and those who do good and those who offend us, all those whom we are called to love according to the commandment of christ, imitating in perfection our heavenly father. bowing in prayer before the newborn baby, let us think, what gift will we offer to the ruler of the universe? can there be anything at all worthy and commensurate with the greatness of the eternal creator? yes, there is such a valuable gift that the lord most desires, our humble, loving and merciful hearts, let us glorify the incarnate christ not only with beautiful chants and congratulatory messages, but first of all, good deeds. let's share the bright christmas joy with those in need, warm them with our care. our neighbors,

we will visit the sick and burdened with sorrows, we will comfort and support the discouraged, we will cover with prayer all those in confusion and sadness. the great saving power of love heals indifference and anger, heals hatred and resentment, it softens the morals of the bitter, and corrects many of the crookedness of social relations.

he will dwell with them, they will be his people, and god himself will be with them as their god, but this is the ineffable mystery of the divine presence begins to be realized here on earth, for with the nativity of the savior the time has been fulfilled, and the kingdom of heaven has approached. we are blindly entering this reality. i form the one holy church of christ, through which all of us, my dear ones, are messengers and representatives of this highest kingdom and love. this is an amazing and deep experience; god with us constitutes the essence of the mysterious, hidden life of the church. let us remember that if the almighty, alpha omega, began. and the end, the first is the last,

embraced human history, promised to be with us all the days until the end of the age, then we have nothing to fear or be afraid of the alarming circumstances of the present time. responding to the great love of the savior, let us learn to completely trust ourselves to the lord and trust in his good will.

the holiday is the mother of all holidays, he will not sin. in this holiday , the epiphany, holy easter, and the ascension of the lord have their beginning and foundation.

from the source of the immortal, taste

the body of christ. let us take a taste from the immortal sharpener.

immortal worshipers approach the holy cup, realizing their unworthiness while at the same time believing that the true body and true blood of christ abide in it.

spiritual and moral transformation, which invites people to follow the path , is achieved by fulfilling the gospel commandments, through the voluntary collaboration of man and god, by promoting his grace, not sent in church sacraments. and if we really learn to be guided by divine institutions in our relationships with people, in deeds and actions, then much will change not only in us, but around us.

with this, i, nikolai derzhavin, say goodbye to you, merry christmas to all of you, dear tv viewers . christ is born, glorify, christ is from heaven,

shine. hello, today we have gathered our thoughts on the bright holiday of the nativity of christ. there can be no other occasion today. praterey maxim kozlov, chairman of the educational committee of the russian orthodox church ivan ilyevich glazunov, rector of the russian academy of paintings, sculptures from the patronymic ilya glazunova, i am vladimir ligoida, happy holiday, dear friends. happy holiday, hello. and the first question. i have this: do you remember some, perhaps the most unusual, brightest, most memorable christmas of yours? well, of course, the first one was unusual, well, simply because it was the first, it was 1980, i was baptized there a little over six months before, i was still a schoolboy, in soviet times, we tell our young people,

i had such an older friend, or so, with my mother’s blessing, he took me to

churches, well, when i was still 7-8 years old, and they came to the catholics, it was christmas, well, for general information, no, he was orthodox, he took me to the lavra, but so yes for development, so i remember this service they had - in my opinion in the cathedral of louis.

well, yes, it was new year’s moscow, not christmas, but it had its own world, which i always remembered, these ancient, gold-embroidered vestments, this is important, as - apparently it was for such an aesthetic experience of christmas for a child, but this is for the whole life, then i often remembered this when you go to military service with your children so consciously. father maxim, while we haven’t moved away from this topic yet, i know what i really wanted to ask you about, these are still pandemic times, when something

went missing in our broadcasts, i remember these internal discussions, remember? good, bad, to do, not to do, because it is clear that we have a broadcast of the patriarchal service, this is a long-standing tradition, we understand that people in hospitals, there are those who cannot leave at home, they always watch it, but in a pandemic it began to acquire such a massive character, these are your impressions from specifically christmas ones, there weren’t any for christmas, there weren’t anymore, no, there weren’t for christmas anymore, somewhere around this time it was from spring to autumn approximately, so they were closed.

to the temple, please , yes, no artificial intelligence will help us, yes, let the artificial intelligence stay at home, so we go to the temple, and let the natural intelligence go to the temple, about the meaning of christmas, i was thinking, we have one today turn to the east, and we will come more and more into contact with cultures with which we have almost no common ground, well, let’s say the chinese, in whose experience

no, the traditions of christmas and christianity, how would you talk to modern chinese about what christmas is, in general, as far as possible, what do you think? it seems to me that we definitely need to start not with the event of christmas, on the one hand, on the other hand, not with the external surroundings, yet , alas, and not only in the mind, there as a sitsarik, the so-called secular world, but often even among us christians. and christmas is reduced to external attributes, and at home, a christmas tree, a special kitchen, there are gifts, congratulations, externally associated with the holidays, there are oxen, a donkey, a nativity scene, a manger, uh, again, there are christmas trees in the church and there are children's parties, matinees,

some favorite chants, church songs, and there are songs. and in order to tell you what we believe in, let's agree together that there is a huge part of humanity that not only recognizes a higher mind, does not just refuse to consider themselves atheists or agnostics, but which has been convinced for 2000 years, that you can extend your hand to god, and he

extends his to you in response, that he has become the same as us, that he is completely. that he is god and man at the same time, and we celebrate the beginning of this meeting, what for us is an absolute reality, a real connection with him, a real communication with him, a conversation, and, as we believe, the beginning of eternal life, which will begin here and will never end, this is the beginning this event today, thank you, i think it’s great, and you kind of think there might be something here. they have a cult of ancestors, in spirit, of course, i think, in the east, in the far east, this is probably especially difficult to convey, well, without some kind of.

that, after all , singing from a patronymic can touch the soul, because history is partly human, it, well, i think , can touch the soul, so to speak, painting is images that are not identifiable, but while ivan ilyevich is thinking, maybe i have another thought. about the chinese, yes, a good thought does not come immediately, just from experience, well , not with the chinese, but with obviously unbelieving outside people, i would suggest this,

let’s say we are talking a few days before christmas, well, ideally, let's do it this way, you don't understand anything, well, that is, you don't speak russian there, maybe with difficulty, or maybe no at all, we don’t understand church slavonic for you at all, but let us... conduct this experiment: the week before christmas, you will come to an empty orthodox church two or three times, but already there, let’s say, maybe there is a nativity scene, maybe not yet , maybe already preparing to decorate , you will stay there for half an hour, then also for a short time, you still can’t stand it, for the same half an hour you will come to the christmas service, somewhere in the back corner there is a fence so that you are not drawn into everything there too much, stand for the same half hour, and don’t try to feel or do anything special, but just free your thoughts from

external ordinary worries, and then from vanity, from work, from business, from what to do tomorrow, from debts, but cleanse your soul, and then, when you return, ask what

... even if they may be from a non-believing environment there or from some environment where they had not previously thought about truly orthodox holidays, but they are already stepping into this great culture with one foot, which can then lead to something truly their own relationship with god. i'm happy like who are you, i'm a happy ice post. and my heart cries and hurts, cries and hurts, my love, she does not like loneliness, her flights will not

end, hey yes hey yes, my love is always with you, this is all my dear. it’s somewhere in the depths, thank you for not letting go, then , thank you for asking, of course, yes, and no matter how hard you try, no way, no way, no way, open from us, and you stink, we congratulate you all, we wish you joy.

ivan ilyevich, can you correct me later about academic painting, which in principle allows spatially and chronologically events at different times and spaced apart, combined within one image.

in the center, here is a very interesting story on the bottom left - this is the betrothed father-savior joseph, on the right and standing with him is an old man in the skin, and according to most interpretations this is a thought, well, that is, a demon in the form of a thought that confuses joseph, that also happened a lot before the savior was born, behold. it was when the miracle of the annunciation itself, the conception of the baby god, happened, and finally, the very waving of an already born baby, that’s all this is combined in one image, but this is precisely the icon, and of course, all this is still light, the sky is illuminated, this golden shining background, on which we see this entire image, is a simultaneous connection

with... such a language, as if completely unconventional, but they call it a conventional icon language, but it is symbolic, it is a holiday here in its entirety, yeah, in painting, well, we need some kind of drama of light and shadow, some allegories too, naturally, but in russian painting still probably doesn’t have something like this in the genre of easel painting

christmas. there everyone remembers durer or italian artists and who, by the way, influenced the late russian icon, already the icon of the times of alexei mikhailovich there and later, but with their own kind of painterly interpretation, well, there is, of course, but well, this is the one we they said, this is a russian picture of the nativity of christ, which everyone knows, well, what about ivanov’s appearance of christ.

lithographs of leonardo, well, they were depicted in churches, that is, he became something familiar to us, but of course, there is an icon of the last supper, which in my opinion, the concentration of meaning is higher, yes , you know what else i would like to talk about in connection with christmas, it is clear that we usually and quite rightly perceive the holiday as god came into the world, he illuminated us

with his coming this... world in some sense, yes, but theological, yes, father maxim is what we call the supplication of god, yes, that is, the transcendental god, as philosophers would say, becomes a man, that is... begins from birth this is the petition that will actually come to a descent into hell, this point of complete lifelessness, but what is important here is how can we feel these meanings and understand? indeed, and in order to understand the full measure, you need to understand who is incarnated, because we are talking about god, who is pure spirit, who is not limited by any space and time, who is in eternity and higher in...

although this confirms the reality of his humanity, that he did not come from olympus as a great man with beautiful togas with muscles and a beautiful beard. from there to broadcast, he is born unprotected, as an extremely baby, in an extremely unprotected situation, because all this, of course, is touching in the retellings, there is a vert, a play, just imagine, in a cave in

palestine at this time it is cold, and a feeding trough for animals, of course full-fledged cradles and no place , where you would like, that where you would like the newborn... not to lie with any of the parents, so it’s touching - it’s only like this in a postcard version, no one wanted to let his parents in, everyone was busy with their own, their own, yeah, that’s it god comes in the human world, this is not immediately accepted, this is a very important initial message of the christian faith. god, one of our hymns says: “you loved me when i was your enemy.” when i perceived you as a stranger, when i didn’t need you, and this is a task for us forever, to love not only those who come to us, not only our own, to open doors not only to those

who can also open for us in return, whom we considered ourselves family and friends, so that god forbid, mother of god, we don’t pass away as a baby the exchange of our house, but it’s amazing , it’s really when... the savior says that if you did it to one of these little ones, you did it to me, here there is some kind of literalism of the gospel, yes, yes, and the little one - this is a foreign language, a different faith, and to see in them a person, the image of god, thereby seeing christ in them, i know, that’s what i was thinking about just now, when you uttered these wonderful words, that we often emphasize this one, well, not even modesty, not just asceticism, here... these special circumstances of the coming of god into the world, it is clear that there is what we call today a historical context, yes, today, because the gospel, a timeless message, yes, this is the theme of such a coming of god into the world,

this is what it tells us today first of all, well, at least one of the meanings, of course, in my opinion, is that by this the lord shows us the importance. person, and not just those who have the levers of power, who have a lot of money, who have the ability to influence people , the masses, the minds, but simply your personal piety, honesty, kindness, consideration for the other person.