Introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos - a Christian holiday, based on the sacred legend that the parents of the Virgin of the Mother of God Holy John and the Holy Anna, fulfilling a promise to devote their child to God, at a three-year-old age brought her daughter Maria to the Jerusalem Temple, in which she lived before his engagement With righteous Joseph.
Celebrated in the Orthodox Church on November 21 in the Julian calendar (on December 4, in a new style) and belongs to the number of two-month holidays, in the Catholic Church on November 21 at the Gregorian calendar, in the Coptic Church on November 29.
The holiday of the introduction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the temple is at the beginning of the Christmas post, since the festive service under the introduction in the temple, Christmas chants preparing to be praying for a joyful meeting with the infant Christ.
The holiday of introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary has 1 day of consideration and 4 days of inparaner.
Christian temples consecrated in honor of this holiday are called injected. In particular, in Moscow there is an introduced cemetery.

The event laid for the holiday.

The event of the introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary is not mentioned in the canonical gospels and is known from later apocryphic sources - Greek Protoevogenia Jacob (ch. 7. 2-3) (2nd floor. II century) and the Latin Gospel of Pseudo Matthew (IX .). These sources contain oral tradition, supplemented with details from biblical books with a transmotory value (1 pairs 15, Ps 44), as well as from the evangelical history of the statement (LC 2. 22-38). According to sources, when the Angel came before conceiving the Virgin of the Virgin, the Angel was about the upcoming birth of her child, she gave any vow: "If I pick a child of a male or female, I will give it to the Lord to my Lord, and it will serve him all own life".
When the Blessed Virgin turned three years old, the parents decided to fulfill their promise and headed to the Jerusalem Temple. Near the entrance to the temple was the young maids with burning lamps, in order for young Maria to love the temple with all his heart. The Most High Deva, despite his age, easily overcame the steep stage of the temple and was met and blessed with the high priest (according to Orthodox legend it was Zechariah, father of John the Forerunner) with many priests. According to a special revelation, she, as an animated kivot of God, was introduced into the holy of the saints, where he had the right to enter into only the high priest, once a year, with a cleansing sacrificial blood.
All those present in the temple were divided by an unusual event. This was revealed by her special role in the fate of mankind.
During his stay in the Jerusalem Temple, Mary was brought up with other pious devies, studied the Holy Scripture, he was engaged in needlework and constantly prayed.
Dimitri Rostovsky leads to the story of Gregory Nikomidia on visiting Mary in the temple angel: " She died in dealing with angels. This and Zecharia learned; For when he, according to the usual priest, was in the altar, he saw that someone is an extraordinary species, talking to the virgin and serves her food. It was an angel; and surprised Zechariah, reflecting in herself: what is this new and extraordinary phenomenon?" Jerome Streedonsky, mentioned visit to Mary Angel, however indicates: " If anyone asked me: how the time of his youth spent the time of the Most Highway, I would answer him: it is known to God himself and Archangel Gabriel, a relentant keeper of her" At the same time, Ieronim in " Message or Orodoru"Reports that Maria from morning until the third hour of the day spent time in prayer, then before the ninth hour he was handicraft, and then prayed again until she was an angel with food.
According to Protoevogenia Jacob, in the temple, Maria was up to twelve years. After time, she, who decided to maintain their virgins and be born to God, was, according to the law of fathers, the concerns of the elderly Joseph, the wrap of it.
For what the priest Zechariah arranged a groom, on which the wonderful staff in Mary's husband was wonderful and was chosen by Widset Joseph.

Theological interpretation.

Being a day of the phenomenon of Our Lady, the holiday of the introduction and the day of separation from the world of God's German virgin - the day, in which its outcome began from the world, which continued throughout her earthly life and ended with her "inexperial" peace.
And if Merry Christmas, the Blessed Virgin was prepared by the flesh, from the pure blood of which the Son of God was to be born, then from the date of its introduction to the temple begins education and to prepare her soul to the Great Day, when she says to her Archangel: " Buddes to the verb you"(Luke 1, 38). The most fully theological interpretation of the introduction of the Virgin in the temple is given from Grigory Palama in his word" for the introduction of the Most Holy Mother of God. "In it, the saint tells the history of the holiday, leads his opinion about the reasons for the election by God Mary's mother of Jesus Christ, and in conclusion explains the reason for the introduction of it to the holy of the Jerusalem Temple: " ... why the elected from the beginning of the century among the elected was sainted from the saints. Who had his body cleaned by the victims of the virtue of the spirits themselves, so that it could adopt the Hitnessal Word of the Priestful Father, - Verdaeva Maria, as the treasure of God, for the property now was placed in the Holy Saints, so that at the appropriate time, as it was, to enrich and serve To premium decoration".

Service for the holiday of introduction to the temple.

The topic of the completion of the Old Testament and the cessation of Old Testament worship and victims is given a significant place in the holiday service Introduction to the temple.
First of all, it is revealed in the Old Testament and Apostolic readings, put on the charter on this day.
In the first pariary, the holiday is told about the device Moses of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Testament and their sanctification.
The second paremia is devoted to the consecration of the Solomonov of the Temple and entering into its holy of the Holy Ark of the Covenant.
The central place in its value in both parmen is the image of the ark of the covenant and the image of its introduction to the Holy Saints. These Old Testament Readings comply with the meaning and value of the holiday, since we see the type of great events in them, which is celebrated a day Introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin.
But the third parium is the most important thing - the prophecy of the Prophet Ezekiel about the new temple, containing a direct indication of the Birth of the Savior from the Virgin.
The idea that all the Old Testament worship was only in the model and the way of future benefits, with even greater fit revealed in the apostol, reading on the liturgy. The Apostle Paul consistently lists everything that was related to the Worship Service and the Earthly Sanctuary of the First Testament: the lamp, a squeezing with bread babies, the Golden Cauldron, Coven Golden Ark, Vessel with Mannau, and the bloated Aaron, that is, the items in which the Holy The church sees the samples of Our Lady, by their entry into the Holy Saints who ended and abolished Old Testament worship.
These thoughts are revealed and in many chants a holiday. In one of the stimples it says:
Most of the marigubatable temple - the Virgin in the temple of the Lord is given, and Zairy is a member; The holy saints are rejoiced, and the Angelic Lick is mysteriously triumph.
In the stimir, a number of thoughts associated with the Old Testament Preparations are revealed back in the most common form.
God's Mother is called a marking temple; It is mentioned about the acceptance of its priest Zharya and the joy of the Old Testament Sanctuary, which is accomplished by the new Testament.
In other chasters, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe execution of the prophecies and types of the Old Testament in the face of Our Lady is revealed more specifically. So, B. Virgin Tropar Third Canon Song 2 All Old Testament Tests that have received their exercise in the Mother of God are listed: Treaten Kivot, Cleat, Shrine, Cellant, Celete, and Assistant, and Meadow; And we, IKo, a marking disconnected tabernacle, sneeze.
And, finally, in the service of the holiday, the idea that from the entrance to the Old Testament Temple of an animated coast of the New Testament ends and loses its meaning of the Old Testament worship, it is carried out with all certainty.

The prayer of the holiday of introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary (video): Tropar, Kondak, Music, Distripping, IRSMOS Songs of the 9th Canon 1st.

Tropear Introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Glas 4th.

The destination of God's intention and people of salvation passion, in the Temple of God, is clear to Virgo, and it takes Christ everyone. Tom and we will be reopening: rejoice, watching izoditelleva performance.

Kondak Introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Glas 4th.

The pretty temple of the spasi, a multi-mention and Virgin, the sacred treasure of the glory of God, the day is entered into the house of the Lord, the grace of coodes, Laja in Doss, the Doline, southes the Angel of God: Siaia is the village of Heaven.

The magnitude of the introduction into the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Majesty, the Most Holy Devo, God-in-chocked out of the sortie, and what a hedgehog in the temple of the Lord's temple.

Distant to the introduction into the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Glas 4.

Angeli, the occurrence of the wonderful in vain, surprise: why with a glorular vacation in the holy of saints? Yako Animately Announced Kivota, yes, the hand is touched by the hand of the bad, the master of the faithful Virgin is unfortunately, the eyes of an angel singingly, with joy yeah yelling: Truly you need everyone, the virgin clean.

IRMOS.PESN 9. Canon The first holiday of introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the creation of Georgievo. Glas 4.

Yako animated Kivota's animal, the hand is touched by the hand, the sense of the faithful of the Virgin Mary, the eyes of an angel singingly, with joy, yeah yelling: True to send everyone everyone, the devo is clean.

Iconography.

The center of the composition of the introduction of the Virgin to the temple is the figure of Mary, which is depicted significantly less than other figures, but at the same time it is dressed in Maforii, which is traditional clothing of married women. Next to Maria is depicted by her parents who led it to the temple. For them, the procession of maids, accompanying Maria on the road from Nazareth to Jerusalem, can be depicted. In the temple, a symbolically depicted in the form of a kivory, Maryia Mary meets the priest Zechariah. Three-year-old Maria usually behaves like a small reasonable woman - confidently overcomes the 15 stairs stairs, without turning back and causing admiring amazement of the high priest, who happily reveals her arms. Steps 15 - like Psalms, which are called ascending, they pronounced pilgrims, rising to the temple.

According to the apocryphic story, a staircase is depicted, according to which Trej-year-old Maria independently entered the temple. Additionally, an image of Marya, fastened by an angel in the temple, may be present. On the icons, this composition is depicted by a separate stigm.

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Introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary in icons and in the pictures of great masters.

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This is one of the twelve major (two-month) Orthodox holidays, which is based on a church legend about how at a three-year-old parents solemnly introduced Maria to the Jerusalem temple, the future of Our Lady.

The holiday is installed at the dawn of Christianity, and in Orthodoxy received widespread in the ninth century.

Tradition

The parents of the Virgin Mary, righteous Joacim and Anna, were childless to old age. Praying on the birth of a child, they gave vows if a child would be born, devote him to God. They had a daughter, who, at the direction of the Angel of God, was given the name Maria, which means the Jewish "Mrs., Nadezhda."

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When she turned three years old, Joachim and Anna, collecting relatives and acquaintances, with singing of sacred songs and lit candles led their daughter in the Jerusalem Temple.

According to the preserved evidence, the march from Nazareth to Jerusalem lasted three days with small stops for recreation.

Ahead of the procession was walking with young maids with candles, they followed Joachim and Anna, who led the daughter's hand among her parents. The procession was closed relatives and acquaintances.

When the procession reached the Jerusalem Temple, the priests led to her with singing toward the top priority of Zharya. The righteous Anna led daughter to the entrance to the Jerusalem Temple.

In the temple led the staircase in fifteen high steps. Little Maria, as soon as she was put on the first step, quickly overcame the rest of the steps and climbed the top, where the high priest expected her.

According to the suggestion, he introduced the Most Holy Virgin to the Holy of Saints, where of all people only once a year was a high priest with a cleansing sacrificial blood, her special role was revealed in the fate of humanity.

The righteous Joacim and Anna, leaving the daughter in the temple, returned home. And Maria remained in the temple until the age of fifteen, after which she was married to the elderly widower of the Joseph Carpenter.

The deep mystery is covered by the Earth's life of the Blessed Virgin Mary from infancy to ascension to the sky. Sokrovna was her life in the Jerusalem Temple.

In the church tradition, the information was preserved that during the stay of the Major Virgin in the Jerusalem Temple, she brought up in the society's society's society, diligently read the Holy Scripture, she was engaged in needlework, constantly prayed.

Holiday

The solemn festival in connection with the introduction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Jerusalem Church of the Holy Church is spent from ancient times, although the time of establishing a holiday in honor of this event with reliable accuracy is unknown.

The fact that the holiday was noted in the first centuries of Christianity testify to the traditions of Palestinian Christians, which states that the Holy Queen Elena built the temple in honor of the introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Mother of God.

In the IV century, the mention of this festival has the St. Gregory Nissky, and in the VII century, the preaching on the day of administration uttered St. Herman and Tarasii, Constantinople Patriarchs.

In the east, the holiday received widespread distribution in the XIII century. In the ninth century, Georgy, Metropolitan Nikomidia, was the canon of the holiday ("my mouth") and a number of stimuli, and in the 10th century Vasily Paharito, Archbishop Caesia, was the second canon of the holiday ("victorious song"). These stimilers and canons come across the church and at present.

The day of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin Mary is the day of the phenomenon of the world chosen by God, the purest of all those who lived on Earth, who did not have the shadow of sinful thoughts.

Essence

HOLIDAY Introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an omnation of the Nativity of Christ and the favor of God to human genus.

Virgo Maria, who gave birth to Christ the Savior, has served to save humanity more than all. Christmas and introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Mother of God - the holidays in which the Old Testament ends and its meaning is revealed as a dedentor to Christ.

This holiday related to the Old Testament Temple marks the beginning of the replacement of the worship service of the Old Testament with its bloody sacrifices as the annual Jewish tradition of cleansing from sins - the new Testament of the Divine Redeemer, who sills his blood in the redemption of sins of all mankind.

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Reproduction icons "Crucifix"

Starting from the festive service for the introduction, Christmas chains sound in the temple. Because on this day it is very important to devaway from the fussy earth affairs and give their strength prayer, thoughts about the fellow mercy of God.

Traditions

On the day of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin, festive worship is held in all Orthodox churches in the morning. Only the chants of the holiday are coming. Priests are dressed in white and / or blue vestments.

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The holiday falls on the Christmas post. This day is allowed to eat fish.

In Russia, it was customary to visit each other. Another sign was connected with this tradition - the one who first visits the house will bring good luck or misfortune.

If a man, it is good - the whole year will be happy and joyful, if the woman, the opposite - the year will be held in unfortunate and the owners will pursue failures.

And on the tables could be seen not only, bought at the Fair of Buns and Baranki, but also dumplings with berries. Moreover, in one of them, and maybe two necessarily put a coin. To whom it will fall, he will hold the whole year in joy and happiness.

Signs

People believed that after the introduction, the Earth rests, and therefore not to break her peace before the honors (April 7) did not dig. Otherwise, the crop will be scarce.

Frost on the introduction said that all winter holidays would be frosty, if on the contrary heat, then, respectively, and further celebrations will not be cold.

It was also believed that if the snow would fall until the holiday, then he would not break down and soon melts, and the winter herself would not be harsh. If this happens after the introduction, the snow will laugh until February.

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Introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a holiday that came to us from the church legend. On this day, Christians remember how Saints Jokim and Anna led the three-year-old Mary Maria to the Jerusalem Temple. So the parents of the Virgin fulfilled their vow - the promise to devote the long-awaited daughter to God. We will tell about the history, features and traditions of the holiday.

What is the introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin

Introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Lady of Our Mother of God and Naznodeli Mary - so completely called the holiday, which the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates December 4 (according to a new style). This is the second two-month Virgin Mary of Church Year. The two-bedded holidays are called, which are dogmatically tightly related to the events of the earthly life of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Virgin and are divided into the Lord (dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ) and the Virgin (dedicated to the Mother of God).

On this day, Orthodox Christians remember how Saints Righteous Joachim and Anna led their three-year-old daughter - the Most Holy Virgin - in the Jerusalem Temple. They did it to fulfill their vow before the Lord - to devote to the daughter to serving him. From this day, Mary lived with the Jerusalem Temple - until the righteous Joseph was gained.

We will not find mention of the events of this holiday in the canonical gospels, but the church legend says to us (which is revered on a par with the Scriptures). Namely - "The History of Jacob on the birth of Mary", or the "Protoevogengery of Jacob" (II century), and the "Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew" (Latin version of the childhood of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, which established for the IX-X centuries, but based on earlier " Gospels of childhood ").

Events of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin

When the Virgin Mary turned three years old, her righteous parents Joachim and Anna realized that it was time to fulfill the vow, which they gave God. Namely - to dedicate daughter to serving him. They led Maria to the walls of the Jerusalem Temple. As the sacred legend says, the Mother of God easily climbed the steep steps, despite the fact that was completely baby. At the top, it was already waiting for the high priest to bless it. According to some sources, it was Holy Zechariah, the future Father of the Prophet John the Forerunner.

Zechariah was a revelation from the Lord, and he introduced Mary to the Holy of Saints - a place where he was allowed to enter only the high priest, and even then only once a year. From this unusual moment, the long, glorious and difficult path of the Mother of God began for contemporaries.

Years went, the Mother of God lived and served at the temple. Conducted their days in prayer, studied the Holy Scripture - until the moment when the righteous Joseph was gained.

When the introduction of the Most Holy Mother of God is celebrated

Introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on December 4 for a new style (November 21st to the old style). This is an innocent holiday, that is, the date of it is unchanged.

What can I eat for the introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin

The holiday falls on the Christmas post (it is also called Philipp posts). This day is allowed to eat fish.

History of the celebration of Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Virgin

As the church legend says, the holiday of introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary was known in the first centuries of Christianity. Equal-Apostles Empress Elena (years of life: 250-330) built a temple in honor of the introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Mother of God. And in the IV century, St. Gregory Nissky wrote about the holiday.

The widespread holiday of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin was received only from the IX century. George Nikomidia and Joseph Sunnovy wrote two canons for the worship of this day.

Iconography of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin

On the icons dedicated to the events of the introduction of the Most Holy Mother of God, the Mother's Mother itself is depicted in the center of the composition. It will be put on Mafory - the traditional clothing of married women. Near the holy righteous Joachim and Anna are the parents who led it to the Jerusalem Temple.

The temple itself is most often depicted in the form of a kivoria (tent, gentle over the throne). Meets the Virgin Mary Priest Zechariah, the future father of the prophet John the Forerunner. Also on the icon, we see the staircase from fifteen steps - by legend, a three-year-old Virgin overcame them on their own, without adults.

Worship introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin

On the day of introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a festive worship consists of a small evening, all-night vigil (with lithium), watches and liturgy. The charter of the service is practically no different from the charter of other two-month Virgin Celebrations (the Nativity of the Virgin and Assumption). Only the chants of the holiday are coming. Priests are dressed in white and / or blue vestments.

Prayers of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin

Tropear Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Virgin

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Interesting of God's intention and people of salvation Persecution: In the Temple of God, it is clear to Virgin and thoroughly prevents Christ. Tom and we will be reopening: rejoice, watching izoditelleva performance.

Transfer:

Nowadays the faithfulness of God and the preservation of people's salvation: in the Temple of God, Virgo is solemnly and it is worthwhile; She and we exclaimed loudly: "Rejoice, performing an industrial about us creator."

Kondak Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Virgin

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The pretty temple of the spasi, a multi-mention and Virgin, the sacred treasure of the glory of God, the day is entered into the house of the Lord, the grace of coodes, Laja in Doss, the Doline, southes the Angel of God: Siaia is the village of Heaven.

Transfer:

The purest temple of the Savior, a multi-mention, and Virgin, the sacred treasure of the glory of God, is now introduced into the house of the Lord, consolidating the grace of the Divine Spirit; Her Angels of God: "She is the dwelling of heaven."

The Music of Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Virgin
Major, the Most Holy Devo, God-Brojded Otrokovice, and honor Yeh in the temple of the Lord's temple.

Transfer:

Major, the Most High Deva, the god chosen from the sortie, and read your entrance to the temple of the Lord.

Saint Grigory Palama. Word on introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin

If the "Tree from the fetus of his knows", and "Tree Good Fruit Good Fruits is creating" (MF.7: 17; LK.6: 44), then the mother of the most goodness and parents of eternal beauty how not to be incomparably excellent than any good, which are In the world of natural and supernatural? For the tinge and unchanged image of the goodness of the elastic father, the burglary, who has been inhabited and compassioned to us, waking up the image of ours, in order to adopt our nature, in order to renew our nature to themselves, in order to renew this, the dilapidated nature and build it on The height is negligible, - for all this finds the most good minister, the nobility, which we glorify and the wonderful introduction of which in the temple - in the holy of the saints now we celebrate. Her first centuries God intends to salvation and the appeal of our genus: It is elected from among those elected from the century and glorious both in their pity and prudence and on godly words and affairs.

Once the culprit is evil - the serpent in viewing us and fascinated us in their abyss. Much reasons encouraged to rebel him against us and enslave our nature: envy, rivalry, hatred, injustice, cunning, cunning and, in addition to all this, and the deadly power in it, which he himself gave rise to for himself, as the first apostate from true life . The culprit of Evil possessed Adam, seeing him aspiring from the ground to the sky, from where in justice he himself was lowered and, having envying, attacked Adam with a terrible rage, even raised to pull his death. After all, the envy is a parent not only hatred, but also the murder, which took over we, truly, a man demonstor, lucavo attracting to us, for he extremely unjustly wished to be the lord of the union for the death of the creation created in the image and likeness of God. And since he did not have enough courage to attack himself personally, he resorted to the tricks and his soda, and, having adopted a feeling of sensory serpent, turning to earthmatic, as a friend and useful adviser, this, truly, terrible enemy and an attacker, unnoticed The action and the fodder advice of his own deadly power, as poison, pours into a person.

If Adam was able to firmly held the divine commandment tightly, he would be the winner of his enemy and would be higher than deadly desecration; But since, on the one hand, voluntarily succumb to sin, he was defeated and became a sinner, and on the other hand, being the root of our kind, gave birth to us already deadly offspring, so that we would destroy the deadly poison of spiritual and bodily and reappear Your life is eternal, for our kind, it was absolutely necessary to have a new root. We needed to have a new Adam, who would not only be sickless and would be completely invincible, but could forgive sins and relieve from punishment exposed to him - and not only would have a life, but also the ability to revive to make participants in the life of those who are pinned to him and belong to his family, and not only representatives of the subsequent generation behind it, and those who have already died to him. Therefore, Saint Paul, this great tube of the Holy Spirit exclaims: "The first person is ... I live in the soul", and the second person "in the spirit of life-giving" (1 Cor. 15:45).

But, except for God, no one is sinless, does not live and can not let go of sins. Therefore, the new Adam was supposed to be not only a man, but and God, so that he in his own life, and the wisdom, and the truth, and love, and mercy, and in general all the blessings in order to bring the Old Adam to the renewal and revivalness by grace , wisdom, the truth, the opposite means, the culprit of evil caused us death.

Thus, just as this physician enlightened and hatred above us, and the head of life has been erected for us with immeasurable person and his goodness. Truly, he won the salvation of creating his own, whatever salvation was to conquer him again, as the culprit evil wanted to kill the creation of God, in order to put a person under his power, and herself with triranism over him. And as he delivered himself a victory and a man dropping injustice, cunning, deception, the cunning of his and the liberator, soiled the defeat of the culprit evil and updated his creation to the truth, wisdom, truth.

It was a matter of perfect justice to the nature of our, who voluntarily enslaved and amazed, itself again entered the struggle for the victory and overthrown voluntary slavery. That is why God and won on our nature from us, miraculously connecting with him is an ampostasino. But the combination of the highest nature, the purity of which is incomprehensible to our mind, it was impossible with a sinful nature before it cleans himself. Therefore, to conceive and the birth of a cleanliness of the cleanliness, Virgo was needed completely immaterial and prechile.

Now we celebrate the memory of what has once contributed to this embodiment. For the name of God, the god of the words and the son of the Collective and the Sovetage of the Most High Father, is led by the Son of the Human, the Son of Naznodel. "Jesus Christ yesterday and younce, Toy and forever" (Heb.13: 8), immutable in the deity and immaculate in humanity, he only, as a preintex against him, the prophet Isaiah, "lawlessness is not coented, below the investigated to the right "(IS.53: 9), - he was not hesitated in lawlessness, and his birth was not in sins, as opposed to about himself and about any other person, the Prophet David (Ps.50: 7) testifies. He was alone completely clean and did not even need to be cleansing for himself: for the sake of us, he accepted the suffering, death and resurrection.

God is born from immaculate and holy maiden or, better, from all-grand and all-mate. This virgin is not only above all car desecration, but even higher and all sorts of unclean thoughts, and the conception of it was determined by non-loss of flesh, but the assnaissance of the Blessed Spirit. When Virgo lived perfectly away from people and was in a prayerful mood and spiritual amateur, she was an angel to the anguing: "Sea Slave of the Lord: Budge to the verb of yours" (LK.1: 38) and, by conceiving, gave birth. So, in order to be a Virgin worthy for this higher goal, God is meant for the first centuries and from the number of elected from the beginning of the century, this, now praise by us, navigodel. Pay attention to the fact that this election began. From the sons of Adamov, God was elected a wonderful Sif, who, for the benefit of the morals, for the wellness of the feelings, in the height of virtues, revealed himself an animated sky, why he received election, from which Virgo - the Blizzard Chariot of Neglome God - was to be born and appeal to the uniform to heavenly adoption. Due to this and all the genus Sif, called the "Sons of God": For the Son of God was born from this generation, since the name of Sifa means an uprising or resurrection (from the dead), which, in fact, is the Lord who promises and gives life to the referee Believers in his name. And what kind of strict accuracy of this pre-preparation! Sif was born was Eva, as she herself said, instead of Abel, who had killed Cain on the envy (Gen..4: 25), and the son of the Virgin, Christ, was born for us instead of Adam, whom the culprit and patron of evil had killed from the envy. But the Sif did not resurrect Abel: for he served only by the prototype of the Resurrection, and the Lord of our Jesus Christ was resurrected by Adam, since he had life and resurrection for earthworks, for what the descendants of Sif were awarded, to hope, God's adoption, who was named with Chads God. And what's as a result of this hope, they were called the Sons of God, it shows the first so named and by succession that received this election of the son of Sif - Enos, who, according to Moses, first tried to be called by the name of the Lord (Gen.4: 26) .

Thus, the election of the future mother of God, ranging from the most sons of Adamov and passing through all generations of times, on the proposal of God, comes to the king and the prophet David and the successors of his kingdom and kind. When the election time came, then from the house and the fatherland Davidov were elected by God Joachim and Anna, who, although they were childless, but in their virtuous life and good nras were the best of all who came from the knee of David. And when they asked the god to the permission of milelessness in the prayer and promised born, from his childhood, to devote to God, the Mother of God is erected and is given from God, like a child, - so that the pre-empty and preching virgin will be conceived, so that, therefore, And chastity in conjunction with a prayer feared, and the most preching was predicted by the parent of the Normal, in the flesh, thoroughly born someone who in the Divine was born from God the Father. And so, when the righteous Joachim and Anna said that they were awarded their desire and God's promise in practice, then they, as the true Bogolybtsy, on their part, hurried to fulfill their vow, given to God: they led to the temple of God now, Truly, the Holy and Divine Child-Virgin Major, only she stopped eating a male. And she, despite such a small age, was full of divine tanings and more others understood what he was accomplished on her, and all his qualities were that they did not introduce it to the temple, but that she herself on his own motion comes to serving God, as if At native wings, seeking the sacred and divine love, being convinced that the introduction of it in the temple - in the holy of holy and stay in it there is a desired thing for her. Therefore, it is the high priest, seeing that the Divine grace remains on the sortie of everyone, wished to instill her in the Holy Saints and convinced everyone to seefully agree with this. And God promoted the Virgin and sent her mysterious food through her angel, thanks to which she was strengthened by nature and was given to the cleaner of the angels, while in the ministry of heavenly spirits. And not only once she was introduced into the holy saints, but was adopted by God to stay with him for considerable years: because heavenly monastery had to open through it and be given for eternal residence believers in a wonderful birth of her. That means why the chosen one from the beginning of the century among the elected was sainted from the saints. Who had her body cleaned by the virtue of the spirits themselves, so that it could accept the Hitnessal Word of the Priestful Father, - Verdaeva Maria, as the Treasure of God, for the property now was placed in the holy saints, so that in the appropriate time, as it was, to enrich and serve as it was To premium decoration. Therefore, Christ is God and glorifies her mother, both before birth and birth.

We, thinking about the sake of us through the Most Holy Virgin Salvation, will pay Thanks and praise to it with all the forces. And truly, if a grateful wife (about which the Gospel tells us), who heard a little saving words of the Lord, gave him thanksgiving his mother, waiting from the crowd to the voice and saying Christ: "Blessed, whisper, and the nipples, who were fed" (LK 2011: 27), even more so, we, Christians who have been drawn in the hearts of the words of eternal life and not only the words, a and wonders and suffering, and through them the restoration of our dead nature, and the ascension from the Earth on the sky, and promised , and the immutable salvation, even more so, after all this, we cannot not glorify and tirelessly not please the mother of the chief of salvation and the owner of life, celebrating the conception and birth of her and now introducing it to the temple - in the holy saints. Move yourself, brethren, from the ground of the mountain, be transferred from the flesh to the Spirit, pretend to the desire of permanent, and not temporary. Consider the proper contempt of the carnal pleasures that serve as a bait against the soul and go through. We have revised spiritual cloaks as nonsense. I distracted my mind and your attention from everyday care and elevate it into the celestial depths - the holy of saints, where the Virgin Mary lives. For in this way, our chants and prayers with godly daring and benefits will reach it, and by us, thanks to her concept, together with real goods, we are heiring the future, endless benefits, grace and humans of us for the sake of the Lord of our Jesus Christ who born from her Fit fame, a power, honor and worship with its original father and with the eternal and life-giving His spirit now, and confessed, and in the eyelids. Amen.

Metropolitan Anthony Surozhsky. Introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
At the beginning of the Christmas post, we reverevly celebrate the introduction of the Mother of God into the temple. The temple is the goal of God, this is the place that God belongs internally, the place where neither thoughts nor feelings, nor will be other than the will of God. And here is the last Virgin of the Virgin in the young, infant years is given in the temple of the Lord, enters into the area where, except God and his paths, there is nothing. She immersed in prayer, she will have to live God, she indulgesed the female holy work, which may be an expression - if only a person's heart is sensitive and purely love and care. And immersed in this element of the divine presence and human worship, it grows, from year to year, in full measure of his maturity. And when the Great Archangel of Annunciation appears in front of it and hesitates that, the Lord is mysteriously and incomprehensibly, it will be born from her, she is given to him unconditionally, in the trembling and humble obedience: the Slave of the Lord, and I will be in the will of him ...
Over the years, the all-sighted immersion in the secret of God, in the secret of love, she became able to become the one through which the saving, transforming, sacrificial and godmother of God will enter the world. The Saint Gregory Palama tells us that it would also be impossible to embody the Son of God without the enrollment of his mother his earthly, as without the will of the Heavenly Father. Leaving entirely in God's will, in the secret of love for him, and in him - to all the creatures, she could pronounce God's name, the holy, the mysterious name, which coincides with his personality, with his whole thought, with his whole will and all By his body, and this word was flesh, and therefore we reverectly contemplate this unique, the only holiness of the Mother of God.

But not in vain, this holiday is raised as it were from the eve of our procession to meet Christmas, the embodiment of the Word of God. And we should prepare so to cook, so to deepen, so clean your heart, consecrate our thought, to update your will, sanctify and flesh yours so that eternal life, manifested in Christ, could be born in us so that we, immersed in His death, With his resurrection on our baptism, they could really be so growing with him, so to be one with him, as members of the body among themselves one, as the whole body is one of the chapter. God's mother gave birth to the word Creative and Love embodied; And we are given a prayer, loyalty to the gospel way, love for God and to the neighbor, renunciation from yourself, the returns of themselves without a rest and God and our neighbor - and it is given to us to connect with God as mysteriously that we are Sunday with Christ and in Christ. We are currently lying in front of us - we will pass this path not just waiting for a miracle at the end of this path, and becoming alive, creative participants in this path, so that the Lord would be born and so that we would be born in us a new, jerking, all conquering love and life eternal. Amen.

Vvedenskoe Cemetery

With the holiday of the introduction of the Virgin in Russia, many toponyms are associated. One of the most famous is the introduced cemetery.

The introduced cemetery (it is German or the introduced mountains) founded in 1771 during the epidemic of the plague. It is in the east of Moscow, in the Lefortovo region. In the XVIII-XIX centuries was called the German cemetery, as they were buried mainly by Catholics and Lutheran.

The cemetery received its name because of the injected mountains (otherwise Lefortov Hill). This is an elevation on the left bank of the Yauza (one of the "seven hills" of Moscow). Mountains, in turn, received a name from the once of the former village here introduced, and it in turn - from the wooden church of the introduction of the Virgin in the temple built on the hills in 1643 by the decree of the Queen Evdokia Lukyanovna, the second wife of Tsar Mikhail Romanova.

The wall and cemetery buildings are constructed at the end of the XIX - early XX century. In the 1960s, the territory was expanded, built a wall-columbarium.

Many famous people are buried on the cemetery, and a part of monuments and tombstones created by famous architects and sculptures are recognized as cultural heritage sites.

Traditions Celebration of Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Virgin

In Russia, all cities and villages were held noisy and cheerful introduced fairs. The most famous was a wide Moscow. Fish trading was held here, and Corobeeners offered to buyers to try with heat, with the heat of buns, pretzels, gingerbreads, pancakes, pies. They saw all the hot honey drink - shot.

On the screensaver fragment of the picture Introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Virgin(Titian, 1534-1538)

The feast of the introduction of the Most Holy Theotokos in the temple, referring to the Orthodox Church to the discharge of the two-plates, is established in honor of the event of bringing her parents to the Blessed Virgin to the Jerusalem Temple to dedicated to God.

There is an ancient legend of the church about how Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Joachim and Anna led the little girl Maria in the temple of God. They did not have children for a long time. And here with their prayers, tears of hope for the Lord, hopes they receive a blessed gift - a welcome child. Joakim and Anna promised God to devote this child to him, give him the most valuable thing that they had her child.

When the Most Holy Virgin turned three years old, the Holy Parents decided to fulfill their promise. Collecting relatives and loved ones, put on Mary Mary in the best clothes, with singing of the sacred songs, with candles in his hands led her to the Jerusalem Temple, which is three days from Nazareth.

After joining the city and seven-day purification by the post and prayer righteous Joacim and Anna with all those who accompanied them approached the temple, leading their three-year daughter. The priests headed by the church came from the temple headed by Zaharia.

The porch leading to the temple consisted of 15 high steps, according to the number of power psalms, which priests and Levites sang at each stage at the entrance to the temple. The baby Maria seemed to be herself to climb on this stairs.

Joakim and Anna put the daughter on the first step, strengthened by the power of God, she quickly overcame the rest of the steps and climbed to the upper one. Then the high priest, according to the suggestion over, introduced the Most Holy Virgin to the Holy Saints, where of all people only once a year was a high priest with a cleansing sacrificial blood. All those present in the temple were divided by an unusual event.

The righteous Ioacim and Anna, handing the wild of the will of Heaven, returned home. The predicted Maria remained indoors for virgins who were at the temple. Around the temple, according to the testimony of the Holy Scriptures and the historian Joseph Flavia, there were many residential premises, in which devoted to the ministry of God.

The deep mystery is covered by the Earth's life of the Blessed Virgin Mary from infancy to ascension to the sky. Sokrovna was her life in the Jerusalem Temple. "If anyone asked me," said Blessed Jerome, "as the time of his youth spent the time of his youth," I would answer: it is known to God himself and Archangel Gabriel, the relentant keeper of her. "

But in the church tradition, it has been preserved that during the stay of the Muscale Virgin in the Jerusalem Temple, she brought up in the society's society society, diligently read the Holy Scriptures, was engaged in needlework, constantly prayed and increased in love for God. In memory of the introduction of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Jerusalem Church of the Holy Church since ancient times established a solemn festival. Indications of the holiday in the first centuries of Christianity are in legends of Palestinian Christians, where it is said that the Holy Queen Elena built the temple in honor of the introduction of the Most Holy Mother of God.
In the IV century, the mention of this festival has the St. Gregory Nissky. In the VIII century, the preaching on the day of administration uttered St. Herman and Tarasii, Constantinople Patriarchs.

The holiday of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos - the preaching of God's favor, the promise of the advent of Christ, the preaching of the Human Sign.

Located at the very beginning of the Christmas post, the introduction opens the Christmas themes: at the festive morning, the Irmodos of the first canon of the Nativity of Christ is used as catavia, and from that time in the worship service of some days of the Christmas post appear features of the pretabilities of Christmas.

In the House of God, Maria came
Soul, like an angel, light.
Creator unlimited power
Her steps led.

Leaving the earthly abode
Parents of delicate their
Came to the Lord Almighty
There was a son to her and the eternal groom!

Came to build from Padena
The genus of sinful, unfortunate people.
Came to give them saving
By covering them with your love.

"The ridges, my dashing dear,
To the one who sent me.
Ridges, druging blueberries,
To the one who gave you! "

The priest introduces the priest
In the Holy Saints and Creator
His grace is descended,
Nadiv on chapter her crown!
Prayer to the Mother of God

Mira Intercession, Mother Funior!
I am before you with a prayer:
Poor sinner, dressed mad
You are grazing to cover! If the tests are mounted,
Grief, loss, enemies -
In a difficult hour of life, per minute of suffering,
You pray for me, help!
Yu. Zhadovskaya

Prayer Prev Icon Introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Virgin

Oh, the Most Holy Devot, the Queen of the Sky and the Earth, before the age of the elected bridesmaid of God, in the last time, the legitimate heavenly came to the temple on the church! You left the people of your people and your home of your father, in Herge, to sacrifice the pure and immaculate Gods sacrifice, and the first Dala Esi is a vowiness of the world. Daruy and we observe our chastity and clean and in the fear of God all the days of our belly, and we will be the temples of the Holy Spirit, the Napa Pouring to everyone in the imitation of your lively living and incitement to the ministry of the gowns in the purity of the lady to accomplish their lives and from youth Introduce your good and easy, holy is sacredly stored. You spent the wonderful, all the days of youth in the temple of the Lord away from the temptations of this world of this, in a dying wakefulness of prayer and in every abstinence of the spiritual and bodies, pumps and we reflect all temptation of the enemy from the flesh, peace and the devils on us from youth Owners, and defeat the prayer and post. You are in the temple of the Lord with the angels of the stays, decorated with all the virtues, the same humility, clean and love and adequately cultivated, and is ready to accommodate the flesh of the wrong word of God. The controversy and to us, obsessed with pridery, the impotant and laziness, are cutting down in every perfection of spiritual, yes cares from us from us with your help your robe, the marriage soul and firings of void, but not Nazi and do not seek to appear in the reference of the seemingly fiance to our and son , Christ to the Savior and God, but may come with wise virgins to the monastery of Garay, an idea with all the holy saints, we will be taken out of Slaviti and glorify the all-in-friendly father and son and the saint spirit and your merciful intercession is always, now and in the eyelids . Amen.

Prayer for a holiday Introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Mother

To whom to recruit, Vladychitsa, to whom it is resserved in my sorrows, isn't it for you, the queen of heaven? Who is crying to hear and rehabits me, isn't you, the hopeless, the hope of Christians and is refuge, sinful? Who will protect you in misfortunes? Hands Hanging My And Cancel Your Ear to me, Vladychitsa and Mati God's God! Do not despose looking for your help and not Renna Greshnago, the Queen of Heaven! Teach member to perform the will of your son and give a desire to always follow His Holy Commandments. For my ropot in diseases, works and misfortunes, not retreating from me, but preractive matter and patronizing Mena Maloznago. The queen is my preparing, diligent intercession! Your petition of the pregregation of my face, from visible and invisible enemies to defense, the hearts of the warring themselves mitigate and the love of the Sogray of them. My sinful habits will defend your sinful habits, in order to defeat your sinful habits, in order to be cleaned by repentance and subsequent virtuous life, in communicating with the holy church, I spent the rest of the Earthly Days of Western. I will appear, the hope of all Christians, at the time of the death of the Muya and the reinforcement of my faith in the mortal grave hour. Ascertaining me, a multi-reviewed in this life, your All-Fivy Prayer at the Field of mine, let me justify the Lord and makes a particier of his endless joys. Amen.

Orthodox churches, consecrated in honor of the holiday of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos, are referred to as the introduced.

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1) The place of the holiday within the borders of the Orthodox liturgical year.

The holiday of introduction to the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos is one of the most important - the two-month-one-year holidays on the glorification of Our Lady.

2) Communication of the holiday with the events of the sacred history of the Old and New Testament.

The Introduction Holiday is historically associated with the famous Jerusalem temple - one of the most amazing and majestic buildings of the ancient world. Thousands and thousands of believers came here daily. They sounded fiery prayers to God, he was brought to him rich and abundant victims. Crowds of people filled out all the space of numerous temple courtyards surrounded by gallery and collemona. It was a small state in the state - with its own laws, orders, even - with their special currency. Life was boiling here as anywhere in Jerusalem - the air trembled from human voices and from the roam sacrificial cattle, thick black smoke rose from the flaming altars. This is how the famous Russian religious philosopher is described in the Jerusalem Temple of Sacrifice. Pavel Florensky: "Eternal flame burned on the altar; It was not a focus, but a whole fire, in which the material combustible was incentive. Imagine a crackling, whistling, hissing fire on such an altar. Imagine almost a cyclone formed above the temple. According to legend, he is never gus from the rain. But it was necessary: \u200b\u200bwhat is surprised here - after all, there were whole bulls, not to mention the many goats, rams, and so on. Imagine what the smell of Gary stood, Sala ... No wonder in the figurative language of the Jewish theology, the altar was called Ariel - Lev of God. Indeed, he devoured and victims, and firewood. The number of victims: on Iosif Flavius, it was a shorter of 256.500 lands on Easter; According to Talmuda, Herod Agrippa to calculate the number of fans, ordered the victims to the hearth - they turned out to be 600,000. Upon consecration of Solomonov, the temple was shorter than 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. Sometimes the priests went to the ankle in the blood - the whole huge courtyard was chosen by blood. Imagine the smell of blood, Tuka, Fimiam! It was heard in Hebron - at home - pipe sounds - from 21 to 48 during the victim of the burnt, - singing of countless choirs, bleeding, screams and stones of animals, contrary to the efforts to bring them to silence. With weak nerves there was nothing here. "

The temple of the times of Christ was the third temple building. The first temple was built by King Solomon. Subsequently, the destruction of the temple was alternating with his recovery. The third temple, modern Mother of God and the Savior, appeared about 20 g. e. As a result of his reconstruction, Herod Great. The previous temple, built in Maccava, seemed to the Irod was not sufficiently majestic.

The temple in Jerusalem was considered Jews the only place where it was possible to bring sacrifices to God. The temple was viewed as a compatibility of a special divine presence, like the "House of the Lord", as a place where the Jews could meet face to face with their Creator. In the very center of the temple space, a huge building of the sanctuary with the "Holy Saints" was crushed - as the focus of the Divine Presence in the middle of his chosen people, the place where the main shrines were once kept by the Holy People.

It was here that - in the Jerusalem Temple - once he was given by his pious parents - the Saint and Righteous John and Anna - a small three-year-old girl - the one we are now called the Mother of God.

The right one's own vow is to devote to the daughter of serving God, Joachim and Anna led Maria to the temple, putting it at the entrance - on the first of the fifteen leading inside and steep steps. And here is a little girl on their own - without anyone's support, going through these stone steps, joined the temple space. In the same moment, she came to meet the high priest: according to legend, it was Zechariah - the future father of John the Forerunner. He, according to the special revelation of God, taking the scenic, introduced it to the Holy Saints - at that place, where even the high priest had the right to enter only once a year. After that, Ioakim and Anna left Maria at the temple and returned to their home. She began to live at the temple - in the building where the virgin lived, raising and learning here.

From the very day, when this event occurred - the introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos - such a significant for the Christian church and so inconspicuous for all those present on that day in the Jerusalem Church (except Zechariah and the parents of Our Lady), and have passed more than two thousand years. That Jewish temple was destroyed by Roman troops (70 g. E.), and the Ancient Jerusalem himself turned out to be practically erased from the face of the Earth. From this Old Testament shrine, only one temple wall has been preserved. But now the church is consistently celebrated the event of introducing the Holy Daughter to the Church and Anna their daughter - the Mary's Mary.

The story of the introduction of Our Lady for the Temple (as well as the history of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary) was borrowed by the church from the apocryphal "Proevoevogenia Jacob". This is the most ancient story: "There were months for months, and was fulfilled to a child (Mary) for two years. And Joachim said: "We will take her to the temple of the Lord to fulfill the promise promised, so that the Lord suddenly did not reject us and did not become our gift. And Anna said: I will wait for the third year of her so that the child does not look for her father or mother. And said Joamak: wait. And the child turned three years old, and said Joyakov: Call the immaculate daughters of the Jewish, and let them take the lamps and will stand with burning (lamps) so that the child did not grumble and to love her temple of the Lord in the heart. And they did so on the way to the temple of the Lord. And the priest took her and, kissed, gave a blessing, saying: The Lord will exalt your name in all kinds, because through you, the Lord in the last days of Israel's sons of Israel. And put it on the third stage by the altar, and gave her the grace of the Lord, and she jumped from joy, and loved her entire people of Israel. "

The citizen of the Church tells about the fact that Maria lived at the temple until 12 years. Then the time came when she was already supposed to leave the temple and marry. But she declared the priests, which gave vowiness. Then, out of respect for her vow and to preserve her virgin, Maria had gained the elderly carpenter - Joseph, which came from the genus of King David. It is believed that the Lord himself pointed to him as a future wrap and defender of Our Lady. Temple priests gathered 12 men from the genus David, put their crops on the altar and prayed that God would point out to he had pleasing to him. Then the high priest gave each staff. When he gave the rod of Joseph, then the dove flew out of the staff and sat down Joseph on his head. Then the high priest said the old man: "God's election is indicated to take this virgin the Lord to keep her." After that, the Mother of God settled in Joseph's house.

3) The spiritual meaning of the holiday.

The value of the Introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos has always correlated the patristic tradition with the theme of Christian education. Once in the temple, living with him, the Virgin, thereby brought up in faith and piety, fenced from external temptations and "worldly" habits. Let it be and not Christian, and the Old Testament Temple - still here was the only stronghold of the True God's stronghold. The atmosphere of holiness and purity reigned here. It is because of his life at the temple, the Mother of God learned genuine love for God and True humility. The feeling of such sincere children's love for God is filled with the texts of the festive service. As the outstanding Russian liturgist M. Skaballanovich writes "A rare holiday is overflowing such a bright, easy joy."

4) History Holiday History.

The holiday of introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary is in the same way to Christmas, as a penalty of the Lord for Christmas, Christ. Probably initially, this holiday was devoted to the same attachment with the victim to the temple of Our Lady at the request of Moiseeva law, as much later was brought here and Christ. But then with the oldest sense of the holiday joined the memories and about the event from the childhood of Our Lady, the memory of which was conveyed by ancient apocryphal.

It is possible that the holiday of maintaining the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary arose even later than the holiday of her christmas. Although there is a suggestion that its appearance is associated with the activities of St. Emperor Justinian I, which built in 543 in the Holy Land on the ruins of the Jewish Jerusalem - of that very, in which there was no time the event occurred is a huge church dedicated to the Most Holy Virgin. For the first time at the Orthodox East, this holiday is still mentioned already in the VIII century - starting with the Sinai holiday gospel of 715. In the 9th century, in the East, he already gets widespread distribution, but, however, not among the most important annual holidays. Gradually, the holiday of introduction to the temple acquires increasing importance in church consciousness. By the XII century, the image of his perception in liturgical practice is already close to modern us. At the same time, the holiday of introduction to the temple of the Most Holy Theotokos was among the two-month only after the XIV century.

5) the characteristic features of festive worship in various historical periods. Authors of liturgical texts.

The most important texts of festive worship belong to Peru Georgia, Metropolitan Nikomidia (IX century) - Pochihira on Lithium, the first canon, Vasily Pagariot, Archbishop of Caesarian (X century) - the second canon. Since the XII century, we find in liturgical monuments very close to the modern practice of making the service of the introduction of the Most Holy Mother of God.

6) Holiday preparatory period. Prepared and inpolition.

The holiday of introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary has one day of the preferences and four days of the cost. Thus, the entire period of the Christmas celebration of the Virgin creates six days. The Holiday of Introduction is litually connected with the early festive holiday of Christ. Starting from the date of administration to the temple on the uterine in the churches, the Christmas rolling knives: "Christ is evident, mention."

7) The most important features of festive worship services.

During worship, a Virginous - blue - vestments. The chinocution of the holiday service is in a monthly multi-time - in her volume for November. All-night vigil is performed on the holiday. Special statutory features that distinguish the holiday of introducing the temple from other Virgin two-family church celebrations - no. The eve of the holiday serves a great evening with lithium and a solemn morning. The next day the Divine Liturgy is performed.

Tropear Holidays: "At the innocence of God's intention, and people of salvation passion, in the Temple of God, a clear Virgin is and thoroughly prevents Christ. Tom and we will reopen: rejoice, watching izoditelleva execution. " In the Russian language, the feast of the holiday could be translated about this way: "Today, the omen of God's favor and preliminary preaching about the salvation of people: Virgo is open in the temple of God and prevents all Christ. She and we are veleglash (loud voices) exclaim: Rejoice in the performance (exercise) of creative destiny. " If, with Merry Christmas, the Mother of God could only vaguely predict her high destination, then the introduction to the temple of Our Lady was her visible to the world. It is often likened to the phenomenon of Christ's people when baptism. So, the introduction of the temple was the "silent" preaching about the close coming to the world of the Savior. It turned out to be the preface to Christmas Christ. That is why the fear of the holiday of introduction to the temple turned out to be dedicated to the holiday of the Savior's Christmas, no less than the introduction.

Kondak Holidays: "The prechistan temple of the resolis, a multi-mention and Virgin, the sacred treasure of the glory of God, the day is introduced into the house of the Lord, grace the coodes, the Angeli of God in the Dolva, the southell of God: this is the village of Heaven. In Russian, Kondak may sound like this: "The preching temple of the Savior, a multi-mentioned degree and Virgo, the sacred treasure of the glory of God today is introduced into the house of God, introducing grace with him, which is in the Divine Spirit. Her Angels of God are chanting. This is the skinny (tent) of heaven. " The Mother of God is called here at the same time and the temple - after all, God altered in it, and the packer, the Chamber, the Housing - for God, who was united in her, was simultaneously the Son of God and Man. Kondak is even more and more deeper than the troparman reveals the spiritual meaning of the holiday. Together with the introduction of the Temple of the Virgin, the church sees co-introduction with her and grace of the Holy Spirit, thanks to which this grace will soon be overwhelmed on all believers. From here there is a joy of all angels about the accomplished.

In the chants of the holiday, the Mother Magnifier is glorified as "Virgin Prechoye", "the honest and most silest mountain military (i.e. heavenly angelic forces)", "the prophets of the preaching, the angels of glory, and martyrs praise, and all earthmovic updates," like "the word of the Words of God (Christ) "," Massage of German "," Our Glory (the reason for our glorification) and salvation. "

During the service, some texts of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are read. So on the evening three paesma: fragments from the book Exodus (40: 1-5.9-10,16,34-35), 3rd books of kingdoms (7:51; 8: 1,3-7,9-11 ) and the books of the Prophet Ezekiel (43:27; 44: 1-4). The first two paesma are devoted to the description of the oldest Old Testament Sanctures (Moiseyeva's Tabernacle and Actually Temple, and the Third, the last, future and mysterious temple, who should become the very virgin. Fragment of the Book Exodus tells about the instructions that God gave Moses before the arrangement of them so-called Tabernacles of testing "- the predecessor of the Old Testament Temple. The second poem is talking about the consecration of the temple built by the king of Solomon and about those wonderful phenomena, which was accompanied by this sanctification. Thus, the tabernacles and the temple are considered as the symbolic Old Testament of Our Lady, who has become a genuine temple and the House of God. The presentation of the content of the Third Palevia has already been set out in the section on the birth of the Nativity of the Virgin. Also coincide with the two gospel readings prescribed here - on the morning and liturgia. They were also mentioned above. With regard to the charter of the Apostolic reading, then on the holiday of introduction Temple on liturgy s Vuchit excerpt from the message of the Apostle Paul to Jews (9: 1-7). In this fragment, the apostle describes all the same Old Testament tabernacle and especially the Holy Saints, where no one besides the high priest and where the Mother of God was admitted. At the same time, and here - in his interpretation of this passage - the church insists on the understanding of the tabernacle and, above all, Her Holy Saints, like the Old Testament Preview of the Virgin. As Rev. John Damaskin writes, "let the famous tabernacle burst, built by Moses in the desert from precious and multi-solid materials, and the former tabernacle of the forefather Abraham (see the Book of Genesis 18: 1) before the animated and mental science of God (the Virgin). After all, this tabernacle is not energy (the strength, grace) of God appeared here, but Especially perceived (accepted) Iposta (i.e. the person) of the Son of God. Let them realize that they cannot be equal to her ark, "clad from all sides of gold", a golden vessel containing manna, lamp, a meal and everything else ancient (i.e. all those sacred items that were kept in the Old Testament Tabernacle); For the honor of them was rewarded as its prototypes, as the shadows of the true prime. "

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