Traditions and prohibitions on the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Bashny.Net

The Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God A bright day filled with grace. Today you can not be angry, quarrel with loved ones. You can't do hard work. It is one of the great Twelve Holidays (twelve major holidays after Easter).

Today we offer sincere prayers to the Most Holy Mother of God, and she gives hope for a better life. On this day, you should not only pray with prayers, but also with gratitude for all the blessings sent. Once the day of the Nativity of the Virgin was considered the New Year, it was the day of the end of the harvest. Today, everything starts with a clean slate, as the ancient people believed.





This great holiday is a great consolation for all childless spouses. Christians believe that today the Mother of God will hear their prayers and give a child.

Nativity of the Virgin – 2018 Not a word is said about the birth of the Virgin in the Bible. We know about the parents of the Mother of God from the sacred tradition, and let this not confuse the believing reader. They were Jews, and the Jewish family ties are not forgotten. In the memory of the Orthodox Jew is stored the knowledge of many, many ancestors, up to the ancestors of the Jewish tribes. So the names of the parents of the Virgin are known: their names were Joachim and Anna.





They were elderly and experienced the cross of childlessness. The cross of childlessness is something completely incomprehensible to modern man. After all, living today do not feel the responsibility to fulfill the commandment “Be fruitful and multiply”.

Joachim and Anna They did not have children, but wanted to, and it is a terrible pain, a crucifixion and a cross for any Jewish family that dreams of participating in the approach of the Messiah.





With these sorrows, the Lord burned pride and vanity from the souls of Anna and Joachim, and by the end of their lives they were humbled. They had attained righteousness, and when they could not pass on any sins to their offspring, they gave birth to a daughter.

The most precious child is the firstborn, usually born in youth. He is the first, the most beloved, but he is also a victim of our life mistakes and passions, our inexperience.

But children born late are especially tender and sensitive, they are especially loved, and they are special in themselves. This was the child Maryam, future virginHe was born of the righteous of old.





On this day, the one who became the door was born, through which God was able to descend to the Earth and become a man. This is what we're celebrating today.





Today it is worth thinking about the duties of spouses, about family life, about the spirit of understanding and harmony that should reign in every family. After all, we suffer from divorce, from the lack of warmth and love, from the inability to sacrifice ourselves in relationships, from the universal cold that hovers in our homes.





In the present church service there are hardly preserved chants of ancient times. In the VI century, the Monk Roman Sladkopevets made a Kondak holiday, which has not survived. Now in use tropairIt belongs to relatively ancient centuries.

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Tell us about the ancient traditions associated with the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, which were observed in your family. We will be very interested to read the comments! In my family, fasting was traditionally observed: on this day it was impossible to eat meat, eggs, dairy products, it was forbidden to drink alcohol.

Even if you’re not used to fasting, don’t worry. Much more important.
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