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To that heavenly host who glorified the glorious time appointed for our salvation, and the blessed day appointed for joy, may I also join with love. With this host, let me rejoice and with pure hymns, let me praise the Child, and sing to the Born (Born): Holy! let me glorify the One who saved us. The harps of the prophets who foretold Him began to play before Him; The chief priests, who were burning with love for Him, rejoiced before His face. He who was born of a virgin, the Lord of virgins, was given a crown by the kings from whom He came. As a King, He gives the Kingdom to everyone. As the High Priest, he grants purification to everyone. Like a Lamb, he prepares a meal for everyone. All the royal cities rose up to bring You golden crowns with their own hands. The cities of Judea, these verbal crowns, bring crowns to You, Lord Jesus, in the praise of their lips. You, along with other cities, are crowned by Bethlehem, Cana, Nazareth, Bethany, Shechem and Samaria. The first crown brings You Your city. Mary and the den that received You bring you two crowns. From Your property, all the cities ceremoniously bring You crowns, and the Lord the King accepts what is given to them. Thy cities weave and bring to You a crown of victory for Your glorification. May His Mother bow down and bring him a crown, just as her mother placed the royal crown on Solomon. But Solomon could not resist in the struggle, became a pagan and damaged his crown, and the Son of David, who rose from the house of David, glorified the house of His father, magnified his throne, exalted his family, and his crown made every country known. Ever-memorable is the Mother who gave birth to Him, who bore His womb worthy of blessings. As His father, Joseph is praised, who in his goodness is called Father to the True Son. The Shepherd was sent to seek out the lost and lost sheep, and He brought it and brought it into the sheepfold. “He made Me glad more than all those who were being saved, because He conceived Him in her womb; He made Me greater than all those who were exalted by Him, because He gave birth to Him. I will enter the paradise of life and, where Eve sinned, there I will glorify Him, because He chose Me from among all the wives and deigned to make Me His Mother, and He Himself deigned to become My Son. May Bethlehem, which was honored to be the place of Your birth, thank You. May He weave a crown for You from the broadcasts of Mikheev. This prophecy is a garden full of flowers. May it call prophets and kings to enjoy His crown. They bring into it: Moses - transformations, Isaiah - joyful secrets and parables, fragrant with flowers. The lips of the glorious will glorify Me, because I received as a Child the One who is the Son of the Hidden One. He appeared and took Me to the heights of the mountains, so that with the saints in heaven and with the Angels I would glorify Him who fills the heavens with His glory, and they cannot contain His greatness, although He has humbled Himself and is laid in a manger.” Voices from above announced You to those below, filling their ears with the gospel of You. The New Source was revealed by the heavenly to the earthly, who thirsted for life and did not taste it. You are the Source from which Adam did not partake. You opened twelve verbal springs, and they filled the world with saving waters. The righteous Joseph, who was perplexed and reassured by an Angel, brings you a special crown. May his reward be greater, because he ran with You and carried You in his arms. Joseph's righteousness testified of You. Teach me, Lord, how and why You wanted to appear from a girl’s womb. Your image was pure Adam. Just as he was created from virgin, uncultivated soil, so Your birth was unmarried from David’s daughter betrothed to Joseph. In the genealogy, kings were written not by the names of their wives, but by the names of their husbands. David's daughter becomes engaged to Joseph, David's son, because it was impossible for the Child to be written by the name of His Mother. The Son was born to Joseph without a seed, and his Mother without a husband gave birth to Him. It would have been indecent for Him to be born of the seed of Joseph, and for Mary to conceive Him without being engaged to Joseph. The one born of Mary is not recorded by Her name, He is recorded by Joseph. But the one written by Joseph is not from his seed; He receives the name Joseph, without borrowing Joseph's flesh. It is not from him who is betrothed to Mary that the Son is born to Her, but the one begotten by Her is Lord and Father to David. Moses calls the betrothed woman the wife of her husband (Deut. 20:7) and the betrothed one who did not enter into marriage with her, he calls her husband (Deut. 22:23), so that it would be impossible to deny Christ’s descent from David. The son of David, born without a husband, why is he numbered among the sons of David? He who is betrothed to Mary is considered Her husband, and our Lord recognized that He was of their lineage when they called Him the son of David and did not deny it. If the Most High was called the Son of a man (David), who was distant from Him in generations and generations, and was pleased to inherit his name, who will begin to doubt, hearing about the carnal birth of our Savior, when He was conceived by David’s Daughter, and He bore His hands as the Son of David, and He received worship in the City of David? What was the Immaculate One doing when Gabriel was sent to Her, descended and appeared? She was probably in prayer when she saw him, because Daniel also saw Gabriel during prayer. Prayer and evangelism, as related to each other, should delight each other. Through prayer, the dove brought good news. Prayer caused the gospel to Abraham to become more frequent. Prayer accelerated Hezekiah's evangelism. During prayer, the centurion's (Cornelius) gospel rejoiced; As a reward for his prayer, Simeon was delighted; as a reward for the incense, Zechariah received the gospel. All hopes flow into the harbor of prayer, and it brings the gospel. Maryina’s prayer contained the guilt of all joys. In the form of a splendid old man, Gabriel entered Mary and, greeting her with peace, said: “Do not be afraid” (Luke 1:30). Otherwise, the humble Young Lady would have been saddened when she saw the young man’s face. Only to two immaculate elders and a young Virgin, similar in will and identical in nature, was Gabriel sent with the gospel: to the Virgin, to the barren Zechariah and to the faithful Daniel. One of them prophetically foretold Your birth, another made a voice crying in the wilderness, and the Virgin gave birth to the Most High Word. You might be interested in: