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Day 1 of the Blessed Coptic Month of Bashans, may God make it always received, year after year, with reassurance and tranquility, while our sins after forgiven by the tender mercies of our God my fathers and brothers.
Amen.
The First Day of the Blessed Month of Bashans
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God
On this day the church celebrates
the birth of the pure Virgin St. Mary, the Mother of God (Theotokos), through
whom Salvation came to mankind. She was born in the city of Nazareth, where
her parents lived. Her father was grieved in his heart for he could not
offer an offering to God for he did not have any children. In the fullness
of time according to the Divine Will, the angel of the Lord was sent to
announce Joachim, her father, while he was on the mountain praying, and
said to him: "The Lord will give you offspring through whom salvation comes
to the world." Immediately he went down the mountain believing what the
angel told him, and he told his wife Anna of what he saw and heard. She
rejoiced, gave thanks to the Lord, and vowed that the child who was to
be born to her would become a servant in the house of the Lord all the
days of her/his life. She conceived, and gave birth to this Saint and called
her Mary who had become the Queen of all women of the world, and through
her we have received the grace.
May her intercession be with us, and glory be to God forever. Amen.