dear brothers and sisters, happy holiday, today we remember, we live one of the twelve main holidays of the orthodox church, the nativity of the mother of god and the virgin mary. today is the beginning of our salvation, such are the words the church tradition calls the holiday of the nativity of the most holy theotokos, which testifies to one thing.

with its creator to save from sin, suffering, death. she justified the hope of the human race for salvation, with her pure life , humble agreement to fulfill the will of god, all the servant of the lord, let it be to me according to your word, she says, and god becomes a man, but for the one who will give such a thing to be born. thousands of years of human history had to pass before god, her birth was not only the beginning of salvation, but also the result, the result of the labors of faith of previous generations, the old testament righteous who lived in the hope of salvation, who remained faithful to god, sometimes even at the cost of their lives. the evangelists do not tell us about the birth of the virgin mary herself, but on the basis of living human memory

and information passed down from generation to generation in the church over several centuries, a story has been told about the birth and subsequent earthly life of the mother of god, which has survived to this day. sacred tradition tells us that the blessed virgin was born to elderly parents, joachim and anna, who had not had children for a long time, but at the same time not...

as god's punishment for their sins, the spouses were considered rejected by god, since they were deprived of the opportunity to give birth to the future messiah. if in the eyes of society, joachim and anna were considered sinners, then in the eyes of god, these people were worthy of being heard, and their humble prayer and blessed life were pleasing to god. having been born to these righteous people, the virgin mary was after some time given over to service in the jerusalem temple, where she grew up in labors and prayer, until the time of her engagement to the righteous joseph. we encounter a similar story about the birth of a long-awaited child to barren parents in old testament times, looking into which we can take away something useful for ourselves. the old testament story in many images ... indicates to us the appearance of

the most pure virgin mary, her subsequent fate, according to st. andrew of crete, there is no one place in all the divinely inspired scriptures where an attentive researcher would not see various scattered references to the mother of god. for example, abraham and isar spent many decades praying for the gift of a son, already being of age. 100 years old, they found their requests, even in spite of their physical ability. they had a long-awaited heir, isaac. their, as many thought, unanswered prayer to god, lasted not five or 10 or even 50 years. from this it is clear that abraham and sarah did not impose their secret desire on god, but they prayed and waited with hope. a similar story. and isaac prayed to the lord for

his wife, because she was barren. the lord heard him, rebekah conceived. at first glance, it sounds very simple. isaac prayed, and rebekah gave birth. and yet this prayer lasted for 20 long years. year after year, isaac cried out to god with faith, asked him, but there was no answer until the time came. for us, the examples of abraham and sarah, isaac and rebekah, joachim and joanna and other old testament righteous people, who waited for many years for god to answer their requests, seem something distant, unattainable, because we live in a completely different context, with a different perception of time, we live in a world where everyone is in a hurry,

rushing, running and not having time, everything i want, i need here now, as a modern person would say, people languish if it seems to them that nothing is happening, if the events of life do not quickly replace each other, we have forgotten how to wait to feel the will of god, acting in history, for whom god, for whom a thousand years are like one day, realizing that it is much more important to wait a long time and receive according to the will of god good... perfect, than to receive quickly, but according to one's own desire, imperfect, and sometimes sinful. it is worth learning from the parents of the virgin mary, the ability to wait, to be faithful, such, it would seem, simple gospel

words of christ: ask, and it will be given to you, knock, and it will be opened to you. if joachim and anna had lost patience, hope. stopped praying to god for the gift of a child, then the course of history would have been different. their example teaches us patience with deep hope, waiting for an answer, trusting god all our lives, in the hope of his mercy. dear brothers and sisters, the lord is good and wants to bless us with all kinds of gifts, as he blessed jakim and anna with a long-awaited child, but to see and correctly perceive these gifts and god's answer, it is necessary to prepare, learn to wait, find humility, strong faith in god's providence, may the lord grant us, having gained patience, uncomplaining, with strong faith in many

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