Vladimir region, built between 1222 and 1225. In 1237, during the invasion of Suzdal by the horde of Batuyeva, the Cathedral of the Mother of God was plundered. Later restored. On March 25, 1577, a great fire broke out in Suzdal, from which the cathedral was also severely damaged. In 1635-36, after the invasion of the Poles, the cathedral was restored again. In 1719, a great fire broke out in Suzdal, which destroyed almost all the churches and houses of the inhabitants. The cathedral also suffered in this fire: the roof and the heads made of tin melted and the upper tier in the cathedral collapsed. Then the cathedral was renewed. During the Soviet years it did not function. In 1991, divine services were held in the cathedral.
Cathedral in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Suzdal, Vladimir region In honor of the Nativity of the Virgin, a church in the Moscow Kremlin was consecrated. The church was built on the territory of the Kremlin in 1393-1394. on the site of the ancient wooden church of the Resurrection of the Righteous Lazarus. The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was located on the women's side of the Kremlin and was the home church of the Grand Duchesses. During a fire in 1479, the top of the church collapsed and had to be restored. In 1514, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on Senyi was also rebuilt. In the years 1681-1684. the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on Seny was again almost completely rebuilt. The new church was single-domed, with a refectory in the west. Subsequently, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on Seny was restored in 1923-1928 and in 1949-1952. The ancient white-stone four-apse building with the main portal, as well as the elements of the temple, which were added later, have survived to our time.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on the Seny in the Moscow Kremlin In honor of the Nativity of the Virgin, a church was consecrated in Old Simonov in Moscow, built in 1509 on the site of a wooden church, which was originally erected in 1370. The temple is part of the original Simonov monastery that existed on this site. In the XVII century. the monastery was abolished, the church became a parish. In 1927 the church was closed. In the 1930s. beheaded. The building houses the compressor station of the Dynamo plant. In 1932 the bell tower was demolished. In the 1980s. the church was transferred to the Historical Museum. Returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1989.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Old Simonov in Moscow In honor of the Nativity of the Mother of God, a church was consecrated in Putinki in Moscow. The wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been known since 1625. In 1648 the wooden church burned down and then was built in stone. The temple is a narrow, elongated double-height quadrangle, topped with three tents. The octagonal belfry, hipped, located between the chapel and the temple, stands on the vaults of the refectory. The composition is complemented by a large hip-roofed porch on the western facade of the refectory, brought out to Malaya Dmitrovka. In the design of the facades of the church, lancet kokoshniks, columnar keeled platbands and complex loosened cornices, characteristic of the 16th century, were used. After the church was closed in 1938, it housed offices for a long time, then the rehearsal hall of the Moscow directorate "Circus on the Stage". Gradually the building of the temple came to a critical state, and in 1959-1960. its comprehensive restoration was carried out. In 1990, the temple was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Putinki in Moscow In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in the village of Murovanka, Republic of Belarus. The fortified temple was erected in 1524 in the Gothic style. In architecture, it is a four-pillar one-story building with a high gable roof. The monumental stone building is secured at the corners with cylindrical defensive towers. The towers are organically linked to the hull. At different times, the temple served not only as a place for worship, but also to protect the peasants from devastating raids. In 1656 the church was badly damaged, and in 1706 it was shelled by the Swedes during the Great Northern War. In 1928, the church was converted into a church by the Polish authorities and transferred to the local Catholic community. In August 1993, the church was returned to the ROC community.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the village of Murovanka of the Republic of Belarus In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a cathedral was consecrated in Murom, Vladimir region, built between about 1549 and about 1557. Initially, the stone cathedral was crowned with three chapters; in the middle of the 17th century, the cathedral was renovated and crowned with five chapters. The relics of the Murom miracle workers Peter and Fevronia rested in the Peter and Paul side-altar of the cathedral. In 1934, "with the consent" of the community of believers, the cathedral was leased to one of the regiments stationed in the city. Since the mid-1930s, Cathedral Square has been turned into a football field, and the bell tower has become a fire tower and a dressing room for players. In 1939, by order of the City Council, they began to demolish the cathedral and the church near the bell tower. The cathedral was dismantled before the Great Patriotic War, and the bell tower - eight years later.
Cathedral in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Murom, Vladimir region In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the side-altar of the Church of Spyridon of Trimith was consecrated in the Goat bog in Moscow. The temple has been known since 1627. In 1633-1639, the temple was rebuilt in stone and was popularly called not by the main altar in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin, but by the side-altar of St. Spyridon. In the 17th-19th centuries, the church was rebuilt and expanded more than once. The church was seriously damaged in 1812, during the great Moscow fire, and then was rebuilt. The ancient core of the church retained the features of Old Russian architecture. The cube building of the temple was crowned with a single chapter, resting on a round drum with an arcature-columnar belt. Rows of excellent keeled kokoshniks were preserved under the late hipped roof, which completed all four facade walls. In August 1930, the temple was destroyed.
Spiridonovskaya church on the Goat bog in Moscow In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in the village. Sviyazhsk of the Republic of Tatarstan. Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built around 1567, destroyed in 1928.
Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral in Sviyazhsk In honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, a church was consecrated in the village of Listvenka, Leningrad Region. This is one of the oldest churches in the Leningrad region. The church was built in 1599. The building is three-volume: a church, an altar sidewalk and a refectory. In 1720, the church was rebuilt: a refectory and a new porch were erected. The carved choir and the tabernacle of the iconostasis with the inscription and images of saints have remained unchanged. The temple was closed in 1932 and has been operating again since 1992.
The Nativity of God Church in the village of Listvenka, Leningrad Region In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in Pskov. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Prolom dates back to 1581. The Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God "Intercession from the Corner" or "From the Prolom" of the monastery has been known since the XIV century. The monastery stood at the fifth wall in the Okolny city at the gates to the Great and a huge tower, also named after the monastery - Pokrovsky. Initially, the main monastery was a temple in the name of the Intercession of the Virgin, to which, after the siege of Pskov in 1581-1582 by the troops of King Stephen Batory, in memory of the miraculous deliverance of "the dashing townspeople", annexed the newly erected Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Since then, the temple has been a small architectural miracle: identical, kletskie, tiny, one-domed, one-apse churches and a belfry symmetrically placed above the vestibules on a common wall unites them into one whole. Nowadays, a historical exposition is located in the Church of the Intercession; the Church of the Nativity belongs to the Cossack community of Pskov.
Church of the Intercession and the Nativity from Prolom in Pskov In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in the town of Porkhov, Pskov region. Until the middle of the 18th century, on the site of the modern Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the southern outskirts of Porkhov, there was a Rozhdestvensky nunnery, which was abolished in 1764 during the secularization of the monastic lands. After the abolition of the monastery, the parish church was located here until 1930. Before the war, the parish was closed, the Porkhov fire brigade was housed in the building, after the war - a sports society, and in the 1980s - a city club-disco. Only in 1991 the church was returned to the ROC community.
Nativity of the Virgin Church in Porkhov, Pskov region In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in the village. Gorodnya of the Tver region. Presumably the church was built in 1390. During its existence, the church was repeatedly burned and rebuilt. After a fire in 1412, it was renewed on the old foundation and painted again. After a fire in 1716, the temple was rebuilt. The church was badly damaged during the Great Patriotic War. In 1966, a major overhaul of the temple began. The volume of the temple, rectangular in plan, is crowned with a gilded onion dome. The territory is surrounded by a massive stone fence with three-span arched gates, also topped with a gilded dome.
Nativity of the Virgin Church in the village. Gorodnya of the Tver region In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in the town of Rohatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine. The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in 1421. Built of stone and red brick on lime mortar, three-aisled, one-apse, two-pillar, two-headed. The walls are reinforced with buttresses. At the level of the vaults, they are connected by arches reminiscent of zakomaras in ancient Russian temples. The facades are decorated with deep niches in which lancet windows are recessed, as well as small niches. During the German attack on Galicia in World War II, a bomb hit the temple. As a result of her hit, the roof burned down, leaving only the walls. The church was soon restored. But three years later, in 1944, a high-explosive bomb hit the temple and destroyed the church from the inside. After the war, restoration work began in the temple, which lasted almost 10 years.
Nativity of the Mother of God Church in Rohatyn, Ukraine In honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a church was consecrated in the village. Steblevka of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine. Wooden, three-frame, with a tower above Babinets was built in 1643. The structures of the nave and babinets are equally wide rectangular in plan, a narrower eastern frame with a triangular eastern part. The church was erected from oak beams, covered with a ploughshare. Unlike many similar structures, the western frame, as well as the eastern and the nave, is covered with a corrugated vault. The church was covered with two steep roofs - a high one above the central frame and a low one above the eastern frame. The frame tower-bell tower towered over the western felling and ends with a podbit, cracked vertically by boards with a figured cut at the bottom and a high conical spire with an apron at the base. The Nativity of the Virgin Church was on fire. It is currently in a dilapidated state.
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September 21st Orthodox Christians remember Nativity of the Blessed Virgin... This event is the birth of the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ from the righteous parents of Joachim and is described in the Church Tradition. We will tell you about the history, meaning and folk traditions associated with the holiday.
The Nativity of the Most Holy Lady Our Lady and Ever-Virgin Mary is the full name of the holiday that the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates on September 21 in the new style (September 8 in the old style). This is one of . The twelve feasts are dogmatically closely connected with the events of the earthly life of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Mother of God and are divided into Lord's (dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ) and Theotokos (dedicated to the Mother of God). The Nativity of the Theotokos is a feast of the Theotokos.
The event that we celebrate on this day is not described in the New Testament. Knowledge about him came to us from Church Tradition, one of the sources of our doctrine, together with Holy Scripture.
The legend about the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, namely the Proto Gospel of Jacob, was written in the 2nd century. And they began to celebrate the holiday as a separate significant day by the second half of the 5th century. For example, we read about this in the Patriarch of Constantinople Proclus (439-446) and in the missal (liturgical book) of Pope Gelasius (492-426).
Orthodox Christians celebrate the Nativity of the Virgin Mary on September 21 New Style (September 8 Old Style). This is a non-passing holiday, that is, its date remains the same every year.
According to the Orthodox tradition, the holiday lasts 6 days, from September 20 to 25. This period includes forefeast and afterfeast. Forefeast - one or several days before a big holiday, the services of which already include prayers dedicated to the upcoming celebrated event. Accordingly, afterfeast is the same days after the holiday.
In 2018, the holiday falls on Friday, fast day, in honor of the holiday, believers are allowed to eat fish.
In the New Testament, we will find practically nothing about the earthly life of the Mother of God. The Gospels do not provide information about who the parents of the Virgin Mary were and under what circumstances she was born.
The Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos is based on the Church Tradition. There is the so-called Proto Gospel of Jacob, written in the 2nd century. In it we read that Mary was born of pious parents, Joachim and Anna. Joachim came from a royal family, and Anna was the daughter of the high priest. They lived to a ripe old age and were childless. This was a source of grief for the couple and caused public censure.
Once, when Joachim came to the Temple, the high priest did not allow him to offer sacrifice to God, saying: "You did not create offspring for Israel." After that, the inconsolable Joachim retired into the desert to pray, while Anna stayed at home and also prayed. At this time, an angel appeared to both of them and announced to each: "The Lord heeded your prayer, you will conceive and give birth, and they will talk about your offspring in the whole world."
Having learned the good news, the couple met at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem.
After that, Anna conceived. As the Proto Gospel of Jacob writes, "the months allotted to her passed, and Anna gave birth in the ninth month." The righteous took a vow to consecrate their child to God and gave their daughter Mary to the Jerusalem temple, where she served until she came of age.
Christians began to celebrate the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin only by the 5th century. We read the first mentions of him in the Patriarch of Constantinople Proclus (439-446) and in the missal (liturgical book) of Pope Gelasius (492-426). Saints John Chrysostom, Epiphanes and Augustine also write about the holiday. And in Palestine, there is a legend that the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Empress Helen built a temple in Jerusalem in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.
We meet the most ancient images of the events of the Nativity of the Mother of God by the X-XI centuries. These are icons and frescoes. For example, the painting of a 7th century Georgian temple in Ateni. This entire temple is dedicated to the Mother of God (the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos).
There are other ancient images of the holiday: frescoes in the Kiev Sophia Cathedral (first half of the 11th century) and in the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Mirozh Monastery (XII century), a composition in the Church of Joachim and Anna of the Serbian monastery Studenica (1304).
Traditionally, on early icons and frescoes, icon painters depicted righteous Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary, in the center of the composition. The woman in labor reclining on a high bed, before her are women with gifts, a midwife and maids who wash the Mother of God in the font.
With each century, this icon-painting plot has been enriched with more and more new details. For example, they began to depict a table with brought gifts and treats, a pond, birds. Now the icon of the Nativity of the Virgin is often made hagiographic, that is, the main plot is supplemented with separate compositions (stamps) - scenes from the history of the event. The lamentation of Joachim in the wilderness, the gospel to Joachim and the evangelism to Anna, the meeting of the spouses at the Golden Gate of the Jerusalem Temple, and so on.
The painting of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin of the Ferapontov Monastery, which was completed in 1502 by the great icon painter Dionysius, has survived to this day. This is a fresco above the main entrance that depicts Saint Anne on a bed; font; wives and virgins who come to bow to the Born with vessels in their hands; Joachim and Anna with the Virgin Mary in their arms.
In the 6th century, the Monk Roman the Sweet Songwriter wrote a kontakion for the Nativity of the Virgin, but its text has not survived to this day. The most ancient chant of the holiday is the troparion "Thy Nativity, Virgin Mary". Most likely, it was compiled in the 5th-7th centuries. In addition, the modern service of the holiday includes, for example, the hymns of St. Andrew of Crete (VII century), the Monk John Damascene VIII century), Patriarch Herman of Constantinople (VIII century).
Voice 4:
Thy Nativity to the Virgin Mary, joy to erect the whole universe: from Thee, the Sun of righteousness, Christ our God, has risen from Thee, and having broken the oath, gave a blessing, and abolishing death, gave us an eternal life.
Translation:
Thy Nativity, Virgin Mary, announced joy to the whole universe: for out of You shone the Sun of righteousness - Christ our God, and, breaking the curse, gave a blessing, and, destroying death, gave us eternal life.
Voice 4:
Joachim and Anna of reproach of iniquity, and Adam and Eve are free from the aphids of death, Most Pure One, in Thy holy birth. Thy people also celebrate, the guilt of sins will be freed, always call Ti: the Mother of God and the nourisher of our life gives rise to fruitlessness.
Translation:
Joachim and Anna were freed from reproach for childlessness, and Adam and Eve were freed from death by Your holy birth, Most Pure One. It is also celebrated by Your people, who have freed themselves from the burden of sinfulness, exclaiming loudly to You: the barren gives birth to the Mother of God and the nourishment of our Life.
Magnification of the Nativity of the Virgin:
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Thy holy parents, and glorify Thy Christmas all-glorious.
Translation:
We magnify You, Most Pure Virgin, and honor Your holy parents, and glorify Your Christmas all-gloriously.
Oh, Most Holy Lady, Christ our Savior, God-chosen Mother, asked by God by holy prayers, dedicated to God and beloved by God! Who will not please You or who will not sing, Your Glorious Christmas. Your Christmas is the beginning of the salvation of people, and we, sitting in the dark of sins, see Thee, the Unapproachable Light of the dwelling. For this reason, a flowing language cannot chant Ty in its possession. Moreover, Thou art exalted, the Most Pure One, the Seraphim. Receive from the unworthy Thy servants the present praise and do not reject our entreaties. We confess your greatness, we fall to You in affection, and we boldly ask the child-loving and benevolent Mother to intercede quickly: pray Thy Son and our God to grant us, who sin a lot, sincere repentance and a pious life, so that we can do everything that is pleasing to God and useful to our souls. Let us hate all evil, strengthened by Divine grace in our good will. Thou shameless hope of ours in the hour of death, grant us a Christian end, a comfortable procession in the terrible ordeals of the air, and the legacy of the eternal and ineffable blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven, but with all the saints we ceaselessly confess Thy intercession for us and glorify the one True God, in the Holy Trinity we bow down to Father and Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of heaven and earth, to Your miraculous image, falling down, tenderly with the verb: look mercifully on Your servants and by Your omnipotent intercession sent down something that is necessary. Save all the faithful children of the Holy Church, convert the unfaithful, instruct those who have gone astray on the right path, support old age and weakness of strength, grow the youth in the holy faith, direct courage to good, bring sinners to repentance, and hear all Christians prayers, heal the sick, relieve sorrows, travel take a trip. You weigh, All-merciful, as weak, as sinful, as embittered and unworthy of God's forgiveness, both wake us up to help us, but by no sin of self-love, temptation and devilish deception we anger God: You are the Imams, the Representative, The Lord will not reject the Lord. If you admire, all you can bestow upon us is like a blessed source, faithfully singing Ti and extolling Thy glorious Christmas. Deliver, Lady, the falls and misfortunes of all who piously invoke Your holy name and worship Your honest image. Thou shalt purify our tuna with the prayers of iniquity, the more we fall to Thee and cry out to Thee: drive away from us every enemy and adversary, every misfortune and destructive unbelief; By your prayers, giving rains are in good time and the earth abundant fruitfulness, put into our hearts the Divine fear of fulfilling the commandments of the Lord, so that we all quietly and peacefully live for the salvation of our souls, for the good of our neighbors and for the glory of the Lord, to Him, like the Creator, Provider and Savior All glory, honor and worship befits ours, now and forever, and forever and ever. Amen.
Oh, Most Pure and Most Blessed Virgin, the Lady of the Theotokos, born from barrenness according to the promise and for the sake of your soul and body, vowed to be the Mother of the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, with Nimzha now dwelling in heaven and imashi great boldness from the Most Holy Trinity, like the Queen, you are crowned with the crown of eternal reign. In the same way, we humbly resort to You and ask: seek us from the All-Merciful Lord God forgiveness of all our voluntary and involuntary sins; to our suffering fatherland of salvation, peace, silence and piety, restoration, times are peaceful and serene, sedition of the wicked are not involved; to an abundance of earthly fruits, an air of bliss, the rains are peaceful and in good time. And all that is necessary for our life and salvation, ask for us from Thy Son, Christ our God. Most of all, make good haste to us to be adorned with good morals and good deeds, yes, very powerfully, we will be imitators of Your holy life, since you adorned the earth from youth, pleasing the Lord; For this reason, Thou art the most honest Cherubim and the most glorious Seraphim. To her, Most Holy Lady, wake us in everything an ambulance and a wise Mentor for salvation, so that we will help You and help You, we will be honored to be the heir to the existence of the Heavenly Kingdom, by the sufferings of Your Son from the mysterious source, to the fulfillment of His promised holy commandments. Thou art, Lady, our hope and hope according to Bose is one, and we betray our whole belly to Thee, longing for Thy for the sake of intercession and intercession are not ashamed to be at the hour of our departure from this life, and at the Last Judgment of Thy Son, Christ of our God, His hand standing to be honored, and tamo to rejoice forever with everyone from time immemorial who have pleased Him and ceaselessly praise, praise, give thanks and bless Him with the Father and the Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Every holiday of the Mother of God is pure joy. It is a joy not only about God's love for us, but also about the joy that the earth - our simple, dear, ordinary land - can respond to the love of the Lord in this way. This is a special joy for us.
When we receive mercy from God, our heart rejoices; but sometimes it becomes melancholy: how, how can I return love for love, where can I find that holiness, that affection, that ability to respond with all nature to the mercy of God? And then, although we know that each of us is weak and weak in love, we can think about the Mother of God. She answered for all of us with perfect faith, never wavering with hope and love so wide that She managed to embrace heaven and earth with this love, open up with love so that the Son of God was incarnate, and so open up with love for people that all, the most sinful, they can come to Her and receive mercy. This is the answer of the whole earth, this is the answer of the whole universe to the love of God.
And so, let us rejoice and take away joy today from this church - not only for one moment: we will preserve it from day to day, we will be amazed at this joy, we will rejoice with this joy and we will give this joy to people, so that every heart will rejoice and be comforted and enlightened with this joy that the earth can contain heaven, that man can answer God in such a way that God would become man.
And now, from century to century, while the world stands, God is among us, Christ is the same among us, from day to day. And when the glory of earth and heaven is manifested, revealed, the Lord Jesus Christ, true God, but also a true man, will be the Mother of God among us, Who gave Him flesh with Her love, faith, holiness, and reverence.
Let us preserve, cherish, grow this joy and live by it in the days of sorrow, in the dark days, in the days when it seems to us that we are not capable of anything, that the earth cannot respond to the love of God with anything. The earth answered, and this Answer stands forever with raised hands, praying for all of us, good and evil, never standing across the path of salvation, forgiving everyone - but She has something to forgive: after all, the people of Her Son killed - and to Her we we resort. Because if She forgives, then no one will condemn us.
With what faith we come to the Mother of God, how deep it must be so that each of us, who by his sins and his unworthiness participates in the death of the Lord, could say: Mother, I have destroyed Your Son, but You forgive. And he intercedes for us, and has mercy, and saves, and grows to the full growth of the love of the Lord.
Glory to God for this, glory to the Mother of the Lord for this love of Her. Amen.
The righteous parents of the Ever-Virgin grieved for a long time about their infertility, long and fervently prayed to the Lord for the resolution of infertility, which was considered a punishment from God for sins; they did much alms in order to bow to the mercy of the All-Merciful, and endured insults from their fellow tribesmen, and in this sorrow and unceasing prayer and beneficence they were gradually purified in spirit and inflamed more and more with love and devotion to God and thus were prepared by the Providence of God for the blessed birth of the Most Blessed Blessedness , chosen from all generations to the Mother of the incarnate Word.
In a close and sorrowful way, the Lord leads to the glory and bliss of His chosen ones, for the Mother of God Herself in the flesh was predicted by Simeon that a weapon would pass through Her soul and She would experience grievous sorrows in her soul during the suffering life of Her Son, so that many people's hearts would open up ( Luke 2: 34-35). So mournful and cramped is the path of all God's chosen ones, for the world and the ruler of the world, that is, the enemy of God and men, extremely oppresses the people of God; and the Lord Himself allows them to walk the narrow path, since he helps them to strive to God and to place their trust in Him alone.
But let us look from sorrow to joy. What joy does the Nativity of the Mother of God give us? Let us explain in more detail the church song, which explains the reasons for the festive joy. Through the Nativity of the Ever-Virgin, through Her only-begotten Son and God, the cursed and rejected mankind was reconciled with God, immeasurably offended by their sins, for Christ became the Mediator of reconciliation (Rom. 5: 10-11), freed from curse and eternal death, was awarded the blessing of the Heavenly Father; it has united and merged with the Divine nature; raised into its first property by this dissolution, in the words of the church song; a previously rejected person was rewarded with adoption by the Heavenly Father, received the promise of a glorious resurrection and eternal life in heaven along with the angels.
All this has been accomplished and is being accomplished by the Son of God incarnate from the Most Pure Virgin from the Holy Spirit and by the intercession of His Most Pure Mother. How honored and exalted mankind through the holy Virgin Mary, for She was worthy of renewal and adoption by God; And She Herself was rewarded by Her immeasurable humility and the greatest purity and holiness to be the Mother of the God-man! She is always the most powerful Intercessor and Representative of the Christian clan before Her Son and God! She is our unashamed Hope; She removes from us the clouds of God's righteous anger, opens up to us the ancient paradise with Her mighty intercession; She upholds the thrones of kings and keeps them unshakable forever. She saved and is saving Russia a thousand times from the beginning to the present day; She exalted her, glorified her, confirmed and affirms her; She is the guarantor of sinners for salvation. To Her Christians turn their countless prayers, petitions, praises, praise and thanksgiving; She has performed and is performing in the Church countless miracles, beneficial in all parts of the world.
Let us all lightly celebrate the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, adorning ourselves with all sorts of Christian virtues. Amen.
The House of Joachim and Anna is one of the Christian landmarks of Jerusalem. As Church Tradition says, the Virgin Mary was born in the house of her parents - the righteous Joachim and Anna. It was located in the northeastern part of Jerusalem, now it is the territory of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, near the Lion Gate.
Orthodox and Catholics are still arguing about where exactly the house stood, and they built a monastery and a basilica at a distance of 70 meters from each other. The Orthodox monastery of St. Anna is a place of pilgrimage for many Christians around the world. On the first floor of the monastery there is a church in honor of the Nativity of the Mother of God, and under the building of the monastery there is an ancient cave. It is believed that this cave is part of the house of Joachim and Anna.
Church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vladykino- the spiritual center of the Moscow region Otradnoye. Address: Altufevskoe highway, building 4.
Vladykino is one of the most ancient villages near Moscow. The first owner of the village was the noble Prince Daniel of Moscow, the son of St. Alexander Nevsky and a direct descendant of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir and Princess Olga. In 1322, the village was granted to the patrimony of the thousand Protasius Velyaminov, who arrived at the service of the Moscow prince. From his name the village got its first name - Velyaminovo.
Three centuries later, in 1619, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich granted Velyaminovo to Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, but soon the village passed to Prince Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky. It was under him that a village church was built here in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (instead of a dilapidated church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker).
After 1653, His Holiness Patriarch Nikon made the village his fiefdom and gave it a new name - Vladykino. In Vladykino, a patriarchal traveling palace and another temple are being built in honor of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God.
The first stone church in Vladykino was built in 1770. The bell tower was erected by Count K. G. Razumovsky, the owner of the neighboring village of Petrovskoye. By the middle of the 19th century, the stone church was badly dilapidated. In 1854, on the site of the old one, a new, this time three-altar, temple was built with the side-chapels of the Archangel Michael and the Archangel Gabriel. The main altar in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was consecrated by Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna.
During the Soviet years, the church was not closed, even during the most severe persecutions against the Church. During the Great Patriotic War, not a single shell hit him, although the Germans were very close. In the 70s, there were attempts to demolish the temple during the construction of an overpass at the beginning of the Altufevskoe highway, but the parishioners were able to defend it.
THE VIRGIN MARY
In 54 BC. Joseph, the father of Jesus Christ, was born.
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
September 21 - Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. Christmas has 1 day of forefeast and 4 days of afterfeast.The years passed. Anna has long forgotten about the prophecy of Simeon. Business, household, everyday life - life went on as usual. Joachim and Anna were considered in Nazareth a prosperous married couple of average income. They kept livestock - goats, cows, horses, bulls. And a large flock of sheep. In addition, Joachim owned a small oil mill, which produced sour cream, cottage cheese, butter. Despite his advanced 60 years of age, Joachim still worked hard, trying to keep up with the housework everywhere.
Suddenly the unexpected happened - his wife Anna became pregnant again. At 54! It's just a miracle! And only now did Anna remember about Simeon! She told all her loved ones - her husband, relatives - about the prophecy made to her in childhood: that she would become pregnant at 54 and die in childbirth, and the child that had appeared should be called Mary, and this girl would later become the mother of Jesus - the Messiah, who would suffer a lot and will bring new faith to this world.
Those close to Anna were simply confused. What kind of prophecy, where from, what Messiah, will Anna really die, how can this be, and who will then raise the child?
Joachim was already 60 years old, and he could hardly raise a girl alone.
In those days, having many children was common. And none of the relatives could take little Maria to him. And then Anna remembered about her distant relative Elizabeth. Elizabeth's mother was the second cousin of Anna's mother. Elizabeth and her husband Zechariah did not have children of their own, so they agreed to take Mary with them.
The Nativity of Our Lady
In the Byzantine monuments of the 11th century, the plot is represented by the figure of Anna reclining on a throne. She was served by three girls; here the maids bathed baby Mary.
In the XIV century, the image of Joachim was introduced into the iconography of the Nativity. But he does not play a noticeable role in the disclosure of the plot, the main figure of Anna, which is much larger than him.
In the free iconographic original of the 18th century, the iconography of the Nativity of the Mother of God was described as follows: “Anna lies on a bed, the maidens stand in front of her, holding gifts, and the sunflower and candles, the maiden Anna holds under her shoulders, Joachim is watching from the upper chamber, the woman is washing the Holy Mother of God in the font up to the waist, the girl pours water into the font from a vessel. Leave the chamber ... and at the bottom of that chamber sits Joachim and Anna on the throne and hold the Most Holy Theotokos. " The concise iconographic version of the 14th century turned into a detailed narrative. 
Caressing the Most Holy Theotokos.
In the monuments of the 15th-16th centuries and later, they liked to add a scene of "caressing" (Joachim and Anna caressed their little daughter).
In 20 BC. On the morning of July 21, at 6 o'clock, MARIA, the mother of Jesus, was born. Anna did not endure a difficult birth, she died, as predicted by Simeon. The baby was very sickly, and there was no certainty that the girl would survive without her mother's milk. Therefore, Joachim wrote down his daughter in the family genealogy only when the danger of early death had passed, i.e. exactly two months later - September 21st. This date began to be considered the birthday of Mary.
According to the generally accepted tradition, which the Orthodox and Catholics alike adhere to, the Virgin Mary was born in the house of Joachim and Anna, which was located in the northeastern part of Jerusalem. Now it is the territory of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, near the Lion Gate. However, Orthodox and Catholics point out the exact place in different ways, and these places are about 70 m apart from each other.An Orthodox monastery was built on the Orthodox site, on the ground floor there is a church in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin, and a cave has been preserved under the monastery building. which, according to legend, was part of the house of Joachim and Anna. Catholics indicate the place of the house in the immediate vicinity of Bethesda and built there the Basilica of St. Anne, in the crypt of which there are also ancient underground chambers.
Many babies born three days before July 21 and September 21 are often gifted children, and all of them are under the patronage of the Virgin Mary.
On July 21, nature itself rejoices and celebrates the birth of the Virgin Mary - the air is filled with the heady smells of summer and the sun, an extraordinary lightness settles in all people in the soul, in the morning everyone wakes up with a good mood, anticipating that something extraordinary is about to happen today.
The Nativity of the Virgin is a holiday of universal joy, as it is sung in the festive troparion (voice 4):
“Thy birth, Virgin Mary,
joy announced to the entire universe:
for out of You shone the Sun of righteousness - Christ our God.
He removed the curse and gave a blessing;
He destroyed death and gave us eternal life. "
In the eastern iconography of the Nativity of the Mother of God, the moment of bringing the newborn Mary to the chest of mother Anna, lying on the bed surrounded by midwives and household members, is most often depicted. The frescoes by Giotto di Bondone (Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, 1304-1306) illustrate in detail the story of the Nativity of Mary.
Elizabeth and Zachariah took Mary into their home. They lived in the city of Tarichea on the shores of Lake Galilee, not far from the place where the Jordan River flows out of the lake. From Tarichea to Nazareth it was about 20 kilometers. Maria with age became more and more like her mother, but with some differences. Maria had wavy hair and blue eyes with an oriental cut ...
in Suzdal
The inhabitants of ancient Suzdal celebrated this day as their "patronal" holiday (September 21, new style). The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin was built in Suzdal in the 13th century. A long solemn service was going on in the cathedral, and the inhabitants of the city renewed the fire in their houses, extinguished the old one and kindled a new one.
Especially many churches in honor of the holiday associated with the birth of Mary appeared after 1380: it was on this day that the victory over the Tatars was won in the massacre on the Kulikovo field.
Like other feasts of the Mother of God, the establishment refers to a relatively late time. The official introduction of this holiday in the Byzantine Empire is supposedly attributed to the emperor of Mauritius at the end. VI or at the beginning of the VII century.
The first mention of the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary occurs in the 5th century. in the East, in the words of St. Proclus, Archbishop of Constantinople (439-446), and in the West, in the sacramentary (missile) of Pope Gelasius (492-496). But all these references are unreliable. The words are only attributed to Proclus, and the sacramentaries were written only in the 8th century. and naturally do not belong to Gelasius. In the months of the beginning of the 5th century. there is not a single Feast of the Theotokos. According to the author of the article in the English-language Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), the first mention of the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin is the hymns of Roman the Sweet Songwriter, written in the period from 536 to 556. The emergence of the holiday is probably associated with the strengthening of the veneration of the Virgin after the Ephesian Council under the influence of the later apocrypha. The festival appeared, apparently, at the beginning of the sixth century, initially in the Greek church and very soon after that it appeared in Rome and extended to their daughter churches.
Despite the mention of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Latin sources of the 7th century, the holiday was not widespread in the West and did not have a solemn service until the 12th-13th centuries. Only at the Council of Lyons (1245) Pope Innocent IV made the octave of the feast obligatory for the entire Western Church, and Pope Gregory XI (1370-1378) established a vigil (vigilia) with fasting and a special liturgy service for the feast.
Folk traditions
For the Eastern Slavs, the day is dedicated to the harvested harvest, fertility and family well-being. By this time, field work is completed: harvesting, exporting grain to the barn, harvesting flax. The foundation has been laid for the welfare of the family for the coming year. On this day, they honored and thanked the Mother of God (Mother - Cheese-Earth) for the harvest. It is believed that she gives prosperity, patronizes agriculture, family and especially mothers. In some places, commemorations for the dead are held, like on Dmitrievskaya Saturday.
Troparion of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
voice 4
Thy Christmas, Virgin Mary, / joy to erect the whole universe: / from Thee the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God, / and, breaking the oath, give a blessing, // and, having abolished death, has given us an eternal belly.
Kontakion of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
voice 4
Joachim and Anna of reproach of iniquity / and Adam and Eve are free from the aphids of mortality, Most Pure, / in Thy holy birth. / Thy people also celebrate, / the guilt of transgressions will be saved, / always call Ti: // the Mother of God and the Nourishing of our Life gives rise to unfruitfulness.
The Exaltation of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
We magnify Thee, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Thy holy parents, and glorify Thy Christmas all-glorious.
Prayer on the Day of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
CANON OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
Song 1
Irmos: Come people, let us sing a song to Christ God, who divided the sea, and who instructed the people, even from the Egyptian work, as if glorified.
Coming to the faithful, rejoicing in the Divine Spirit, Who has come today from barrenness, people for salvation, We will honor the Ever-Virgin Youth with a song.
Rejoice Pure, Mother and the workers of Christ God, Yazhe the First Intercessor to bliss, the human race, we praise everything worthily with songs.
Life is born this day the Bridge, Imzhe mankind the appeal of the hedgehog to fall from hell, they glorify Christ the Life-Giver with songs.
Song 3
Irmos: Confirm us in You, O Lord, mortify sin with a tree, and put your fear into the hearts of us singing Thee.
Blameless to God who lived, Salvation is of all kind, God-wisdom is the parent, the Creator of the Birth and our God.
The Lord exude life to all, from barrenness you have produced the Virgin, in Nuzha you will indulge in will, and after Christmas, preserving the incorruptible.
Annin's fruit, Mary, this day, a bunch of life-giving birth, as if we will sing of the Mother of God, the Representative of all and the Helper.
Sedalen, voice 4
Song 4
Irmos: Hearing the Lord, hearing Thy gaze, and glorify Thee, Alone Human-loving.
We sing to Thee, O Lord, for the faithful, a salutary Refuge has been given to all, Who gave birth to You.
Ty God the bride, praise to all Christ manifests and the state, who faithfully sing Your sacrament.
Inexperienced Lady, By Your prayers we rid ourselves of sins, we prudently bless You all.
Song 5
Irmos: Having ruined the inscribed darkness of fortune-telling, and the faithful with the arrival of truth, illumined the hearts of the Divine Lady, and instruct us with Thy light Christ.
Let us sing to the people of all to the Blame, which for us to be Guilty: Even the prophets rejoice in the image of joy, the revealed salvation from That is fruitful. From the dry vegetation of the rod of the priest, to Israel showing divination: and now the lordship of the vegetated shines gloriously, from barren an all-glorious Birth.
Song 6
Irmos: Cry out to the Lord from the whale Jonah: You raise me up from the depths of hell, I pray, yes, as if to the Deliverer, in a voice of praise, but I will devour the truth in the spirit to You.
To the Lord, in grief of infertility, I cried out, to the Mother of God of God-wisdom, parents, and this in childbirth gave birth, for common salvation and praise.
Priyasha heavenly Gift from God is worthy, the Mother of God is the Wisdom of the parents, the samekh Cherubims exceeding the Carrier, the Word and the Creator of the Parent.
Kontakion, voice 4
Ikos
Canto 7
Irmos: The bush in the mountain is fiery, and the dewy Chaldean cave, the prescription of Thee, God the bride, the Divine Bo Immaterial in a material womb, Fire unseemly accepted Thou. We sing the same from Thee Who was born: Blessed be God, our father.
Yours in material phenomena, their law-governor, is forbidden to understand, and the great, Most Pure, sacrament, not philosophizing earthly zealous figuratively is punished sometimes. The same wonder at the miracles, verb: God is blessed our father.
The Mountain and the Door of Heaven, and the mental Ladder The Divine Face is divinely divine to the prince: from Thee the Stone will not be cut off by man's hands, and the Door will pass through the Lord, Like miracles, God is our father.
Canto 8
Irmos: In the cave of adolescents, sometimes Thou didst depict Thy Mother, Lord, but the image of This one was removed from the fire, entering unseasonably. We sing the end of the day that Thou didst appear, and we exalt for all eternity.
Even closer to the God of our reconciliation, the predetermined Tabernacle, is now beginning to be, who have given birth to the Word, to us the debauchery of the flesh. We sing to Him, from those that do not exist in His existence, and we exalt them for all eternity.
Infertility is transposition, the worldly of the good, resolve the sterility, and clearly the miracle of Christ showing, coming to the earthly He Himself we sing, from those who do not exist in the hedgehog of That reception, and we exalt for all eternity.
Canto 9
Irmos: Even before the Sun, the Lamp of God shone forth, came to us fleshly, from the side of Devich, incarnate inexpressibly, Blessed All-Pure, We magnify the Mother of God.
Like a recalcitrant people, pouring water out of a stone, with a well-submissive tongue bestows Fruit from the loins of the barren Fruit for joy to us, Thee, Bogomati, the Most Pure, We are worthy of dignity.
In vain for the ancient lady of condemnation and foremother, correction: from the lower clan to God I will take out the appropriation, to the Creator of the Bridge, we magnify the Mother of God.
Svetilen
CANON OF THE SECOND CHRISTMAS OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
Song 1
Irmos: He who crushed the battle with His arm, and who led Israel through the Red Sea, we give to Him, as our Redeemer God: as if glorified.
May all creation rejoice, may David also rejoice: as if from the knee and from his seed the production of the Rod, the Color that bears the Lord, the Creator of all.
Holy of Holies, in the holy of the sanctuary, the Infant is entrusted to be brought up by the hand of the angels: we will all faithfully celebrate Her in the Nativity.
Non-fertile Anna is not fertile, but she is not childless to God: behold, the Pure Virgin Mati was born from childbirth. In the same way of nature, grow the Creator in the image of a slave.
Thy kind Lamb, the Lamb of Christ, the Infant from Thy womb who brought into our being, all Thy born from Anna, we honor the song.
Trinity: Three without beginning I praise, Three Saints I sing, Three are co-existing in the One Being, I preach: One is bo in the Father, and the Son, and Dus, God is glorified.
Theotokos: Who is in the form of a Child, His Father is not all, fed on milk; or where the byst of the Virgin Mati is visible; truly more than the mind of the wallpaper, the Virgin of the Pure.
Song 3
Irmos: Confirm my heart in the Lord, my horn lifted up in my Boz, my mouth spreads out against my enemies, rejoicing in Your salvation.
Having been brought up in the Holy of Holies, the Virgin Most Pure Theotokos, Thou didst appear above the creature, the Creator of the flesh.
Blessed is Thy chaste womb, Anno, Thou didst grow the Fruit of virginity, Yuzhe without seeds, the Feeder of the creature, Who gave birth and the Deliverer of Jesus.
Thee blesses, ever-dear, all creation, born from Anna today, from the root of Jesse's Rod the Most Pure Color, which grew out of Christ.
Thy embroidered all creatures to the Theotokos, showing the Pure, Thy Son, magnifies Your Christmas from Anna, and makes everyone happy today.
Trinity: We bow to Thee, Father, Beginninglessly Being, we sing Thy Son of Years, and honor Thy Co-present Spirit, like the One Three by the nature of God.
Theotokos: the Light-Giver and the Head of human life, who gave birth to the Pure Mother of God, Thou art the Treasure of our life, and the Door of the unapproachable Light.
Sedalen, voice 4
The Virgin Mary and the Mother of God are true, as a cloud of light is hoisting to us today, and from the righteous will come to our glory. It is not to whom Adam is condemned, and Eve is freed from the bonds, and for this reason we call cryingly with the boldness of the One Pure: joy announces Thy Christmas to the whole universe.
Song 4
Irmos: Prophet Habakkuk, the Lord is wise to the providence, Your Coming, by that cry: from the south God will come. Glory to Thy strength, glory to Thy descent.
Patriarch Jacob, having foreseen, Savior, the greatness of Thy structure is clear, crying out in the Spirit, to Judas, saying secretly: from the summer, thou art ascended to my Son, proclaiming Thee from the Virgin of God.
Now the Rod of Aaron, vegetated from the root of David, now the Pure Virgin occurs: and heaven and earth, and all the fatherland of languages, and Anna and Joachim are mysterious.
Now let the heavens rejoice, let the earth rejoice, and let Joachim and David rejoice. Ov for, like Thy parent, truly the Birth of God: Om, like Thy forefather, preaching Thy majesty, Pure.
The universe will rejoice in Thee today, God-wise Anno, the universe: Thou art the Mother of God the Redeemer, From the root of David's vegetation, the Rod of Power bearing us the Color, Christ.
Trinity: I glorify God without beginning, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Unessential Trinity Uncreated, the Seraphim stand reverently, calling: Holy, Holy, Holy God.
Theotokos: The Pre-Beginning Beginning receives the beginning from Thee, the Mother of God, in fleshly time, and remains with the Origin, and the Word of the Father is incarnate, and is incarnate with the Spirit, preserving Divine dignity.
Song 5
Irmos: O Lord our God, give us peace, O Lord our God, acquire us, O Lord, don't we know another thing for you, we call your name.
Thy Most Pure Christmas, Virgin Immaculate, unspeakable, and unspeakable conception and Thy birth, Unbride Bride: God is all wrapped up in me.
Today, let the angels rejoice, let those beings from Adam rejoice in songs: the Rod, the increased color of Christ the One, our Redeemer, is born.
Today Eve is allowed condemnation, but infertility is also allowed, and Adam of the ancient oath, about Thy Nativity: Thou will get rid of the aphids.
Glory to Thee who glorified the barren day: be born a Rod that blooms with flowers from the promise, from the Worthless Christ, the Color of our life.
Trinitarian: Glory to Thee, Holy Father, God of the Unborn: glory to Thee, Son of Lifeless, Only Begotten: glory to Thee, Divine and Holy Throne Soul, come from the Father, and dwell in the Son.
Theotokos: Thy womb bore the Sun: Thy purity remained as unharmed before, Virgin: Christ is the Sun, like from the palace Bridegroom, appear from Thee.
Song 6
Irmos: Like the waters of the sea, Human-loving, I am overwhelmed by the waves of life, the same like Jonah, so I cry to Ty: lift my belly from aphids, God is more grave.
Holy of Holies, Thy chaste parents, Pure One, have placed Thee in the temple of the Lord to be educated honestly, and be prepared to be His Mother.
Rejoice mothers and mothers, dare and play childless: motherless because mothers are not fruitful The Mother of God vegetates, she will also relieve Eve of diseases, and the oath of Adam.
I hear David singing to You: the Virgins will be led in the footsteps of You, they will be led to the temple of Tsars. And with him Ty and I, Daughter of Tsarev, I sing.
We sing Thy holy Christmas, we honor Thy immaculate conception, the God-called Bride and the Virgin: they glorify with us the Angels, and the holy souls.
Trinity: In Thee the Trinity Sacrament is sung, and the Pure One is glorified: the Father is well pleased, and the Word has dwelt in Thee, and the Divine Spirit of Autumn for Thee.
Theotokos: Thou art the Golden Censer, the Fire has dwelt in Thy womb, the Word from the Holy Spirit, and the human sight in Thee is seen, Pure Mother of God.
Kontakion, voice 4
Joachim and Anna of reproach of iniquity, and Adam and Eve are free from the aphids of death, Most Pure One, in Thy Holy Nativity. Thy people also celebrate, the guilt of sins will be freed, always call Ti: the Mother of God and the Nourishing of our life gives rise to unproductiveness.
Ikos
Prayer is bought and sighing, barrenness and iniquity, but Joachim and Anna are favorable, and into the ears of the Lord into the interior, and vegetation The fruit is life-bearing to the world. Ova for a prayer on the mountain I do: ova in the garden the reproach of the burden: but with the joy of unfruitfulness gives birth to the Mother of God, and the Nourishing of our life.
Canto 7
Irmos: The Chaldean cave inflamed by fire, sprinkled with the Spirit, God's coming, the children will go: blessed are you, God our father.
We celebrate, Pure One, and faithfully worship Thy Holy Christmas, singing Thy Son, and we shall get rid of the old Adam's condemnation now.
Now Anna is rejoicing, and cries out, boasting: the failure of the Mother of God is not fruitful, for the sake of condemnation of Evino be resolved, and even sickness in sorrow.
Adam freed, and Eve rejoiced, and cried out in spirit to Theotokos: Through thee, the original oaths are delivered, I am revealed to Christ.
O womb that contains God's Settlement! About the womb, which bore the Shirshay heaven, the Holy Throne, the mental ark of Sacred.
Trinity: let us glorify the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, in the Unity of the Godhead, the Most Holy Trinity, Inseparable, Uncreated, and Consubstantial, and Consubstantial.
Theotokos: You gave birth to the One God, the Virgin gloriously, You renewed your nature by Your Christmas to Mary, You granted Eve the original oath, the Pure Mother of God.
Canto 8
Irmos: Cover your overwhelming waters with waters, set the sea as sand, and contain everything, Thee sings the sun, Thee the moon praises, Thee all creation brings a song to Thee, as if he were the Coordinator of all forever.
Having created a glorious barren womb, opened to Anna, a non-fervent falsehood, and giving Fruit to her, You are the Holy God, You are the Son of the Virgin, You have received the flesh from this, the blessing of the Virgin and the Mother of God.
Close the abyss, and open it, lift the water into the clouds and give rain, You are the Lord, from the barren root of Anna's vegetation, the holy most pure Fruit, and give birth to the Mother of God.
To the maker of our thoughts and the planter of our souls, Thou art a barren land fertile, Thou art a dry old, giving birth, good-natured, reins of fruitfulness hast made the holy Anna, the Most Pure Fruit to sprout the Mother of God.
Come all we will see, as if from the palace is small, the City of God is now reborn, like from the door of the uterine exodus, but I do not enter into communication: One God, the Creator, This is a strange path.
Trinity: About the Inherent Trinity, the Unity of the Primordial One! Thee sings and trembles a multitude of Angel, Heaven and earth, and the abysses are terrified, people bless, fire works, everyone will listen to You, Holy Trinity, with fear, even in creation.
Theotokos: About the latest hearing: God, the Son of the Wife! About seedless Christmas! Worshipless Mother and Born God! O dreadful vision! About the conception of a strange Virgin! Oh unspeakable Christmas! Truly more than the mind, everything, and visions.
Canto 9
Irmos: Virginity is alien to mothers, and childbirth is strange for virgins: on You, the Mother of God, the wallpaper is settled. By this we constantly magnify all the tribes of the earth.
Worthy, Bogomati, Thy purity, you inherited Christmas, through a promise: sometimes more barren, God-drenched.
Fulfill the blatant prophecy, he says: I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of the sacred David, in You, the Pure transformed, Even for the sake of all people, God's dust will be created in the body.
We bow to Thy Mother of God, we glorify this Fruit before it is barren, and the opened bed is gloriously non-fervent. He does everything, the tree is hochet, God is Autocratic.
As a gift to You, the Mother of God, a chant from Anna who was born truly monstrous: to the Mother Mother, the virgin Virgin One, we worship You, sing and glorify.
Trinity: Alien is the lawless to glorify the beginningless Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the uncreated Omnipotence, the whole world is contained by the mania of Her Power.
Theotokos: Thou didst contain in Thy womb, Virgin Mother of One from the Trinity of Christ the Tsar, All creation sings to Him, and tremble from above: pray to Him, All-Pure One, save our souls.
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From the barren day of Anna, the Flower of the Mother of God, all the aromas of the Divine fulfill the ends of the world, and joy fill all the creatures: We singing worthily praise, as if the existence of the earth-born has Exceeded.
HAKATHIST OF THE MOTHER OF GOD CHRISTMAS
Kontakion 1
Elected from all generations of the Mother of God, heaven and earth to the Queen, who sanctified the human race by coming to us in Thy all-honorable Nativity, we bring Thy servant, the Mother of God, reverent singing. You, as if you came to our consolation and salvation, free us from all our troubles, let us call Ty:
Ikos 1
The Archangel Gabriel was sent quickly to righteous Anna, when she, in the grief of her barrenness, cry to the Lord from the depths of my heart, seeing in her garden a bird nest, little possessing chicks, and to bring her great joy to her, saying: Your prayer has been heard, but your tears come before God. , and behold, give birth to the Blessed Daughter, the whole tribe of the earth will be blessed about Neyzha, and Her name will be called Mary. Seems to this joyous promise, a cry of the Most Blessed:
Rejoice, from the noblest royal root Joachim raised; Rejoice, born of the most sacred bishop's clan Anna.
Rejoice, freeing our ancestors from the mortal aphids; Rejoice, thou who didst permit the reproach of iniquity to Thy parents.
Rejoice, seeing the Holy Gates to the East, opening the barren gates with your birth; Rejoice, virgin locked Door, awaiting the entrance of the Holy Hierarch the Great.
Rejoice, your mother's tears are your change for joy; Rejoice, that reproach of people is taken away.
Rejoice, great consolation for those who have given birth to Thee; Rejoice, pleasure for the whole world.
Rejoice, proclamation of the fallen Adam; Rejoice, deliverance of Eve's tears.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 2
Seeing the righteous Anna of the great archangel, the appearance and hearing his verbs, worship God and the speech: As the Lord God lives, as if I give birth to a Child, I will give E to serve Him, may He serve and praise His Holy name during the whole summer of His life. Fill with inexpressible joy, flow to Jerusalem with diligence, so that the tamo in the church will sing to God with gratitude: Alleluia.
Ikos 2
Have a clean mind before God, the righteous Joachim, both of which he was rejected from people in the temple for childlessness, and in grief this idea into the wilderness, and there praying with tears, speech: I will not put food in my mouth, I will not return to my house, but my tears Let the wilderness be food for me as a home, until the Lord God of Israel will visit me. And behold, the Angel of the Lord will appear to him and the good news, as if a Daughter will be born to him, about Her Christmas there will be joy to the whole world. Filled with this joy, go to Jerusalem, and there together with Anna glorify God, saying the Promised:
Rejoice, longed for by all from ancient years; Rejoice, foretold from all prophet.
Rejoice, pre-chosen by God from the creation of the world; Rejoice, promised from the fall of the forefathers to sinners.
Rejoice, Council of ineffable Eternal care; Rejoice, well-written Image of Divine Foreknowledge.
Rejoice, animated Switch, the Word has been written in it by the finger of God; Rejoice, O source of life, from the Worthless the gospel of Christ flows abundantly.
Rejoice, God-woven Porphyro, in Nuzha put on the Eternal Word; Rejoice, fragrant Miro, in Worthless, the grace of the Most Holy Spirit has entered.
Rejoice, more than all gold shining, the Chamber of the Wisdom of God not made by hands; Rejoice, the most radiant morning of every sun, the Home of Christ.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 3
The power of the Vyshnyago autumn then to conception matured in her days the righteous Anna, and the barren one is false, as if the cornfield is fertile, let it vegetate from her for the joy of the whole world, perishing in sorrow, Sweet Village, Blessed Virgin Mary, salvation to all who want to reap, and praise from the depths of the soul: Alleluia.
Ikos 3
Possessive, Most Pure, your parents are your immaculate life, conceive Thee in a good old age, not diligently with fleshly sweetness, but in chastity and self-control, may it appear in Thy birth, not the will of nature, but the power of God, the power of God, conquering the nature of the order, and may they know everything, as a prayer, together with the sighing of barrenness to the vegetation, Thee, the fruit of the Life-giving world. For this sake, honoring Thy immaculate conception, we sing to Thy sitsa:
Rejoice, joy to the barren mother; Rejoice, consolation of hopeless parents.
Rejoice, for you have vegetated from the dry root of Jesse; Rejoice, and you have grown the Color of Christ from him.
Rejoice, for you have begun to conquer in your conception even in your conception; Rejoice, by this you foreshadowed the preservation of Your virginity in Christmas.
Rejoice, for you will blow away the winds of salvation of the herald; Rejoice, for the fruit of the birth will be the beginning of Grace.
Rejoice, for by Thou art our nature is conquered; Rejoice, for by You the foremother's oath is resolved.
Rejoice, proclamation of worldwide joy; rejoice, Beginning of our salvation.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 4
The storm of sorrows and sorrows of many were possessed by Your righteous parents, Most Pure One, as if you were fruitless until old age, as if you were unworthy to have an inheritance in the Kingdom of God. Compassionate with them from the ages about the sterility of our nature, all creation, obeying vanity: groans for Adam, as if the earth was cursed for his sake; Eve also weeps, as if her sorrow and illness multiplied; the whole human race, having joined corruption, co-breathes with them. When, O Bogomati, by Thy birth, the ancient sterility and corruption are consumed, all creation cry out to God with thanksgiving for Thee: Alleluia.
Ikos 4
Hearing the Lord God of the righteous Joachim and Anna sighing and giving them according to the promise to the Archangel, the Most Pure and Most Blessed Daughter, Virgin Mary, our salvation is the Beginning and the Intercessor, heaven and earth rejoice about Her Christmas, the angels and archangels rejoice, people hedgehog, glorifying God:
Rejoice, Mary, great miracle of all creation; rejoice, daughter of David, but mother of the Lord.
Rejoice, one blessed one in wives; Rejoice, glorified from an angel in heaven.
Rejoice, unapproachable Dawn, who has shone the light of the world; Rejoice, inextinguishable Lampado, enlightening the night of sorrows.
Rejoice, for the vision of Thy sight by an angel is sweet; Rejoice, for Your manifestation to the world is a delightful man.
Rejoice, new Paradise, planted on the earth; Rejoice, bright devil, adorned with the Heavenly King.
Rejoice, Chamber of the Holy Spirit; Rejoice, Tabernacle of God with men.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 5
The God-given star, which shone from Nazareth and enlightened the whole world, we see Thee, the Most Holy Virgin: little is God, he also sanctified by Thy Christmas, and we despise people, for the sake of all the words: from Nazareth, can anything be good? God, who is weak and humiliated, is chosen by God, but they will shame the strong one, and reveal from Nazareth Thee to the whole world the Unfading Color, with virginity blooming all over the world, the Holy Virgin of all the saints, who has not known a single sin in all of His life, but let us all gratefully sing about You to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 5
Your parents saw Your wonderful Christmas, Most Pure One, bringing great gifts to God, and blessed were you from the priest and from all people, as if you received the blessing of God, and created the institution in your house, rejoicing in the spirit and glorifying God. Remembering the angelic promise, I will honor Thee, as my Lady, and bowing down, praising Thee:
Rejoice, the Holy Bride who was called the Holy Spirit before all ages; Rejoice, in the last time the Son of the Mother of God, the Virgin, appeared.
Rejoice, Father God, Daughter of all generations, chosen; Rejoice, wondrously shining of the Life-Giving Trinity with the glares.
Rejoice, all Heavenly powers surpassing without reason; Rejoice, drive away all demonic ratios without shame.
Rejoice, all-powerful Intercessor to the entire human race; Rejoice, all-merciful Intercessor to all repentant sinners.
Rejoice, honest wives Praise; Rejoice, pure virgins Slavo.
Rejoice, for bringing good to the whole world from Malago Nazareth; Rejoice, even to the last of the earth you covered all with your love.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 6
The preacher of your coming into the world, the Mother of God, was righteous Elizabeth. Ponezhe, when you see Thee, coming to her house, come out to Your meeting and cry out with a great voice: Blessed are You in women and blessed is the Fruit of Your womb. And where did this come from to me, so that the Mother of my Lord came to me? Sice and we, Thy glorious Christmas, as our first visit to Thy land, celebrating, we greet Thee with this greeting: where do we come from, may our Lord Mother come to us. Blessed are You in women, and blessed is the Fruit of Your Womb, to Him, all thanks, let us sing: Alleluia.
Ikos 6
Raise the joy of Thy Nativity, Most Pure, not just Thy righteous parent, but also all those who are near and far away, and even until the end of the universe, as if God rest on a rational Throne, the Holy Throne is already prepared for Himself on earth and a new Dawn will appear, foreshadowing the Sun of Christ's Truth coming soon. For this sake, let's sing to Ty, Pure, sice:
Rejoice, Most Serene Dawn, Herald of the Great Sun of Christ; Rejoice, the unapproachable Ray, the Non-Evening Light to the Parent.
Rejoice, you cleanse men from the passions with the fire of Your prayers; Rejoice, with Thy dew of grace, the flame of Gehenna is cooling the weak.
Rejoice, cloud of Divine Light, destroying every darkness; Rejoice, fragrant Censer, lifting up the prayers of the faithful to Thy Son.
Rejoice, Heavenly Kivota, carried from the highest to the earthly; Rejoice, fire-like Throne, prepared for the Heavenly King on earth.
Rejoice, thou hast raised up the fallen tabernacle of David; Rejoice, for you have shown above heavenly Jerusalem on earth.
Rejoice, you have prepared the most honorable purple of thy blood for the Lamb of God; Rejoice, for the God-woven purple of the Word of God from Thy flesh sprang out.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Thy birth.
Kontakion 7
Although the long-suffering Lord will reveal the abyss of His love for mankind to the fallen ancient in paradise of the human race, He gave tamo our ancestor the promise that the seed of the woman will erase the head of the serpent, in the last time fulfill on Thee, Most Pure, His first promise, choosing Thee One from all generations into Your Mother May Thy Merry Christmas erase the head of the ancient serpent, for the sake of thanksgiving we will sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 7
Thy new terrible and wonderful sacraments, the Mother of God, and a new one is the source of life instead of sensual Eve: that, having obeyed the serpent, began to lay God's aversion to man and give birth to sorrow to wives. Thy Son, O Virgin, Like Eve's womb, condemn to give birth to fruits in diseases, in Thy womb have settled, painlessly, the keys of virginity intact in Thy birth. For this, for the sake of You, the fallen female nature rejoices, instead of the ancient oath of the freedom of Christ, you have received: Following You, the wives, who are enemies, begin to conquer, holding on to virginity and crying to You like this:
Rejoice, adorned with divine glory; Rejoice, exalted by the purity of virginity.
Rejoice, you who have deified fallen human nature; Rejoice, you freed wives from ancient sorrow.
Rejoice, you astonished Gabriel with the beauty of Thy virginity; Rejoice, in Thy bright purity the angelic councils have immeasurably surpassed.
Rejoice, impassable door, opened the prisoner of Eden; rejoice, sealed book, not knowing the mysteries of God containing.
Rejoice, Fragrant Krine of virginity; Rejoice, unfading Color of purity.
Rejoice, you who have planted heavenly virginity on the earth; Rejoice, you opened the doors of heaven to the fallen.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 8
Your strange Christmas, seeing no sweetness from barrenness, but shining from chastity and abstinence, let us get away from the vanity of the world, and all non-chastity of the soul and bodily, mind and hearts are transferred to heaven. For this, Thou didst come to the world of Mother of chastity, but raise the lower one to a high altitude, and teach all with pure lips and an unclean heart to sing to God: Alleluia.
Ikos 8
All good you are, my neighbor, and there is no blemish in you. Rise, come, My Dove, reveal Me Your vision and be heard, create Your voice, as Your voice is sweet and Your image is red. Thou art Thou mother alone, Thou art Thou who gave birth to Thee, so the verb Thy Son and the Lord, Most Pure, shedding, from barren, Thy Christmas and Thy coming into the world. Listening to this Divine voice, we dare to sing to You this:
Rejoice, Queen, presenting yourself at the right hand of the King of Christ; Rejoice, Lady, in the vestments gilded virginity is clothed and adorned.
Rejoice, the Heavenly King has longed for her kindness; Rejoice, you were called the neighbor and good in wives.
Rejoice, Ascending from the wilderness, like a cloud of smoke, myrrh and Lebanon curing; Rejoice, poured out world, wearing out the fragrance from the Heavenly Mirovorets.
Rejoice, prisoner in Vertograd, in worthless no one can take; rejoice, sealed treasure, from its depth no one can drink.
Rejoice, shining one, as the morning is sitting in the darkness; Rejoice, ascendant, like the moon, chosen one, like the sun.
Rejoice, Source of animal water, flowing ever-flowing from the Throne of God; rejoice, tree of life, blossoming in the midst of paradise.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 9
Every angelic nature rejoices in joy, glorifying God, when after Thy birth, O Most Pure One, the great saint with priests and people are chosen to come to the house of Thy parents, sending out thanksgiving prayers. Whenever bless Thee, raise up your voice, saying: God our father, bless this baby and give Her a name, may it be glorified in all generations. And call Thee the name Mary, great and gracious, sweet for people, but filled with fear by the demon, and cry out with joy: Alleluia.
Ikos 9
Vitya the many-talked-about, like a mute fish, wonder how to praise Thy purity, equal to that of an angel from infantile swaddling clothes, the Most Pure, even the gift of Thy Lord, may I present Thee, His Mother, I have no filth or vice, or something from such, but may be holy and blameless. For this, for Thy mother's sake, carefully observe Thee in immaculate purity, but the hand of the wicked will never touch the Inspired Kivot of God: that will sanctify Your bed, and alienate yourself from all impurity, and the call of a pure virgin to keep Your peace. And when the nipples feed Ty, the prayer is cheap, but with the mother's milk you feed yourself the Word of God. Such is Thy blameless purity that appears, crying to Ty sice:
Rejoice, for you have known not a single sin from your infancy; Rejoice, Holy One from Thy Nativity of all saints.
Rejoice, for you have been oiled with prayer more than milk; Rejoice, you are more saturated with the Word of God.
Rejoice, heavenly growth, planted on the earth; rejoice, paradise vegetation, brought up from your parents.
Rejoice, pure Golubica, the whole world is not worthy of purity; Rejoice, you unfaithful Lamb, I will deserve the Mother Christ for her innocence.
Rejoice, for the mania of the Almighty has shone forth from fruitlessness; Rejoice, you who have received a Christmas worthy of Your purity.
Rejoice, for Thy name is praiseworthy from the east of the sun to the west; Rejoice, for you are blessed from all generations in wives.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 10
To save even the world from the charm of hostility, the Human-loving Lord has chosen Thee from the earthly race, from the small city and from the barren womb in His Mother, predetermined from time immemorial, the prophets preached from the ancient times, the Mediator of our salvation, may you be sad and in troubles there will be quick consolation and resolution of worldly barrenness, let all those who wander in the darkness of sin, reveal the Sun of Christ's righteousness, singing to Him: Alleluia.
Ikos 10
Thou art wall and refuge for all man, Virgin Mary, your Christmas celebrating: You are from the small palace of God's City, you begin to be, and from the womb you do not bear an exodus, but prepare the entrance to the Great Saint: God is the only one for you along a strange path, not burning preserved. For this reason, with boldness, we call Ty, the One purer and more blessed, such:
Rejoice, blessed in heaven; Rejoice, glorified on earth.
Rejoice, Joy and Pleasure angels; Rejoice, joy and consolation to earthly ones.
Rejoice, God-voiced and non-malignant Turtle-dove; Rejoice, meek and quiet Yunitsa.
Rejoice, Holy Spirit of the All-Holy Temple; Rejoice, heavenly disgusting Drawing of the Purest.
Rejoice, dew of Aermon, who descended on the mountains of Sinai; Rejoice, alavastra of the World of great value, the earth that has become fragrant.
Rejoice, City of God, from the palace there is little vegetation; Rejoice, Nazareth hail from dry root growth.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 11
The singing of gratitude sings with the spirit of the divine Joachim, the wonderful and divine Anna, as if she sees on earth the Mother of the Creator, Yuzhe has given birth, the daughter of Mary, with them we, the Lady, equal in number to the sand of the sea song, we bring Ti, praising the glorious from barren falsities, Thy Christmas, gratefully glorifying To God: Alleluia.
Ikos 11
A light-receiving light, gloriously kindled by Thy birth in the night of the Old Law, we see Thee, the Most Holy Virgin: for all, in the darkness of sin and the shadow of mortals who sit down, Thou hast shone light, joy, grace and permission of the ancient oath, Eve for the sake of the former: from Thee the sun rises Of righteousness, Christ our God, enlighten those who are in darkness, crying out to you in such praise:
Rejoice, Dawn of the day of the non-evening, opening the gates of the Kingdom of Christ; Rejoice, the Most Serene Dennitsa, who announced our salvation.
Rejoice, Undetectable Star, Great Sun leading into this world; Rejoice, Candle Light-Glowing, driving away the ancient sinful darkness.
Rejoice, Life-Giving Source, giving life to all; Rejoice, Luminary, before the Sun, you gave us light.
Rejoice, for you have enlightened us with the blasts of grace in the still existing darkness; Rejoice, Mother of Sveta Umnago, who has illuminated the entire universe with grace.
Rejoice, Bride of the Hall of Radiant Light, having doused all the heavenly places with the radiance of Your robe; Rejoice, woman, clothed with the Sun, who appeared in the world for salvation to those who perish.
Rejoice, having the moon under your feet; Rejoice, crowned of twelve stars.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 12
With grace, the same-named Divine Anna rejoices and cries out, boasting: Unfruitfulness, the Mother of God, for the sake of condemnation of Evino, be resolved even in sorrow of illness. And so rejoicing, I made a promise, may the Daughter bring her born God and may it be perfect as a gift from all earthly generations, but as a man - in eternal consolation and joy, in the hedgehog I will take out: Alleluia.
Ikos 12
We sing Thy Most Pure Christmas, we honor the ineffable conception, we glorify Thy birth unspeakable from barrenness, we worship Thy swaddling clothes, God-called Bride and Virgin; Together with us they glorify the coming of angels and archangels, rite and the souls of saints. Council: the common joy ascending in heaven and on earth from the righteous Joachim and Anna by Thy birth, the Mother of God, glorifying him, with the cry of Ty is:
Rejoice, O All-Immaculate, according to the Holy Trinity, the common angel and man to the Lady; Rejoice, All-Blessed One, according to the Comforter, the common Comforter of all in heaven and on earth.
Rejoice, Beauty in the right hand of the Lord, adorning the blessed You of all heavenly ones; Rejoice, Consolation Almighty, delighting all earthly ones who call on Thee.
Rejoice, Heaven of heaven, all angelic powers surpassing without comparison; rejoice, Miracle of miracles, creating dust of all people in the Body of God.
Rejoice, Queen of queens, for the whole universe has made the limit of sinful corruption; Rejoice, Holy of Holies of the whole Church of Christ, which laid the foundation for our salvation.
Rejoice, Godly Maiden, God's blessing of all times and centuries; Rejoice, God-Chosen Young Woman, blessed reconciliation of all language and birth.
Rejoice, Pillar of virginity, to all who desire virginity, sending down the kindness of virginity to reality; Rejoice, Door of salvation, everyone, those who seek salvation, soon giving a helping hand.
Rejoice, Most Pure One, who have rejoiced the whole world with Her birth.
Kontakion 13
Oh, all-chanting Mother, born of barrenness for the salvation of the world, our present about Thy all-righteous birth, accept the offerings, do not leave us during our belly, save us from all misfortune and captivity of the enemy, and from the barrenness of the soul, let everyone crying about Thee: Alleluia ...
This kontakion is read three times, then the 1st ikos "Archangel Gabriel ..." and the 1st kontakion "Elected from all genera ..."
Prayer
Oh, Most Holy and God's Chosen Virgin, our Lady Theotokos, Heaven and earth to the Queen, for the joy and consolation of the whole world from fruitless and childless parents, given by God! Born by God's providence, Thou hast allowed the sterility of Thy birth, and now fruitfully create my barren heart by Thy intercession at the Almighty Throne, but make me infertile with evil deeds, rotten words and unclean thoughts. Oh, All-Blessed One, may there appear a child of God, ever bringing fruitfulness to virtues. Thou hast quenched Thou with Thy most pure birth the lamentation of our foremother Eve, and Thy righteous parents delivered Thou the reproach of iniquity, and now quench the lamentation and sighs of my many-painful and sinful souls and deliver all of us from the reproach of our evil deeds, and all our passions without our despicable passions. Most of all, grant us, O Most Holy Theotokos, Virgin, on the bright day of Thy Nativity, with a pure heart, understand and remember, with great joy and thanksgiving, the barren womb of the Holy Righteous Anna wears You, and we will not exactly words, but we will glorify with our heart most of all with our heart. Ty, crying: Glory to Thy coming, Pure. Glory to Thy Christmas. Glory to Thy virginity, Mother of the Unbeliever. Buy with Thee, grant us to ceaselessly glorify and magnify Thy All-Holy Fruit, the Word is incarnate, in Thy womb it is unopeningly borne, to Him is glory, honor and adoration, with His God-given Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and in eyelids of centuries. Amen.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary was born at a time when people reached such limits of moral decline, at which their rebellion seemed already impossible. The best minds of that era recognized and often openly said that God must descend into the world in order to correct faith and prevent the destruction of the human race. The Son of God wanted to accept human nature for the salvation of people, and the Most Pure Virgin Mary, the only one worthy to contain in Himself and embody the Source of purity and holiness, He chooses as His Mother.
A very long time ago, more than two thousand years ago, in Palestine, in Galilee, in the small town of Nazareth, there lived a husband and wife - Joachim and Anna. They came from ancient and noble families and deeply believed in God. The family was quite prosperous (Joachim owned large flocks of sheep), but they lived very modestly - most of the income was donated to the Jerusalem temple and distributed to the poor.
And yet the Lord sent Joachim and Anna a difficult test - they had no children. Good spouses were very worried and did not stop praying to the Lord that He would give them a child: after all, a family without children is not a family. And, besides, like all Jews, they knew from the predictions that the Savior of the world would soon be born from the lineage of King David (from the lineage of Joachim!).
And at that time it was believed that if people do not have children, then they are sinners and so the Lord punishes them for their sins. That is why the neighbors of Joachim and Anna often laughed and condemned them. But the couple tried not to be offended by the evil and unjust words and still lived righteously and fervently prayed to the Lord. And so, when even hope had almost left Joachim and Anna, the Lord rewarded them for their patience and faith.
One of the big holidays has come. Like all men, Elder Joachim went to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice to the Lord in the temple. He brought rich gifts, but the priest Issachar this time did not accept his sacrifice. He told Joachim that yes, a childless, which means that a sinful person is unpleasant to God. Loudly spoken cruel and unjust words aroused the ridicule of the people in the temple. The heart of the unfortunate Joachim pierced with such pain that it seemed that it would break now. Without looking at anyone, in deep sadness, he hastily left the temple ...
Joachim did not notice how he ended up in a deserted place. "I will not taste any food, I will not return to my house until the Lord God hears me," decided poor Joachim. shepherds, for forty days and nights he mourned his grief and prayed to the Lord.
The news that the priest did not accept the sacrifice of Joachim, and that he himself had disappeared somewhere, reached Anna. She felt her husband's pain with all her heart and could not hold back her tears. "Now," Anna sobbed, "I am the most unhappy of all: I was abandoned by God and forgotten by my husband!" She cried for a long time ... But then a bird song came to her ears. Turning around, Anna saw a nest with fledglings among the branches of a laurel tree. They were fed by a small bird.
The poor woman's tears flowed even more heavily. "I am the most sinful of all! Others carry their children in their arms, only I am deprived of this consolation! From others they accept gifts into the temple of God, and show them respect for the fact that they have children. I alone am rejected from the temple of my God!" Woe, woe to me! Behold, O Lord, at me, and finally hear my cry and my prayers! "
And ... lo and behold! Weeping Anna saw an Angel who said: "Anna! The Lord has heard your prayers. You will give birth to a Daughter and you will call Her Mary, which means" lady, hope ". She is granted salvation to the whole world." The angel told Anna to go to Jerusalem, where she would meet her husband at the Golden Gate of the temple. The astonished Anna could barely utter in reply: "As the Lord my God lives!"
It took her a little time to get ready - and now she is already in Jerusalem. In the indicated place, an agitated Joachim was waiting for his wife. It turns out that a miracle happened to him: an angel also appeared to him and said: "The Lord accepted your prayers, Joachim: you will have a daughter for the joy of the whole world. Go to Jerusalem - there you will meet your wife at the Golden Gate." Shocked Joachim and Anna did not believe their happiness! Having come to their senses a little with joy, they made a promise to dedicate the unborn child to God.
And when the leaves were golden on the trees and autumn came, the long-awaited daughter was born to the righteous couple. And it was a miracle - after all, Joachim and Anna were already very old people. But God is subject to everything, it is not for nothing that He is called the Almighty. The girl, as the Angel said, was named Mary.
Joachim and Anna dearly loved their Daughter, they could not get enough of Her. Remembering the words of the Angel that their little Daughter has a great future ahead, the happy parents simply were in awe of Her.
Now the neighbors were happy for Joachim and Anna. They realized how wrong they were to hurt such good people. But none of them could imagine that this glorious Girl in a few years would become the Mother of the very Savior of the human race.
According to the book "Today is a holiday". O. Glagoleva, E. Shcheglova. Edition of the Valaam Savior Transfiguration Monastery, 2006
