"forever the most pure Virgin and Mother of God. Come, let us dance in the spirit! Let us sing worthy praises to Christ! Let us celebrate the joy of Joachim and Anna, The conception of the Mother of our God, For she is the fruit of the grace of God. "" - Fr. Thomas Hopko: The Winter Pascha: Chapter 9 Conception of the Virgin Mary The Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary is the feast name given in the Tridentine Calendar on 8 December. In the present General Roman Calendar, the feast is called the ""Solemnity of the"
"believed by Christians to be the prophecy of the Virgin Mary referred to in Matthew 1:23. While Matthew and Luke give differing versions of the virgin birth, John quotes the uninitiated Philip and the disbelieving Jews gathered at Galilee referring to Joseph as Jesus's father. Other biblical verses have also been debated, e.g., that the reference by Paul that Jesus was made ""of the seed of David according to the flesh"" () may be interpreted as Joseph being the father of Jesus. However, most scholars reject this interpretation in the context of virgin birth given that Paul used the Greek"
"Joachim Joachim (; ""he whom Yahweh has set up"", ""Yəhôyāqîm"", Greek Ἰωακείμ ""Iōākeím"") was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, according to the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James. Joachim and Anne are not mentioned in the Bible. His feast day is 26 July. According to tradition, Saint Anne was born in Bethlehem, and married Joachim of Nazareth, both descendants of David. In the Protoevangelium of James, Joachim is described as a rich and pious man, who regularly gave"
"Mary, mother of Jesus Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran describe Mary as a virgin; according to Christian teaching she conceived Jesus while a virgin, through the Holy Spirit. The miraculous conception took place when she was already betrothed to Joseph. She accompanied Joseph to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. The Gospel of Luke begins its account of Mary's life with the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary"
"Nativity of Mary The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of Mary, or the Birth of the Virgin Mary, refers to a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The modern canon of scripture does not record Mary's birth. The earliest known account of Mary's birth is found in the Protoevangelium of James (5:2), an apocryphal text from the late second century, with her parents known as Saint Anne and Saint Joachim. In the case of saints, the Church commemorates their date of death, with Saint John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary as"
"been portrayed in various films and on television, including: <br> Mary, mother of Jesus Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran describe Mary as a virgin; according to Christian teaching she conceived Jesus while a virgin, through the Holy Spirit. The miraculous conception took place when she was already betrothed to Joseph. She accompanied Joseph to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. The Gospel of Luke begins its account of Mary's life"
"Zechariah (priest) Zechariah ( ""Zəḵaryāh"", ""remember Yah""; ; Zacharias in KJV; Zachary in the Douay-Rheims Bible; Zakariyyāʾ () in Islamic tradition) is a figure in the New Testament Bible and the Quran, hence venerated in Christianity and Islam. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (1:67-79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary (Luke, 1:36). According to the Gospel of Luke, during the reign of king Herod, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia,"
"of Mary is narrated in the Quran with references to her father as well as her mother. Mary's father is called ""Imran"". He is the equivalent of Joachim in Christian tradition. Her mother, according to al-Tabari, is called ""Hannah"", which is the same name as in Christian tradition (Saint Anne). Muslim literature narrates that Imran and his wife were old and childless and that, one day, the sight of a bird in a tree feeding her young aroused Anne's desire for a child. She prayed to God to fulfill her desire and vowed, if her prayer was accepted, that her"
"the few whose birth dates are commemorated. The reason for this is found in the singular mission each had in salvation history, but traditionally also because these alone (besides the prophet Jeremiah, ) were holy in their very birth (for Mary, see Immaculate Conception; John was sanctified in Saint Elizabeth's womb according to the traditional interpretation of ). Devotion to the innocence of Mary under this Marian title is widely celebrated in many cultures across the globe. The ""Protoevangelium of James"", which was probably put into its final written form in the early second century, describes Mary's father Joachim as"
"Jesus is recounted in the New Testament of the Bible, one of the bedrock texts of Western Civilisation. According to the New Testament, Jesus was raised as the son of the Nazarenes Mary (called the ""Blessed Virgin"" and ""Mother of God"") and her husband Saint Joseph (a carpenter). Jesus' birth is commemorated in the festival of Christmas. Jesus learned the texts of the Hebrew Bible and like his contemporary John the Baptist, became an influential wandering preacher. He gathered Twelve Disciples to assist in his work. He was a persuasive teller of parables and moral philosopher. In orations such as"
"of the perpetual virginity of Mary had become well established; important early Christian theologians such as Hippolytus (170–235), Eusebius (260/265–339/340) and Epiphanius (c. 310/320–403) defended it. The early church had not accepted that Mary had any children apart from Jesus. Eusebius and Epiphanius held that these men were Joseph's sons from (an unrecorded) former marriage. Epiphanius adds that Joseph became the father of James and his three brothers (Joses, Simeon, Judah) and two sisters (a Salome and a Mary or a Salome and an Anna) with James being the elder sibling. James and his siblings were not children of Mary"
"born from Hananah. Mary gave birth to Jesus and he was the son of the daughter of John's aunt. John was the son of the aunt of Mary, and the aunt of one's mother is like one's aunt."" Elizabeth (biblical figure) Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Greek Ἐλισάβετ) or ""Elisheba"" (from the Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע / אֱלִישָׁבַע ""My God has sworn""; Standard Hebrew Elišévaʿ Elišávaʿ, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîšéḇaʿ ʾĔlîšāḇaʿ; Arabic أليصابات, ""Alyassabat""), was the mother of John the Baptist and the wife of Zechariah, according to the Gospel of Luke. According to the Gospel of Luke, Elizabeth was ""of the daughters of"
"to by many names, mainly: victory day, il-Vitorja and il-Bambina (a shortening of Marija Bambina). Nativity of Mary The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of Mary, or the Birth of the Virgin Mary, refers to a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The modern canon of scripture does not record Mary's birth. The earliest known account of Mary's birth is found in the Protoevangelium of James (5:2), an apocryphal text from the late second century, with her parents known as Saint Anne and Saint Joachim. In the case of saints, the Church"
"Virgin birth of Jesus The virgin birth of Jesus is the belief that Jesus was conceived in the womb of his mother Mary through the Holy Spirit without the agency of a human father and born while Mary was still a virgin. The New Testament references are Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 1:26-38; it is not expressly mentioned elsewhere in the Christian scriptures, and ""the modern scholarly consensus is that the doctrine of the virgin birth rests on a very slim historical foundation."" The virgin birth was universally accepted in the Christian church and, except for some minor sects, was not"
"implication being that since by the doctrine of the Virgin birth Jesus had no biological father, his genome would have been inherited entirely from his mother, the Virgin Mary. For the scientific background of the joke see Ploidy. The number of variant forms, usually with ""H"" replaced by something longer, is vast. ""Jesus Harold Christ"" (i.e. - ""Our Father, who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name..."") is mentioned above. Smith notes Jesus Holy Christ, Jesus Henry Christ, and Jesus H. Particular Christ. ""Green's Dictionary of Slang"" gives Jeezus K. Reist, Jesus F. Christ, Jesus H, Jesus H. Mahogany Christ,"
"of the virgin birth"". He adds, ""the event is unusual enough for one to wonder why an author who knew of it would not mention it."" Bart D. Ehrman writes, ""The tradition that Jesus' mother was a virgin is given by both Matthew and Luke, and to that extent, it's independently attested. But it has always struck scholars as odd that the tradition—which surely would be an important thing to know!—isn't attested anywhere else in our earliest sources, even among writers who would have had a real interest in publicizing the fact that God himself was actually Jesus' father."" ""The"
"should be valued as child bearers, home makers, and as individuals with equal worth to men. Mary was the mother of Jesus, and as such is highly venerated within the Catholic Church as the Mother of God. The Church holds that she was Immaculately Conceived, and while betrothed to the carpenter Joseph, Mary was visited by the angel Gabriel, who announced that, though a virgin, she would give birth to a son, Jesus. The Gospels give several other accounts of Mary, including that she was present at the feet of Jesus at the time of his crucifixion. These verses have"
"Saint Anne Saint Anne, of David's house and line, was the mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels, but is mentioned as the daughter of Faqud in Quran. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Gospel of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be the earliest that mentions them. The story bears a similarity to that of the birth of Samuel, whose mother Hannah ( ""Ḥannāh"" ""favour, grace""; etymologically the same"
"simply an invention of Luke. These two Gospels declare that Jesus was begotten not by Joseph, but by the power of the Holy Spirit while Mary was still a virgin, in fulfillment of prophecy. Thus, in mainstream Christianity, Jesus is regarded as being literally the ""only begotten son"" of God, while Joseph is regarded as his adoptive father. Matthew immediately follows the genealogy of Jesus with: ""This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the"
"in 431. The Council decreed that Mary is the Mother of God because her son Jesus is one person who is both God and man, divine and human. This doctrine is widely accepted by Christians in general, and the term Mother of God had already been used within the oldest known prayer to Mary, the Sub tuum praesidium which dates to around 250 AD. The Virgin birth of Jesus was an almost universally held belief among Christians from the 2nd until the 19th century. It is included in the two most widely used Christian creeds, which state that Jesus ""was"
"to say that he was walking at the age of three months. Mainstream scholars agree that the nativity of Jesus, if not taken as historically accurate, should be interpreted within the context of first-century Judaism, not in the context of foreign mythologies, which contain only remote similarities. According to tradition of the Catholic church, the Virgin Mary's parents, St. Anne and St. Joachim, were childless, when an angel came to them and told them they would give birth to a daughter. During the conception of Mary, she was preserved from the stain of original sin. The Gospel of Luke and"
"Father from eternity and also true man born of the Virgin Mary"". The ""Augsburg Confession"" explains: [T]he Son of God, did assume the human nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin Mary, so that there are two natures, the divine and the human, inseparably enjoined in one Person, one Christ, true God and true man, who was born of the Virgin Mary, truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, that He might reconcile the Father unto us, and be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for all actual sins of men. Lutherans hold that sacraments are"
"to a man named Solomas and that each marriage produced one daughter: Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Salomæ, respectively. The sister of Saint Anne was Sobe, mother of Elizabeth. Similarly, in the 4th century and then much later in the 15th century, a belief arose that Mary was born of Anne by virgin birth, preserving Anne's body and soul intact as distinct from the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception that preserved her daughter's body and soul intact and sinless from the first moment of existence. Adherents included the 16th-century Lutheran mystic Valentin Weigel, who claimed Anne"
"figure Heli, the son of Matthat. Meanwhile, the Gospel of Matthew makes no mention of Nathan. Rather, in Matthew 1:16 Jesus' lineage is connected to Jacob which eventually relates Jesus to Solomon rather than Nathan. One conventional explanation for these differences, from as early as John of Damascus, is that Nathan is the ancestor of the Virgin Mary, while Solomon is the ancestor of Mary's husband Joseph. Another explanation for these differences is offered by St. John Damascene who says the following. ""One ought also to observe this, that the law was that when a man died without seed, this"
"Mary is mentioned as the mother of a James and of a Joseph in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Gospel of Mark: Roman Catholic interpretation generally holds that James, the younger is the same James mentioned in Mark 16:1 and Matthew 27:56 and it is to be identified with James, the son of Alphaeus and James, the brother of Jesus. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, he is not, however, identified with James the Great, although this is disputed by some. Jerome believed that the ""brothers"" of the Lord were Jesus' cousins, thus amplifying the doctrine of perpetual virginity."
"Joakim Joakim or Joacim is a male name primarily used in Scandinavian and, before the 1917 Communist coup in Russia, Russian cultures. It is derived from a transliteration of the Hebrew יהוֹיָקִים, and literally means ""lifted by Jehovah"". In the Old Testament Jehoiakim was a king of Judah. In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions, Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne appears first in the apocryphal Gospel of James. Joachim and Anne are not mentioned in the Bible. The following people are"
"baptize Jesus, which is not described by Mark. Luke 1 begins with the birth of John the Baptist, heralded to his father Zacharias by the angel Gabriel. Six months later Gabriel appears to the Virgin Mary with an announcement of the birth of Jesus, at the Annunciation. At the same, Gabriel also announces to Mary the coming birth of John the Baptist, to her kinswoman Elizabeth, who is the wife of Zacharias. Mary immediately sets out to visit her kinswoman Elizabeth, and stays with her until John's birth. Luke strongly contrasts the reactions of Zacharias and Mary to these two"
"into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a ""celestial body"", and brought Eve, ""one of his wives"", with him. He helped to make and organize this world. He is MICHAEL, ""the Archangel"", the ANCIENT OF DAYS! about whom holy men have written and spoken—He is ""our"" FATHER ""and our"" GOD, ""and the only God with whom"" WE ""have to do"". Every man upon the earth, professing Christians or non-professing, must hear it, and ""will know it sooner or later"". The transcript then reads: ""When the Virgin Mary conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten him in"
"were children of Joseph and Mary, proposed that they were cousins of Jesus, the sons of Mary the wife of Clopas and sister of the Virgin. This new view, ""strongly coloured by [Jerome's] belief in the perpetual virginity, [is] almost universally rejected except by Roman Catholic scholars"". The view with most support in the Fathers, and with some support in modern writers such as Lightfoot, is that of Epiphanius: they were children of Joseph by an earlier marriage, the view generally accepted among Eastern Christians. A more recent hypothesis is that they were children of Cleopas, a brother of Joseph"
"Perpetual virginity of Mary The perpetual virginity of Mary is a Marian doctrine, taught by the Catholic Church and held by a number of groups in Christianity, which asserts that Mary (the mother of Jesus) was ""always a virgin, before, during and after the birth of Jesus Christ."" This doctrine also proclaims that Mary had no marital relations after Jesus' birth nor gave birth to any children other than Jesus. While the Bible mentions brothers of Jesus, Catholic, Orthodox, and some traditional Protestant interpretations offer various explanations that align with the doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity; that these siblings were"
"Elizabeth (biblical figure) Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Greek Ἐλισάβετ) or ""Elisheba"" (from the Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע / אֱלִישָׁבַע ""My God has sworn""; Standard Hebrew Elišévaʿ Elišávaʿ, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîšéḇaʿ ʾĔlîšāḇaʿ; Arabic أليصابات, ""Alyassabat""), was the mother of John the Baptist and the wife of Zechariah, according to the Gospel of Luke. According to the Gospel of Luke, Elizabeth was ""of the daughters of Aaron"" (). She and her husband Zachariah were ""righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless"" (), but childless. While he was in the temple of the Lord (), Zacharias was visited"
"one Solomonic descendant, Zerubbabel, as governor under the Persians, he was neither crowned king nor related by blood to Jeconian. The apocryphal Protoevangelium of James gives the story of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne as the parents of Mary. This is largely followed in Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican tradition. Heli (biblical figure) Heli (, ""Hēlì"") is a Biblical individual mentioned in the Gospel of Luke as an ancestor of Jesus. In Luke's account of the genealogy of Jesus from David via David's son Nathan, Heli is listed before Joseph, husband of Mary and after Matthat. Heli is not mentioned in"
"the historian Eusebius) have put forward various theories that seek to explain why the lineages are so different, such as that Matthew's account follows the lineage of Joseph, while Luke's follows the lineage of Mary. Matthew 1:1–17 begins the Gospel, ""A record of the origin of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac…"" and continues on until ""…and Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and"