Women's name day September 22
Anna is a Jewish female name. Translated it means “the grace of God.” Memory of Righteous Anna, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos.On this day the memory of the righteous Godfather Joachim and Anna is celebrated. Holy righteous Joachim is a descendant of King David, to whom the Lord promised that the Savior would be born from his seed. The couple lived in Nazareth of Galilee. They were childless until a very old age, which they mourned all their lives. However, the couple did not complain, and only offered fervent prayer to the Lord. The request was heard, and the Angel told them that they would have a Daughter, who would be blessed by the entire human race. After a certain time, Joachim and Anna had a girl, who was named Maria. Saint Anna reposed at the age of 70, two years after Mary was brought to the temple. Saint James lived to be 80 years old.
Venerable Joseph, abbot of Volotsk (Volokolamsk), wonderworker
The Monk Joseph of Volotsk (in the world Ioann Sanin) was born into the family of a patrimonial landowner, the owner of the village of Yazvische, Volokolamsk principality. The exact date of birth of the saint has not been established, but most sources indicate the years 1439/1440. Joseph’s great-grandfather, Sanya (the founder of the family), was from Lithuania. Almost no news has been preserved about the parents of the Monk Joseph, John and Mary, except for information that they died as a monk. In addition to the Monk Joseph, they had three more sons: Vassian, Akaki and Eleazar. Vassian and Akaki took monastic vows. Subsequently, Vassian became Archbishop of Rostov.
At the age of seven, the youth John was sent to study by the elder Arseny of the Volokolamsk Holy Cross Monastery. In two years he studied the Holy Scriptures and became a reader in the monastery church. At the age of twenty, John visited the Tver Savvin Monastery, where he met the spiritual mentor Barsanuphius, and “wisely following the advice and blessing of the perspicacious and holy elder Barsanuphius, you came to the monastery of the Venerable Paphnutius and begged him to accept you into obedience” (Kondakion 4).
At the Borovsky Monastery, the Monk Paphnutius tonsured a young man into monasticism with the name Joseph. The Monk Joseph spent eighteen years under the guidance of the holy ascetic. Upon the death of his teacher, he was appointed abbot of the Borovsky monastery, which he ruled for about two years. In this monastery he introduced a communal rule, which caused discontent among some monks. The Monk Joseph was forced to leave the monastery and went on a pilgrimage to Russian shrines. So he ended up in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery.
Here he became even stronger in his desire to create a new monastic hostel. From the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery he retired to the Volokolamsk region, where in 1479, at the confluence of the Struga and Sestra rivers in the forest, he founded the monastery of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In his monastery, the Monk Joseph introduced the strictest community life and drew up his own charter for it, a significant part of which was taken from the Charter of St. Nil Sorsky. The Monk Joseph trained a whole school of ascetic monks. Many tonsures of the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery were archpastors and occupied the most important departments of the Russian Church: Metropolitans of Moscow and All Rus' Daniel (+ 1539) and Saint Macarius (+ 1563), Archbishop Vassian of Rostov (+ 1515), Bishops Simeon of Suzdal (+ 1515), Dosifei Krutitsky (+ 1544), Savva Krutitsky, nicknamed Black, Akakiy of Tver, Vassian of Kolomna, Saints of Kazan Gury (+ 1563) and German (+ 1567), Saint Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver (+ 1576).
At the Church Councils of 1490 and 1504, the Monk Joseph denounced the heresy of the Judaizers that arose in Novgorod. He vigorously sought the condemnation of stubborn apostates. In addition to his main work, “The Enlightener,” directed against this heresy, the saint also wrote 24 epistles to various individuals, short and lengthy editions of the monastic “Rules.”
The Monk Joseph reposed on September 9, 1515 and was buried near the altar of the Assumption Church of his monastery. By the Council of 1578, the Monk Joseph was numbered by the Church among the locally revered saints, and in 1591 - among the all-Russian saints.
Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear brothers and sisters, these days the Holy Church, and with it we, are brightly celebrating the joyful days of the post-feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. If, according to the word of Christ the Savior, a wife, when she gives birth to a baby, no longer remembers sorrow for joy, because a man was born into the world (John 16:21), if, therefore, the birth of every person should be accompanied by more or less joy of his parents, then how great must have been the joy of the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary when this God-chosen Youth was given to them as a result of long prayers and tearful sighs - given at a time when, due to their old age, they no longer hoped to have a child and were subjected to childlessness was there extreme humiliation and reproach from people? The day of the most honorable Nativity of the Virgin Mary should be a day of world celebration, world joy, as the Holy Church now sings: Thy Nativity, O Virgin Mother of God, joy to proclaim to the whole universe. (Troparion of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (beginning)).
Birth is joyful for those people to whom and for whom a baby is born. If he is born only for one family, then there is joy for this family, and if he is born for an entire people and state, then joy extends to the entire people, to the entire state. And the Most Holy Virgin was born not for Her parents and relatives alone, and not for just one well-known people, but for all people, for the whole world:
“Behold, you will conceive,” the Angel preached to Her mother Anna, “behold, you will conceive and give birth to the Most Blessed One, and through Her all the tribes of the earth will be blessed, and at Her birth there will be joy for the whole world, and through Her salvation will be given to the whole world.”
If there are several saints with this name in the church calendar
This situation occurs quite often. So, in the calendar there are about thirty saints, whose name is Alexander, and there are more than eighty Johns. There are nine women named Anna who are classified as saints. In addition, the same heavenly patron can be revered several times a year.
For example, Saint Anne, who is the mother of the Virgin Mary, is remembered not only on August 7, but also on September 22 and December 22. If a girl named Anna was born on August 5, then she chooses the day that follows this date and is closest to it. It will be August 7th. The remaining days will be small name days.
Among the nine Annas, Anna the Prophetess is also present in the calendar, whose feast day is February 16. A girl born in February can choose her as her heavenly patroness. It should be noted that these rules are advisory. From several saints, a person can choose the one who is closest to him as his patron.
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How to determine the name day?
To determine the day of your name day, you need to open the calendar and choose the day when the Orthodox Church venerates the saint after whom you are named. For example, if a man’s name is Andrew and he was born on December 12, then his patron saint is the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, who is remembered on December 13.
If your name is not included in the calendar, you need to choose the personal name that sounds closest to you.
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Examples:
- Alice - Alexandra;
- Zhanna - Joanna;
- Lily - Leah;
- Milana - Milica.
Sometimes secular names in the church tradition do not sound quite similar, and this must be taken into account. So, Svetlana is an analogue of Photinia, since in Greek photos means “light”. Victoria is an analogue of Nika, the meaning of both names (the first translated from Latin, and the second from Greek) is “victory”.
Martyr Severian of Sebaste
The martyr Severian suffered in the 4th century. during the reign of Licinius. He came from a noble family and lived in Sebastia. When 40 martyrs were taken for trial (their memory is March 9), then St. Severian urged them not to renounce Christ. He himself appeared to the governor Lysias when he sent for him for trial.
“Your own destruction is not enough for you, you want to destroy our souls too,” the saint said to the ruler.
The ruler ordered him to be cruelly tortured, but the saint endured all the torment with a bright face, as if he had not experienced any suffering. After the torture they took him to prison. On the way he told the people:
“Do not think that I am now the most unfortunate person; no, I am the happiest, because wounds for my Christ are more pleasant to me than all earthly sweets. My rank and my wealth mean nothing, for they are perishable. Friends, if there are believers among you, be strengthened by seeing my suffering!”
They tied one stone to St. Severian's neck and another to his feet, tied him with a rope and hung him on the wall.
How to imitate your saint?
Every Christian should become familiar with the life of his heavenly patron and try to imitate him. This does not consist of renunciation from the world, but of leading a godly life according to God's commandments. You need to be worthy of the saint whose name you bear. The Monk Ambrose of Optina wrote:
Let your life be according to your name.
John of Kronstadt said that when people remember their saints, they also remember them and pray to the Lord for them.
What is more important: name day or birthday?
The Orthodox Church does not diminish the significance of any of these holidays and does not contrast them. In the Holy Scriptures, such events as, for example, the Nativity of Christ (that is, the birthday), the Nativity of the Virgin Mary and the Nativity of John the Baptist are given great importance.
Therefore, the dilemma of which of the two days is more important should not exist in principle. Both holidays are needed. On our birthday, we celebrate the miracle of birth and have fun from the heart, and on the day of the angel we feel peaceful, glorify our heavenly patron and become closer to God.
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