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Saint for Today - St. Joachim

8/16/2013

 
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Sermon by St. John of Damascus

From the Root of Jesse sprang King David, and from the stock of King David, the Holy Virgin.  Holy I call her, and the daughter of holy men.  Her father and mother were Joachim and Anne, who pleased God in their lives, and brought forth an offspring well-pleasing to him, even the Holy Virgin Mary, at once the Temple and the Mother of God.  These three, Joachim, Anne, and Mary, clearly offered up unto the Trinity a sacrifice of praise.  For the name Joachim being interpreted, signifieth The preparation of the Lord, and out of him was prepared the Temple of the Lord, namely, the Virgin.  The name Anne signifieth grace, and she and Joachim did indeed receive a grace when, in answer to their prayers, they generated such an offspring, compassing the Holy Virgin.  Joachim prayed upon the mountain and Anne in her garden.
Since it was to be that the Virgin Mother of God should be born of Anne, nature dared not to produce any other child before this child of grace, but humbly waited until grace should have produced hers.  It behoved that she should come into the world as a first-born, who was to bear the First-born of every creature, even him by whom all things were made.  O blessed couple, Joachim and Anne: unto you is all creation laid under debt, since through you creation hath offered to the Creator this noblest of gifts, namely, that chaste mother, who alone was worthy of the Creator.
Rejoice, O Joachim, from whose daughter a Child hath unto us been born, and his name is called The Angel of the Great Counsel, that is, of the salvation of the whole world.  Let Nestorius be ashamed, and put his hand upon his mouth.  Her Child is God.  How then can his Mother be other than the Mother of God? Whosoever acknowledgeth not the Holy Mother of God is far from God.  This saying is not mine, although it is mine in all other senses than that of authority.  I have received it as a most godly legacy from Father Gregory the Divine.  O blessed couple, Joachim and Anne, Christ saith in a certain place: By their fruits ye shall know them; and ye are known by the fruit of your chaste loins.  That that which should be born of you might be worthy and well-pleasing in the sight of God, ye ordered your own lives by rule.  In the chaste and holy exercise of your natural gift, ye produced the treasure of virginity.

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