to our mother of god and with our hearts leaning , let us pray to the most holy lady virgin mary, ourercessor for the good and speedy, we sing all your thanks for your wonderful deeds. your senseless athlete of the ancients is your inalienable intercession to the city of moscow from our country in your miraculous image of the don. the regiments of foreign cities, which always appear, are put to flight, and the people are preserved completely and unharmed , but the people are delivered from cruel death. may the most pure mother of god be our consolation in adversity, the revival of hope, the image of courage, the source of mercy and in sorrowful circumstances, inexhaustible patience, grant us with your prayers all your powerful protection, protect us from departure enemy from the famine of destruction of the fire of the sword and any other suffering. magnify the great mission of the holy lord in the name of father and son and saint spirit, fateful events occurred twice. determined the very fate of our fatherland associated with the don icon of the mother of god 1380 battle of kulikovo

which the second person of the holy trinity, the son of god eternally, born of god the father descended to earth and brought together humanity. nature, born. o virgin maryhus, thanks to the most holy theotokos , two natures united in the height of christ, the divine and the human birth of jesus christ took place according to the eternal providence of god, but all this would have been impossible without the personal feat of the most pure one. what was it? she was the bearer of the same human nature that every person possesses, and human nature bears the stamp of original sin, which makes it susceptible to the corruption of death and prone to committing sin. but the blessed virgin mary, through personal effort, completely subdued her will to the will of god and did not commit a single sin. the history of the feast of the nativity of the virgin mary tells that the blessed virgin was born from holy parents to the righteous joachim john, the lord gave a special test. for those years. they had no children, but the pious spouses did not fall into despair, but became an example of how to experience childlessness; they did not think about finding another husband

several dozen people climbed onto the platform near the holy virgin mary and threw down large ones.nativity of the virgin mary among those distributed primarily by local businessmen, thus expressing gratitude for the success in business in the past year, but understandably. hundreds of children gathered below and competed for luck. when catching banknotes falling from the sky, while priests. in fact, i didn’t bring such a custom here, and although they can’t do anything about it, on the day of the holiday they have to keep ambulances and police at the church, since the pursuit of money falling from the sky often, alas, ends in fights and not only between children, but also between adults. but that’s exactly what you know, to be honest, i noticed the picture, the vast majority are really children. and this means that adults know that there is no easy money it happens. but the children still believe in that same dream. it seems to me that children, in fact, you need to teach something else after all. it’s not because there’s no money pouring in. yes, and so it was easy to get it. i me

and his one and only son jesus christ who was conceived by the holy spirit, born of the virgin mary, suffered under part chips pilot number was crucified, died and was buried. on the third day he rose. he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father. from once he shall come to judge the dead. i believe in the holy spirit. i believe in the communion of saints. the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting amen. now what did i just repeat to each and everyone of you? the apostles creed. something that is a little boring. you are not in a methodist church in atlanta. every day of my life i recited that in church. that is why at the age of 602i can stand here and still recite that because those are words to live by for those of us who have a christian faith. that is an affirmation of the principles and beliefs that i have. let me read something else, words that i have lived by in my life. i am an american soldier. i am a warrior and a member of a team. i serve the people of the united states and live the army values. i will always place

holy family there is an icon of st. george the victorious, an icon of the intercession of the blessed virgin mary, they are also made inor. the church of the transfiguration in the village of popli is still truly unique. uniate and orthodox icons coexist in it when we enter the church. we always come into contact first. this temple oseshon in honor of the glorious transfiguration of the lord , heating the thief, here is the image of this historical event, it is here in honor of the transfiguration of the lord, if anything, our temple is vain. transfiguration of the lord also in the church is the icon of konstantin zhdanov, the holy martyr, who, during times of severe trials for the russian orthodox church, despite the policy of open persecution, did not leave his parish and ray konstantin zhdanov remained next to the congregation, calling parishioners to intense prayer of mutual assistance patience in sorrow in the spring of 1919. konstantin zhdanov was arrested. having learned about the arrest of their priest, the parishioners tried to save him, asked to let him go, offered a ransom, but all attempts were in vain; the

virgin mary good morning friends. today in our yard. the great holiday of the nativity of our most holyny more than a year, you know who the most pure virgin mary was the long-awaited fruit of the children born in the family of both akim and anna, jewish righteous people, doomed to infertility. they did not despair, as they should not communicate. today, many farms, for whom we succeed in everything, it is important to pray for the spell for the archangel gabriel brought a joyful thing, first the husband, then the wife, then their child , all the universe will rejoice and no wonder, because mary the mother of god was destined to become. forward to the savior lord jesus christ himself, the first icons dedicated to the nativity of the virgin mary are dated around the eleventh century, for example, in ancient murals georgian temple. in the village of ateni , this story of the birth of a mother is found. in the late middle ages, christ was depicted with a minimum of everyday details; over time, the masters supplemented this event with details. the novgorod double-sided icon of the late 15th