[000:00:41;00] dear brothers and sisters, today the orthodox church remembers the tragic and at the same time spiritually significant event - the beheading of the head of the prophet john the baptist, the holy prophet, after the mother of god, is

a self-venerated saint by the church. he was born into the family of the priest zechariah and the righteous elizabeth and left early. he led a strict life in the wild, deserted desert. , while in fasting and prayer , he wore rough clothes secured with a leather belt, ate wild honey and open. this is a type of locust. at the age of 30 john the baptist came out of the desert to preach to the jewish people. thus preparing him to receive the expected messiah. this farewell story was accompanied by the performance of water baptism over the transient and the repentant. the culmination of his sermon was the meeting of the savior of the world himself and the messiah , who received baptism from him at the same moment. he witnessed the miracle

of theophany after the baptism of the lord. saint john the baptist was imprisoned by the ruler of the gallery, herod antipas the prophet. god openly rebuked and kindred for the fact that he left his lawful wife and cohabited without law with his brother's wife, radiada. philip one day, on his birthday , herod gave a feast to the oldest nobleman and the ruler of a thousand daughters and radians. salome danced in front of the guests, which pleased them very much, and i was grateful to the girl; he vowed to give her everything she asked for, even up to half of her kingdom. salome advised her mother and the radiad demanded that she be given the head of john the baptist immediately on a platter, then the hieroto was sad, because he feared the wrath

of god for the murder of the prophet, who himself had previously he obeyed and was afraid of the people who loved the saint. however, because of the fear of losing the respect of the guests, because of the failure to fulfill the oath, he ordered that saint john’s head be cut off and given to be broken. he took the dish with the head of the prophet, she took it to her mother. the frantic ones were glad and chopped off the prophet’s tongue with a needle and buried the holy head in an unclean place. after which one pious woman, joanna, found the shrine and buried it in an earthenware vessel on the mount of olives. the holy body was taken the same night after the death of the prophet and students of sevastia. the same place where the crime took place. this is how the tragic death of the great saint took place, about whom our lord jesus

christ said : “a prophet greater than john the baptist did not rise, born of women.” on the day of the beheading of st. john , the church established holidays and strict fasting as an expression of the grief of christians, and the violent death of the great prophet became the basis for the holiday. on this tragic day, it may cause confusion among some people, because we are accustomed to the fact that when we mention the word celebrate, some words come to us. joyful bright moments and events and life, but the primary meaning of the word celebrate is to remain idle. a person may not be busy for various reasons. for example, if his soul is overwhelmed by joy and there is no time for ordinary things or what may happen. so i lead us to the event that

a person will give up from the unbearable grief and horror of what happened. strict fasting established on this day is our expression of sorrow for what happened, calling for a deep understanding of the holiday of healing moral lessons from that sad event, he reminds us of the danger of human passions, which can later become the reason for committing grave sins from the story of the martyrdom of st. john the baptist. we see how dangerous it is to immoderately drink alcohol, which leads to such irreparable and terrible consequences. in a certain sense, drunkenness is an expression of human sin in general, because any sin, any sinful passion , intoxicates the soul, depriving its prudence

of sobriety. she's losing control of herself begins to do what is unthinkable for a person in a healthy state to do what he wants, and not what is worthy of a person , what is rightly needed, a person intoxicated with passion goes to murder, robbery, fornication destroys everything around him and destroys his own soul, therefore alcoholic intoxication , in a sense, can be called a visual image or symbol of the sinfulness of mankind. for this reason , since ancient times, on the day of the beheading of john the baptist, a day of sobriety was established, but no, the tradition of this celebration restored by the church on this day

. prayers are held in churches to extinguish passion for drunkenness, drug addiction and other human passions. prayers are also offered for their loved ones and the church shows pastoral care and concern with its mouth. helping sobchak overcome existing passions that destroy not only the person himself. all of them, but in general our society must be said that the disease is alcoholism. it cannot be overcome, if a person already gets sick with this disease, you can only, uh, stop drinking alcoholic beverages, and in this it is not only doctors who must help a person. but it is also important for the closest relatives, who understand the essence of the problem, that even the slightest consumption of alcoholic beverages for a person who has this illness leads to

the renewal of this disease of this problem. therefore, you need to categorically refrain from any consumption of alcoholic beverages, even low-alcoholic beverages . by the way, i would like to note that through slava, young people sometimes become familiar with alcoholic drinks and stronger drinks in this area as well. we also need a certain caution and people who suffer from this illness, either themselves or their relatives, there are certain rules on how to overcome this misfortune together and think that we have good work, but we need to strengthen the spiritual component in this process, and then you think that uh percentage of people who will

receive help and return to such a good full life without addictions without uh. this is addiction to alcohol. it will grow, and uh, in general, it was reported that a lot can be achieved today's holiday calls on us to be more attentive to our lives, to feelings and behavior, so that we try to spend our lives in sobriety and take into account. to what we do and how we do, how we live, abstaining not only from excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages, but also, moreover, avoiding all passionate aspirations that destroy not only our lives, but also harm our immortal soul. let us treat the life given to us by god with special attention and prudence, realizing the high

responsibility for it not only to the creator, but also to everyone and people close to us. may the lord help us all to walk our life’s path with dignity and be honored to become heirs of the heavenly kingdom, promised by christ the savior to all who believe in him on the feast of the saints.

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