April 7 - the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Great church holiday

What praying before the icon of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Mother of God, through her any icon, will help in any of your righteous requests, protects the human enemy from attacks, will help save the soul.
Prayers in front of the "Annunciation ..." icon will help in your recovery, in liberation from the conclusion, and in general - get the "good" (good) message about anything.

It must be remembered that the icons or saints do not "specialize" in some specific areas. It will be right when a person draws faithful to God, and not because of this icon, this saint or prayer.
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Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Holiday History

At the age of fourteen years, the Holy Virgin married the righteous Joseph of Nazareth. Then the eighty-year-old carpenter of Joseph, with huge works, the high priest persuaded to take, under the guise of marriage, on his care of a sirotot.
After the engagement, Maria left the temple where he spent eleven years, and the Holy Family went to live in Nazareth.
For Mary, life in a new place has practically not distinguished from life at the temple. She also spent a lot of time in prayers, read the sacred books and was engaged in needlework.
Several years have passed. Maria often re-read the prophecy of Isaiah: " Ce, Virgo in the womb ... Son will live and give birth to a son .... " And reflected on this predicted virgin, from which the greatest miracle will happen.
Suddenly, a miracle happened in her room - she saw the Archangel Gabriel appeared to her, who brought a bouquet of white lilies, which symbolize impaired and purity.
Stretching them Mary, Gabriel said: " Rejoice your gracious! Lord with you! Blessed you among wives!»

• Fertile means who has acquired a special love and favor of God

It was Maria Archangel that brought the good news that she would be the mother of the Savior.
« And the angel told her: Do not be afraid, Maria, for you gained grace of God; And so, you will warm in the womb, and give birth to the Son, and you will give him a name: Jesus. He will be great and will adopt the son of the Most High, and give him the Lord God the throne of David, his father; and will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will not end"(LK.1: 30-33)
Maria was very surprised: " How will it be when I don't know my husband?"And besides this - after all, she gave vowiness.
In response, Archangel said: " The Holy Spirit will find on you, and the power of the Vyshny will autumn you. Therefore, and the born in the son of God»
Gabriel was waiting for a response from Mary, the fate of the world was depended from it. " Here, the slave of the Lord, let me be for your word"She said with humility.

And heavenly grace fled to the humble chief, the power of Vyshnyh through the Holy Spirit entered it, the godge of God's Son in the womb of immaculate Virgin.

Three months spent Maria visiting, it was time to return home. Time went, the appearance of Mary changed, as it should be in front of childbirth. Her husband, Joseph, of course, suspected his spouse in treason and decided to part with her. Maria understood that she had no right to open the holy mystery and therefore he reached the Lord in everything.
At night, in a dream, an angel appeared to the wrap and told him:
« Joseph, son of Davidov! Do not be afraid to take Mary, your wife; for there is a born in her from the Holy Spirit, give birth to the Son, and you will give him the name Jesus, for he will save their people from their sins…»
Iosif of God's messenger unconditionally believed, he was so struck by such a message that he could not come to himself for a long time after waking up. The blamefulness of Mary no longer caused his doubts, now he began to treat her with trepidation, as to the mother of God's son.

The spiritual meaning of the holiday Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Already from the second century, the Annunciation is considered the first part of the atonement of sins, where the obedience of the Virgin Mary was a counterweight of the sin of Eva.

Metropolitan Surozhsky Anthony:

"Annunciation is the day of the good news about what was found all over the world of Virgo, so the believing God, so deeply capable of obedience and confidence that the Son of God can be born. The embodiment of the Son of God, on the one hand, the case of God's love - the godfather, affectionate, saving - and God's power; But together with this, the embodiment of the Son of God is a matter of human freedom. St. Grigory Palama says that the embodiment would be as impossible without the free human consent of the Mother of God, as it would be impossible without the creative will of God. And on this day of the Annunciation, we in the God of the mother contemplate the masses, who with all his heart, with all the mind, with all his soul, the whole fortress was able to trust God to the end.

And the benefit of the news was truly terrible: the phenomenon of an angel, this greeting: Blessed you are in the wives, and blessed the fruit of yours, could not but cause not only amazement, not only trembling, but also fear in the soul of the Virgin, who did not know her husband - how could be?..

And here we catch the difference between oscillating - albeit deep - faith of Zechariah, the Father of the Forerunner, and the faith of the Mother of God. Zechariah is also proclaimed that his wife will have a son - naturally, despite her old age; And his answer to this news of God: how can it be? This can not happen! What can you prove it? What kind of certification can you give me? .. God's mother puts the question only like this: how can this happen to me - I am Virgo? .. And on the angel's answer, what it will be, she only answers the words of full return of themselves in the hands of God; Her words: CE, Slave of the Lord; Buddle to the verb to your ...

The word "slave" in the present-day usual consumption is about enslavement; In Slavic, the slave called himself a man who gave his life to another. And she really gave God her life, his will, his fate, accepting faith - that is, incomprehensible trust - the news that she will be the mother of the embodied son of God. About her righteous Elizabeth says: Blessed beloved, because it will be a spent to her from the Lord ...

In the Mother of God, we find an amazing ability to trust God to the end; But this ability is not natural, not natural: such faith can be in yourself the feat of the purity of the heart, the feat of love for God. For the feat, for the fathers say: swabs blood, and accept the spirit ... One of the western writers says that the embodiment became possible when there was a deva Israel, who was able to utter the name of God all his heart, his whole life in his whole life in Her.

Here is an evangelism that we have now heard in the Gospel: the human race gave birth, brought God to God as a gift, who was able to become the mother of God's mother in his royal human freedom. Amen".

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