The riddles of the Jordan River are the Baptism of Jesus Christ. Epiphany. Epiphany. Holy Epiphany Water

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Christians of the whole world belong to Jordan as a sacred river, because the baptism of Jesus Christ took his waters. But where it is worth this very place, it became known only at the end of the XX century.

Vifar for Jordan

In the Gospel of John, the address of the place where I was preached and baptized John the Baptist - not far from the village of Vifavara for Jordan. But where exactly is this village? The fact is that in Palestine of that time there were several villages with the same name.

For a long time it was believed that Vifavara is located in Israel, not far from the town of Kasr el-Yahud, which is 4 kilometers from the place where the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea.

To determine its true location helped mosaic on the floor in the temple of St. George in Madaba. Mosaic image of 15 x 6 meters, relating to VI century AD, is a great preserved accurate map Holy Land indicating all Christian shrines.

The map indicated that the Baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River is not in Israel, but on the opposite bank of the river in the town of Wadi El Harar (on the territory of modern Jordan).

In addition, in the place where the rite of baptism was happening 2,000 years ago this moment not anymore. For such a tremendous period of time, the river changed the river when there is a falling into the Dead Sea and now flows for several tens of meters closer to Israel.

In confirmation of this version in Wadi El Harar on a dry place in 1996, the ruins of the three Byzantine churches and a marble plate were found, on which, as they intend, stood a column with a cross installed during early Christianity at the place of the Baptism of Jesus Christ. It is this column that is often mentioned in written sources of pilgrims of the Byzantine era who visited holy places.

After the stormy debates, scientists of the whole world and leaders of the leading Christian denominations concluded that it was Wadi El Harar that is the place of baptism of Jesus Christ in the waters of the Jordan River.

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Thus, in the spring of 2000, the visit of Pope John Paul II to these places ended with the official recognition of the Vatican of the fact that Wadi El Harar is the greatest Christian shrine.

The Russian Orthodox Church, as a sign of recognition of this fact, took part in the construction of the Orthodox church in honor of John the Baptist on the territory of Wadi El-Harar. It is believed that the temple is based on the place where Jesus Christ left his clothes before plunging into the water of the biblical river.

The discovery of this greatest object for the whole Christian world became possible as a result of a peace agreement signed between Israel and Jordan in October 1994.

Yardenit in Israel

Many pilgrims who annually visiting Israel would like to be able to plunge or even commit the rite of baptism in the waters of the Jordan River.

But the Jordan River is almost all over its length from Lake Kineriet (Galilean Sea) to Dead Sea It is a natural border between the two states of Israel and Jordan. The border, I must say, not always peaceful, in connection with which, approaches to the river both with one and on the other hand are under the closer observation of the military.

To this end, the Ministry of Tourism of Israel has been determined a special place, which is a quiet creek in the source of the Jordan River from Lake Kinetet (Galilean Sea). In 1981, a special complex for pilgrims was built at this place, called Yartenit.

According to the Gospel of Mark, at the time of baptism in the waters of the Jordan River on Jesus, the Holy Spirit in the form of pigeons: "And it was in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth Galilean and baptized from John in Jordan. And when I came out of the water, immediately saw John expanding heaven and the Spirit, like a dove that comes out on him. And the voice was from heaven: you are my beloved son, in which my favor. (MK. 1, 9-11) It is these words written in a memorial wall in all languages \u200b\u200bof the world, they meet the pilgrims come here.

The complex is equipped with pedestrian walkways, convenient approaches to water, locker rooms, shower cabins. In the shops located on the territory of the complex, you can purchase or rent a pilgrim shirt, buy bottles for Jordanian water, various souvenir and cosmetic products of Israel land.

In a local restaurant, you will definitely offer to taste the popular tourist fish Tylyapia, which "Fish of St. Peter" is important.

The history of this name sends us to the Gospel of Matthew, according to which in those long-standing times, every Jew for older than 20 years had to pay a tax in the amount of 2 drachmas for the maintenance of the temple. But Jesus had no money, and then he asked Peter to go to the sea, throw a fishing rod and pay the tax of the coin, which he would find in his mouth at the first caught fish. It is believed that this fish was tiliapia. Behind the gills of the fish you can still see two dark spotsAllegedly traces from the fingers of the Apostle itself.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims from all over the world attend the Vpeenit complex in Israel. Often the whole buses come with pilgrims led by the priests who make the rite of baptism here.

Very often, the pilgrims already backed earlier, the question arises: "Is it possible to pass the rite of baptism again, but this time in the waters of the Jordan River?". The fact is that baptism is a special ritual committed in the life of a believer Christian only one time. An exception can only be the transition from one confession to another - in this case it makes sense to consult in the clergy of one or another confession.

Pilgrims perform in the waters of the river Jordan ritual ablutions in the healing of the soul and body. Dressing into white clothes, pilgrims utter words of prayer, after which they plunge into the Water of Jordan in the name of Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

Location: The southern tip of the lake Kinheret, the highway 90. From the highway to Yarpeenite 0.5 km.

How to get: Flight buses from Jerusalem No. 961, 963, 964; buses from the northern cities of the country moving along the highway number 90.

Opening hours:

monday - Thursday: 08:00 - 18:00,
friday and eve of holidays: 08:00 - 17:00

Free admission. All visitors to maintain pious atmosphere must have white baptismal clothes that can be purchased ($ 24) or rent ($ 10).

The entry of Jesus Christ on the path of serving people, the beginning of his sermon. On the day of baptism everywhere in the temples, rivers, lakes, the rite of consecration of water in the hole made in the form of an Orthodox cross is performed.

Baptism of the Lord - Holy Epiphany
On January 19, the Holy Church celebrates the baptism of the Lord of our Jesus Christ. This is one of the great two-month holidays, which is celebrated, no less solemnly than the Christmas of Christ. It can be said that Christmas and baptism related to the sagns are a single celebration - the feast of the Epiphany. It is in the unity of these holidays that all three faces of the Most Holy Trinity are. In the Bethlehem Verit, the Son of God was born in the flesh, and when he was baptized, from the holes of the heavens, the Holy Spirit was in bodily view, like a pigeon "(Luke 3, 22) and the voice of God's father," the verbal: You are my son Beloved; In you, my favor! "

St. John Zlatoust writes that "not the day in which the Savior was born, you need to be called a phenomenon, but the one when he was baptized. Not through his birth, he became famous to everyone, but through baptism, therefore the Epiphany is called the wrong day in which he was born, but the one in which he was baptized. "

On the event of the very baptism of the Lord, you can tell the following. Lord Our Jesus Christ, who returned after the death of King Isoda from Egypt, grew in the small town of Nazareth, located in Galilee. With the Most Holy Mother, he stayed in this city to his thirtieth anniversary, earning it for feeding himself and the Major Verine craft of an imaginary father of his own, righteous Joseph, which was a carpenter. When the thirtieth year of his earthly life was performed, that is, the time, to which, according to the law, the Jewish nobody was not allowed to be technicians in synagogues and take a san priest, the time of his people israeli. But before the moment, according to the word, the pretended was to appear to Israel, at which the task was to prepare the people of Israel to accept the Messiah, the one about which the Prophet Isaiah pre-promptly: "Glazing in the desert: Cook the way to the Lord, make a straight way in the steppes Our ". Departed from people, in the depths of the harsh Jewish desert there was a verb of God to John, the son of Zechariah, the Sunrise Blessed VirginWhich in the womb of his mother, righteous Elizabeth, happily possessed, welcoming his Savior, about which no one has yet conducted in the world, except for his Mother Mother, who received gospel from Archangel. This verb of God commanded John to go into peace with a preaching of repentance and baptize Israel to testify to the light, so that everyone believed through him.

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Or the Epiphany, one of the main and oldest Christian holidays. The first mention of it belongs to the II century. The holiday was installed in honor of the event. evangelsk History, the baptism of Jesus Christ in the River Jordan John the Baptist.

During baptism, according to all three synoptic gospels, the Holy Spirit in the form of a pigeon went to Jesus; At the same time, the voice from heaven proclaimed: "This there is a son of my beloved, in which my favor" (MF. 3:17). In this regard, in church tradition, the holiday has the second name - the Epiphany.

The Gospel of John also talks about the baptism of Jesus Christ in the waters of Jordan and the Descent of the Holy Spirit, but not directly, but in the form of the testimony of John the Baptist (John 1: 29-33).

The baptism of the Lord occurred shortly after Jesus turned 30 years old. At this time, the Prophet John Forerunner preached in the Joangian desert, calling the Jews to repentance and speaking about the long-awaited coming of the Savior. All those who come to him he baptized in Jordan. It should be understood that the baptism in those times was called ritual ablution as a sign of repentance and purification from previous sins.

Christ was sinless and did not need repentance, but came to John to submit people an example of obedience and execution of the law.

Where did Jesus Christ be baptized?

The exact location of the Baptism of Jesus Christ is unknown. Most of the early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament are called the Baptism of Jesus Viphania Zairadanskaya (βηθανία πέραν τοῦ ιορδάνου). It is believed that the name of Vifavara first suggested Origen, but he placed it on the West Bank of Jordan. While in the Slavic Bible, the Baptism's place is called ViFava on the other side of Jordan (Vizvárѣ Bashev Okya Póral Jordan), that is, on the eastern bank of the river. In Russian Synodal translation, this place is called ViFavasa at Jordan (Jordan 1:28), in the new Bible King Yakov (NKJV) - Bethabara BEYOND THE JORDAN, in the Greek Bible and New Vulgate - Viphania for Jordan.

Nevertheless, the discrepancies in understanding are preserved. For example, at the famous Madab's map of the VI century - a mosaic map-panel, partially survived in the temple of St. George in the Jordanian city of Madaba and is the most ancient map of the Holy Land, from Levant in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, the Baptism site is shown opposite Jericho on Western River bank, that is, not for Jordan, if you look from the West Bank.

There is a suggestion that the author of Madab's card lived on the eastern shore of Jordan and therefore understood the phrase "for Jordan" in the sense of the place located on another shore towards him, although the author of the Gospel naturally understood the pretext for as to the eastern shore. The Ferodosius pilgrim (V-VI centuries) reported that on the site of the baptism of Jesus Christ was a marble column, crowned with an iron cross.

Photo: Mikhail MoiseevIn the first centuries of Christianity, the traditional Baptism of Jesus Christ was located on the eastern shore of Jordan near Jericho. This was confirmed by the excavations of the 1990s, when the international group of archaeologists discovered the Ruins of the Byzantine Church on the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River and the foundation of the column, which indicated the Baptism of the Lord.

Studies have shown that for seven centuries, with V at the beginning of the XII century, on the site of the baptism of the Lord, five Christian temples have consistently changed each other. The first temple was constructed here under the Byzantine Emperor Anastasia (491-518). It was built on special arches at an altitude of six meters above the ground, to avoid destruction during the spills of Jordan. It also discovered the Stone Schedule Schedule on the spot, where the Lord removed the rhymes before the weakening of the water.

However, after the Arabic conquest of Palestine (640 years), due to the inaccessibility of the eastern shore, the place of baptism also began to be considered the place near Jericho, but on the West Bank. Over time, the place of baptism was lost due to the destruction of the churches there.

Over time, the Jordan River has changed its drill, so at present the Baptism of Jesus is on land.

Chin Great Consecration

By tradition in the Epiphany Christmas Eve, January 18, and then on the day of the feast of the Epiphany, January 19 in orthodox church Complete the greatest consecration of water.

Water, consecrated by the Great Ongoing on the eve of the Epiphany and the holiday itself, is called "Great Aguisma", that is, the Great Shrine (from Greek. Αγίασμα - shrine). Among the part of Orthodox believers there is an opinion that the water, consecrated in the foregua of the holiday (January 18), differs from the one that is sanctified in the temples directly on the day of baptism. This is a delusion.

One of the first references to the Special Washing of the Water, recruited on the day of the Baptism of the Lord, and its wonderful properties (first of all the ability not to deteriorate for a long time) is contained in one of the Antioch preachs of SVT. John of Zlatoust (IV century): "In this holiday, everything, having drawn water, bring it home and stored in the whole year, as water is consecrated today; And there is an explicit sign: this water is essential not spoiled over time, but, hoped today, she whole yearAnd often two and three years, remains intact and fresh. "

Swimming in Jordan: Tradition or innovation?

In the Russian Orthodox Church and some other local churches are known for the custom of bathing in natural reservoirs on the eve and on the day of the feast of baptism.

In the XVI-XVII centuries. Russia has spread the practice of the construction of the "Jordanian Seine" - temporary chapels on the shores of the reservoirs. As a rule, for the consecration of water in ice was cut down (often - in the form of a cross), which was called "Jordan". To the place of consecration, believers and the clergy came to the goddes from the nearest temples. At the same time, reliable evidence that, after the consecration of water, believers immersed in the font, no.

For example, in St. Petersburg from Petrovsky times and before the beginning of the 20th century, the tradition of sanctifying water in the Neva remained, in which crowned Officials of the Tsarist surname took part. So, in 1890-1910, a hole was cut down in the ice of the Neva opposite the Winter Palace, a canopy with domes and crosses were built over it, decorated with an angered images of angels and images. There was an open gallery around the chapel, which brought the banners of the Guards regiments to sprinkle them with holy water. Prayer served in the temple. From the main, Jordanian, the entrance of the Winter Palace of the Ice and then at the ice, similarities and bridges, decorated with flags and garlands. Alonga, the guards parts were built up in winter on the winter shape without chinelles, soldiers without gloves - such was the tradition.

After dinner in the palace, the top clergy went out to Jordan to serve a prayer service with a decree. The royal family came out on the ice.

Metropolitan lowered the cross into the water, and at that time 101 shot from the cannons of Petropavlovsk fortress was given. Believers believed that after that, the water in the Neva was instantly made saint, and in turn came to get drunk this water. At the same time, in those years, the sanitary inspection has already forbidden to drink crude Nevsky water due to its pollution wastewater. After the decreement, the king took the Epiphany Parade - by him passed by the ceremonial march of troops present at Jordan.

There were also no evidence about the swimming of believers in the Nevsky Founding.

Photo: Balkanregion (CC BY-SA 3.0)Nevertheless, this custom has spread widely in Russia in last years. As a rule, today the places of mass baths are arranged with the active participation of local authorities, and the baths themselves pass in the presence of employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and Medical Workers.

In Bulgaria, Macedonia and Greece, after consecration of water, a solemn procession is organized with gauges to the water. There is a custom throwing a wooden cross into the water and then dive after it. Calm the cross from the water is considered honorable. The national name of the holiday in Bulgaria - "Yordovden", and in Macedonia - "Wizards".

The baptism of the Lord is one of the main Christian holidays. The holiday of baptism ends Christmas shints on January 7 to 19.
The holiday begins in the evening of January 18, when all Orthodox celebrate the Epiphany Christmas Eve. The beginning of the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord dates back to the apostolic times.
It is mentioned in apostolic decisions. From the II century, the testimony of the saint Clement Alexandrian on the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord
and before this holiday night occasion. The feast of the baptism is also called the Epiphany because with the baptism of the Lord, the world appeared Most Holy Trinity –
God Father Verkol from Heaven about the Son; Son baptism from the forerunner of John, and the Spirit of the Holy Descent on the Son in the form of a pigeon. Since ancient times, this holiday was called
the day of enlightenment and the holiday of lights, because God is light and appeared to enlighten the deaths "Sitting in TMA and Seni" (MF. 4, 16) and save the fallen fallen
human race. On the day of the holiday and on the day of the Epiphany, a great water binding is made! It is believed that the holy water does not deteriorate, and helps the patients with diseases!

Font - a large bowl of the vessel. Serves to hold the sacrament of baptism in Christian church. Fike can be made of different materials And plays important
role in the creation interior decoration Church room. Often the font is the work of art. Coopel is also called "Jordan" - Ice Drub,
in which bathe in the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

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The feast of the Baptism of the Lord, or Epiphany, is also called the Day of Enlightenment and the Holiday of Lights - from ancient custom Make it on the eve (in forever)
the baptism of announced, which is essentially spiritual enlightenment. Description Events of baptism is given from all four evangelists
(Matt. 3, 13-17; MK. 1, 9-11; LC. 3, 21-23; IN. 1, 33-34),
as well as in many venues and holiday paths. "The Creator's heaven and Earth come to Jordan's flesh, the baptism is sacrous ... and baptized from the slave
Vladyka all sorts ... ". "To the guide of the flavory in the desert: please the path of the Lord (i.e. to John) came the Esi, Lord, Zrak Rabi, Baptism, asking,
not visited sin. " The baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ is in the most closely connected with all his godly owner of the rescue of people, it is a decisive
and complete start of this ministry.

Christ the Savior in Baptism gives (water) grace "decisive shower and telecons a population." The baptism of the Lord in the redemption of the human race had
a large saving ontological value. Baptism on Jordan exudes mortal leaving, scape of sins, enlightenment, recreation of human
nature, light, update, healing, and as it were for a new birth (package).

"The novels of earthmovaria, new adamides of the extest, the fire and spirit and water and the strange revealed and the update is wonderful ...". The baptism of Christ in the waters of Jordanian
there was not only the value of the cleansing symbol, but also a conversion, renewing effect on the nature of human. Immersion in the water of Jordan, the Lord consecrated
"All the nature of the water" and the whole land. Here, the Lord is the founder of the new, the gracious kingdom, in which, by his teaching, cannot be included without baptism
(Matt. 28, 19-20)

"With me, anyone will take off and straightened by baptism, with me of glory enjoy the resurrection, - Christ now announces."

A tricking immersion (every believer in Christ) in the sacrament of baptism is depicting the death of Christ, and the discrepancy from the water is an introduction to his thirteen resurrection.

With the baptism of the Lord in Jordan, the true girlfriend (religion) opened people, was revealed until then the unknown mystery of the Terministry of the Divine,
the mystery of God is one in three faces, and the worship of the Most Holy Trinity opened.

Breathing from John, Christ performed the "truth", i.e. loyalty and obedience to God's commandments. Saint John the Forerunner accepted the command to baptize people in the sign
cleansing sins. As a person, Christ was to "execute" this commandment and, therefore, be baptized from John. He confirmed the holiness and greatness of John's actions,
and Christians for eternal time gave an example of obedience to the will of God and humility.

Pretreatment

The Employment Employment was among the Great Two-Piece Holidays. Still in the resolutions of the apostolic (kN. 5, ch. 12) is commanded: "May you have in great respect for the day,
in which the Lord revealed us a deity. "
This holiday B. Orthodox church Completed with equal majestive as the holiday of the Nativity of Christ. Both of these holidays connected by the "Holy" (from December 25 to January 6),
make up as if one celebration.
The eve of the holiday - January 5 - is called forever in the Epiphany, or Christmas Eve. Services of the forever and the holiday itself are in many ways similar to the service of the forever and the holiday
Nativity of Christ.

On Christmas Eve on the Christmas Eve (as well as the Christmas Eve of Christ), a strict post is prescribed by the Church: making food once after the consecration of water.

"Waste, and you will" (Is. 1, 16-20).

The Great Consecration of Water Orthodox Church makes ancient times, and the grace of sanctification of water in these two days is always served by the same. Water binding in the most holiday
he originated in the Jerusalem Church and in IV - h. It was performed only in her one, where was the custom to go to the Jordan River for the Water Engineering in the memoir of the Baptism of the Savior.
Therefore, in the Russian Orthodox Church, water binding in the forever is carried out in the temples, and in the most holiday it is usually performed on rivers, sources and in wells
(The so-called "walking to Jordan"), for Christ was baptized outside the temple.
The resolutions of the apostolic contains both prayers that have been uttered in consecration of water. So, in the book. The 8th says: "The priest will call the Lord and says:
"And now I am so consecrated by the water, and give her grace and power"

The follow-up to the great consecration of water consists in calling for the blessing of God on water and triple immersion in them Life-giving cross Lord.

The Epiphany of the Holy Water is called in the Orthodox Church of the Great Agiasma - the Great Shrine.

In consecrated water, Christians since ancient times have great reverence. The church prays:
"Oh and sanctifying the waters of the sim, and give them grace of delusion (salvation), the blessing of Jordan, the power and the action and the host of the Holy Spirit ..."
"About the everyday life of this, sanctifying the gift, sins to deliverance, in the healing of the soul and body of the sinking Yu and the smokers, in the consecration of houses ... and for all the benefits of pretty (strong) ...".

Water holiness is obvious to all manifests itself in the fact that it remains fresh and intact for a long time. Back in the 4th century about it in the 37th conversation
on baptism, the Lord spoke sv. John Zlatoust: " Christ was baptized and sanctified the nature of the waters; And therefore, on the holiday of baptism, everything, having drawn water at midnight,
brings her home and stored in the whole year. And so water is essential not to deteriorate from the continuation of time, asked now for a whole year, and often two and three years
it remains fresh and intact, and after the ringing time it is not inferior to the waters, which has just been learned from the source».

In the Russian Orthodox Church and the people, such an attitude towards the Epiphany Water was, only an empty stomach as a great shrine, i.e. Like an antidor,
prosphore, etc.

This shrine consumes this shrine for the sprinkling of temples and dwellings, with spell prayers for exile evil spiritlike healing; appoints her to drink
who can not be admitted to the Holy Communion. With this water and the cross, the priests on the feast of the Epiphany visited before the houses of their parishioners, sprinkling them
and the dwellings and, thus, spread the blessing and sanctification by starting from the Temple of God, at all the Church of the Church of Christ.

In the sign of a special reverence of the Epiphany Water as a precious Great Shrine in the Epiphany Christmas Eve and a strict post is installed when or is not even relying
taking food to baptismic water, or a small amount of food is allowed. However, with proper reverence, you can drink with a congestion and prayer
holy water without any embarrassment and doubt and those who have already tasted something, and at all time on the need. Church in the liturgical charter (see: Tipikon, January 6)
it gives some clear and definite instruction and explanation on this: those that take themselves from the holy water for the sake of premature binding of food, "not good creature."
"Do not taste the sake of the Isto (food) of the unclean in us, but from our bad deeds; Cleaning from this now without a doubt this holy water. "

The ritual of swimming on baptism is written in the Gospel. On this day, it is accepted three times to plunge into the holes (Jordan). Tote of Jordan was the light of the Holy Gospel, for "since that time"
that is, since Baptism, Jesus began to preach.
Usually at night after Divine Liturgy Parishioners, together with the abbot of the procession and with singing of the festive trapar, go to the river or lake to the font. Cupil is often done
write the cross on a shallow (on the chest) place, built wooden gatherings, and the ice on the similarities and on the edges of the font rushes straw. The abbot standing at the edge, three times
immerses a man in consecrated water in advance. It is possible to approach late times, and the suffering plunge the same three times on the poles. In some settlements, Epiphany bathing of the church
it is not practiced and then residents arrange "wild" unorganized swimming.

In general, it is believed that in the baptismian night all the water is saint, so that if you do not like the focus, you can easily stand up or a bucket of water three times to get.
Yes, the power of the Lord will be with you, faith of the Lord, hope and love!

Do not yawn on baptism

body in the holes of ocoon.

To new baptism

there were feelings.

Not that day in which the Savior was born, you need to be called a phenomenon, but the one when he was baptized. Not through his birth, he became famous to everyone, but through baptism, therefore the Epiphany is called that day in which he was born, but the one in which he was baptized

Baptism of the Lord - Holiday History

Epiphany water can be stored in the food containers for a whole year. With the right attitude towards it, the water does not deteriorate, does not bloom and does not smell.
The vessel in which the bachership is gained (or any holy) water should be clean, it is desirable to store it in a darkened place without access sun ray. If there is any label on the bottle (for example, "lemonade"), it must be removed. There is evidence that epiphany waterwhich was kept in such tanks with inscriptions, began to bloom and manifested mold. But, despite this, she still does not lose their graceful properties, it can be sprinkled by the home. In this case, it is better to gain other bachership (or consecrated church), and the one that has deteriorated, you can pour home flowers, or pour out in a reservoir.

As stated in legend, all the water nature in the night of baptism is sanctified and becomes similar to the Jordanian waters directly related to the baptism of the Lord. The Holy Spirit is consecrated by his breathing all the water, at this moment it is believed that she is holy everywhere, and not only where the priest consecrated. Consecration itself is a visible solemn rank that reminds us that God is here, next to us on Earth.

Epiphany, or other consecrated water, is accepted, together with a piece of prosphora, to use an empty stomach in front of a meal, reading the prayer:
« My God, May, will be the gift of your holy prosfora and the holy water to leaving my sins, in the enlightenment of my mind, to strengthen my spiritual and bodily forces, in the health of my soul and the body of my, in the conquest of the passions and weakness of my formerly charity of your prayers Mother Mother and all saints. Amen«.

In case of illness or temptations, such water must be drunk. At the same time, if in a decanter with ordinary water, add a little baptic water, then it becomes saint.
And he said that it is possible to pour a few baptismic or consecrated water to the bottom of a mug or a glass, dilute it with ordinary water and pour on itself while taking a shower or bath.

We must not forget that consecrated water - This is the church shrine, with whom the grace of God in touch, and which requires a reverest relationship.

The Glavs of the Lord on the Holiday of Baptism

The Music of Jesus Christ, our Lord on the day of His Epiphany:

Major, exorbitant Christ, we are for the sake of the root of the cross-hassia from John in the waters of Jordanian.

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