"On this day, our Church celebrates a great day, celebrates One of those who, as the Holy Gospel says, listen to the word of God and keep it. Today we celebrate the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the One who gave birth to God himself", said the archpriest of Kotor-Tivat, parish priest of Kotor, archpriest Nemanja Krivokapić.

Addressing the faithful people in the Church of St. Nicholas in Kotor's Old Town, today on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Little Lady), said that the importance of today's holiday is spoken by the Troparion, which presents the Nativity of the Virgin as a universal joy.

"The birth of Your Mother of God, the Virgin, heralds the joy of the whole universe. The sun of justice shines through you, Christ our God, and by destroying the curse, he gave a blessing, destroyed death and gave us eternal life," said Fr. Nemanja.

Looking back at the mentioned curse, he reminds that God created man and this whole world and intended for people salvation and the Kingdom of God, but they broke the communion with Him.

"God planned people in that eternal kingdom. But man should also want to be in that Kingdom and make an effort to obtain it and through the obligations that God gave him, perfect himself and be ready for the Kingdom of God. The first people, Adam and Eve, did not fulfill what was expected of them, they were expelled from Paradise, they broke the communion with God and thus cast, as it is written here, a curse on the entire human race. The possibility of saving people and participating in the Kingdom of God was destroyed. Such a thing could only be corrected by God and he announced it when he expelled Adam and Eve from Paradise. He announced that salvation would come, that the Messiah would come, the One who would correct that mistake. This is what our Old Testament forefathers and fathers have been waiting for for centuries and centuries. An event that will correct the mistake of Adam and Eve, that will destroy the curse that befell them and give them the possibility of salvation again," said Fr. Nemanja.

Through the Old Testament it was announced that it would not be from any family, but that the Savior would come as a descendant of the royal line of David and Solomon on the one hand, and from the high priestly line of Aaron on the other.

"Something like that was fulfilled in the holiday we celebrate today in the birth of the virgin Mary, later the Mother of God, because she is a direct descendant on her mother's side and on her father's side precisely from David and Aaron. Therefore, the event that they had been waiting for for centuries and centuries, which was mentioned in the holy writings, was fulfilled on this day, when the girl Mary was born, who will again give birth to the Savior of her own free will. Why is it said by free will? Salvation itself could only be fulfilled by God, to correct the Greek koa that was done. But God did not want to do it alone but in union with man so that man could participate in salvation. Therefore, the Messiah who will come was not enough to be only a god, but to be a real God who can save man, but also a real man because only he with his human nature can participate in salvation. In order for something like that to happen, that messiah had to have a real body, not just the form of a man, and only a real woman could give him that. That was the girl Marija who was born on this day," said Father Nemanja.
This is important, he continued, because it was not by order, but by God's plan.

"It was according to God's plan and according to God's will and desire, but it had to be according to the desire of us people, that is, according to the free will of that Maria, a girl who lived a normal and extremely virtuous life." God therefore chose her, who could not accept it, but accepted with her free will to be a part of the economy of salvation that God imagined. That is why She is great and that is why Her free choice to give birth to a Savior for us humans is saving. And when the Savior is born, the One who will destroy the curse made by the old Adam, because even in church hymns he is called the new Adam, and the Holy Mother of God, the new Eve, because they fulfilled what the first people were given to fulfill . And He came, broke the curse, gave a blessing and gave us the possibility of eternal life. That's why on this day we celebrate the Blessed Mother of God, and with her prayers we ask God the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to save our souls, amen," said Fr. Nemanja.