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lord bless you all. how

sweet are the words, this power and the holy spirit, now and

always and forever and ever. spiritual now always and from the wise lord, may you be glorious yourself and may

she come look from heaven god, come look at this vineyard and in its firmness because it was planted by your right hand,

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be to you, lord , give grace to the mortals and your spirits to him wise and the fourth

blessed is he who goes in the name

of the lord in me, for he is good forever.

and the sea turtles lived in the present age with the influence of the righteous and pious, waiting for the blessed hope and the apple tree of the glory of the great god and our savior jesus christ, who gave himself for us to free us from all iniquity and purify for himself the chosen people, zealous for good grandfathers. when grace appeared

and the philanthropy of our savior god, he died not for the works of righteousness that we would have done, but for his mercy through the baptism of rebirth and renewal with the holy spirit, which he generously poured out through jesus christ our savior, so that , having been justified by his grace, we

became an inheritance twice . peace to you and your spirit love, bring the lord in the autumn of god, bring to the lord young lambs

from the lord over the waters, the god of glory is behind him, the lord over the great waters , blessing his lord and

glorifier of the holy glorious in the following apostle and the evangelist, god bless you with the prayers of the holy glorious apostle, the evangelist matthew, may he give you the glory of evangelizing , great power to fulfill the gospel of the beloved son of our lord jesus christ, changed, wise, let us become pious, let us listen to the holy gospel, peace, all of you, i am the holy one, or will

jesus come to him one day with and the jordanians go to john to be baptized by him. john restrained him and said to me, i must be baptized by you. and should you come to me, but jesus said to him, leave the answer to me, because it is our duty to fulfill all

truth, then he allows, and after being baptized, jesus immediately came out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he also saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and alighting on him, and behold, a voice came from heaven, this is my beloved son in it is my glory

, o lord, in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. glory to jesus christ. dear brothers and sisters. i heartily congratulate you all.

of the savior, his sermon begins before the baptism of the jordan. the lord lived as if in secret and did not reveal himself to the world. but he also sent before him the forerunner of the prophet john john, who with his ascetic life and preaching of repentance and announcement of the approaching time of the coming of the messiah prepared the people to accept christ. hence, the first meaning of the name of the current epiphany holiday consists in the fact that the son of god, the savior, christ, the messiah, presents himself to the world openly, begins preaching the gospel, proclaims the news of salvation, god himself to the world not through signs and images through a vision, not through the words of the prophets, but

directly because he became a man, this is what the scriptures of god say about it: no one has ever seen the only-begotten son whom he revealed in the bosom of the father, and the savior himself, responding to the request of the apostle philip to show them the heavenly father, says: “whoever has seen me, he and saw the father in ancient times, only the chosen holy people could see god face to face, for example , according to the word of scripture, the lord spoke to moses face to face, as if someone spoke to his friend, but thanks to the incarnation, thanks to the fact that before god spoke the word of the second person of the holy trinity was born of the holy spirit and the virgin mary and

became a man, every person who wants to come to the lord wants to see him. he can do this with faith through christ. in addition to this epiphany realized in christ, today's holiday reminds us of another phenomenon, which was revealed to john the baptist immediately after the baptism of the savior john saw in the opened heavens the spirit of god descending like a naked man and descending on jesus, and behold a voice is heard from heaven saying this is my beloved son in him my favor in the old testament time sermon about the one god in the trinity was hidden, mysterious, announced in signs and images only

to the elect, because as long as humanity was in the darkness of worshiping idols and honoring many false gods, it could not contain the truth about the trinity of the true god. but now this revelation is announced to people . as the incarnated son of the trinity comes and is baptized, the holy spirit in the form of a dove descends on him from heaven, and here somewhere announces his will for christ, testifying to his true sonship to that epiphany which we are celebrating with you today has two aspects, this is the revelation of god as a trinity and the appearance of the lord jesus christ incarnate to the world, who from

this moment begins his ministry open to everyone and for all time jordan. we call this holiday because the baptism of the savior took place on the jordan river and it also has a multifaceted spiritual and symbolic meaning, when the lord brought his people out of slavery in egypt and brought them to the promised land, then this entry is a transition from the past slavery to the land that was destined to become the home of the people of israel. happened across the jordan in a miraculous way, the book of jesus tells us about it, the news in the third chapter, so the people crossed over against jericho , the priests who carried the covenant of the lord stood on dry land in the middle of the jordan with a firm foot , all the children of israel crossed over the dry land until

all the people crossed the jordan, that is why jordan the lord chooses to witness not just the transition to the promised land, but to open to every believer the entrance to the kingdom of heaven, which has come near, this entrance occurs through faith, repentance and a second birth from water and of the spirit, that is, through the sacrament of baptism, john the forerunner performed jordan baptism , an old testament rite that testified to repentance and purification from impurity, but john's baptism was not a sacrament, because the new testament baptism was confirmed by the savior even after his resurrection, the glorification and descent of the holy spirit on the apostles, so it is the baptism of the

savior that we now remember and glorify has a unique and unique character. although it bears the same name as the old testament rite and the new testament sacrament, both of them are associated with cleansing from sins through repentance and immersion in water alone, christ is the sinless son of god, so as we hear today in the gospel, john wonders why jesus wants to be baptized. but the lord tells him to leave now, because this is how we must fulfill all righteousness . therefore, in the baptism in the jordan, christ does not accept sanctification from water, because as creation can sanctify the creator as water can sanctify the one who created it, but the son of god himself sanctifies water

as the physical and material basis of life because water fills every living being and for the renewal of all creation god blesses water sanctifying it with our mysterious ascent in memory of this event, and we, on the occasion of the baptism of the lord, perform the rite of the great consecration of water, calling on all waters the blessing of the jordan and the grace of the holy spirit so that through the visible use of this water the great shrine as the tradition of the church calls it through its by drinking that sprinkling, man and the material world by faith received sanctification from god himself. this is how multifaceted the current holiday is, it not only

reminds us of an ancient event, but also personally renews testimony for each of us the manifestation of god in the world renews through the preaching and through the material reminder. what is the great air of the holy water, but all this will have good results for us only on the condition of our personal repentance and renewal . the liturgy of john the baptist, and with this call to repent , christ the lord begins his sermon, we see how much evil there is in the surrounding world, how much grief and suffering it brings . but in order to successfully fight with with external evil, it is also necessary to eradicate it

from ourselves. and this is precisely achieved precisely through repentance. therefore, i wish all of us, dear brothers and sisters, with god's help, to succeed in the fight against evil, and may the grace of god and the power of the holy spirit work in us , helping us, purifying and sanctifying us, dear brothers and sisters today we are celebrating the divine liturgy for the second time in this cathedral church of the pechersk lavra, the times of great grief and suffering brought to our common home by the war unleashed by preachers with the ideology of the russian peace, we see in these service is a sign of spiritual comfort, god 's favor and inspiration for further work