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Archpriest Maxim (Bykov)

Christ was born! Let’s glorify Him!

Our world was always filled with darkness and subcelestial evil. That is why evil spirits parasitize in human souls, human actions; they tried to lead humanity to the darkness. They want to destroy humanity and in such way show God that His creatures are week and His words can’t be realized. But we see from the history, from the Gospel that everything happens in the other way. We see that God always improves all ways, all actions made by evil; that even some negative things could bring something good for the Universe.

Today we have read the Gospel of Matthew (ІІ:1-23), where it is told about murders of 14 thousand babies made by Herod the king and about the salvation of God’s Child. And we understand that the moment Herod killed so many babies he sighed a death sentence for himself. He showed people who lived in his kingdom at that time who he truly was. He showed that he wasn’t a good ruler for those people. He was a tyrant, who occupied a high post, which he shouldn’t occupy. I think that people used their positions and helped him to leave. And I want to pay your attention on the fact: evil can do a lot of bad things, but God will finally improve that all. He improves everything in order the God’s Light could be on the Earth, that it burn and never disappear in human hearts. That human soul could change.

We know that Jesus Christ came on the Earth to execute his mission. And he did it in full. He sowed the grains of God’s Truth; He put God’s Light into human souls and people’s lives.

What should we do today? We have to grow this grain, grow the light in our soul, help this light overcome darkness through trouble that our hearts shine with His love, His forgiveness, His patience, His Holy gifts. That the hope, which the Lord puts on our souls, will become true. And God will always help us, if we will not neglect God’s mercy and God’s help. Because He will see that we move in the right direction, that we try to be His children and His Light on the Earth.

And due to God one day our dreams will come true and the Light will come to Ukraine. We believe it will be so. Maybe some people deny it, but we feel it with our hearts and you can’t betray heart, because it feels the Truth. Different thing can happen in our lives but we feel the coming of light, happiness, hope and God’s mercy for every soul.

Let the Lord save you!

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Gospel (Matthew, II:113-23)

Gospel (Matthew, II:113-23)

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13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him."

14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt

15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son."

16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

17 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more."

Gospel (Matthew, II:113-23)

19 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

20 saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

21 And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.

22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.

23 And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.