Our Church today Monday, September 8, 2025. According to the calendar, it honors the Birth of the Virgin.
The names they celebrate are:
- Despina
- Despot
- Depress
- Pepi
- Zeal
- Natal
- Shadow
- Bunch
- Mica
- Champ
The birth of the Virgin
When the Lord’s Day arrived, the Great and the Israelites offered their gifts, Rubim stood in front of Joakim and said: You are not allowed to offer your gifts first, “as I have not been semen in Israel” because you are. Joachim was very sorry and said: I will research between the twelve tribes of Israel to find out if only I am between them I am childless.
And he researched and found that all the righteous had children. He then remembered Patriarch Abraham that in his deep old age, God gave him his son, Isaac.
Ioakim did not return home. He went to the desert, set up his tent and fasted forty nights, with the decision not to return to his house to eat and drink, until his Lord and God visit him. In the meantime his wife Anna mourned and crying, saying; The day of the Lord, the Great and Judith, her maid, arrived: How long will you humiliate your soul?
Yeah, the big day of the Lord arrived and you are not allowed to mourn. But take this head here, where the woman gave me and I am not allowed to open him, a maid, because it matters a basilica. Anna said to her: Go close to me; I never did it and yet the Lord humiliated me very much.
Did you give him a wicked one and come to make me involved in your sin? Judith replied: What to do with you, after the Lord closed your womb so that you would not leave offspring to Israel?
About Anna, mourning her clothes, left her hair sprayed, dressed in her bridal clothing and around the 9th she went down to walk in her garden.
In a short time he sat under a laurel and prayed to the Lord, saying: “The God of the Fathers of us, refer to me, and to myself, as I have said the womb of Sarra and the son of this son.”
After lifting her eyes high in the sky she saw a nest full of chicks in the sky and made a religious cry saying, “My dear, who gave me giving me and what matrix sparked me? Because I am in the eyes of Israel I am cursed and make fun of me and offend me into the temple of the Lord. My dear, what did I like to do? I was not applied with the birds, which is fertile.
I was not appointed with the Holy Life, and the Pentecost is fertile, thanks to you, Lord. I was not applied with these waters, and they are fertile. My dear, with whom did I be applied? Neither with this, and it offers the fruits in its time and you see you, Lord. ‘
“And the Angel of the Lord of the Lord”. Suddenly she appears in front of her angel, envoy to God, and says to her: Anna, the Lord heard your prayer. You will conceive and give birth; your fruit will become known throughout the world. She said: My Lord lives my God; if I give birth, either a boy or a girl, I will offer it to the Lord my God, to worship him and serve him all his life.
Then two messengers approached her and told her: Yes, your husband Joachim comes with his flocks. Because an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and announced to him: Joachim, God listened to God your prayer. Go back home, because Anna, your wife, will become pregnant.
So Joachim returned from the desert, shouted at the shepherds of his flocks, and ordered him to bring him 10 amnads to offer them to God, as a sacrifice, 12 calves for offering priests and the Senate, and a hundred “Himaros”. Anna was waiting for him in the front door. He ran, he was hanged by his neck, and with joy he said, “I know now and I doubt that God has made me very much.
Now the widow is not a widow, and I will stay in the way. ” On the first day after returning from the desert to the home, Joakim rest. The next he offered his gifts by saying to his soul: whether the Lord will make me mercy will become obvious from the way he will accept the sacrifice of the priest.
So he offered his gifts Joachim and watched the priest how he went up to the altar; and he did not find a sin.
Then he said: Now I know that the Lord has mercy on me and forgave all the sins. He descended from the Temple of the Lord and returned to his home.
When the nine months were over, Anna gave birth. Asked the midwife: What did I give birth? She replied: girl. And Anna said, “My soul was embraced by this day.”
And they put the newborn on her bed. When the days were completed, “he was overwhelmed”, and began breastfeeding her, she gave her the name Mariam.