Icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary by date of celebration

In the general list we place a description of both the icons of the Mother of God mentioned in the monthly book and the locally revered icons of the Mother of God.

Celebration dates:

JANUARY

January 2 (December 20, old style) Lenkovskaya (Novgorod-Severskaya, “Savior of the Drowning”) Novodvorskaya January 8 (December 26, old style) Barlovskaya “Blessed Womb” Vilenskaya (Ostrobramskaya) “Merciful” (Kikkskaya) “Three Joys” 24 January (January 11, old style) Yeletskaya January 25 (January 12, old style) “Akathist” “Mammal”

FEBRUARY February 3 (January 21, old style) Vatopedskaya (“Consolation” or “Consolation”) “Ktitorskaya” February 7 (January 25, old style) “Quench my sorrows” February 10 (January 28, old style) Sumorinskaya-Totemskaya 18 February (February 5, old style) “Recovery of the dead” Divnogorskaya (Sicily) Yeletskaya-Chernigovskaya February 23 (February 10, old style) “Ognevidnaya” February 25 (February 12, old style) Iverskaya February 28 (February 15, old style) Vilna Dalmatian

MARCH March 5 (6) (February 21, old style) Kozelshchanskaya March 13 (February 29 (28), old style) Devpeteruvskaya March 15 (March 2, old style) “Derzhavnaya” March 16 (March 3, old style) Volokolamskaya 18 March (March 5, old style) “Education” March 19 (March 6, old style) “Blessed Heaven” Shestokovskaya Czestochowa March 20 (March 7, old style) “Support of sinners” March 21 (March 8, old style) “The Sign” » Kurskaya-Korennaya March 22 (March 9, old style) Albazinskaya “The Word is Flesh” (“The Sign”) March 25 (March 13, old style) Lydda (on the pillar in Lydda) March 27 (March 14, old style) Feodorovskaya

APRIL

April 1 (March 19, old style) “Tenderness” Smolenskaya April 6 (March 24, old style) “Fat Mountain” April 7 (March 25, old style) “Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary” April 16 (April 3, old style) “ Unfading Color" April 25 (April 12, old style) Belynichiskaya Muromskaya April 27 (April 14, old style) Vilenskaya April 29 (April 16, old style) Ilyinskaya (Chernigovskaya) Tambovskaya

MAY

May 1 (April 18, old style) Maksimovskaya May 3 (April 20, old style) Kiprskaya May 7 (April 24, old style) Molchenskaya May 8 (April 25, old style) Tsaregradskaya May 14 (May 1, old style) Andronikovskaya “Unexpected Joy” Tsarevokokshaiskaya (“Mironositskaya”) May 15 (May 2, old style) Putivlskaya May 16 (May 3, old style) Svenskaya (Pecherskaya) Pecherskaya (with the upcoming Anthony and Feodosius) “Assumption” Kiev-Pecherskaya May 17 ( May 4, old style) Starorusskaya May 18 (May 5, old style) “Inexhaustible Chalice” May 20 (May 7, old style) Zhirovitskaya Lyubechskaya May 23 (May 10, old style) Kiev-Bratskaya May 27 (May 14, old style) style) Yaroslavskaya (Pecherskaya)

JUNE

June 3 (May 21, old style) Vladimirskaya Vladimirskaya (Zaonikievskaya) Vladimirskaya (Krasnogorskaya or Chernogorskaya) Vladimirskaya (Oranskaya) Vladimirskaya (“Tenderness” Pskovo-Pecherskaya) June 10 (May 28, old style) Galichskaya (Chukhlomaskaya) Nicene (“Byst” Thy womb is the Holy Meal") June 11 (May 29, old style) “Supportress of sinners” June 15 (June 2, old style) Kiev-Bratskaya June 18 (June 5, old style) Igorevskaya June 19 (June 6, old style) Pimenovskaya June 21 (June 8, old style) Uryupinskaya Yaroslavskaya June 24 (June 11, old style) “It is worthy to eat” (“Merciful”)

JULY July 1 (June 18, old style) Bogolyubskaya Bogolyubskaya (Zimarovskaya) Bogolyubskaya (Moscow) “At the source” Pyukhtitskaya July 3 (June 20, old style) Modena (Kosinskaya) July 6 (June 23, old style) Vladimirskaya Vladimirskaya (Zaonikievskaya ) Vladimirskaya (“Tenderness” Pskovo-Pecherskaya) “Goalkeeper” (“Unquenchable Candle”) July 9 (June 26, old style) Lidda (Roman) Nyametskaya “Hodegetria” Sedmiezernaya Tikhvinskaya July 11 (June 28, old style) “Three-handed” July 12 (June 29, old style) Kasperovskaya July 13 (June 30, old style) Balykinskaya Gorbanevskaya July 15 (July 2, old style) Akhtyrskaya Pozhayskaya Feodotyevskaya July 17 (July 4, old style) Galatskaya July 18 (July 5, old style) style) “Ekonomissa” July 19 (July 6, old style) Kazanskaya (Bogorodsko-Ufimskaya) July 20 (July 7, old style) Vlakhernskaya July 21 (July 8, old style) “Annunciation” (Ustyugskaya) Kazanskaya Kazanskaya (Vysochinovskaya) Kazanskaya (Vyshenskaya) Kazanskaya (Vyaznikovskaya) Kazanskaya (Kaplunovskaya) Kazanskaya (Nizhnelomovskaya) Kazanskaya (Penzenskaya) Kazanskaya (Peschanskaya) Kazanskaya (Tambovskaya) Kazanskaya (Tobolskaya) Kazanskaya (Chimeevskaya) Kazanskaya (Yaroslavskaya) July 22 (July 9, old style ) Cyprus (Stromynskaya) Kolochskaya July 23 (July 10, old style) Konevskaya (“Golubitskaya”) July 24 (July 11, old style) Borkolabovskaya Okovetskaya (Rzhevskaya) July 25 (July 12, old style) “Three-handed” July 29 (July 16 old style) Chirskaya (Pskovskaya) July 30 (July 17, old style) Svyatogorskaya

AUGUST August 2 (July 20, old style) Abalatskaya (“Znamenie”) Galichskaya (Chukhlomskaya) August 5 (July 23, old style) “Joy to all who mourn” (with pennies) Pochaevskaya August 10 (July 28, old style) Grebnevskaya “ Hodegetria" Voroninskaya "Hodegetria" Vydropusskaya "Hodegetria" Igritskaya "Hodegetria" Kostroma "Hodegetria" Sedmiezernaya "Hodegetria" Sergievskaya (in the Lavra) "Hodegetria" Smolensk "Hodegetria" Supraslskaya "Hodegetria" Ustyuzhenskaya "Hodegetria" Khristoforovskaya "Hodegetria" I" Shuiskaya "Hodegetria" Yugskaya "Tenderness" Serafimo-Diveevskaya August 21 (August 8, old style) Tolgskaya August 26 (August 13, old style) Minsk "Semistrelnaya" "Passionate" August 27 (August 14, old style) "Besednaya" Narvskaya August 28 (15 August according to the old style) “Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary” “Assumption” Kiev-Pecherskaya “Assumption” Ovinovskaya “Assumption” Pskovo-Pecherskaya “Assumption” Pyukhtitsa “Assumption” “Semigorodnaya” Atskurskaya Bakhchisaraiskaya Vladimirskaya (Rostov) Vlakhernskaya (Georgian) Gaenatskaya Galichskaya (Chukhlomaskaya) ) Mozdokskaya “Sophia - the Wisdom of God” (Novgorodskaya) Surdegskaya Tupichevskaya Tsilkanskaya

August 29 (August 16, old style) Feodorovskaya August 30 (August 17, old style) Svenskaya (Pecherskaya) August 31 (August 18, old style) “Vsetsaritsa”

SEPTEMBER

September 1 (August 19, old style) Donskaya September 4 (August 22, old style) Gruzinskaya September 6 (August 24, old style) Petrovskaya September 8 (August 26, old style) Vladimirskaya Vladimirskaya (“Tenderness” Pskov-Pecherskaya) 14 September (September 1, old style) Alexandria "All-Blessed" Miasinskaya Chernigov Gethsemane September 15 (September 2, old style) Kaluga September 16 (September 3, old style) Pisidian September 17 (September 4, old style) "Burning Bush" September 19 (September 6, old style) Arapetskaya (Arabian) Kiev-Bratskaya September 21 (September 8, old style) “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” Glinskaya “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” Isaac’s “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” Lukian’s “Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” » Syamskaya Domnitskaya “The Sign” Kursk-Root Lesninskaya Pochaevskaya “Sophia - the Wisdom of God” (Kiev) Kholmskaya September 24 (September 11, old style) Kaplunovskaya (Kazan) September 27 (September 14, old style) Lesninskaya September 28 (September 15, old style) Novonikitskaya September 29 (September 16, old style) “Look at humility” September 30 (September 17, old style) Makaryevskaya Tsaregradskaya

OCTOBER

October 1 (September 18, old style) Molchenskaya Old Russian “Healer” October 6 (September 23, old style) Slovenskaya October 7 (September 24, old style) Mirozhskaya October 14 (October 1, old style) Barskaya Brailovskaya Gerbovetskaya Kasperovskaya Lublinskaya Pskovo- Pokrovskaya October 20 (October 7, old style) Pskov-Pecherskaya “Tenderness” (Vladimirskaya) October 22 (October 9, old style) Korsunskaya October 25 (October 12, old style) Jerusalem Kaluga “Hodegetria” Yaroslavl Rudnenskaya Filermskaya October 26 (13 October, old style) Iverskaya “Hodegetria” Sedmiezernaya October 27 (October 14, old style) Yakhromskaya October 28 (October 15, old style) “Spreader of the Bread” October 30 (October 17, old style) “Deliverer” “Before Christmas and after Christmas Virgo"

NOVEMBER

November 4 (October 22, old style) Andronikovskaya Kazanskaya November 6 (October 24, old style) “Joy of all who mourn” November 12 (October 30, old style) Ozeryanskaya November 15 (November 2, old style) “Hodegetria” Shuiskaya November 20 (November 7, old style) “Leaping” Ugreshskaya November 22 (November 9, old style) “Quick to Hear” November 25 (November 12, old style) “Merciful” (Kikkskaya) November 28 (November 15, old style) Kupyatitskaya

DECEMBER

December 2 (November 19, old style) “Consolation in sorrows and sorrows” December 4 (November 21, old style) “Introduction of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple” December 10 (November 27, old style) “The Sign” “The Sign” Abalatskaya “The Sign” » Verkhnetagilskaya "Znamenie" "Korchemnaya" "Znamenie" Kursk-Korennaya "Znamenie" Serafimo-Ponetaevskaya "Znamenie" Tsarskoselskaya

December 20 (December 7, old style) Vladimirskaya (Seligerskaya) December 22 (December 9, old style) “Unexpected Joy”

TRANSITIONAL

1st Week (Sunday) of Lent Cyprus (Stromyn)

Tuesday of Bright Week Iverskaya “Hodegetria” Shuiskaya

Wednesday of Bright Week Kasperovskaya

Friday of Bright Week “Life-Giving Spring”

Mid-Pentecost Dubenskaya (Krasnogorskaya) Mozdokskaya

7th Week (Sunday) of Easter “Tenderness” Pskov-Pecherskaya (Vladimirskaya) Chelnskaya

Holy Spirit Day Kiprskaya Tupichevskaya

Thursday after Pentecost “Helper of Sinners” (Koretskaya)

9th Friday of Easter “The Sign” Kursk-Korennaya Tabynskaya (Kazan)

All Saints Sunday “The Unbreakable Wall” “Softening Evil Hearts”

Sunday after July 1 (June 18, old style) Kazanskaya (Korobeinikovskaya)

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Memorial Day of St. Maximus the Confessor, February 3, 2022

This is the day of remembrance of confessor Maxim. It is known that he lived in the period from 580 to 662. For more than six years, Maxim preached in Alexandria and its environs; he wrote many theological works.

The monk was born in 580 into a wealthy Constantinople family. The saint had an outstanding mind and rare abilities; he had phenomenal thinking, thanks to which he received an excellent education and decided to choose a career as a politician. In 610, during the reign of Emperor Heraclius, the ruler was the first to appreciate the importance of Maximus and his Christian virtues, and made him his personal secretary.

Fame, power and wealth could not extinguish in Maxim the desire that he had nurtured in his heart for so long since his youth - to lead a life that corresponded to true philosophy. Three years later, Maxim left his position and the empty honors of this world, and became a monk at the monastery of the Mother of God in Chrysopolis, near Constantinople.

The monk died in August 662, he was 82 years old. The saint died in the fortress of Schimarus, where he finally united with the Word of God, which he loved so much, and whose life-giving Passion he imitated. According to legend, every night three lamps lit themselves over his grave. The Holy Right Hand of Priest Maximus is located in the Church of St. Paul on Mount Athos.

What and how to pray to the icon

The Mother of God hears all our prayers and intercedes for us before God. They pray to the “Unexpected Joy” icon for the birth of children, their health and well-being, healing from illnesses and addictions, peace with loved ones and mental balance, protection from enemies and other misfortunes.

Prayer to the Intercessor

“O Most Holy Virgin, All-Blessed Mother of the All-Good Son, Patroness of this city and holy temple, faithful Representative and Intercessor of all who are in sins, sorrows, troubles and illnesses! Accept this prayer song from us, Your unworthy servants, offered to You, and like an ancient sinner, who prayed many times before Your honest icon every day, did not despise him, but gave him the unexpected joy of repentance and bowed down Your Son with many and zealous petitions to Him for forgiveness this sinner and lost one, so now do not despise the prayers of ours, Thy unworthy servants, and beg Thy Son and our God, and grant to all of us, who with faith and tenderness worship before Thy image, an unexpected joy for someone; a sinner mired in the depths of evil and passions - effective admonition, repentance and salvation; to those in sorrow and sorrow - consolation; for those who find themselves in troubles and embitterment - a complete abundance of these; for the faint-hearted and unreliable - hope and patience; for those who live in joy and abundance - unceasing thanksgiving to God the Benefactor; to those in need - mercy; those who are in illness and long illness and abandoned by doctors - unexpected healing and strengthening; for those who have recovered from illness of the mind - return and renewal of the mind; those departing into eternal and endless life - memory of death, tenderness and contrition for sins, a cheerful spirit and firm hope in the mercy of the Judge. O Most Holy Lady! Have mercy on all who honor Your all-honorable Name and show everyone Your all-powerful protection and intercession: in piety, purity and honest living, keep them in goodness until the end; Do good to the evil; Guide those who are lost on the right path; Make progress in every good work that is pleasing to Your Son; Destroy every evil and ungodly deed; in bewilderment and difficult and dangerous circumstances, those who find invisible help and admonition were sent down from Heaven, save and save from temptations, seductions and destruction, protect and preserve from all evil people and from enemies visible and invisible; to float, to accompany those traveling; Be the Nourisher to those in need and famine; for those who do not have shelter and shelter, be a cover and refuge; Give the naked a robe; for those offended and unjustly persecuted - intercession; invisibly justify slander, slander and blasphemy to those who suffer; Convict slanderers and slanderers before everyone; To those who are bitterly at odds, give the unforeseen reconciliation and to all of us - love, peace, and piety, and health with long life for each other; preserve the marriage in love and like-mindedness; spouses in enmity and division, reconcile, unite to each other; Give permission to those who bear children quickly; raise babies; Teach young people chastity, open their minds to the perception of all useful teachings, instruct the fear of God, abstinence and hard work; Protect your brothers and sisters from domestic strife and enmity with peace and love; Be the Mother of motherless orphans, turn them away from all vice and filth and teach everything good and pleasing to God; those who have been seduced by sin and fallen into uncleanness, take away the filth of sin and bring them out of the abyss of destruction; be the Comforter and Helper of widows; be a support for old age; Deliver us all from sudden death without repentance and grant us all the Christian death of our lives, a painless, shameless, peaceful and kind answer at the Last Judgment of Christ; For those who have ceased in faith and repentance from this life, create a life with the Angels and all the saints; those who died a sudden death, mercifully pray to Your Son and for all those who have died who have no relatives, begging for the repose of Your Son, Be yourself a constant and warm Prayer Book and Intercessor. May everyone in Heaven and on earth know You as the firm and unashamed Representative of the Christian race and glorify You and Your Son, with His Originless Father and His Consubstantial Spirit, now and forever and unto the ages of ages. Amen".

Tue, 21 Dec 2022 16:14:22 +0300

Golaeva Irina

Miracles associated with the icon

Unfortunately, there are few documented miracles associated with the “Unexpected Joy” icon. However, many parishioners not only describe the miracles performed by this image, but also sincerely thank him with rich gifts.

In his memoirs, Elder Nikon describes the path to monasticism. He and his brother repeatedly visited Optina Pustyn to take monastic vows. However, the old-timers of the monastery looked closely at the young men for a long time and tested their intentions for strength.

The desires of the young men came true precisely on the day of honoring the icon described - probably because their grandfather once did a lot for the temple of “Unexpected Joy”. Another recorded miracle dates back to 1994.

One of the nuns saw a procession of the Cross in a dream: the procession was moving from the Kremlin to the Ilyinsky Church, and those around them joyfully shouted that the Queen was coming. The next day, the icon was transferred to the corresponding temple in reality, becoming its main spiritual property.

Here is a miracle that happened just a few years ago. A new temple of “Unexpected Joy” was built and consecrated in Saratov. The wife of the rector of the temple, soon after her husband assumed his new position, became pregnant and gave birth to a healthy baby.

But the couple’s marriage was fruitless for many years - the couple had already come to terms with this and took in an adopted daughter, and then their own blood appeared!

How does the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Unexpected Joy” help?

The “Unexpected Joy” icon is a truly universal divine answer to those praying. She is asked for almost everything, and she helps even inveterate sinners and yesterday's atheists. Most often, a wonderful image is asked for:

healing from mental and physical illnesses;
the sending of healthy children and easy childbirth;
health and admonition of children;
returning the lost to the true path;
reconciliation with relatives and friends;
consolation in sorrows and sorrows;
looking for a way out of a difficult life situation;
getting rid of sinful thoughts and so on.

The Heavenly Intercessor intercedes with the Savior for each of us. And he, out of respect for his mother and love for the human race, atones for our sins and saves our souls.