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Glory to Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters!
We are getting closer to the great holidays: Christmas, Old New Year, feast of Basil and Malanka ans Epiphany on December 19th.
Lord suffers from his wounds for this world, He suffers from the pain for this world. Lord asked His Heavenly Father for us, when the Heavenly Father looked on the Earth and saw that it is filled with the darkness only. He wanted to take it and throw into the hell, because the Earth was as the thorn in Universes` side. But God the Father is in His Son, in other words, such characteristics as: kindness and mercy, they are disappointed. Son of God, Jesus - our Savior, He says: "Give me one more chance to work with this world".
And He tells in the parable that they came to the fig tree and wanted to cut it down because it gave no fruit. The owner said: "Cut it and plant the new one on that place". In other words, instead of the Earth God creates another planet, and instead of our mankind He creates another people. Than the servants said: "But maybe we can try to ditch it, enrich and water it. When it does not help, than another year we cut it down, if it will be your will". And the Lord agreed. (Luke, XIII;6-9).
Here is the same, He asked: "Give Me this Earth, I come, I teach them how to save, I give them My word, I will be immolated through the crucifixion to satisfy the God`s Justice".
And two thousand years ago God came and accepted the death through the crucifixion for us. The humanity got the Teaching, excellent Teaching - simple, understandable, perfect.
This Teaching is distorted sometimes and given to people in difficult forms. The humanity has to follow God but it hasn`t and turn away. Different demoniacal systems control the Earth.
In the 20th century such system controlled the earth, the communistic system. It proclaimed the equality, justice, but under these claims hided the evil that brought the genocide. And we know that without any war the number of people who died in Ukraine was higher than in the years of the war in 1941-1945. And they brought the traditions that had no connections with God. Previous time I told you how the agents of NKVD , so to say, killed the St. Nickolas and replaced him with their Father Frost. The same is with the Church: all the priests were shot and their people in the shoulder boards replaced those priests. But people celebrate this holiday - "New Year". And we were born and waited this holiday, we rejoiced. Christmas tree - happiness. And at this time millions of these trees are cut down, the earth suffers. Such a beautiful kind of trees, that in summer and winter provides our planet with oxygen, disappears. The Earth is devastated because all the people take these trees. One or two weeks are gone and they throw it away. It lies somewhere unwanted and the Earth becomes poorer. In such a way people annihilate themselves. So, if one analyses this holiday, one will see that this holiday is horrible, destructive, unaccepted by God. I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, that this "New Year" becomes the Thanksgiving Day to God that you make this tradition right and thank the God for everything before your meal.
Thank Him, that He is loving and patient. That He looks on the Earth and sees some rare sparks of thanksgiving to Him: "God, we enter the new year that You give us and thank You that You give one more chance for our Earth, that You give us one more chance to live and find the salvation. Help us to be more kind, generous, wiser and more loving in this year. Help us not to desecrate this year and do not injure you as we did in the previous year." When you are at the table with your family, join hands with each other or cupped your hands in a prayer and thank God for everything and ask Him: "God, bless our meal and drink". Have a repast, not at 12 p.m., but about 10 0r 11 p.m. Let it be the family thanksgiving day to God. Do you understand? Let it be in such a way. And go to bed on time. You may watch the TV till the 12 p.m., heard the congratulations and go to bed giving thank to God. And the next day, when you wake up healthy and loving God, say thank Him again that He tolerates and blesses you.
Today we hear the Holy Gospel of Mathew, about the genealogy of Jesus where there are shown all the ancestors of Jesus (Mathew. I:1-25). As we see the Jews people are blessed, through their family Jesus, Savior of the World, came to the Earth. And the Christmas is closer; we celebrate it on the 7th of January. And we gather here and celebrate it together. We gather to worthily meet the Christmas and feel the birth of Christ in our hearts. It is a great fest when Jesus came through His mother Maria to be on the Earth and save us. He was conceived and came into the world from the Holy Spirit. Joseph, as we read in the Holy Gospel, did not understand that. He thought that Maria committed offence with someone and he wanted to send her that other did not shower stones on her: "Go away peacefully". But the Archangel Gabriel said him that she conceived from the Holy Spirit and the Savior of the World will be born. That is why he should accept her. Joseph got this information while the sleep and accepted his wife. God came to the Earth to preach and teach the truth. And we have to prepare to this feast-Christmas. Because we have only one week and those who want may repent in your sins and bad character traits and think what was done incorrect. Ask God to forgive you, heal the wounds of your soul for us to be worthy in the New Year that begins for Ukraine and for the whole world.
May God bless us!
Glory to Jesus Christ!
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Apostle (Hebrews, 11:9-10, 17-23, 32-40):
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9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a
foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the
same promise.
10 For he was looking forward to the city that has
foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac,
and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only
son,
18 of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring
be named."
19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the
dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
20 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of
Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of
the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three
months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and
they were not afraid of the king's edict.
32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell
of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets--
33who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies
to flight.
35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were
tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a
better life.
36 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and
imprisonment.
37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed
with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute,
afflicted, mistreated--
38 of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in
deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39 And all these, though commended through their faith, did
not receive what was promised,
40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart
from us they should not be made perfect.
Gospel (Matthew, 1:1-25):
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1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of
David, the son of Abraham.
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of
Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez
the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,
4 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father
of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father
of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
6 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the
father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,.
7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father
of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,
8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the
father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,
9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of
Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the
father of Amos,[c] and Amos the father of Josiah,
11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at
the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the
father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father
of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,
14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of
Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud,
15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of
Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of
whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen
generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen
generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen
generations.
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When
his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she
was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to
put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the
Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear
to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the
Holy Spirit.
21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus,
for he will save his people from their sins."
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by
the prophet:
23 "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and
they shall call his name Immanuel". (which means, God with us).
24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the
Lord commanded him: he took his wife,
25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And
he called his name Jesus.
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