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Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Church Righteous parents of St. The Virgin Mary, Joachim and Anna, like Anna, the mother of Samuel, praying for the resolution of their barrenness, gave St. a vow to sacrifice their child to God if God gives it to them. Three years after the birth of their blessed daughter, fulfilling their vow, they brought the Virgin into the Temple of Jerusalem and dedicated it to God. The Blessed Virgin was brought into the church, although three years old - at a young age, but requested by the prayer of her pious parents, as a heavenly gift, and prepared by Providence as the highest instrument for the redemption of the race and the human race, she, "triple in body, was perennial in spirit and exceeding the powers of the heavens." About the introduction of Rev. The Virgin to the Church of God at the age of three was mentioned in the 1st century by Bishop Evodius of Antioch and in the 4th century by Blessed Jerome. To the celebration of the introduction of the Most Rev. Virgins, as ancient church traditions depict this event, the righteous Joachim and Anna, according to custom, called their relatives to Nazareth; They gathered the face of the virgins and prepared many candles. Those who arrived from Nazareth in Jerusalem reverently and solemnly walked to the church of God, like the Old Testament procession with an ark to the temple of Solomon (1 Chron. 15). Led to the church by pious parents, a girl’s face preceded her with burning candles and singing; her relatives, neighbors and acquaintances followed her with joy; the high priest and priests met the Most Holy One with spiritual psalms. Virgin, future Mother of the great Bishop. Jerome says “around the church, according to the 15 psalms of degrees, there were 15 steps, on each of these steps the priests and Levites sang one psalm, ascending to serve. The parents placed young Maria on the first of these steps. And when they took off her traveling clothes and, according to custom, dressed her in the best and most splendid, the Virgin of the Lord alone, not supported or eased by anyone’s hand, ascended all the steps as if at perfect age. If the Lord revealed her greatness in the Virgin’s infancy, this already foreshadowed what she would be like.” Everyone was surprised to see a three-year-old girl so quickly ascending to all levels, as if she were an adult. Bishop Zechariah performed an extraordinary and surprising deed for everyone: he led the young woman into the very Holy of Holies, where the ark of the covenant was located, where, by law, only one bishop was allowed to enter, once a year, and, moreover, with cleansing sacrificial blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins of the people, and where not only the female sex, but also priests were forbidden to enter (Heb. 9:7. Ex.30:10). But the Mother of God, according to the expression of legend, was introduced into the Holy of Holies, like the Old Testament ark of God, which in ancient times was brought into the Holy of Holies with spiritual joy (1 Chronicles 15) and served as a prototype of the Most Holy. Virgin Mary, an animated ark that had within itself Christ God. The High Priest Zechariah, son of Varakhin, father of the Forerunners, prophet of God, foreseeing the future, introduced the Most Holy One. The Virgin into the Holy of Holies, according to the mysterious teaching of God, being then beside herself, she was embraced by God. And not only the high priest who introduced the Virgin, but also everyone who accompanied her at the entrance to the church of God - her parents, relatives and virgins - were embraced by the Spirit of God. Rev. The Virgin entered the Holy of Holies not only once on the day of her introduction, but throughout her entire stay in the church she always entered there without any restrictions, which was forbidden even to the high priest on pain of death (Lev. 16:2). In the words of the Church: “The angels saw the entry of the Most Pure Ones and were amazed at how the Virgin entered into the Holy of Holies with glory.” After the introduction, the three-year-old girl was placed at the church for education, with other virgins. For around the church (of Jerusalem), according to the testimony of Scripture (Exodus 38:8, 1 Kings 1:28, 2:11, 2 Kings 11:3, 1 Chronicles 28:11–13, Ezekiel 40:45–46, Luke 2:37) and according to Josephus, churches were built on three elevations, each in 30 churches. In them lived especially virgins who were dedicated and served God, especially widows, especially Nazarenes, especially priests and Levites, etc. Jerome says: “Having made a sacrifice according to the custom of the law and having fulfilled their vow, the parents of the Virgin Mary left her in the enclosures of the church with the other virgins to be raised, and they themselves returned home. The Virgin of the Lord grew in piety with age, according to David: My father and my mother abandoned me. The Lord will accept me (Ps. 26:10). She was honored with the appearance of Angels to her; this protected her from all evils and enriched her with all sorts of blessings.” In St. in the house of God she constantly practiced prayer, reading Scripture and handicrafts. “All of it, says the Church, which dwells inside the church and is nourished by heavenly food, was sanctified by the All-Holy Spirit.” Rev. The Virgin Mary lived in the Jerusalem Temple for about 12 years. Having reached adulthood, she disgraced herself to God by giving St. vow of perpetual virginity. According to the ancient scriptures and subsequent teachers of the Church, she was the first to betroth her virginity to God. For this wonderful virtue, so much praised by Jesus Christ and respected in Christianity, was not so glorious among the Jews (Deut. 7:14, Gen. 19:31–38, Judgment 11:37–39). But God inspired feelings about virginity, completely different from the feelings of the people, to the one whom He chose, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: behold, the Virgin will receive and give birth to a Son. When the time came for Mary at which, according to legal custom, she had to leave the holy home of her pious upbringing and, like other maidens, enter into marriage, she announced to the high priest and priests that from her conception she had been dedicated by her parents to the one God and she herself had made a promise to guard her virginity forever, and therefore could not marry. So, for the incorruptible preservation of virginity under the rite and image of marriage, St. For about 15 years of her life, the virgin, on the advice and consent of the sacred council, was betrothed to her relative, a venerable old man, the righteous Joseph, who decided, while maintaining abstinence, to conceal the virginal honor of Mary, considered her imaginary husband and imaginary father of Jesus Christ (Luke 4:13), until the secret of the incarnation was completely revealed to the world. Thus, she moved from the church to Nazareth, to the house of the righteous Joseph. In memory of the introduction of the Most Rev. In ancient times, the Church established a feast day for the Mother of God in the Temple of Jerusalem, November 21. An indication of this holiday can be found in the 4th century - in the traditions of Palestinian Christians, which still point to the ancient Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary and the construction of this church is attributed to Queen Helena. In the 4th century, indications of the feast of the Entry of the Virgin Mary are also found in the words of Gregory of Nyssa. In the 8th century - on the day of the Introduction, teachings were delivered by Herman and Tarasius, the Patriarchs of Constantinople; In the 9th century, George of Nicomedia and Basil the Macedonian, Emperor of Byzantium, on the day of the Introduction composed some stichera, now sung by the Church on this day. The Feast of the Entry of the Virgin Mary is great, twelfth and ecumenical. This is the day of separation of the God-chosen Virgin from the world. According to the hymns of the Church, Introduction by the Most Rev. The Virgin is a foreshadowing of God's favor, a preaching of man's salvation, a foreshadowing of Christ. “Having received from the Lord the promise of the fruit, Joachim and Anna, the Mother of God, brought the favorable sacrifice into the church today.” The prophecy of Haggee about the second temple of Jerusalem: the last glory of the church of this covenant will be greater than the first (2:10) - from the day of the introduction of the Mother of God it began to come true. In the second church, in comparison with the first, there was a lack of the ark of the covenant, the prophetic - Urim and Thummim, heavenly fire, a cloud signifying the presence of God, and the sacred anointing oil (1 Mac. 2: 6-9). Despite this, the second church becomes more glorious than the first church. In the latter is the God-bearing Ark - Most Holy. Virgin, throne of God the Word; here shines light and perfection (Urim and Thummim) in the blessed Virgin; here is the fire of heaven - seraphim love in her heart; and the cloud of the glory of God is in her most pure body; and sacred anointing is that abundant grace of the Holy Spirit that filled the Blessed One and from her, through approaching her, was communicated to others (Luke 1:41). Remembrance of the Entry into the Church of St. Virgo lasts 6 days - from November 20th to 25th. In the event of the Presentation of God's Chosen Maiden, the Church contemplates the fulfillment of the prophecies of King David: the queen appears at your right hand in robes of gilded garments. Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father’s house. And the king will desire your kindness: beyond that is your Lord, and you will worship Him. All the glory to the princess’s daughter is inside: her garments are covered with gold and speckled. The maidens will be brought to the king in her wake, her sincere ones will be brought to you: they will be brought in with joy and joy, they will be brought into the church of the kings (Ps. 45:10-12, 14-16). The example of Godfather Joachim and Anna, who dedicated their daughter to God from her youth, inspires Christian parents to begin raising their children with the teachings of piety from an early age. The early rapprochement of children with the Divine and sacred verbs of the Church and the word of God makes these verbs especially dear to their immaculate heart for the rest of their lives; and our native voice is always obligatory for us, pleasant, comforting and instructive. † Murder of the noble prince Yaropolk - Peter Izyaslavich During the time of the Grand Duke Vsevolod (1078–1093), the ancient news says, there were many people pleasing to God, monks and laymen, male and female, who performed miracles 299 . Among Vsevolod’s high-spirited contemporaries was Blessed. Prince Yaropolk - Peter Izyaslavich. He was the great-grandson of Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir. Under his father, Grand Duke Izyaslav Yaroslavich, he was an exemplary son, an assistant to him in both happiness and misfortune. In 1070 he defeated Vseslav of Polotsk, who had previously robbed Novgorod 300. From 1073, when his brothers kicked his father out of Kyiv, he shared his exile from his homeland for almost 5 years; was with him both at the King of Poland and at the Emperor, then, on behalf of his father, he sought help from the then powerful Pope Hildebrand. The reverent prince reverently worshiped the relics of St. Apex in Rome. Peter and Paul, paid homage to the Roman Archbishop, strong in the West, and complained about the Polish king Boleslav, who had robbed his father. The pope, excited by dreams of power, wanted to see religious and political obedience to the pope in the politeness of the Russian prince, and in this spirit he wrote to Izyaslav about his son 301. But these were dad's dreams, nothing more. In 1087, after the death of Svyatoslav, Izyaslav, without any outside support, again became the Grand Duke of Russia, and Yaropolk received Vyshgorod. In the same year, together with his generous father, Yaropolk helped Uncle Vsevolod and lost his father in the battle. The new Grand Duke Vsevolod gave his nephew the patrimony of his father Turov and added Vladimir to it 302. Yaropolk complacently accepted what was given, and did not look for the senior prince’s table, on which his father sat 303. He firmly followed the good rule of his fathers: “from old memory, the younger ones should have the oldest one instead of a father” 304. He tried to do good to others according to the means that were in his hands. Princes Rurik and Volodar Rostislavich, who had no hereditary inheritance and were expelled from Tmutarakan, did not know where to lay their heads. Yaropolk gave them shelter in his inheritance. They repaid him like the pagans. In his absence, the Rostislavichs fled from Vladimir, hired wandering squads for money almost received from Yaropolk and captured Vladimir. Vel. the prince sent his son Monomakh against the Rostislavichs, and he drove them out of Vladimir. Yaropolk entered his city with honor and entered into close friendship with Monomakh 305. Unfortunately this friendship was soon disturbed. Anxious nephews did not give rest to Vel. to the prince. seeking inheritance. Besudelny David Igorevich robbed Greek traders and harmed Russia's trade with the East; The Rostislavichs were even more willful and impudent. In order to somehow pacify the restless, the Grand Duke gave Dorogobuzh to David, and Przemysl and Terebovl to Rostislavich, while these cities were one with Vladimir 306. After Yaropolk’s father laid down his life for Vsevolod, Yaropolk could not expect that Vsevolod would take away parts of his possessions from him, so it hurt him that Vsevolod was not treating him according to his hopes; advisers told him that Vsevolod, having taken a little, would want to take everything; therefore it is necessary to prevent violence; but the good prince did not want to rebel against his uncle; he blamed the restless Rostislavichs for everything and therefore ordered an army to be gathered against them. Vel. the prince, understanding the matter in his own way, sent his troops against Yaropolk. Yaropolk was forced to flee to Poland to find help there; Yaropolk's mother, wife, estate, squad were captured in Lutsk and passed into the hands of Vsevolod; Vladimir was given to David; This means that they did everything that Yaropolk’s advisers expected from Vsevolod and that he himself did not expect. The following year, through the efforts of the good Monomakh, Vladimir was returned to Yaropolk. But soon after that, the painful death of the good prince unexpectedly followed. For some business, Yaropolk went from Vladimir to Zvenigorod Galitsky. “When the prince, says a contemporary, was lying on a cart on the way, Nelyadets, one of his retinue, riding a horse, at the instigation of evil people (probably the Rostislavichs), pierced the prince with a saber. Yaropolk jumped up, took out his saber and said loudly: “Oh! a treacherous enemy killed me.” The villain fled to Przemysl to Rurik Rostislavich, and Yaropolk died from his wound. It was November 22. The youths took his body and took it to Vladimir, and from there to Kyiv. “Vel. km. Vsevolod, Monomakh, Rostislav, all the boyars, blessed. Metropolitan John with the monks and presbyters, all the Kievans wept bitterly over him; accompanied with psalms and songs to the monastery of St. Demetrius, having prepared his body, was laid with honor in a marble coffin in the church of St. Petra, which he himself began to build; it was December 5th.” A contemporary then says about the blessed prince: “he suffered a lot of troubles, without guilt he was driven out by his brothers: offended, robbed, he also suffered a violent death. But he was awarded eternal life and peace. This blessed prince was quiet, meek, humble, and brotherly: every year he gave tithes from all his property to the Holy Mother of God. He always prayed to God like this: “Lord God! accept my prayer - give me death, like my two brothers, Boris and Gleb, from someone else’s hand, so that I can wash my sins with my blood and get rid of this vain, rebellious world, like an enemy’s snare.” And now his prayer was not rejected by God! He received blessings that neither the eye had seen nor the ear had heard, and that had never entered the heart of man, those blessings that God had prepared for those who loved him” 307. This is what Rev. writes. Nestor in his chronicle! Kyiv Chronicle, speaking about the daughter of the blessed one. book Yaropolk, wife of Prince. Gleb Vseslavich, writes: “this blessed princess, together with her prince, had great love for St. The Mother of God and to Father Theodosius, jealous of his father Yaropolk. For this Yaropolk gave (to the Pechersk monastery) all his property, the volosts of Nebolskaya, Derevskaya and Lutskaya and near Kyiv; and Gleb gave, together with the princess, 600 hryvnias of silver and 50 hryvnias of gold during his lifetime; upon the death of the prince, the princess gave 100 hryvnia of silver and 50 hryvnia of gold; upon her death, she gave away 5 villages with servants and everything down to the canvas” 308. So, blessed. Yaropolk, as pious as he himself was, instilled piety in his family. Other news also adds that blessed. the prince did not like drunkenness and ridicule, and loved tears of tenderness, did not take revenge on anyone and was very educated 309. Thus, monuments of the Church, starting with St. Nestor to the Degree Book and the Nikon Chronicle show that the murdered Prince Yaropolk Izyaslavich was considered among those who pleased the Lord with his life and especially with his suffering, innocent death. In the RKP. descriptions of saints of the 17th century. he is also placed among the saints and his memory is shown on November 21. Foreign act. Ross. 1. Karamz. 2. pr. 128–130. Monomakh in the spiritual: “and that spring (went) to Yaropolk to copulate on Brody.... That winter I went to Yaropolk to copulate on Brody and created great love” (Collected l. 1:103). Track. Monomakh marched twice for Yaropolk against the Rostislavichs, in spring and winter. About the Rostislavich chronicles under 6605. “And to them Vsevolod distributed cities, to David Volodymyr, to the Rostislavichs Peremyshl Volodarevi, Terebovl Vasilkovi.” - Svyatopolk, driving out the Rostislavichs from the Cherven cities, said: this is the volost of my father and brother. About Vsevolod the chronicle from 1093 “as he sat in Kiev, sadness came to him from his sons, as if he began to feel a cold, although the authorities, sowing, but something else. Collection l. 1, 88. 89. 103. VIII, 3. 4. Step. book 1, 232. 233. Step. book 1, 232. Nikon. l. 1, 189. 190.