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Holidays September 21

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

September 21 marks the great Orthodox Christian holiday - the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary . On the birthday of the Virgin Mary, it is customary to observe certain customs and traditions. This holiday is popularly called the second Most Pure, since the first Most Pure was celebrated on August 28, and the third will be on December 4. There are a number of signs associated with this important holiday:

It is customary to hold services on this day in a high tone, like on Christmas or Easter.
It is believed that on this day a person should ask the Mother of God for the most secret things, and she will help him. It is especially important on this day to pray to childless couples for the birth of a child.
Also, on this bright holiday there is no fasting, and believers can afford to eat any food.
Previously, it was customary to visit people on this holiday. At the same time, the guests were treated generously, because people believed that the more dishes were on the table, the better the next harvest would be.
There is also a separate sign for women - according to beliefs, the earlier she washes her face on this day, the longer she will retain her youth and beauty.
It was customary to pour water on children at the doorstep so that they would have better health.
For girls on this day there is a special omen for marriage - if she washes her face before sunrise, then this year she will be wooed.

International Day of Peace

The General Assembly declared this Day a day to strengthen the ideals of peace among all countries and peoples. The history of the holiday begins in the 81st year of the last century. Then the United Nations took the initiative to create it. For 20 years, the holiday was assigned to the third Tuesday of September each year, but in 2001 the situation changed and it was moved to a specific date - September 21.

It was this organization that took the initiative to create the holiday, since it is its responsibility to eliminate the causes of military conflicts. This is due to the fact that by preventing war in the world, a number of epidemics, the development of deadly diseases and poverty can be prevented.

International Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Day

This holiday was established on the initiative of organizations involved in researching this disease and finding ways to slow its progression. Often the first noticeable signs of Alzheimer's disease are considered a reaction to stress or a manifestation of aging.

Therefore, one of the goals of International Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Day is to provide people with information about the symptoms of the disease, as well as rules for caring for patients. Alzheimer's disease is incurable, but proper care and supervision of the patient will greatly facilitate the last years and months of his life.

The story of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

According to existing Tradition, the place where the Nativity of the Virgin Mary took place is located in Jerusalem. However, a version has become widespread in the Russian Orthodox Church that the parents of the Virgin Mary lived in Nazareth and it was there that she was born.

The parents of the Virgin Mary enjoyed universal love and respect. However, they were depressed by one sorrow: they were childless, which the Jews considered a sign of God’s punishment. They constantly asked God to send them joy in the child. One day he heard from a certain Reuben a harsh reproach: “Why do you want to bring your gifts to God before others? After all, you are unworthy, as barren!” Out of great grief, Joachim withdrew into the desert for fasting and prayer.

Having learned about this, righteous Anna, recognizing herself as the culprit of their childlessness, also grieved and began to pray even more fervently to God so that He would hear her and send her a child. In one of these moments of prayer, the Angel of the Lord appeared to her and said: “Your prayer is heard by God, and you will conceive and give birth to a blessed daughter, above all earthly daughters. For Her sake all generations of the earth will be blessed. Name her Mary.” After the prescribed period of pregnancy, righteous Anna gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Mary, as the Angel commanded her.

After a year, St. Joachim arranged a feast, to which he called the priests, elders and all his acquaintances. At this feast he raised up his Blessed Daughter and, showing it to everyone, asked the priests to bless Her.

Signs and rituals of September 21

Rituals:

The autumn day is celebrated with games and songs;
It was supposed to greet Mother Autumn with oatmeal bread;
On this day, onions were supposed to be put away for storage and hives with bees brought under the roof for the winter.

Signs:

What the weather is like on this day, so will autumn be. If it’s warm outside, then autumn will be warm and fine;
The more peel there is on the onion, the colder the winter will be;
Scarlet sunset or dawn - for windy and rainy weather;
In the morning, frost on the grass means bad weather;
Almost all the leaves have fallen from the trees - winter will be early.

What not to do on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Engage in heavy physical labor: work around the house, in the garden.
Sweep crumbs onto the floor during a family meal. If there was any bread left after a meal, it was given to domestic animals.
Quarrel with loved ones and conflict with others (try to resolve any controversial issues peacefully).
Raising your voice at loved ones (this is a sin!), being mean to others, or thinking badly about someone.
Consume meat and alcohol. On the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary it was necessary to fast.

Born on this day

1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian monk, Dominican preacher and ruler of Florence;
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist who discovered the phenomenon of superconductivity, Nobel Prize laureate (1913);
1866 - Herbert George Wells, English science fiction writer ("War of the Worlds", "The Time Machine", "The Invisible Man", etc.), publicist;
1866 - Charles Nicole, French microbiologist who established the causes of typhus, Nobel Prize laureate (1928);
1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, singer;

1947 - Stephen King, American writer, “king of horror”;
1950 - Bill Murray, American actor, film director, screenwriter;
1965 - Frederic Beigbeder, French writer;
1972 - Liam Gallagher, vocalist of the British band Oasis;

1983 – Maggie Grace, American film actress.

Divine service

In honor of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, a festive service is held in churches on September 21. During the Liturgy, the troparion, kontakion, dignification and magnification are read. For the holiday, all clergy prepare festive sermons in which they talk about the miracle of the birth of the Virgin Mary. The Almighty gave the daughter Mary to elderly and barren parents. This woman later became the mother of the Son of God, who saved humanity from the Fall.

Canon

In the morning at the festive service, an entire solemn poem consisting of nine songs is read. Each hymn consists of an irmos (initial stanza) and several troparion stanzas glorifying the Mother of God. The entire text of the festive canon is dedicated to the Nativity of Mary and the glorification of the Mother of God. The songs ask to confirm believers in the faith and send them forgiveness of sins.

Song 1

Irmos: Come, O people, let us sing a song to Christ God, who parted the sea and taught the people, even as He brought forth from the work of the Egyptians, as if He were glorified.

Come, faithful ones, rejoicing in the Divine Spirit, Even from this barren day we will honor the Ever-Virgin Lady who came to save people with songs.

Rejoice, Pure One, Mother and Servant of Christ God, Even the first Intercessor of bliss, the human race, we all worthily glorify Thee with songs.

Today a bridge is born of life, whereby men glorify Christ the Giver of Life with songs, the cry of the fall, which was found from hell.

Song 3

Irmos: Establish us in You, Lord, the Tree that kills sin, and plant Your fear in the hearts of us who sing of You.

You lived immaculately to God, begetting Salvation of all, God-wisdom parent of the Creator of the Birth and our God.

The Lord, who exuded life to all, from barrenness, gave birth to the Virgin, who willed to dwell in Nyuzha, and after Christmas, preserving the incorruptibility.

Anna's fruit, Mary, today, who gave birth to the life-giving grape, as we sing to the Mother of God, the Representative of all and the Helper.

Sedalen, voice 4

The Virgin Mary and Mother of God truly, like a cloud of light, will rise to us today and will come from the righteous to our glory. Adam is not condemned to anyone, and Eve is freed from her bonds, and for this reason we cry out loudly with boldness to the One Pure Ones: joy proclaims Your Nativity to the whole universe.

Song 4

Irmos: Hear the Lord, hear Your gaze and glorify You, the One Lover of Mankind.

We sing praises to You, Lord, who has given the faithful a saving refuge to all, Who gave birth to You.

You are the bride of God, show Christ praise and power to all who sing Your sacrament faithfully.

Unartful Lady, with Your prayers we deliver from sins, we prudently please You all.

Song 5

Irmos: The hay-written darkness of fortune-telling has destroyed and the faithful with the arrival of the truth, the Virgin Mary, illuminating the hearts, and instruct us with Your light, Christ.

Let us sing to the people of all the guilt of being guilty of us: Even though the prophets rejoice in this image, the revealed salvation from Him is fruitful.

From the dry vegetation of the priest's rod, Israel was shown insight, and now the lightness of the vegetated shines gloriously, from the barrenness an all-glorious birth.

Song 6

Irmos: Jonah cried out to the Lord from the whale: You raise me up from the depths of hell, I pray, so that as a Deliverer, with a voice of praise, I will devour the truth in the Spirit.

To the Lord, in the sorrow of barrenness, the parents cried out to the Mother of God of Godly wisdom, and to this mother from generation to generation, for common salvation and praise.

I have received the Heavenly gift from God, worthy of the Mother of God, the parents of the Divine Wisdom, the samekh of the Cherubim who carried more than the Word, the Mother of God and the Creator.

Kontakion, voice 4

Joachim and Anna were reproached by childlessness, and Adam and Eve were freed from the aphids of death, O Most Pure One, in Thy holy Nativity. Then Thy people also celebrate, having been freed from the guilt of sins, always calling upon Ty: the Mother of God and the Nourisher of our life bears barren fruits.

Ikos

The prayer and sighing of the barrenness and desperation of Joachim and Anna are favorable and in the ears of the Lord below, and the fruit of the vegetative life is life-giving to the world. She prays in the mountain, and she bears reproach in the garden, but with the joy of barrenness she gives birth to the Mother of God and the Nourisher of our life.

Song 7

Irmos: The bush in the mountain, the fire-scorching one, and the dew-bearing cave of the Chaldeans, has ordained You, the Bride of God, the Divine One, the Immaterial One in the material womb. You have received the fire without burning. Moreover, from You we sing: Blessed are You, God our Father.

Your lawmaker is forbidden to understand in material phenomena the great, Most Pure, mystery; not to be wise, earthly and zealous is figuratively punished sometimes. Moreover, I was amazed at the miracles, saying: Blessed be God our father.

The mountain and the door of heaven and the mental ladder of the divine face of the pronunciation of God, for from you the stone was cut off not by the hands of men, and the door, through which the Lord passed, who is the God of miracles ours.

Song 8

Irmos: In the cave of adolescence you sometimes represented Your Mother, O Lord, and this image is taken from the fire of the unburned One who came in, and we sing of You, who is the end of the day, and we extol to all eyelids.

Even to the God of our reconciliation the predestinated tabernacle even now begins to be, having given birth to the Word, to us the foolishness of the Flesh appears, Whom we eat, from those who do not exist in the hedgehog. moss, and we exalt to all ages.

Resolve the infertility of the worldly good, and clearly show the miracle of Christ, having come to the earthly, Him we eat, from those who do not exist, we receive Him, and exalt Him to all ages.

Song 9

Irmos: Even before the Sun, the Lamp of God, who arose, came to us carnally, from the side of the Maiden indescribably embodied, Blessed All-Pure, We magnify You, Mother of God.

Who has poured out water from stones to disobedient people, and with a submissive tongue bestows fruit from barren loins for our joy, You, Most Pure Mother of God, we deserve to magnify.

In vain is the ancient remover of condemnation and the foremother of correction, just as the generation was taken to God, to the Creator of the bridge, we magnify Thee, the Mother of God.

Luminous

From the barren day of Anna came forth, O Mother of God, all the incense of the Divine, fulfilling the ends of the world, and filling all creation with joy, Who sings, we worthily praise, as I exist on earth exceeded relatives.

Kontakion

The holiday kontakion says that Joachim and Anna atoned for their childlessness by giving the world the Mother of God. The mercy of the Almighty, who once saved Adam and Eve from corruption, descended on the couple. Mary gave birth to the Savior, who atoned for the sin of people at the cost of her own life. Barren Anna gave the world the Mother of God and, together with her husband Joachim, received the immortality of the soul.

“Joachim and Anna suffered the reproach of childlessness, and Adam and Eve were freed from mortal aphids, O Most Pure One, in Thy holy Nativity. Then Thy people also celebrate, having been freed from the guilt of sins, and always call upon Thy: infertility gives birth to the Mother of God and the nourisher of our life.

Joachim and Anna were freed from reproach for childlessness, and Adam and Eve were freed from death by Your holy Birth, Most Pure One. It is also celebrated by Your people, who have been delivered from the burden of sin, loudly exclaiming to You: the barren gives birth to the Mother of God and the nourisher of our Life.”

Events of September 21 in history

1435 - Duke of Burgundy Philip the Fair signed the Treaty of Arras with King Charles VII of France, thereby breaking off relations with England;
1451 - Jews in Holland were ordered to wear identification marks on their clothes;
1776 - The Great Fire of New York began;
1792 - the National Convention was opened in France, a decree was adopted on the abolition of royal power;
1860 - during the Second Opium War, the decisive Battle of Balitsyao Bridge took place, opening the way to Beijing for the Anglo-French troops;
1920 - The Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine introduced compulsory study of the Ukrainian language in schools;
1922 - American President Warren Harding supported the idea of creating a Jewish state in Palestine;
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again was published;
1940 - Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater was opened;
1943 - Chernigov was liberated from the Nazi invaders;
1964 - Malta gained independence from Great Britain;
1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared a state of emergency in the country and abolished the constitution;
1981 - Belize gained independence from Great Britain;
1991 - in a referendum, 99% of voters voted for the independence of Armenia.

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Celebration traditions

The Holy Church began to celebrate the Nativity of the Immaculate Virgin Mary only in the 5th century. Christians have been glorifying the Mother of God for many centuries in a row, who gave birth to the world a Savior, who took upon himself all the sins of mankind and atoned for them at the cost of his own life.

This is the first holiday celebrated after the beginning of the church year (September 14). In honor of the Nativity of the Mother of God, the clergy annually perform a festive Liturgy. The birth of the Immaculate Virgin Mary is celebrated on September 21. The date of the holiday does not shift and does not depend on other church celebrations. In 2021, as well as in future years, the Nativity of Mary will be celebrated on September 21.

Iconography

A huge number of icons were painted in honor of the birth of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. The oldest painting that has survived to this day is considered to be the painting of the Georgian temple in Ateni, dating back to the 11th century. In honor of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, a fresco was painted in the apse of the Kyiv St. Sophia Cathedral. This image also dates from the 11th century. An ancient drawing in honor of the birth of Mary is in the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Mirozh Monastery, in the Serbian Church of Joachim and Anna in the Studenica Monastery.

Ancient icons depict the most holy Anna lying on a high bed. Icon painters painted her figure larger than other characters. Women with gifts stand near the woman in labor. In the foreground of the composition is Mary being bathed by her maids in the font.

On icons of the late period, tables were depicted with gifts brought in honor of the birth of the Mother of God. Icon painters also depicted the background story of the birth of the Immaculate Virgin. They painted icons where the high priest refuses to accept gifts from Joachim, as well as a plot where Mary’s father cries in the desert, and her mother prays in the garden. There are icons where the parents of the Most Holy Theotokos meet at the Golden Gate. Icon painters depicted the holy couple alone or with a baby in their arms.

Georgiy

As a child, Georgy prefers to stay away from his peers, but not because he considers them uninteresting. The boy will not reach the point where children can stand against him. Georgy will gladly listen to his comrade if he has problems. In some cases, he will even be able to support and give wise advice.

You can tell the owner of the name all the secrets, because he will always keep his word. Georgiy likes to express his thoughts in writing. At work he is considered a good employee, because he will take the assigned task seriously. In an unfamiliar company he behaves very shyly, when in his own company he can speak louder than anyone else. The owner of the name rarely finds a common language with women, but the marriage generally goes well.