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Holy Epiphany. Baptism of the Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ
Celebration day:
January 6 
About the feast of the Holy Theophany
The feast is called Theophany because at the Baptism of the Lord the Most Holy Trinity appeared to the world (Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22). God the Father spoke from heaven about the Son, the Son was baptized by the holy Forerunner of the Lord John, and the Holy Spirit descended on the Son in the form of a dove. Since ancient times, this holiday has been called the Day of Enlightenment and the Feast of Lights, because God is Light and appeared to enlighten "those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death" (Matt. 4:16) and save the fallen human race by grace.
In the ancient Church it was the custom to baptize those who were catechumens on the eve of Theophany, since Baptism is the spiritual enlightenment of people.
The beginning of the feast of the Epiphany dates back to apostolic times. It is mentioned in the Apostolic Constitutions. From the 2nd century, the testimony of St. Clement of Alexandria about the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord and the night vigil performed before this feast has been preserved.
In the 3rd century, on the feast of the Epiphany, conversations during Divine services between the holy martyr Hippolytus and St. Gregory the Wonderworker are known. In the following centuries - from the 4th to the 9th centuries - all the great fathers of the Church - Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, John of Damascus held special conversations about the feast of the Epiphany. Saints Joseph the Studite, Theophanes and Byzantium wrote many hymns for this feast, which are still sung at Divine Liturgy today. The Monk John of Damascus said that the Lord was baptized not because He Himself had a need for purification, but in order to “bury human sin with the waters”, to fulfill the law, to reveal the sacrament of the Holy Trinity and, finally, to sanctify the “water nature” and give us an image and an example Baptism.
The Holy Church on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord affirms our faith in the highest, incomprehensible mystery of the Three Persons of the One God and teaches us to confess and glorify the Holy Trinity, Consubstantial and Inseparable; exposes and destroys the delusions of the ancient false teachers who tried to embrace the Creator of the world with human thought and word. The Church shows the need for Baptism for those who believe in Christ, instills in us a feeling of deep gratitude to the Enlightener and Purifier of our sinful nature. She teaches that our salvation and cleansing from sins is possible only through the power of the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefore it is necessary to worthily preserve these grace-filled gifts of holy Baptism in order to keep clean that precious garment, which the feast of Baptism tells us about: “Be baptized into Christ, put on Christ.” "(Gal. 3, 27).
Troparion to the Baptism of the Lord
In Jordan, baptizing You, Lord, / Trinity worship appeared: / For the voice of your parents bears witness to you, / calling your beloved Son, / and the Spirit in the form of a dove, / your word affirmation. / Christ appear to you, God, / / and enlighten the world .
Translation: At Your baptism in the Jordan, O Lord, the worship of the Trinity was revealed: for the voice of the Parent testified of You, calling You the beloved Son, and the Spirit in the form of a dove confirmed His words with immutability. Who appeared to Christ God and enlightened the world, glory to Thee!
Kontakion to the Baptism of the Lord
Thou hast appeared to the universe today, / and Thy light, O Lord, is signified upon us, / in the mind of those who sing Thee: / thou hast come, and thou hast appeared, / unapproachable light.
Translation: You appeared on this day of the universe, and Your light, Lord, imprinted on us, in the fullness of knowledge singing You: “You have come, You have appeared, the Light of impregnability!”
Magnification of the Baptism of the Lord
We magnify Thee, / Life-Giving Christ, / for us now for the sake of the flesh, who was baptized / from John / / in the waters of Jordan.
Magnification of the Baptism of the Lord
Prayer for the Baptism of the Lord
Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages, Light from the Light, enlightening everything, in the last years from the Blessed Virgin Mary, incorruptibly incarnated and come into this world for our salvation! You did not suffer from the dials of the murmur of the rod of man and this day on the preserved day of the God of God, he came to the Jordan to the Grishnik and the Yoann, the sinful of the widespread and the widespread. God, bear them upon Himself and redeem them with the Baptism of the Cross, Your pure Blood. This one immersed in the water, opened to you by heaven adam and the Holy Spirit Sleep on the Vid in Vid, the Enlightenment and adversity of the nature of the nature, and your pursuing father to tell you the fiction of his own, and the blessing of his blessing and Thou hast already prepared for the slaughter, as Thou Himself said: “For this sake the Father loves me, as I lay down my soul, that I will receive it in packs,” and so on this all-bright day, Thou, O Lord, laid the beginning of redemption from our fall ancestral. For this sake, all the powers of heaven rejoice and all creation rejoices, expecting its liberation from the work of corruption, saying: Enlightenment has come, grace has appeared, deliverance has arrived, the world is enlightened and people are filled with joy. Let heaven and earth rejoice now, and let the whole world play; let the rivers splash; springs and lakes, abysses and seas, let them rejoice, as if by Divine Baptism they have sanctified their nature today. May they rejoice today and gather the people, as if their nature is now ascending to the first nobility and all sing with joy: The time of Theophany. Come mentally to Jordan, we will see a great vision in it: Christ is coming to Baptism. Christ comes to Jordan. Our Christ buries our sins in the water. Christ the sheep of the kidnapped and astray comes to seek and finds and leads into paradise.
This is the same as the memory of the memory of the right, vigorously pray to you, the humanity of the state: to be stolen to us in your face to you, the outstanding of the permanent water, and the removal of your sin and the abundance of sinfulness and the abority of the sinfulness and the remaining sinfulness and they are answering Let us live chastely and virginally, and righteously and piously in this present age, waiting for the blessed hope and the manifestation of Your glory, the Great God and our Savior, but not from our works, save us, but according to Your mercy and according to the renewal of His holy Oak, Your Holy Oak He outlined, may he justify his gratitude, the pleasure of raging belief in your kingdom, the idea with all the saints of us to glorify us with the best of your own and the giving way. Amen.
Reading the Gospel Together with the Church
We read the Gospel together with the Church. Gospel of Matthew. Chapter 3, Art. 1-11.
1 In those days John the Baptist comes and preaches in the wilderness of Judea 2 and says, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3 For he is the one about whom the prophet Isaiah said: The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.
4 John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region around Jordan went out to him 6 and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
7 But when John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them: You brood of vipers! who inspired you to flee from future wrath?
8 bear fruit worthy of repentance 9 and do not think to say within yourselves, "We have Abraham as our father," for I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
10 Already the ax lies at the root of the trees: every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11 I baptize you in water for repentance, but He who follows me is stronger than me; I am not worthy to bear His shoes; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire;
(Matthew 3:1-11.)
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THE TRUTH OF GOD: The Word on the Week after the Nativity of Christ, on the day of memory of David the Tsar, Joseph the Betrothed and the Apostle James, brother of the Lord
P Involuntarily, reflecting on these events, the question arises in us, why is there so much injustice in the world? Why was the death of these fourteen thousand innocent babies allowed? Why did King David, the Apostle James, Saint Dositheus suffer? What is justice? If we think about the origin of this word, we will certainly associate it with the word "truth", "righteousness", " Right side"- in Slavonic" gum.
« E There is a truth within ourselves that requires us to give everyone their due, and although we do not achieve this exactly, however, acting with a truthful disposition, we do not deviate far from the goal. And there is truth that comprehends us from Heaven from the righteous Judge, sometimes correcting, sometimes rewarding, in which much is incomprehensible to us in terms of the height of the definitions contained in it.
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Preparation for the Sacrament of Holy Baptism
AT section " Preparation for Baptism" site "Sunday school: online courses " Archpriest Andrey Fedosov, head of the department of education and catechesis of the Kinel Diocese, information has been collected that will be useful to those who are going to be baptized themselves, or who want to baptize their child or become a godparent.
R The section consists of five categorical conversations, which reveal the content of the Orthodox dogma within the framework of the Creed, explain the sequence and meaning of the rites performed during Baptism, and provide answers to common questions related to this Sacrament. Each conversation is accompanied additional materials, links to sources, recommended literature and Internet resources.
O The lectures of the course are presented in the form of texts, audio files and videos.
Course Topics:
- Conversation #1 Preliminary Concepts
- Conversation #2 Sacred Bible Story
- Conversation No. 3 Church of Christ
- Conversation #4 Christian Morality
- Conversation No. 5 The Sacrament of Holy Baptism
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On the channel "My Joy", you can always watch your favorite live Orthodox broadcasts. You can find out the schedule of your favorite show and watch it online for free by watching the archive and TV program of the My Joy channel on Pierce TV. Peers.TV is available on your iPhone or Android mobile device, website, or smart TV. Online broadcasts and archive of programs are always at hand!
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My joy is broadcast around the clock in all regions of the Russian Federation (from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad), the total volume of cable networks broadcasting the channel is about 4 million subscribers.
InterviewAlexey Nesterenko - actor, host of the programs "Shishkin Les", "Kind Word", "Tales and Stories", "Academy of Entertaining Sciences. Chemistry"
Born in Moscow. In 1988 he graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Soil Science. Since 25 years he has been working in student theater Moscow State University (now MOST). After graduating from the university, he worked for several years in the Moscow high school No. 230. “School is a theater, 6 performances a day. Working at school gave me pleasure, and the children liked it, ”says Alexey about himself. After school, he worked for some time as a translator in the program "Themselves with a mustache."
In 2003 he entered creative team children's edition, where he works to this day. Actor and presenter in the programs "Shishkin Les", "Tales and Stories", "Kind Word", "Academy of Entertaining Sciences. Chemistry".
Very early I realized that most of all in life I love communication with people. And the more of these people there are, the better. That is why Alexey became not a professor of chemistry, but an actor and TV presenter. And, it seems, I was not mistaken!
- What did you dream of becoming as a child?
- As a child, I dreamed of becoming an astronomer, then a mathematician, then an archaeologist - in a word, I wanted to do science.
- What influenced the choice of profession?
- I was fond of chemistry from the seventh grade, I was a young chemist, I read a university textbook like a novel. Knew chemistry better than the teacher. But to say that I was fond of chemistry, because my father, mother and grandmother graduated from the Mendeleev Institute, is impossible. They didn’t talk about chemistry at home, there were no test tubes in the corners. It is the same with the theater: he was engaged in drama circles, he was always in sight, on stage, but he did not plan to become an artist. When I entered Moscow State University at the Faculty of Soil Science (by the way, I went there with a friend for company!), I joined the propaganda team. Since 1986 he has been playing in the theater of Moscow State University. He came there with V. Pelsh, A. Kortnev, I. Bogushevskaya. I was even a director-teacher! So my love for chemistry and passion for the theater got along in me. In the end, the theater won: a hobby turned into a main profession. Rehearsals, performances began to take away all the time, I had to leave school. Yes Yes! There was such an act of self-sacrifice in my life: I went to school after university, taught there both chemistry, and English, and world artistic culture, was on the hook. But in order for everything to work out well, you cannot be scattered, you need to give yourself to the end of one thing. This case found me: I got on television.
What do you dislike about modern television? What do you like?
- I have a negative attitude towards television. Why do they show bad things so often? Is there really nothing good left in life? But you need to think about the soul, about the children, at least about your own!
What TV programs did you watch as a child? What are your kids watching?
- Like everyone else, I remember "Visiting a Fairy Tale", "Alarm Clock", "ABVGDEIK". The presenters of these programs loved children, their love flowed from the screen to us. And now I don’t have a TV in my house, it doesn’t work. I believe that if children grow up in a family, it is necessary to protect them from the harmful effects modern television. Son Seryozha (he is five years old) watches good, kind cartoons. And I also reviewed all my issues of chemistry lessons!
- How did you get on the TV channel "My Joy"? What attracts you to work on it?
- On television, I worked in the program "Themselves with a mustache": I translated American editions into Russian. There he met Marina Shramenko. When she invited me to do new program"Shishkin Les", gladly agreed and became one of first three her leaders. Gathered here good people and their purpose is good.
— Do you like the role of a teacher in the program “Academy of Entertaining Sciences. Chemistry"?
- The hobby of youth has grown into a profession, it turns out that way. I am interested in chemistry, I do not play a professor, I do not memorize the text as a lesson - I really know this subject well and I can teach it! I try to make every release of high quality, for this sometimes I have to work on the script. But I really like it!
- You host the Shishkino Les programs in which you have to communicate with small viewers. Tell me if you can learn children's language?
- Children should be loved, this is the main thing. Only on this wave can mutual understanding be reached. I was lucky: my son is just now at the age of the Shishkin Les audience. Yes, and work at school taught me something. In any case, I am firmly convinced: children must be loved, their opinion must be taken into account! You need to love and understand what children live, then you can become closer to them. For example, I like our puppet characters like a child: Shunya, Zubka. So, I already have points of contact with our little viewers.
- In what capacity are you more interested in: presenter or author?
— Being an author is interesting, but difficult, perhaps also because I write slowly. It so happened that I treat the word with respect, a kind of trepidation, so I work meticulously on the text. You always want to find the right phrase, the exact turn in the material. It's very interesting, it the new kind work for me.
Every person has their own idea of happiness. And what does the happiness of Alexei Nesterenko look like?
— To love and be loved, to recognize others and to be recognized! This formula will suit everyone, I'm not original: everyone wants it. You just need to understand: in order to be loved and recognized, you need to love others. I thought for a long time why I stayed in the theater, and I understood one simple thing: I just wanted to meet as many people as possible! I want to be with people, to be necessary to them. Maybe that's why I have many friends, buddies, just acquaintances. It is important to not be alone in this world.
I want to tell a little story: one day my son and I had a very important conversation. We stood in a traffic jam and watched as a beggar approached one car, then another, begging for alms. I started talking out loud. Why does he ask strangers? How did he live, why was he left alone? Maybe there was a fire, and all his goodness burned down? He is not to blame for the fire that took everything from him. But he is to blame for the fact that he is deprived of friends and close people who could help him. I said this, and I myself dreamed that my son would have reliable friends, be needed by them and himself could count on them. It seems that my five-year-old boyfriend understood something. He paused and suddenly said: “I would give him money, dad!”. He understood why a person should be pitied!
Interviewed by Oksana Prikhodko