tonechka quite a draft of steel. you can't, honey, you can't talk. thank god now you will live long and you will remember me. our pasha was lost plowed. she is for you. i never saw again. i sobbed into my pillow, i mourned

my love, the first joy of life, my first purest love. lord

good morning, dear viewers. i cordially congratulate you on the joyful bright holiday of the nativity of christ on this day, you somehow especially feel the mercy of god. and this is no coincidence, because the holiday was established in honor of the appearance of god in our life in our human history. in connection with the holiday of the nativity of christ, we received several questions, which i will try to answer. your holiness in the christmas stencil is sung that the dawn of the world and the light of reason.

that is, the light of reason shone over the world, what is meant here, what kind of reason or is this translation not accurate forgive the ignorance of the servant of god zoya from moscow you should not apologize for ignorance, zoya, because the question you are asking is a very correct question. indeed you will shine the peace of mind to the world the light of reason shone. in connection with the nativity of christ, this means that through the birth of the savior, reason came into the world. someone may ask, what was not outstanding before the nativity of the savior? the sages did not have strong intellectual insights in the human race . wasn't there science, weren't there crafts,

all this existed and the roman empire, just personified. huge because of the time progress of the human race in all sectors, including in the field of intellectual pagan sages are great philosophers, they are up to still amaze the imagination of modern man with their amazing logic and insight by the power of thought. what, then, is the mind? we are talking about the divine mind, the lord brought us not the wisdom of man, but the word of god he brought us into life. brought in a divine intellectual

beginning, does this mean that a certain measure, a certain criterion of truth is given to a person? today, each person is under the great influence of the information flow woven from these human rights from these human points of view. on a simple, as we say layman all this comes crashing down, especially powerfully during the periods of political conflicts during the election campaigns. and here's how to figure it all out. it's not just about understanding politics, how to understand life. how not to lose the roads that lead to the right and right goal? we will never lose

the road, but if we lose it, we will find it. if we live under the light of the divine mind, he will illuminate the path for us, because it is the divine mind that is the criterion of truth. reject anything that doesn't match the word god's. live in accordance with this word and this will be the only right way in life. that is why, after the birth of christ the savior, a new era began, a new era, or we conduct this calculation from this day on, it is no coincidence, because the era of reason began, the very place where the lord, jesus christ, was born, listening to the den. now this place does not resemble a verte, because the cave equipped with this is already in the form of a temple, but it was there in

the cave that the lord was born and thousands and thousands of monuments flock to this place to touch the shrine. feel yourself involved in everything that happened in this holy land. your christmas. christ our god ascend, the whole world of the wind is summed up in the sky to the stars, serving as a star, chapus, bow about, the sun and you see from the height of the east lord glory to you glory to the father and son and the holy spirit and now and forever and ever . amen the virgin

gives birth to the essential and the earth brings the den to the impregnable angels with pasty words about connect with the star travel us beard for their own sake. today for us are the words of the troparion that you quoted in your letter. this is some indeed a reminder that there is a guiding star, there is a lighthouse that helps to snatch out of the darkness from the darkness, the path that a person should follow. and there is certainty. that more and more people today begin to understand the meaning of those words. which we are currently

explaining and god grant that in our country in the fatherland throughout all historical russia this adherence to divine reason will never be stopped, then we will be able to avoid very many mistakes of the past. here's another question. please tell me if you agree christmas is becoming more and more a holiday of stagnation and shopping in stores, and yet this is more true for the western world. sincerely, tatyana ivanovna khromova from moscow of course, in the west, the commercialization of the christmas holiday has reached fantastic proportions. strictly speaking, the meaning of the holiday drowned.

a lot of people do not think about it and do not want to think about it, because all the energy of people on the eve of the holidays is especially aimed at visiting shops and entertainment centers. huge shops become centers of pilgrimage in on the eve of the feast of the nativity of christ, we are in a slightly more advantageous position for the reason that the church lives according to the old julian calendar and we celebrate the nativity of christ. uh, after new years. and the peak of our shopping just falls on the western christmas period, but in our country in our modern

consumer culture, the christmas period is also associated with commercialization, and this is very bad, it is dangerous. the holiday should not lose its spiritual and historical dimension. he shouldn't. uh get out of people's minds like events of sacred history if people remember and know what and for what, in fact, celebrations will take place, then involuntarily the thought turns to the source of this festive joy, to god himself, who desired to become a man. to be with us, to walk along the road of life with us in any religion. no, nothing like that. no

religion offers people in god, in the almighty creator. to see someone who walks through life next to you. christ the savior walked the thorny path of human life. he experienced everything. and prosperous joyful childhood among loving people and bitter misunderstanding on the part of society he experienced the malice of human envy. in the greatest possible sense of the whole word, he really became a victim of human sin. was captured. went through the

ordeal of the agony of torture and finally the helmet died. none of the believing people knowing this thorny path of the innocent savior who did not have sin, who brought people all joyful salvation and was destroyed at the hands of people, no one knowing about all this can grumble at his own life, especially grumble at god. in connection with the trials that life undergoes, and in fact, our sufferings and our sorrows. there is no more than the suffering and sorrow of god who has become a person. it is this

deep meaning of christmas that he is able to breathe joy and appease the most desperate person, and the angry, grieving dissatisfied with life, who really experiences a lot of stress. a person who, as it were, has no hope. this hope appears at the mere thought that a sinless person of god. for something suffered more immeasurably more than i am in my own life. and if so, is this sinless god-man my savior? but can't i, together with him, overcome those sufferings and sorrows that overwhelm me? and a believing person in his depth of his religious experience answers this question in the affirmative. yes i can. and he reinforces this not

only with the logic of his thought, but also with spiritual experience, which opens up in prayer and in communion with god. really change people's lives. god grant that this great meaning. this enormous significance of the nativity of christ, the salvific meaning never left the focus of our attention, so that no shops, no feasts could destroy the very essence of this holiday. god forbid that this happens. it's a celebration on a grand scale. total