dear brothers and sisters, today we celebrate the nativity of our most holy lady theotokos and everlasting virgin mary, this is one of the 12 great church holidays that occupy a special place in the church calendar and in the life of every christian, in the tradition of the russian orthodox church, it is believed that the parents of the virgin mary lived in the city of nazareth, where the most holy theotokos was born, the lord chose a pious family and akim john to become the forefathers of the savior of the world. whom i came from the house of king david, and anna from the

priestly family, the righteous akim was a rich man, had a large number of cattle, the whole life of this family, despite the wealth, was imbued with the spirit of reverence for love for god and mercy for one's neighbor for these qualities. they enjoyed universal love and respect. upset. their only sorrow. they were childless, so that in the jewish tradition it was considered a sign of god's punishment , they zealously asked god for the gift of a child, but remained childless until old age. and akim was especially upset by his evil. and once bringing his gift to god, he i heard from some person, a hard reproach. why do you want to bring your gifts to god before others, because you are not worthy, as barren.

from the great sorrow, righteous akim withdrew into the desert for a fast of prayer. upon learning of this, the righteous anna humbly, pleading guilty and offended the promises, and it became even more fervent to pray to god that he would hear her and send her a child, when she was in such a sincere prayer, an angel of the lord appeared to her and said, your prayer was heard by god and you you will conceive and give birth to a daughter blessed above all earthly daughters, for the sake of all the generations of the earth will be blessed by her. on the river of her mary, having heard these joyful words, the righteous anna bowed to the angel and said the lord my god lives, if i really have a child, then i will give him to the lord for service.

let it serve him, praising his name throughout his life. immediately an angel, the lord, appeared to the righteous i jacob and said, god, mercy to him. he accepted your prayers. your wife anna will conceive and give birth to a daughter, oh, in whom the whole world will rejoice. here is the sign of the fidelity of my words. go to jerusalem and there at the golden gate. you will meet your wife. saint joachim immediately went to jerusalem where he met his wife anna, as the angel had predicted to him. i did not tell each other everything that he had proclaimed, and then nazareth returned home after the due date, the righteous anna gave birth to a daughter, who named mary as the angel commanded her on the page of scripture, we find other cases

when pious spouses waited a long time for the appearance of their primacy. this is also the old testament feast of abraham, who, with great hope in the lord, was waiting for his birth. own son. isaac, because of his firm faith , was honored with great promises from god, and rightly so, zechariah or the advice of the parents of st. john the baptist who, for his patience and piety. or become the parents of the greatest prophet in all these cases. we see that sincere faith, patience and unquenchable hope, parents were necessarily rewarded from the lord with a great blessing. what does today's holiday tell us modern people? of course, the fact that children are a blessing of god for the family and the most important,

constituting the rightness of family life, therefore it is natural for godly families to desire to have children along with the modern world. not just offers, they rarely impose on us the inertia of value, putting in the first place the comfort of everyday life and career success, family life and raising children in many european countries, as is known from the usa, they strive to show something heavy, not prestigious and outdated. this trend is especially picked up by the younger generation, which enters adulthood, someone frankly admits that he is not going to bind himself by family ties, other depths are not souls, understands the value of a family, but the truth is that he first needs to establish his daily life, earn money,

acquire his own housing, and even then you can think about getting married and having children . at the same time, such a solitary lifestyle is rarely accompanied by straw-wisdom; often people fall into the sin of plunder, which causes harm not only to themselves, but also to close relatives of other people, destroying other people's families. many people at a more mature age who came to the faith with repentant tears recall with feelings the time of their youth, when prodigal sins were combined with a feeling of loneliness and a lack of true happiness and joy, wouldn’t it be better to listen to the word of god and act according to the commandments of the lord. a family is god's blessing for a person, and if family relationships are properly built, based on gospel law

and love. it becomes a source of inspiration, encourages a person to accomplish both creative and professional and many other good fields. of course, family life imposes certain obligations, restrictions, but a truly adult person constantly takes on himself, because he is responsible for himself for other people and the family. this is no exception, but there is another situation similar to the one about which we hear from the description of today's holiday. the family wants to have a child, but the force of some reasons cannot, for example, a health problem of the spouses. and here it is important to turn purely to biblical examples . to cry out to god in prayer, but to pray sincerely with zeal and never lose hope in the

lord, there are many cases when, through the fervent prayers of bezzetny spouses, the lord gave them a child, moreover, it was even contrary to all medical forecasts. the nativity of the blessed virgin mary is a joy for all people. the blessed virgin not only became the ladder along which god descended from heaven into the world for our salvation, she is the mother, the incarnate son. god has great boldness before god intercedes before him for us. the believers of the earliest centuries of the existence of the church were aware of the power of this intercession. therefore, today at every divine service and in every prayer rule of a christian there is an appeal to the mother of god , and the church tradition has hundreds of

different icons depicting the blessed virgin. we turn to them in fervent prayer, we need to remember that we ask. about us should contribute to our pious life according to the commandments of christ spiritually, there are cases in the literature when people turned to the mother of god with sin and requests, but received in response, not the help of denunciation from the criminal. dear brothers and sisters, the feast of the nativity of the most holy theotokos is a great joy for the whole world. after all, she was born through which the world's savior came. may this joy illuminate our hearts as well, and may the intercession of the saint cover us and at the same time, in response, find our hearts with sincere faith and love for god on a holiday.

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