The first prayers and their explanation. Decree on who left the prayer Who left the Our Father prayer to the people

Prayer for quick help that will protect you from trouble,
help in misfortune and show the way to a better life

INTRODUCTION

Our world is like an ocean in a terrible storm, especially in these times of crisis. We are small chips in it, which endlessly shake the waves on the water.

Failure and lack of money, lack of confidence in tomorrow and their strength, fears for their children and loved ones - this ninth wave covers us almost constantly. And no, no, and we will feel how despair and hopelessness squeeze our hearts with ice tentacles. And at this moment we want to ask for help, and we look around, but everywhere we see the same people who are wounded and beaten by life, who themselves do not know what to do.

And then, as if on a whim, we raise our gaze up to Heaven. And we begin to talk about our affairs, about our lives, we ask you to help us. Because, no matter who we are, no matter who we believe in words, we know in the depths of our souls that there is a God who never forgets us, and there is the Mother of God who loves us, and the saints who are busy for us before the face of the Lord.

Therefore, we turn to them in the most difficult moments of our lives, we ask them for protection and help, we ask them to guide us on the true path and give us the strength to survive difficult times.

And we express all our requests in prayer - sincere and fervent. And if we do not know the words of prayer, then we speak from ourselves, in our own words, anyway the Lord and His helpers will hear us.

But there are prayers, the power of which is multiplied by time. Millions of people before us addressed and after us will address with these words to Heaven. They are like a medicine to be used in acute pain. The request for help, which is embedded in them, goes directly to God, and we receive an answer immediately.

This book contains very necessary and very effective prayers that will help you in any difficult moments of your life.

PRAYERS OF GRATITUDE

Thank the Lord for every day you live, for the blessings sent to you, for great gift- health, for the happiness of children. For everything that you have at the moment, even if, from your point of view, this is not so much.

If you begin to thank the powers of Heaven for your life and everything connected with it, your life will definitely change for the better. After all, good begets good. Having learned to appreciate what we have, we will perceive differently all the opportunities that the Lord will give us through our prayers.

Thanksgiving prayer to the guardian angel

Thanking and glorifying our Lord, One God of the Orthodox Jesus Christ for His goodness, I call to you, holy angel of Christ, warrior Divine. I call from thanksgiving prayer, I thank you for your mercy to me and for your intercession for me before the face of the Lord. nice be in the Lord angel!

A short version of the prayer of thanksgiving to the guardian angel

Having glorified the Lord, I pay tribute to you, my guardian angel. Glorious be thou in the Lord! Amen.

PRAYERS THAT HELP EVERYONE AND ALWAYS

No matter how old we are, we always need support, we need help. Each of us hopes that he will not be left in a difficult moment, that he will be given strength, self-confidence.

Read these prayers whenever you want to feel protected, when you feel bad or sad, when you start a business, or when you just feel the need to talk to someone who is Above us.

Our Father

Our Father, Who art in heaven! May your name be hallowed; let your kingdom come; Thy will be done, as in heaven, and on earth; give us our daily bread today; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel

Angel of God, my holy guardian, given to me from the Lord from heaven, I diligently pray to you, enlighten me today and save me from all evil, guide me to a good deed and direct me to the path of salvation. Amen.

Prayer to the Council of 12 apostles, protecting from trouble and problems

Sanctify the apostles of Christ: Peter and Andrew, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Fomo and Matthew, James and Jude, Simon and Matthias! Hear our prayers and sighs, now offered with a contrite heart and help us, the servants of God (names), with your powerful intercession before the Lord, get rid of all evil and enemy flattery, keep the Orthodox faith firmly betrayed by you, but in it your intercession is not wounds, nor a ban, nor a pestilence, nor any anger from our Creator, we will diminish, but we will live a peaceful life here and be able to see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the One in the Trinity glorified and worshiped by God, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to Nicholas the Pleasant

IN Orthodox world it is difficult to find a second saint so revered as Nicholas the Wonderworker. Everyone turns to him, and simpletons and scientists, believers and non-believers, even many who are alien to Christianity, Muslims and Buddhists turn to him with reverence and fear. The reason for such a large-scale veneration is simple - not long in coming, almost instantaneous help from God, sent through the prayers of this greatest saint. People who at least once turned to him with a prayer of faith and hope are certainly aware of this.

Blessed Father Nicholas! Shepherd and the teacher of all those who by faith flow to your intercession, and call you with warm prayer! Seek soon and save the flock of Christ from the wolves that are destroying it, and protect every Christian country and save with your saints prayers from worldly rebellion, coward, invasion of foreigners and internecine strife, from famine, flood, fire, sword and vain death. AND as if you had mercy on three men sitting in prison, and you delivered them from the king of anger and whipping sword, tacos have mercy and me, mind, dry in word and deed in the darkness of sins, and deliver me the wrath of God and eternal punishment; like yes yours intercession and help, by His own mercy and grace, Christ God quiet and a sinless life will give to me live in vece seven, and deliver me desnago with everyone saints. Amen.

Prayer to the Life-Giving Cross

Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Him flee from His face. As the smoke disappears, let them disappear; as wax melts from the face of fire, so let the demons perish from the face of those who love God and are marked by the sign of the cross, and say in joy: Rejoice, Most Honorable and Life-giving Cross of the Lord, drive away the demons by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, crucified on you, descended into hell and corrected the power the devil, and who gave us His Honorable Cross to drive away every adversary. O Most Honorable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord! Help me with the Holy Lady of the Virgin Mary and with all the saints forever. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for happiness and good luck

Benefactor, holy angel, my guardian forever and ever, as long as I live, I will eat. Your ward is calling to you, hear me and come down to me. As you have favored me many times, so once again favor me. I am clean before God, I have not been guilty of anything before people. By faith I lived before, by faith I will continue to live, and therefore the Lord endowed me with his mercy, and by His will you protect me from all misfortune. So may the will of the Lord come true and you, saint, fulfill it. I ask you for a happy life for yourself and your family, and it will be for me the highest reward from the Lord. Hear me, heavenly angel, and help me, do the will of God. Amen.

PRAYERS THAT STRENGTHEN US WITH THE SPIRIT TO SURVIVE HARD TIMES

You can ask the Lord for money. Possibly good work. But the most important thing that we should ask Him in any, but especially in times of crisis, is the strength of the spirit to endure in difficult times, so as not to become discouraged, not to despair and not to become embittered at the whole world.

Read these prayers every time you feel that your spirit has begun to weaken, when fatigue and irritation accumulate throughout the world, when life begins to be seen in black colors, and it seems that there is no way out.

Prayer of the last Optina elders

Lord, give me sincerely calmly meet all that will bring to me coming day. Give to me completely surrender your will saint. For every hour of this day, instruct and support me in everything. Whatever I received news in flow day, teach me accept them with calm soul And firm conviction that everything is Thy holy will. In all words and deeds of my leadership my thoughts and feelings. In all unforeseen cases, give to me forget that everything is sent down You. Teach me straight and act wisely with each member of my family, no one embarrassing and not grieving. Lord, give me strength postpone fatigue of the coming day and all events in during the day. Guide my will and teach me pray, believe, hope endure, forgive and love. Amen.

Prayer of the holy righteous John of Kronstadt, protecting from falling

God! I am a miracle Your goodness, wisdom, omnipotence, since You brought from non-existence into existence, since I am preserved by You hitherto in existence, By I have colic, out of goodness, generosity and philanthropy your only begotten Son, to inherit eternal life, if you are faithful I will stay by colic terrible sacrament bringing yourself into sacrifice by Your Son, I am raised from terrible fall, redeemed from eternal death. I praise you goodness, yours power is infinite. Your wisdom! But commit your wonders goodness, omnipotence and wisdom over me cursed, and by them weigh the fates save me, your unworthy servant, and lead me into Your kingdom is eternal vouchsafe me life ageless, day non-evening.

Elder Zosima said: Whoever desires the Kingdom of Heaven desires the riches of God, and does not yet love God Himself.

Prayer of the holy righteous John of Kronstadt, protecting from despondency

God! Your name is love: do not reject me, an erring person. Your name is Strength: support me, exhausted and falling! Your name is Light: enlighten my soul, darkened by worldly passions. Your name is Peace: pacify my restless soul. Your name is Mercy: do not cease to have mercy on me!

Prayer of St. Dmitry of Rostov, protecting from despair

God! All desire and my sigh yes it will in you. All wish my and zeal mine in You alone will, my savior! All my will And my thoughts are in you let it deepen, and all my bones yes say: “Lord, Lord! Who is like You, who is equal to strength, grace and your wisdom? All bo wiser, and more righteous, and kindly arranged for us thou art ».

Prayer to the guardian angel to strengthen faith and relieve despondency in moments of failure

My patron, my intercessor in the face of the One Christian God! Holy angel, I appeal to you with a prayer for the salvation of my soul. From the Lord, a trial of faith descended on me, wretched one, for the Father, our God, has loved me. Help, saint, to endure the test from the Lord, for I am weak and I am afraid not to endure my sufferings. Angel of light, come down to me, send great wisdom on my head, to listen very sensitively to the word of God. Strengthen my faith, angel, so that there are no temptations before me and I would pass my test. As a blind man walks through the mud, not knowing it, but I will go with you among the vices and abominations of the earth, not raising my eyes to them, but in vain only to the Lord. Amen.

Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos, protecting from despair

Vladych itz a, my Most Holy Theotokos. With your all-powerful and holy supplications before our Lord take me from me, a sinner and humble your servant (name), despondency, foolishness, and all vile, deceitful, and blasphemous thoughts. I beg you! Take me them from my heart sinner and my soul weak. Holy Mother of God! Deliver me from all evil and unkind thoughts and actions. Be blessed and glorified be thy name forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer of St. Dmitry of Rostov, protecting from despondency and despair

Yes, nothing me reject, yes nothing will separate me from Divine Yours love, oh My God! Yes nothing stop, neither fire nor sword, nor smooth, no persecution, no depth, no height, nor present or future exactly the same this may be in my soul take out. Let me desire nothing else in this world, Lord, but day and night yes I will seek Thee, my Lord: and that I may find, eternal treasure accept and I will acquire wealth, and I will be worthy of all blessings.

PRAYERS THAT GIVE US PHYSICAL STRENGTH SO WE CAN SURVIVE DIFFICULT TIMES

Illnesses always take a lot of our strength and unsettle us, but it is especially scary to get sick in difficult times, and especially if we are responsible for the lives of children and loved ones, for the well-being of employees and colleagues.

Read these prayers during illnesses to speed up recovery and ease the course of illness, and when you feel that your physical strength is running out. Read these prayers for yourself and for your children, for all your loved ones, so that the Lord gives them the strength to stay healthy.

Prayer to the Lord in Sickness

The sweetest name! The name that strengthens the human heart, the name of life, salvation, joy. Command in Your name, Jesus, that the devil be removed from me. Open, O Lord, my unseeing eyes, destroy my deafness, heal my lameness, restore my speech to my dumbness, destroy my leprosy, restore my health, raise me from the dead and restore my life again, defend me from all sides from internal and external evil. Praise, honor and glory will always be given to You from age to age. Let it be so! May Jesus be in my heart. Let it be so! May our Lord Jesus Christ be always in me, may He revive me, may He preserve me. Let it be so! Amen.

Prayer for the health of St. Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon

Ovelyky pleaser Christ, passion-bearer and doctor, the merciful Panteleimon! Umi- be angry with me, a sinful slave, hear my groaning and cry, propitiate the Heavenly One, Verkhovnago Physician of our souls and bodies, Christ our God, grant me healing from the disease that oppresses me. Accept unworthy supplication the most sinful of all people. visit me fertile visit. Do not disdain my sinful ulcers, anoint them with the oil of mercy yours and heal me; yes, healthy soul And body, the rest of my days, grace of God, I can spend in repentance and pleasing God and I will do perceive good end of my life. To her, servant of God! Pray for Christ God yes representative- yours bestows health my body and the salvation of my soul. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from injury in an accident

Holy angel of Christ, protector from every evil craft, patron and benefactor! As you take care of everyone who needs your help in a moment of accidental misfortune, take care of me, a sinner. Do not leave me, heed my prayer and protect me from a wound, from an ulcer, from any accident. I entrust my life to you, as I entrust my soul. And as you pray for my soul, the Lord our God, take care of my life, protect my body from any damage. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel in illness

Holy Anegele, warrior of Christ, I appeal to you for help, for my body is in a serious illness. Cast out illnesses from me, fill my bodies with strength, my hands, my legs. Clear my head. But I beg you, my benefactor and protector, about this, for I am extremely weak, I have become weak. And I experience great suffering from my illness. And I know that from my lack of faith and from my grave sins, a disease was sent to me as punishment by our Lord. And this is a test for me. Help, angel of God, help me out by protecting my body, so that I endure the test and not shake my faith in the least. And more than that, my holy guardian, pray for my soul to our Teacher, so that the Almighty sees my repentance and removes the disease from me. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for eternal health

Listen the prayers of your ward(name), saint angel of Christ. As if he did me good, interceded for me before God, took care of and protected me in a moment of danger, kept me, by the will of the Lord, from bad people from misfortunes, from fierce animals and from the evil one, so help to me once again, send health to my bodies, my hands, my feet, my head. Let in forever and ever, as long as I live, I will be strong in my body, in order to endure trials from God and serve in glory the Most High until He calls me. I pray I am you cursed, about this. If guilty, I have sins behind me and am not worthy to ask, then I pray for forgiveness, for, sees God, I didn't think nothing wrong and nothing wrong did. Eliko was guilty, then not by malicious intent, but By thoughtlessness. ABOUT I pray for forgiveness and mercy, health I beg for the whole life. I hope on you, the angel of Christ. Amen.

PRAYERS PROTECTING FROM POVERTY AND MONEY PROBLEMS

Each of us invests in the concept of wealth and poverty its own meaning, its own meaning. We all have our own money problems. But none of us wants to be below the poverty line, to experience the horror of the question “What will my children eat tomorrow?”

Read these prayers so that you pass any money problems and that you always have the necessary financial minimum that would allow you to live without fear for tomorrow.

Prayer for Poverty

You, O Lord, are our acquisition, and therefore we lack nothing. With You, we desire nothing either in heaven or on earth. In You we enjoy an inexpressibly great bliss, which the whole world cannot deliver to us. Make it so that we continually dwell in You, and then for Your sake we will willingly renounce everything that is objectionable to You, and we will be satisfied, no matter how You, our Heavenly Father, arrange our earthly fate. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for material well-being

To you, the angel of Christ, I cry. Ashe protected me and protected and kept me, for I have not sinned before and will not sin in the future against faith. So answer now, come down on me and help me. I worked very hard, and now you see my honest hands with which I worked. So let it be, as the Scripture teaches, that it will be rewarded according to labors. Repay me according to my labors, saint, so that my hand, weary of labor, is filled, and I could live comfortably, serve God. Fulfill the will of the Almighty and bless me with earthly bounties according to my labors. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel so that abundance on the table is not translated

Having paid tribute to the Lord our God, Jesus Christ, for the food on my table, in which I saw a sign of His highest love, now I turn to you with a prayer, holy warrior of the Lord, the angel of Christ. The will of God was that for my little righteousness, I, the accursed one, would feed myself and my family, my wife and unthinkable children. I pray you, saint, protect me from an empty table, fulfill the will of the Lord and reward me for my deeds with a modest dinner so that I can satisfy my hunger and nourish my children, who are sinless before the face of the Almighty. Insofar as he sinned against the word of God and fell into disgrace, it was not out of malice. Our God sees that I did not think of evil, but always followed His commandments. Therefore, I repent, I pray for forgiveness for the sins that I have, and I ask you to give a plentiful table in moderation so as not to die of hunger. Amen.

Prayer to the Holy Hieromartyr Kharlampy for deliverance from hunger, asking for the fertility of the land, a good harvest

Outstanding Hieromartyr Charalambius, passion-bearing insurmountable, priest of God, intercede for the whole world! Look at the prayer of us who honor your holy memory: ask the Lord God for forgiveness of our sins, may the Lord not be completely angry with us: we have sinned and are unworthy of the mercy of God: pray for us the Lord God, may the world be sent down on the city and our weight may deliver us from the invasion of foreigners, internecine strife and all sorts of strife and disorder: affirm, holy martyr, faith and piety in all the children of the Orthodox Christian Church, and may the Lord God deliver us from heresies, schisms and all superstition. O merciful martyr! Pray for us to the Lord, may he save us from hunger and all kinds of diseases, and may he give us an abundance of the fruits of the earth, cattle multiplication for the needs of man and all that is useful to us: most of all, let us be honored, by your prayers, with the heavenly kingdom of Christ our God, to Him honor and worship appropriate, with His Father without beginning and the most holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

In prosperity and in poverty

(According to Acts 20:35; Matt. 25:34)

Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for all the good that You give me through the Lord Jesus Christ. Bless, dear Savior, the work that You have given me, and give me the strength to do it for the good of Your kingdom. Give me the joy of seeing the fruits of my labors and donations. Fulfill Your words on me: “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” so that I can live in prosperity and not experience poverty.

But if I should experience poverty, then grant, Lord, the wisdom and patience to endure it with dignity, without grumbling, remembering poor Lazarus, for whom You, Lord, have prepared bliss in Your kingdom.

I beg you, let me hear one day: "Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel, protecting from failure

Overshadowing myself with the holy sign of the cross, I turn in fervent prayer to you, the angel of Christ, the guardian of my soul and body. Even though you know my affairs, guide me, send me a happy chance, don’t leave me even at the moment of my failures. Forgive my sins, because I have sinned against the faith. Protect, saint, from bad luck. May failures bypass the servant of God (name), may the will of the Lord be done in all my affairs, Lover of mankind, and I will never suffer from bad luck and poverty. About this I pray you, benefactor. Amen.

Prayer to Saint John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria

Saint John of God, merciful protector of the orphans and those who are in adversity! We resort to you and pray to you, Your servants (names), as a speedy patron of all those who seek consolation from God in troubles and sorrows. Do not stop praying to the Lord for all those who flow to you with faith! You, being filled with Christ's love and goodness, appeared like a wonderful chamber of the virtue of mercy and acquired the name "Merciful". You were like a river, constantly flowing with generous graces and abundantly watering all those who are thirsty. We believe that, after moving from earth to heaven, the gift of sowing grace was aggravated in you, and as if you were made an inexhaustible vessel of all goodness. Create with your intercession and intercession before God “every kind of joy”, and all who resort to you find peace and serenity: grant them comfort in temporary sorrows and help in the needs of life, instill in them the hope of eternal rest in the Kingdom of Heaven. In your life on earth, you were a haven for all that exists in every misfortune and need, offended and ill; not a single one of those who flowed to you and asked you for mercy was deprived of your goodness. Identity and now, reigning with Christ in heaven, reveal to all those who bow before your honest icon and pray for help and intercession. Not only did you yourself show mercy to the helpless, but you also lifted up the hearts of others to the comfort of the weak and to the charity of the poor. Move the hearts of the faithful even now to the intercession of the orphans, the consolation of the mourners and the reassurance of the poor. May the gifts of mercy not fail in them, moreover, may peace and joy in the Holy Spirit be rejoicing in them (and in this house that looks after the afflicted), to the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, protecting from loss of wealth and poverty

Our kind shepherd And godly mentor, saint Christov Nicholas! Hear us sinners (names), praying to you and calling for your help, your speedy intercession: behold us infirm, caught from everywhere, deprived of every good and mind from cowardice of the darkened. Sweat God's servant, no leave us in sinful captivity be, let us not be joyful our enemy and not we will die in our evil deeds. Pray for us unworthy Our co-creator and Lord, to him you co incorporeal faces pre-stand: kind to us create God ours in the present life and in future age, may he not repay us on business our and by impurity hearts ours, but by His goodness will reward us. For yours for the intercessor trustworthy, yours we boast of intercession, we call on your intercession for help, and to the holy image yours falling down, we ask for help: deliver us, the servant of Christ, from the evils that are upon us, but for the sake of your holy prayers will not embrace us attack and not mired in the abyss of sin and mud passions ours. Moth, to St. Nicholas of Christ, Christ our God, may he give us a peaceful life and the remission of sins, to our souls rescue and great mercy, now and forever and ever.

Prayer to St. Spyridon of Trimifuntsky, bestowing a serene, comfortable existence

Ovseblissful saint Spiridone, great pleasing to Christ and glorious miracle worker! Pre- stand on heaven Throne God's face Angel, look with a merciful eye on the people (names) coming here and asking for your strong help. Pray for the goodness of the Lover of God, let him not condemn us according to our iniquity, but let him do with us by His mercy! Ask us of Christ and our God peaceful And serene life, mental health And bodily, earth prosperity and in everything all abundance and prosperity, and let us not turn the good into evil, bestowed us from the generous God, but to His glory and glorification your intercession! Deliver everyone, unquestioning faith to God coming from all sorts of mental troubles And bodily, from all yearnings And devilish slanders! Be a sad comforter, sick doctor, in misfortune assistant, naked patron, intercessor for widows, orphans defender, baby feeder, old strengthen- body, wandering guide, floating helmsman, And speak to everyone your strong help demanding, all even to salvation useful! Yako yes with your prayers we instruct and observe, we will reach into the eternal peace and together with you we will glorify God, in the Trinity Holy glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to St. Tikhon of Zadonsk for sending down a comfortable life and getting rid of poverty

Ovseplavnyy saint and saint of Christ, from- what is our Tikhon! Angelic on having lived on the earth, you appeared like a good angel and in your long-time glorification: we believe wholeheartedly and thoughts, like you, our good heart helper And prayer book, your unfalse intercessions and grace, from the Lord richly to you bestowed you contribute greatly to our salvation. Accept ugly, pleasurable servant Christ, and at this hour our unworthy prayers: own bodysuit we are your intercession from the vanity that surrounds us and superstition, unbelief and malevolence of man vecheskogo; rush, quick intercessor for us, implore the Lord with your favorable intercession, may His great and rich mercy be upon us sinful and unworthy His servants(names), let him heal with his grace unhealed sores and scabs of corrupted souls and teles our let our petrified heart dissolve tears of compassion and contrition for many sins ours, and yes deliver us from eternal torment and the fire of Gehenna; to all His faithful people Yes grants peace and silence, health and salvation and good haste in everything, yes tacos, quiet and silent living lived in any piety and purity, let us be honored with Angels and with everyone saints glorify and sing the all-holy name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit forever and ever.

Prayer to the Monk Alexis, a man of God, for protection in poverty

Great saint of Christ, holy man of God Alexis, stand with your soul in heaven at the throne of the Lord, on the earth given to you from above by grace perform various miracles! Look mercifully, but for the upcoming holy icon your people (names), tenderly praying and asking you for help and intercession. Prayerfully stretch out your honest hands to the Lord God and ask us from Him to forgive our sins, voluntary and involuntary, in sickness suffering healing, attacking intercession, grieving consolation, distressed ambulance, all honoring your peaceful and Christian life, death and a good answer at the terrible judgment Christ. She, the servant of God, do not disgrace our hope, which we put on thee according to God and the Mother of God, but be our helper and patron for salvation, and with your prayers, having received grace and mercy from the Lord, we will glorify the philanthropy of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in Trinity glorify and worship God, and your holy intercession, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer before the icons of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" for consolation in the sorrow of lack of money

O Blessed Lady Theotokos, blessed Mother of Christ God, our Savior, all those who grieve with joy, visiting the sick, the weak cover and intercessor, widows and orphans, the patroness, sad mothers, the all-reliable comforter, the weak babies of the fortress, and all the helpless are always ready help and true refuge! You, O All-Merciful One, have been given grace from the Almighty to intercede and deliver from sorrows and illnesses, for you yourself have endured fierce sorrows and illnesses, looking at the free suffering of Your beloved Son and That on the cross crucified seeing, always the weapon predicted by Simeon , your heart pass: the same Ubo, O Mother, loving child, heed the voice of our prayer, comfort us in the sorrow of those who are, like a faithful intercessor of joy. Coming to the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, at the right hand of Your Son, Christ our God, you can, if you rise, ask all that is useful for us: for the sake of heartfelt faith and love, we fall to You, as the Queen and Mistress: hear, daughter, and see, and bow Your ear, hear our prayer and deliver us from the current troubles and sorrows: You are the Joy of all the faithful, as if you give peace and consolation. Behold, see our misfortune and sorrow: show us Your mercy, send consolation to our wounded sorrow in our hearts, show and surprise us sinners with the wealth of Your mercy, give us tears of repentance to cleanse our sins and satisfy the wrath of God, but with a pure heart, a good conscience and with undoubted hope, we resort to Your intercession and intercession. Accept, our All-Merciful Lady Theotokos, our fervent prayer offered to You, and do not reject us unworthy of Your mercy, but give us deliverance from sorrow and illness, protect us from all slander of the enemy and human slander, be our unrelenting helper all the days of our life , as if, under Your maternal protection, we will always remain the goal and save by Your intercession and prayers to Your Son and God our Savior, He deserves all glory, honor and worship, with His Fatherless Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and in ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer before the icons of the Mother of God “Assuage my sorrows” to calm the soul and heart in poverty

Hope to all ends of the earth, Most Pure Virgin, Lady Theotokos, our consolation! Do not disdain us sinners, for we trust in Your mercy: extinguish the sinful flame burning in us and our hearts dried up by repentance; cleanse our minds from sinful thoughts, accept prayers, from the heart and soul with a sigh, brought to you. Be an intercessor for us to Your Son and God and turn away His wrath with Your Motherly prayers. Heal spiritual and bodily ulcers, Lady Mistress, quench the illnesses of souls and bodies, calm the storm of evil enemy attacks, take away the burden of our sins, and do not leave us to perish to the end, and comfort our contrite hearts, may we praise Thee until our last breath. Amen.

Prayer before the icons of the Mother of God "Kazanskaya" to get rid of poverty and despondency when money problems appear

O Blessed Lady, Lady Mother of God! With fear, faith and love before honest and miraculous your icon condescendingly, we pray You: no turn your face away your from resorting to you: beg merciful Mother, Son your and our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, may he keep peace our country But His holy Church is unshakable may he also keep from unbelief, heresies and schism, and save him. Not imams for other help, not imams other hope, unless you Pure Virgo: You are the omnipotent Christian assistant and intercessor: save everyone, with faith in you praying, from sinful falls, from the calumny of the evil Human, from all temptations sorrows, illnesses, troubles and from sudden death: grant us a spirit of contrition, humility of heart, purity of thought correction sinful life and forsaking sins, yes everyone is grateful glorious majesty and Your mercy, being above us here on land, let us be honored and heavenly Kingdom, and there with all the saints we will glorify honorable and glorious name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever.

Prayer before the icons of the Mother of God "Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos" for protection from money problems

O Blessed Virgin, Mother of the Lord of the Higher Forces, Heaven and earth Queen, city and country of our all-powerful Intercessor! Accept this laudatory and thankful singing from us, unworthy Thy servants, and lift up our prayers to the Throne of God Thy Son, may he be merciful to our unrighteousness and grant His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and worship with faith and love miraculous image Yours. Nesma, for you are worthy of being pardoned by Him, otherwise You will propitiate Him for us, O Lady, as all of You is possible from Him. For this sake, we resort to You, as if to our undoubted and soon Intercessor: hear us praying to You, fall us with Your all-powerful cover and ask God Your Son for our shepherd jealousy and vigilance for souls, wisdom and strength as a city governor, justice and impartiality to judges , a mentor of reason and humility of wisdom, a spouse love and harmony, a child obedience, offended patience, offending the fear of God, grieving complacency, rejoicing abstinence:

to all of us the spirit of reason and piety, the spirit of mercy and meekness, the spirit of purity and truth. Hey, Most Holy Lady, have mercy on your weak people; Gather the scattered ones, guide those who have gone astray on the right path, support old age, young chastity, raise babies and look upon us all with the contempt of Your mercy-your intercession; raise us up from the depths of sin and illumine the eyes of our hearts with the sight of salvation; be merciful to us here and there, in the country of earthly alienation and at the Last Judgment of Your Son; having reposed in faith and repentance from this life, fathers and our brothers in eternal life with the Angels and with all the saints, create life. You are for Thou, Madam, the Glory of heaven and the Hope of the earth, You, according to God, are our Hope and Intercessor of all those who flow to You in faith. We pray to You, and to You, as the Almighty Helper, we betray ourselves and each other and our whole life, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer for protection from poverty and other troubles of Saint Xenia the Blessed

Holy Blessed Mother Xenia! Under the shelter of the Almighty, who lived, guided and strengthened by the Mother of God, gladness and thirst, cold and heat, reproach and persecution, suffered the gift of insight and miracles from God, and rest under the shadow of the Almighty step. Now the Holy Church, like a fragrant flower, glorifies you: coming at the place of your burial, in front of your saints, as if you live on dry land with us, we pray to you: accept our petitions and bring them to the Throne of the Merciful Heavenly Father, as if you have boldness towards Him , ask those who flow to you eternal salvation, and for good deeds and undertakings our generous blessing, deliverance from all troubles and sorrows, appear with your holy prayers before our All-Merciful Savior for us, unworthy and sinners, help, holy blessed mother Xenia, babies with the light of the Holy Illuminate baptisms and seal the gift of the Holy Spirit, youths and maidens in faith, honesty, God-fearing and chastity, educate and give them success in teaching; heal those who are sick and sick, family love and send down consent, worthy of monastic feat to strive for good and protect from reproach, affirm the pastors in the fortress of the spirit, preserve our people and country in peace and serenity, for those deprived of communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ at the dying hour, pray: you are our hope and hope, soon hearing and deliverance, we send thanks to you and with you we glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from poverty

I appeal to you with prayer, my benefactor and patron, my intercessor before the Lord God, the holy angel of Christ. I call on you, for my granaries are scanty, my stables stand empty. My bins no longer please the eye, but the purse is empty. I know that this is a test for me, a sinner. And therefore I pray to you, saint, for I am honest before people and God, and my money has always been honest. And I did not take sin upon my soul, but I always got hold of God's providence. Do not destroy me with hunger, do not oppress me with poverty. Do not let the humble servant of God die despised by all the poor, for I have worked very hard for the glory of the Lord. Protect me, my holy patron angel, from a life of poverty, for I am innocent. If you are guilty, then it will be God's will for everything. Amen.

PRAYERS PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN, RELATIVE, CLOSE FROM TROUBLE AND UNHAPPINESS

In difficult times, everyone suffers, both ourselves and our loved ones. The heart begins to break when you see what hardships and problems sometimes fall on the people closest to us.

How can we help all our families? How can we support them in trouble? Our fervent request for help addressed to God, our prayer for loved ones can provide very effective support. If we ask for our relatives and loved ones, then even in the most terrible troubles it will be a little easier and easier for them to cope with the shaft of everyday troubles.

Read these prayers whenever your children and loved ones have problems, when you want to help them cope with them.

Mother's prayer for her child

Lord Jesus Christ, son God, prayers for the sake of the Most Pure Yours mothers hear me, sinful and unworthy Your servant (name). Lord, in the grace of Your power, my child (name) have mercy and save his name your for the sake of Lord, I'm sorry him all sins freestyle And involuntary committed by him before You. Lord, guide him the true way of your commandments and enlighten him and enlighten him by your light of Christ, salvation of the soul and healing of the body. Lord, bless him in the house, near the house, in the field, at work and on the road and on every place in your domain. Lord keep him under your holy shelter from a flying bullet, arrow, knife, sword, poison, fire, flood, from a deadly ulcer (rays atom) and from useless deaths. Lord, protect him from visible and invisible enemies, from all troubles, evils and misfortunes. Lord, heal him of all diseases, cleanse him of all filth (guilt, tobacco, drugs) and make it easier sincere suffering and sorrow. Lord, grant to him grace Holy Spirit for many summer life and health, chastity. Lord, give him his blessing on the pious family life and pious childbearing. Lord, grant me unworthy and sinful Thy servant, a parental blessing on my child in the coming mornings, days, evenings and nights for the sake of Your name, for Your Kingdom is eternal, omnipotent and omnipotent. Amen.

Prayer to the Mother of God for children

O Blessed Lady Virgin Mother of God, save and save under Thy shelter my children (names), all the youths, maidens and babies, baptized and nameless and carried in the womb of their mother. Cover them with the robe of Your motherhood, keep them in the fear of God and in obedience to your parents, implore my Lord and Your Son, may He grant them useful things for their salvation. I entrust them to Your Motherly care, as You are the Divine Protection of Your servants.

Prayer for work and occupation for children

Praise be to the Saint Hierarch of Christ and the miracle worker Mitrofana! Accept this small prayer from us sinners who come running to you, and with your warm intercession, beseech the Lord and our God, Jesus Christ, as if looking down on us mercifully, will give us forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary, and, by His great mercy, save us from troubles, sorrows, sorrows and illnesses of the soul and body that hold us back: may it give fruitful land and all that is necessary for the benefit of our present life; may he grant us the end of this temporary life in repentance, and may he vouchsafe us, sinners and unworthy ones, to His Kingdom of Heaven, to glorify His infinite mercy with all the saints, with His Beginningless Father and His Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to Saint Mitrofan for the well-being of children in society

Holy Hierarch Father Mitrofan, incorruptible honest relics yours and many good deeds miraculously done and done you with faith flowing to you, convinced that imache great grace from the Lord our God, humbly we all fall down and pray to you: pray for us Christ our God, may it descend to all, those who honor Your holy memory and earnestly who resort to you, rich in His mercy: yes approve in holy Orthodox Church the living spirit of the right faith and piety, spirit management and love, spirit of the world and joy in the Holy Spirit, and all her members, clean from worldly temptations and carnal lusts and evil the actions of evil spirits, in spirit and in truth worship Him and diligently concerned about compliance His commandments to the salvation of their souls. Shepherd her yes will give a holy jealousy care about saving people, entrusted, let them enlighten the unbelievers, instruct the ignorant, instruct and convince the doubters, fallen away from Orthodox Church will turn to her holy bowels, believers keep in faith sinners are moved to repentance, the penitent will be comforted and strengthened in correction life, repentant and reformed will be affirmed in holiness life: and tacos lead everyone specified From him the way to the prepared eternal his kingdom. To her saint God's yes arrange all your prayers good souls and bodies ours: yes and we glorify in souls and telesech our Lord and our God, Jesus Christ, him co Father and Holy Spirit glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel to protect children from troubles and misfortunes

I beg you, my kind guardian angel, who did me a favor, overshadowed me with his light, protected me from all kinds of misfortune. And neither a fierce beast, nor a thief can defeat me. And neither the elements nor the dashing person will destroy me. And nothing, thanks to your efforts, will harm me. I am under your holy protection, under your protection, I receive the love of our Lord. So protect my unthinking and sinless children, whom I loved, as Jesus commanded, protect from everything that you protected me from. May neither a fierce beast, nor a thief, nor the elements, nor any dashing person harm them. About this I pray to you, holy angel, warrior of Christ. And everything will be the will of God. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel to protect loved ones from troubles and misfortunes

I beg you, my kind guardian angel, who did me a favor, overshadowed me with his light, protected me from all kinds of misfortune. And neither a fierce beast, nor a thief can defeat me. And neither the elements nor the dashing person will destroy me. And nothing, thanks to your efforts, will harm me. I am under your holy protection, under your protection, I receive the love of our Lord. So protect my neighbors, whom I loved, as Jesus commanded, protect from everything from which you protected me. May neither a fierce beast, nor a thief, nor the elements, nor any dashing person harm them. About this I pray to you, holy angel, warrior of Christ. And everything will be the will of God. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel to protect relatives from troubles

I beg you, my good guardian angel, who did me a favor, overshadowed me with his light, protected me from all kinds of misfortune. And neither a fierce beast, nor a thief can defeat me. And neither the elements nor the dashing person will destroy me. And nothing, thanks to your efforts, will harm me. Under your holy patronage, under your protection, I abide, I receive the love of our Lord. So protect my relatives, whom I loved, as Jesus commanded, protect me from everything that you protected me from. May neither a fierce beast, nor a thief, nor the elements, nor any dashing person harm them. About this I pray to you, holy angel, warrior of Christ. And everything will be the will of God. Amen.

Prayer for the protection of loved ones from diseases

One quick in intercession, Christ soon over show a visitation by a suffering slave yours, and get rid of illness and bitter illnesses, and raise up in a hedgehog to sing Thee and glorify unceasingly, with prayers Mother of God, One Humanity. Glory to the Father And Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

PRAYERS PROTECTING AGAINST LOSS OF JOBS, HATE OF COLLEAGUES AND AUTHORITIES

In difficult times, you can suddenly lose everything: your job, savings, the friendly attitude of colleagues and superiors. Even the best friends-employees can suddenly start to look askance at you: after all, everyone is afraid that they can be “cut down”, and for some reason they want someone else to take their place - for example, you ...

Read prayers that protect against ill will and envy, support the spiritual strength of those who have already been laid off, and protect against job loss, as often as possible. And the Lord will not leave you!

Prayer for those who have been made redundant

Thank you, Heavenly Father, that in the midst of sadness, anger, uncertainty, pain, I can talk to You. Hear me as I cry out in confusion, help me think clearly and soothe my soul. As life goes on, help me feel Your presence every day. And as I look to the future, help me find new opportunities, new paths. Lead me by Your Spirit and show me Your way, through Jesus - the way, the truth and the life. Amen.

Prayer for those who kept their jobs

Life changed: colleagues were laid off and left without work. Suddenly everything that seemed stable was now so fragile. Difficult to express what what I feel: sadness, guilt, fear regarding the future. Who will be next? How I can handle the load At work? Lord Jesus, in the midst of this uncertainty help to me keep going: work the best form- Zom, living with the cares of one day, and taking time every day to be with you. Because You are the way true and life. Amen.

Prayer of the persecuted by people (Compiled by St. Ignatius Brianchaninov)

I thank You, Lord and my God, for everything that has happened to me! I thank You for all the sorrows and temptations that You sent me to cleanse those defiled by sins, to heal my soul and body, ulcerated by the sins! Have mercy and save those instruments that You used for my healing: those people who offended me. Bless them in this and the next age! Credit them with virtue for what they did for me! Appoint them abundant rewards from your eternal treasures.

What did I bring you? What kind sacrifices? I brought only sins, only violations of Your most divine commandments. Forgive me, Lord, forgive the guilty before You and before people! Forgive the unrequited! Grant me to be convinced and sincerely confess that I am a sinner! Grant me to reject sly excuses! Grant me repentance! Give me contrition of heart! Grant me meekness and humility! Grant love to your neighbors, immaculate love, the same for everyone, both comforting and grieving me! Grant me patience in all my sorrows! Kill me for the world! Take away my sinful will from me and plant Your holy will in my heart, so that I can do it alone with deeds, and words, and thoughts, and my feelings. Glory befits you for everything! To you alone belongs the glory! My only property is the shame of the face and the silence of the lips. Standing before Your Last Judgment in my wretched prayer, I do not find in myself a single good deed, not a single dignity, and I stand, only embraced from everywhere by an innumerable multitude of my sins, like a thick cloud and darkness, with a single consolation in my soul: with hope for an unlimited Your mercy and goodness. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from those in power

By the will of the Lord sent down to me Guardian angel, defender and my trustee. And so I appeal to you at a difficult moment in your prayer, so that amulet you me from big trouble. I am oppressed by those invested with earthly power, and I have no other protection but How power heavenly, which stands above all of us and our peace governs. holy angel, protect from harassment and resentment from those who towered over me. save from their injustice, for I suffer to this day reason is innocent. I forgive as God taught these people their sins are before me, for the Lord He exalted those who exalted themselves above me, and thereby tests me. For all then the will of God, from everything that is above the will God's save me, my guardian angel. What am I asking for you in your prayer. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from distrust at work

Angel of the Lord, as you do the will of Heaven on earth, hear me, accursed one. Turn your clear gaze on me, with your autumn light, help me, a Christian soul, against human unbelief. And as it was said in the Scripture about unbelieving Thomas, remember, saint. So let there be no mistrust, no suspicion, no doubt from people. For I am pure before people, as I am pure before the Lord our God. Since I didn’t listen to the Lord, I repent of this very much, for I did it out of thoughtlessness, but not out of malicious intent to go against the word of God. I beg you, angel of Christ, my holy protector and patron, protect the servant of God (name). Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from misunderstanding with colleagues and superiors

My patron, heavenly angel, my bright guardian. I appeal to you for help, for I am in serious trouble. And this misfortune comes from a misunderstanding of the human. Unable to see my good thoughts, people drive me away from themselves. And my heart is extremely hurt, for I am pure before people, and my conscience is pure. Do not plan anything bad, contrary to God, therefore I pray you, holy angel of the Lord, protect me from human misunderstanding, let my good Christian deeds be understood. Let them understand that I wish them well. Help me, saint, protect me! Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for harmony in relations with colleagues

Holy angel of Christ, your ward calls to you, the servant of God (name), with a prayer. I ask you, saint, to save me from contention and discord with my neighbors. For I am not guilty of anything before them, I am pure before them, as before the Lord. Since I have sinned against them and the Lord, I repent and pray for forgiveness, since it is not my fault, but the machinations of the evil one. Protect me from the evil one and do not let me offend my neighbors. That's what God wants, so be it. Let them also heed the word of God and love me. I ask you about this, the angel of Christ, the warrior of God, in my prayer. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for harmony in relations with those in authority

Holy angel of Christ, your ward calls to you, the servant of God (name) with a prayer. I ask you, saint, to save me from contention and discord with my rulers. For I am not guilty of anything before them, I am pure before them, as before the Lord. Since I have sinned against them and the Lord, I repent and pray for forgiveness, since it is not my fault, but the machinations of the evil one. Protect me from the evil one and do not let me offend my rulers. By the will of the Lord they are placed over me, so be it. Let them also heed the word of God and love me. I ask you about this, the angel of Christ, the warrior of God, in my prayer. Amen.

Prayer that protects against intrigue at work

Merciful God, now and please hold on and behind- delay until good time everything plans around standing me about my relocation, dismissal, deposition, exile. So now destroy the evil desires and demands of all condemning me. So and now point spiritual blindness in everyone's eyes rising up on me and on my enemies. And you, all the Holy Lands Russian, develop by force their prayers both All for me demonic spells, all devilish plans and intrigues - annoy me and destroy me and my property. And you, great and formidable guard, Archangel Michael, fiery sword slash all the desires of the enemy the human race and all his minions who want to destroy me. stop unbreakable on guardian of this house living in it and everything property his. And You, Lady, do not in vain called the "Indestructible Wall", be for all warring against me and malicious dirty tricks do me, truly some barrier and indestructible wall, protecting me from all evil and difficult circumstances., bless.

Prayer to Archangel Michael, protecting from trouble at work

Lord, Great God, King without beginning, send, Lord, Your Archangel Michael to help Your servants (name). Protect us, Archangel, from all enemies, visible and invisible. O Lord Great Archangel Michael! Demon crusher, forbid all enemies fighting with me, and create them like sheep, and humble their evil hearts, and crush them like dust in the face of the wind. Oh Lord Great Archangel Michael! The six-winged first Prince and Governor of the Heavenly Forces - Cherubim and Seraphim, be our helper in all troubles, sorrows, sorrows, in the desert and on the seas a quiet haven. O Lord Great Archangel Michael! Deliver us from all the charms of the devil, whenever you hear us, sinners, praying to You, calling on Your Holy Name. Hasten to help us and overcome all who oppose us, by the power of the Honorable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, by the prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos, the prayers of the holy Apostles, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Andrew, for Christ's sake, the holy fool, holy prophet Elijah and all the holy great martyrs: the holy martyrs Nikita and Eust -fiy, and all our venerable fathers, who have pleased God from time immemorial, and all the holy Heavenly Forces.

O Lord Great Archangel Michael! Help us sinners (name), and deliver us from a coward, flood, fire, sword and vain death, from great evil, from a flattering enemy, from a tormented storm, from the evil one deliver us forever, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen. Holy Archangel Michael of God, with Your lightning sword, drive away from me the evil spirit that tempts and torments me. Amen.

Prayer from enemies at work and in case of difficulties in business

From evil deeds, from evil people, with your God's wise words, he established heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, the moon and the stars of the Lord. And so affirm the heart of man (name) in the footsteps and commandments. Heaven is the key, earth is the lock; to that the keys to the outside. So tyn, over the amens amen. Amen.

Prayer that protects from troubles

Great God, by Whom everything is saved, free me also from all evil. O great God, who has bestowed comfort on all beings, grant it to me also. O great God, who shows help and support in all things, help me also and show your help in all my needs, misfortunes, enterprises and dangers; deliver me from all the machinations of enemies, visible and invisible, in the name of the Father, who created the whole world, in the name of the Son, who redeemed him, in the name of the Holy Spirit, who made the law in all its perfection. I surrender into Your hands and surrender completely to Your holy patronage. Let it be so! Blessing of God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, may it always be with me! Let it be so! The blessing of God the Father, who created everything with His single word, be always with me. The blessing of our Almighty Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, be always with me! Let it be so! The blessing of the Holy Spirit, with His seven gifts, be with me! Let it be so! May the blessing of the Virgin Mary and Her Son be always with me! Let it be so!

PRAYERS FOR PROTECTION FROM THIEFS, FINANCIAL SCAM AND ECONOMIC FRAUD

In difficult times, we are defenseless and confused. But for craftsmen, fishing in troubled waters is a difficult time - a period of good luck and prosperity. Scammers and crooks of all stripes strive to lure savings from honest citizens, promising mountains of gold and millions in profits.

Read these prayers as often as possible so that the Lord will instruct you not to succumb to deception and save your wallet safe and sound. Read before making a decision about even the most seemingly transparent transactions related to money.

Prayer to Archangel Michael with a request for help and protection from thieves option one

Saint Michael the Archangel, light-like and formidable Heavenly King voivode! Before doomsday weaken me to repent of my sins, from the net that catches, deliver my soul and bring it to the God who created it, who settles on the cherubim, and pray for her diligently, but by your intercession she will go to the place of the deceased. O formidable governor of the heavenly forces, the representative of all at the Throne of the Lord Christ, the guardian, firm in all man and wise armourer, strong governor of the Heavenly King! Have mercy on me, a sinner who requires your intercession, save me from all visible and invisible enemies, moreover, strengthen me from the horror of death and from the embarrassment of the devil, and make me shamelessly present to our Creator at the hour of His terrible and righteous judgment. O all-holy great Michael the Archangel! Do not despise me a sinner, who prays to you for help and your intercession in this life and in the future, but make me worthy to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit with you forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer to the Archangel Michael with a request for help and protection from thieves, option two

Lord, Great God, King without beginning, send, Lord, Your Archangel Michael to help Your servants (name). Protect us, Archangel, from all enemies, visible and invisible. O Lord Great Archangel Michael! Demon crusher, forbid all enemies fighting with me, and create them like sheep, and humble their evil hearts, and crush them like dust in the face of the wind. O Lord Great Archangel Michael! The six-winged first Prince and Governor of the Heavenly Forces - Cherubim and Seraphim, be our helper in all troubles, sorrows, sorrows, in the desert and on the seas a quiet haven. O Lord Great Archangel Michael! Deliver us from all the charms of the devil, whenever you hear us, sinners, praying to You, calling on Your Holy Name. Hasten to help us and overcome all those who oppose us, with the power of the Holy and Life-giving Cross of the Lord, the prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos, the prayers of the holy Apostles, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Andrew, for Christ's sake, the holy fool, holy prophet Elijah and all the holy great martyrs: the holy martyrs Nikita and Eustathius, and all our venerable fathers, who have pleased God from time immemorial, and all the holy powers of heaven.

O Lord Great Archangel Michael! Help us sinners (name) and deliver us from a coward, a flood, fire, a sword and vain death, from great evil, from a flattering enemy, from a tormented storm, from the evil one, deliver us forever, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen. Holy Archangel Michael of God, with Your lightning sword, drive away from me the evil spirit that tempts and torments me. Amen.

Prayer for the return of the stolen, as well as for the loss of things

From Julian, the godless king, Saint John Stratelates was sent to kill Christians, you helped some from your estate, while others, persuading them to flee from torment by the infidels, freed them, and for this they suffered many torments and imprisonment in prison from the tormentor. After the death of the impious king, being released from prison, you spent the rest of your life in great virtues until your death, decorating yourself with purity, prayer and fasting, giving abundant alms to the poor, visiting the weak and comforting the mourners. Therefore, in all the sorrows of our helper and in all the troubles that happen to us: we have you as a comforter, John the warrior: resorting to you, we pray you, be the healer of our passions and the suffering of our spiritual deliverer, because you received from God useful power for the salvation of all give, ever-memorable John, feeder of wanderers, liberator of captives, infirm doctor: helper for orphans! Look at us, who honor your sacred joyful memory, intercede for us before the Lord, so that we may be heirs of His kingdom. Hear and do not reject us, and hasten to intercede for us, stratilate John, denouncing thieves and kidnappers, and stealing, secretly committed by them, faithfully praying to you, revealing to you, and bringing people back to joy with the return of property. Resentment and injustice are hard for every person, everyone is sad about the loss of the stolen, or missing. Listen to those who mourn, Saint John: and help find the stolen property, so that, having found it, they glorify the Lord for His generosity forever. Amen.

Prayer from the encroachment of bandits to the righteous Joseph the Betrothed

O holy righteous Joseph! You still on earth, ABOUT had a great You boldness to Son of God, Izhe please name cha by his father, like a betrothed to His Mother, and By listen to you; we believe that now since faces righteous in cloisters heavenly settling down heard you will be in every your petition to God And Our Savior. Tem same, to yours resorting to cover and intercession, we humbly pray cha: like yourself from the storm dubious thoughts you were delivered, so deliver us too, waves of embarrassment and overwhelmed passions; how did you protect All Immaculate Virgin from human slander, protect us also from all slander in vain; as you kept from all harm and embitterment of the Incarnate Lord, so save by your intercession His Orthodox Church and all us from all malice and harm. Vesey, holy of God like and Son of God in days own flesh in bodily those who had need, and you ministered to them; for that we pray you, and our temporary needs hurry up by your petition giving us all that is good, necessary in this life. Fairly the same we ask thee, intercede for us the remission of sins from betrothed you Son, the only begotten Son of God, the Lord our Jesus Christ, and worthy to be kingdom heritage heavenly us representation yours create and we, in the mountains villages with you settling in, glorify one Trinitarian God, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.

Prayer from the breakers of promises and treaties to the holy martyr Polyeuktus

Holy Martyr Polievkte! Look from the heavenly chamber to those who demand yours help and not reject our petitions, but, like close our benefactor and intercessor, pray to Christ God, yes, having been philanthropic and many-merciful, he will save us from any kind of situation: from a coward, flood, fire, sword, invasion foreigners and internecine scolding. Don't judge us sinful By lawlessness ours, and let us not turn the good that is bestowed on us from Omniscient- god of God, but to the glory of His holy name and to the glorification of the mighty your intercession. Yes by your prayers the Lord will give us peace thoughts, abstinence from pernicious passions and from all filth and May He strengthen His Oneness throughout the world Holy, Cathedral and Apostolic Church, because I got it with His honest blood. Moli diligently, holy martyr. God bless Christ Russian state, Yes will establish in His Holy Orthodox Church live- your spirit of the right faith and piety, and all her members, clean from superstition and superstition, worship in spirit and truth Him and diligently care to keep him commandments, yes we are all in the world and piety let's live in present forever and achieve blessed eternal life in heaven, the grace of the Lord our Jesus Christ, to whom all glory, honor and power co Father and Holy Spirit, now and right and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayers read in case of loss, loss of any property

(Rev. Aretha Pechersky)

1. God, have mercy! Lord, about st And! All is yours, I don't regret it!

2. The Lord gave. The Lord took.

May the name of the Lord be blessed.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from thieves

A Angel of God, my saint, save me, a sinner, from an evil look, from an evil intention. Save me weak and infirm from the lady in the night and other dashing people. Not leave me holy angel difficult moment. Don't let who forgot God to destroy the soul Christian. I'm sorry everything my sins, if any, have mercy on me, cursed and unworthy, and save from true death in the hands of evil people. TO you, angel of Christ, I call from such pleading I, unworthy. How cast out demons from man, so cast out danger from my path. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel from dishonest money

I pray for you, holy angel of Christ, remembering our Lord in your face. I pray for mercy and protection. My patron, God-given, my gracious guardian, forgive me, a sinner and unworthy. Protect me from dishonest money, may this evil never stick to me, may it not destroy my soul. Protect, saint, so that the honest servant of the Lord is not convicted of theft. Protect me from such shame and vice, do not let dishonest money stick to me, since this is not God's providence, but satanic bribery. About this I pray you, saint. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from deceit, theft and dangers on a business road

guardian angel servant Christ, winged and incorporeal, you do not know you are tired in your paths-paths. I beg you to be my companion along my own path. Before me is a long road, hard way turned out to be a slave God's. AND I am very much afraid of the dangers that an honest traveler waiting on the road. Protect me saint angel, from these dangers. Let no robbers, or bad weather or animals, nothing else will stand in my way. I humbly pray you about this and I hope on your help. Amen.

PRAYERS FOR PROTECTION OF MATERIAL PROPERTY, FOR PROTECTION FROM NATURAL DISASTERS

In difficult times, we value our property, everything we have. To lose everything acquired over many years, when it is already difficult and hard for all of us, is too strong a blow for anyone. In addition, many dishonest people want to take possession of other people's property - steal, take away, redeem in a fraudulent way. And natural disasters, which are increasingly occurring in Lately, also threaten us with loss.

Always read these prayers so that your house and all your property, movable and immovable, would remain safe and sound.

Prayer to the prophet Elijah

You can pray to the Holy Glorious Prophet Elijah during a lack of rain, drought, in the rain, for a change in the weather, as well as for good trading, from hunger and in cases where you want to receive a prophecy, prophetic dreams.

Great and glorious prophet of God Elijah, jealousy for your sake, according to the glory of the Lord God Almighty, not tolerating the sight of idolatry and wickedness of the sons of Israel, the law-criminal king Aha-Av, rebuking and punishing those three-year famine on the land of Israel with your prayer from the Lord, asking the widow of Sarepta in the gladness wonderfully having fed her son and died with your prayer, resurrected, after the lapse of the proclaimed time of famine, the people of Israel gathered on Mount Carmel in apostasy and wickedness, reproaching the same fire with a prayer for your sacrifice from heaven, and by the miracle of this Israel turning to the Lord, the student prophets of Baal were put to shame and slain, by the same prayer the sky was cleared and plentiful rain was asked on the earth, and the people of Israel rejoiced! To you, faithful servant of God, we diligently resort to sin and humility, through lack of rain and the heat of Tommy: we confess that we are not worthy of the mercy and blessings of God, worthy more than the fierce rebuke of His wrath: do not walk in the fear of God and in the ways of the commandments Him, but in the lusts of our corrupted hearts, and we have done every kind of sin without coldness: behold, our iniquity has surpassed our head, and we are not worthy to appear before the face of God and look into heaven: we humbly confess, as for this sake, heaven was shut up and like copper was created, first of all, shut up our hearts from mercy and true love: for this reason, the earth was hardened and became barren, as if our Lord did not bring the fruits of good deeds: for this reason, there was no rain, below dew, like tears of tenderness and the life-giving dew of Divine thought are not imams: this For the sake of withering, every cereal and grass of the countryside, as if every good feeling has gone out in us: for this sake, the air is darkened, as if our mind was darkened by cold thoughts and our heart was defiled by lawless lusts. We confess, as if you were not worthy of Esma and you, a prophet of God, beg: you, being an obsequious person to us, were like an angel in your life, and as if incorporeal, you were taken up to heaven, we are like our studish thoughts and deeds like our dumb cattle, and our soul as if you created flesh: you surprised angels and men with fasting and vigil, but we, betraying intemperance and voluptuousness, are likened to senseless cattle: you were unceasingly burning with zeal for the glory of God, but we are about our glory The Creator and the Lord are negligent, to confess His venerable name is ashamed, we are ashamed: you uprooted ungodliness and evil customs, we have worked for the spirit of this age, the customs of the world are more than the commandments of God and the statutes of church observers. Cue sin and unrighteousness we do not repent, and so our iniquities are God's long-suffering! In the same way, the just Lord is righteously angry with us, and in His anger punishes us. Both leading your great boldness before the Lord, and trusting in your love for the human race, we dare to pray to you, most praiseworthy prophet: be merciful to us unworthy and indecent, implore the generously gifted and all-merciful God, but he will not be completely angry with us and May it not destroy us with our iniquities, but may it rain plentiful and peaceful rain on the thirsty and withered earth, may it grant it fruitfulness and good air: bend your effective intercession to the mercy of the King of heaven, not for us for the sake of sinful and filthy, but for the sake of His chosen servants who did not bend their knees before Baal of this world, for the sake of gentle babies, for the sake of dumb cattle and birds of heaven, for our iniquity suffering and hunger, heat and thirst melting. Ask us with your favorable prayers from the Lord the spirit of repentance and tenderness of heart, meekness and abstinence, the spirit of love and patience, the spirit of God's fear and piety, yes, having returned from the path of wickedness to the right path of virtue, we walk in the light of God's commandments and achieve the good things promised to us by the good will of the Father without beginning, by the love of mankind of His only begotten Son, and by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever.

Prayer for the consecration of every thing

You should sprinkle things with holy water three times and read:

To the Creator and Creator of the human race, the Giver of spiritual grace, the Giver of eternal salvation, Lord Himself, eat Your Holy Spirit with the highest blessing on this thing, as if armed with the power of heavenly intercession to those who want to use it, it will be helpful to bodily salvation and intercession and help, in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.

Prayer to the guardian angel for protection from natural disaster

Protector of my soul and body of my weak, guardian angel, I call you in my prayer. come come to me so that I may find salvation in adversity. And neither hail, nor hurricane, nor lightning shall harm my body, nor my house, nor my relatives, nor my property. Let them pass me, all the elements will pass by earthly, not at all will me with heaven, neither water, nor fire, nor wind, doom. I beg you, holy angel of Christ, save me from the harsh bad weather - from floods And earthquakes also save. For this I pray with prayer to you, my benefactor and my guardian, angel of God. Amen.

PRAYERS FOR PROTECTION FROM FAIL IN BUSINESS AND BUSINESS

Every good deed needs support and blessing, especially from Heaven. For a long time in Orthodox Russia, merchants, starting a new business, tried to enlist the support of the church and God. Their prayer (if it came from the depths of the heart, if their plans were pure, devoid of meanness and negativity) certainly reached the heavenly throne. And now all those who are planning something new that can bring not only profit to one person, but also help others, also need prayer support.

Read these prayers before any undertaking so that the powers of Heaven will help you.

Predestinatory prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, prayers for the sake of Your Most Pure Mother and all the saints, have mercy on us. Amen. Glory to Thee, our God. Glory to Thee.

Before starting any business

to the king Heavenly, Comforter, Soul of truth, may you be everywhere everything filling with itself, Treasure of the good and life giver, come and dwell in us and cleanse us from all filth, and save Blissful, our souls.

bless, Lord, help me, a sinner, to make started by me matter of your glory.

Lord Jesus Christ Your Only Begotten Son Father, because You you speak with your pure mouth, like without You can't me create nothing real. My Lord, Lord, by faith the volume is in my soul and in Your heart spoken, I bow down to Thy goodness: help me, a sinner, this work, begun by me, is about you Himself do, in the name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit, prayers Mother of God and all your saints. Amen.

Prayer for business success

Thank you God for Your spirit is in me which gives to me prosper and bless my life.

God, You are the source of my life abundance. I fully trust on you, knowing that You will always guide me and multiply my blessings.

Thank you God for your wisdom, which fills me shiny ideas and your blessed ubiquity, which ensures the generous fulfillment of all needs. My life is enriched in every way.

You are my source, dear God, and in You all are fulfilled needs. Thank you for your rich perfection, which blesses me and my neighbors.

God Yours love fills my heart and attracts all that is good. Thanks to your endless nature, I live in abundance. Amen!

Prayer to the Apostle Paul for patronage in opening an enterprise

Holy Supreme Apostle Paul, the chosen vessel of Christ, the speaker of the heavenly mysteries, the teacher of all languages, the church trumpet, the glorious whirlwind, who endured many troubles for the name of Christ, who measured the sea and the earth and turned us away from the flattery of idols! I pray to you and cry to you: do not disdain me, filthy, raise up the fallen sinful laziness, as if you raised the lame from the mother’s womb into Listrekh: and as if Eutychus was dead, you revived you, resurrect me from dead deeds: and as if by your prayer Thou once shook the foundation of the dungeon, and Thou didst allow the prisoners, now cast me out to do the will of God. For you can do everything by the power given to you from Christ God, and all glory, honor and worship is due to Him, with His Beginningless Father, and with His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen!

Prayer to the guardian angel for success in business

Holy angel of Christ, my benefactor and patron, I pray to you, a sinner. Help the Orthodox, who lives according to the commandments of God. I ask you for a little, I ask you to help me on my way through life, I ask you to support me in a difficult moment, I ask for honest luck; and everything else will come by itself, if it be the will of the Lord. Therefore, I do not think of anything else, except for good luck in life path his own and in all sorts of affairs. Forgive me if I am a sinner before you and God, pray for me to the Heavenly Father and send your beneficence upon me. Amen.

Prayer in a situation when things and business are going badly

Lord, do not rebuke me with Your wrath, but punish me with Your anger. Like Your arrows unzosha in me, and Thou hast established Your hands on me. There is no healing in my flesh from the face of Your wrath; there is no peace in my bones from the face of my sins. Like my iniquity surpassing my head, like a heavy burden weighing down on me. Resurrect and bend my wounds from the face of my madness. Suffered and slushy to the end, all day complaining about walking. Like my ladviya is filled with reproach and there is no healing in my flesh. I was embittered and resigned to the ground, roaring from the sighing of my heart. Lord, before You all my desire and my sighing is not hidden from You. My heart is troubled, leave me my strength, and the light of my eyes, and that one is not with me. My friends and my sincere ones are directly approaching me and stasha, and my neighbors are far away, stashing me and needy, who are looking for my soul, and looking for an evil verb to me, vain and flattering, teaching husya all day. I am as if deaf, not hearing, and as if he did not open his mouth. And like a man, do not hear and do not have reproof in your mouth. As if in You, Lord, I hope, You will hear, Lord my God. Yako rekh: yes, not when my enemies will please me: and always move my feet, yelling at me. For I am ready for wounds, and my illness is before me. As if my iniquity, I will proclaim and take care of my sin. My enemies live and become stronger than me, and multiply those who hate me without the truth. Those who repay me the evil, the good slander me, for the persecution of goodness. Do not leave me, O Lord my God, do not depart from me. Come, help me, O Lord of my salvation.

Prayer to the guardian angel for prosperity in business

Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! Falling forehead the holy sign of the cross, I servant of God, I give praise to the Lord and pray to my holy angel for help. holy angel, come me in this day and in the next day! Budi to me assistant in my affairs. May I not anger God in any sin! But I will glorify him! May I be worthy of showing the goodness of our Lord! give me to me angel, your help in my deed, so that I may work for the good of man and for the glory of the Lord! Help me to be very strong against my enemy and the enemy of the human race. Help me, angel, do the will of the Lord and be in harmony with servants God's. Help me, angel, put my cause for good man of the Lord and the glory of the Lord. Help me, angel, stand my case in the good of the man of the Lord and to the glory of the Lord. Help me, angel, prosper cause my in the blessing of the man of the Lord and to the glory of the Lord! Amen.

Prayer for success in trading

It is read to the Great Martyr John the New about patronage in trade. Holy and Glorious Great Martyr John, Christian strong visor, merchant all-round, fast on- more powerful to all running to you. Maritime floating I will buy the abyss from the east to the north, But God urged you, like Matthew the cleaner, trade you left, and Tom followed you are the blood of torment, temporary having redeemed the impenetrable, and crown accepted you are invincible. Praise John, you don't care tormentor, nor words of caress, neither the torments of punishment, nor the bitter heartbeat from Christ torn away, from Him you loved infancy, to him and prayed to grant peace and greatness to our souls mercy. Being a zealot of wisdom, a treasure of virtues, from there and did you draw Divine understanding. I will call the same time, diligently for a feat you got off, accepting martyr's wounds flesh crushing and blood exhaustion, and now you live in inexpressible light with the martyrs. Sego for the sake of crying out thee: pray to Christ the God of sins, grant forgiveness bowing in faith to your holy relics. Crush weapons the wicked, an invincible warrior, unrighteously driven by your wealth, which you have chosen for yourself, having loved, and establish our fatherland, and we quiet and peacefully we will transfer the residence. Light of the non-evening forthcoming, blessed with martyr faces, singing thee in memory yours from temptations save by your prayers. Amen.

Prayer for those who are engaged in business and trade

God, rich in mercy and bounty, in whose right hand are all the treasures of the world! By the arrangement of Your all-good Providence, I am destined to buy and sell earthly goods to those who have need and need for them. O All-Generous, Most Merciful God! Autumn with your blessing my labors and occupations, make me not scarce by living faith in You, make me rich in every kind of generosity in accordance with Your will, and grant me that profit, which on earth consists in contentment with one’s condition, and in the future life opens the doors your mercy! Yes, pardoned by your compassion, I glorify You, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer for every good deed

Quick Intercessor and Strong in help, stand by the grace of Your strength now and bless, strengthen your servants in the accomplishment of the intention of the good deed.

Prayer at the end of the case

You are the fulfillment of all good things, my Christ, fill my soul with joy and gladness and save me, as One is Many-merciful. Lord, glory to You.

Appendix ABOUT PRAYER

What is prayer?

Modern man, and even the most faithful, the most "churched", quite often gets confused in prayer matters. Some of us are sure that only canonical (that is, those taken in the Prayer Book) prayers help to achieve the desired result. It seems to others that only an ardent prayer, a request addressed to God in your own words, will help get rid of illnesses and any misfortunes. Still others do not at all consider it necessary to trouble themselves with prayers: they say, the Lord already knows everything, sees everything, and will give each of us the necessary help.

So what is prayer?

Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh said:

... it is very important to remember that prayer is a meeting, it is a relationship, and a deep relationship, to which neither we nor God can be forced. And the fact that God can make His presence manifest to us or leave us feeling His absence is already part of this living, real relationship...

Prayer is like a meeting. Meeting with the Mother of God, with the saints to whom we pray, meeting with God. You just have to admit to yourself: do we want this meeting? Probably, almost every one of us, having asked ourselves a similar question, will answer it in the affirmative. Yes, we want! Our life is sometimes so complicated, difficult, confused that we cannot cope with problems on our own. We need help from above. And even children understand this.

How should you pray?

You can pray in your own words; you can pray with a short prayer formula; you can use what is called "ready-made prayers." What's better? What is better for our soul? How to make the right choice?

Let's talk a little about each type of prayer in more detail.

Canonical prayers

Canonical prayers, or the so-called "ready-made prayers" for all occasions, you can easily find in any Prayer Book. The canonical collections of prayers are arranged very conveniently: they contain Morning and Evening Prayers, prayers to the Lord, prayers to the Mother of God and prayers to the saints. Some, expanded, Prayer Books also contain akathists, troparia, kontakia and magnifications for the Feasts of the Lord, the feasts of the Virgin, saints and icons of the Mother of God. Which Prayer Book to choose is up to you. At first, it is best to opt for the simplest, small Prayer Book.

How to use the Prayer Book? Of course, you can simply find this or that prayer in the table of contents: as a rule, from the headings you can immediately see what occasion the prayer is intended for (“for the living”, “for the dead”, “from ailments”, “from fear”, etc.). d.).

But this is probably not the most important thing. If we summarize the entire centuries-old experience of the Orthodox Church, in essence, it will immediately become obvious that you can pray to any saint, in front of any icon, as long as your prayer comes from the heart!

In the book Learn to Pray! Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh wrote:

We have a rich selection of prayers that were suffered by the ascetics of the faith and born in them by the Holy Spirit ... It is important to find and know a sufficient number of them in order to find the appropriate prayers at the right time. It is a question of learning by heart a sufficient number of significant passages for us from the psalms or from the prayers of the saints; each of us is more sensitive to certain passages. Mark for yourself those passages that deeply touch you, that make sense to you, that express something about sin, or about blessedness in God, or about struggle, which you already know by experience. Memorize these passages, because one day when you are so discouraged, so deeply despaired that you cannot bring up anything personal in your soul, no personal words, you will find that these passages will rise to the surface and present themselves to you, as a gift from God, as a gift to the Church, as a gift of holiness, making up for the decline of our strength. Then we really need the prayers that we have memorized so that they have become a part of ourselves ...

Unfortunately, too often we fail to grasp the meaning of canonical prayers. An inexperienced person, picking up a Prayer Book, as a rule, does not understand many words in it. Well, what, for example, does the word "create" mean? Or the word "imam"? If you have an innate verbal instinct, then it will not be so difficult for you to “translate” incomprehensible words. The word “create” is clearly a derivative of the word “creation”, that is, creation, creation; “create” means “create, create”. And “imam” is an old version of the word “I have”, and they have one root. Only after you understand the meaning of prayer texts, you can proceed directly to prayer, otherwise your appeal to higher powers will be just a set of incomprehensible words for you. And the effect of such a request, unfortunately, is not to be expected.

Prayer in your own words

Quite often you can hear such a question: is it possible to pray in your own words? Of course you can! After all, we are all very different. It is easier for someone to read “ready-made prayers”, while someone is simply not able to fully understand the meaning of canonical prayers at the present time, and therefore cannot use them.

Here is what representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church say about prayers in their own words.

Each person has the right to pray in his own words, and there are many examples of this. We see it in church families when small children, imitating praying adults, raise their hands up, make the sign of the cross, perhaps clumsily, take some books, babble some words. Metropolitan Nestor Kamchatsky in the book "My Kamchatka" recalls how he prayed as a child: "Lord, save me, dad, mom and my dog, Lily-dyshka."

We know that priests also pray for their children, their flock at home and in their cells. I know such an example when a priest in the evening, after a hard day, puts on clean clothes and simply, with his everyday words, grieves before the Lord for his flock, saying that some of them are in need, some are sick, some have been offended: “ Lord, help them."

Archimandrite Alexy (Polikarpov), abbot of the Moscow St. Danilov Monastery

It is good sometimes in prayer to say a few words of one's own, breathing with ardent faith and love for the Lord. Yes, not everyone can talk with God in other people's words, not everyone can be children in faith and hope, but you need to show your mind as well - to say your good word from the heart; we somehow get used to other people's words and grow cold ...

... When prayer words are convincing for yourself, then they will be convincing for God ...

Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt

Sometimes, in order to address your fervent request to God, there is no need to resort to words. Prayer can be silent. Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh gives such an example in his sermons. One peasant sat long enough in the church and silently looked at the icons. He had no rosary, his lips did not move. But when the priest asked him what he was doing, the peasant replied: "I look at Him, and He looks at me, and we are fine together."

Here are the prayers that people who despair and sincerely believe in Heavenly help do:

What to do, such spiritual anguish, horror, I don’t want to live, there is no work, there is nothing, there is no meaning to life, a dead end in life. Help me, Lord!

Tatiana, Rostov-on-Don

In the name of the Lord our God, Jesus Christ, I ask you to pray for me and my family!!! I just can’t find a job, it doesn’t work ... God bless you!!!

Irina, St. Petersburg

Brief Prayer Invocation

And throughout the day you can pray short prayer invocations. First of all, this is the Jesus Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner". This prayer in Orthodoxy is called the "prayer of stability." Why did such a name come about? The fact is that in the Jesus Prayer, a person completely surrenders to the mercy of God, under His protection and intercession. According to the majority Orthodox ascetics The Jesus Prayer summarizes in a few words all the wisdom of the Gospels.

Prayers for help and protection to the saint whose name you bear are quite effective. It is best to contact your patron saints several times a day. There is also a short prayer for this.

Prayer addressed to the saint whose name you bear

Pray to God for me, holy servant of God (name), as I diligently resort to you, a quick helper and prayer book for my soul.

We turn to the Mother of God for protection in the following prayer:

Virgin Mother of God, rejoice, Blessed Mary, the Lord is with you: blessed are you in women and blessed is the Fruit of your womb, as if you gave birth to our souls as the Savior.

If it is difficult to remember a prayer right away, you can simply repeat to yourself from time to time:

Holy Mother of God, save us!

About time and attention in prayer

For a long time it was recommended to read the prayer slowly, evenly, in order to "enclose attention in words." Only when the prayer that you want to bring to God is meaningful enough and means a lot to yourself, you will be able to “reach out” to the Lord. If you are inattentive to the words you utter, if your own heart does not respond to the words of prayer, your requests will not reach God.

Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh said that his father, when he began to pray, hung a sign on the door: “I am at home. But don't try to knock, I won't open it." Vladyka Anthony himself advised his parishioners before starting to pray to think about how much time they have, set an alarm clock and pray calmly until it rings. “It doesn't matter,” he wrote, “how many prayers you have time to read during this time; it is important that you read them without being distracted by anything and without thinking about time.

Prayer and feelings

But you should never confuse the words of sincere prayer with a prayer that looks more like hysteria. Unfortunately, there is often an opinion among believers that only prayer with tears, in raised tones, will achieve its goal. There is no need to shout to God about your problems and troubles, bursting into tears and shedding tears: He sees and hears everything perfectly. Falling into a hysterical state, a person no longer prays for real, but only uncontrollably splashes out emotions (often, by the way, devoid of objectivity and even negative ones).

Answer to prayer

Very often you can hear such a complaint: “I prayed, I prayed, and all my prayers remained unanswered!”

For some reason, we are sure: it is enough for us to start praying, and God is obliged to appear before us, pay attention to us, let us feel His presence, make us understand that He is listening to us attentively. Recognized as the most outstanding theologian, Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh wrote:

If it were possible to summon God… mechanically, so to speak, to force Him to meet just because that is the moment we have appointed to meet with Him, then there would be no meeting, no relationship. Relationships should begin and develop precisely in mutual freedom. … We complain that He does not make His presence evident in the few minutes that we give Him throughout the day; but what about the other twenty-three and a half hours, when God can knock on our door as much as he likes, and we answer: “Sorry, I’m busy,” or we don’t answer at all, because we don’t even hear Him knocking on our door. heart, our mind, our consciousness or conscience, our life. So: we have no right to complain about the absence of God, because we ourselves are absent much more!

In the book of Metropolitan Anthony of Surozh there is one amazing story:

About twenty-five years ago, shortly after I became a minister, I was sent to serve before Christmas in a nursing home. There was an old lady who later died at the age of one hundred and two. She came up to me after the first service and said, "Father Anthony, I would like some advice on prayer." ... I then asked her: “What is your problem?” And my old woman answered: “For fourteen years now I have been repeating the Jesus Prayer almost continuously and have never felt the presence of God.” And then I really, out of simplicity, told her what I thought: “If you keep talking, when will God put in a word?” She asked, "What should I do?" And I said: “After breakfast in the morning, go to your room, tidy it up, put the chair more comfortably, so that behind its back there are all the dark corners that an elderly woman always has in a room and where things are hidden from prying eyes. Light the lamp in front of the icon and then look around in your room. Just sit and look around and try to see where you live, because I'm sure if you've been praying for the last fourteen years, you haven't noticed your room for a very long time. And then take your knitting, and for fifteen minutes knit before the face of God; but I forbid you to say even one word of prayer. Just knit, and try to enjoy the silence of your room.

She didn't think it was very godly advice, but she decided to give it a try. After a while, she came to me, said: “You know, it turns out!” I asked: “What happens?” – because I was very curious about how my advice worked. And she says: “I did as you said: I got up, washed, tidied up my room, had breakfast, came back, made sure that there was nothing around that would annoy me ... I remembered that I had to knit in the face of God, and then I took knitting, and more and more I felt silence ... It did not consist of absence, there was the presence of something in it. The surrounding silence began to fill me and merge with the silence in me. And in the end she said something very beautiful, which I later met with the French writer Georges Bernanos; she said: “I suddenly noticed that this silence is a presence; and at the core of this silence was the One Who is Silence itself, Peace itself, Harmony itself.

Very often, this could happen to us too, if instead of fussing and “doing” something, we could just say, “I am in God's presence. What a joy! Let me shut up…”

It often happens that in prayer we do not always ask for what we really need, we ask, as it were, “in reserve”. Sometimes we ask for things that might not be useful to us, and as a result we get nothing.

But even when we ask God for something we cannot live without, we lack patience and perseverance. We believe that having asked once and not having received what we want, we must abandon the prayer: well, God does not give what you ask, what can you do! One of the Fathers of the Church says that prayer is like an arrow, but this arrow will fly and reach its goal only if the shooter has shooting skills, skill, patience and willpower.

Unfortunately, we often do not even notice that our prayer has already been answered. Yes, the answer is not always pleasant, but it is given to us as a medicine, and medicines are rarely sweet.

Therefore, experienced people advise beginners on the prayer path: "Be careful in your prayers, because one day they may be fulfilled."

Why does God send sickness to us?

The question “Why did God send me sickness?” - perhaps the most common among those who have recently come to faith. Probably, the Lord appears to people as a kind of judge in a robe, who from morning to evening weighs the measure of each person's guilt and determines punishments. Did you act badly? That's sickness for you! Did you act very badly? You will have a long and severe illness! Next time think before you do something bad...

If everything was so simple with God, life would be much easier for us here on Earth! It would be enough not to commit bad deeds, and each of us would always be healthy and prosperous. But you probably noticed yourself: very often kind, good, smart people live hard, get seriously ill, overcome adversity throughout their lives, and people who are not too decent live chic and don’t blow their mustache. They have everything - health, money, and luck in business ... Why is it so? Yes, because the Lord, indeed being the Supreme Judge, in fact does not judge us during his lifetime. And he doesn't punish. There are, of course, exceptions, but for this you need to do something absolutely terrible. In other cases, the Lord gives us freedom of choice: to do this or that, to go this way or that. We build our own lives. And you will have to be responsible for HOW they built it much later - when this process has already been finally completed. Believe me, the Lord is not at all concerned with punishing us with sickness for our every sin. Moreover, very often a disease is not a punishment for a person, it is sent to him, oddly enough, for his own good. It's hard to believe, but it's true. Here is how Father Georgy Simakov answers this question, rector of the church in the name of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the village of Troitskoye, Tver province.

– Many people are sure that illness is God's punishment for sins. Is it so?

- Of course not. In general, the Lord is merciful, He rarely punishes people. And our illnesses are not a punishment at all, as for some reason it is customary to think among the people. Sometimes diseases are given to a person as an admonition so that he stops sinning. Feel the difference? Not as a punishment, but as an admonition. A person himself cannot stop on the wrong path of life, and the Lord helps him. Often, illness can serve as a protection against evil that has not yet been committed. For a righteous person, she can be sent to test his faith. Diseases can be sent to us so that, having been healed, a person himself will realize and convey to others the greatness of God through his healing. There is another type of illness, they are sent so that a person can atone for those sins that he committed out of ignorance or about which he forgot. As you can see, there can be many reasons for the disease. Each sick person should think carefully about what his illness means, why she was sent to him. Only having understood this, one can prayerfully turn to the Lord, to the Mother of God, to the saints with a request for healing.

– We often hear: “God is merciful and just!” Why does He allow people - often very good people! - hurt and suffered? Where is mercy and justice here?

– The Holy Fathers say: illness is not just suffering, it is the time of God visiting a person. It happens invisibly and not always tangibly, but immutably. The Lord brings a bodily disease to a person as a bitter medicine for a mental and spiritual illness. St. Tikhon of Zadonsk taught as follows: “The health of the body opens the door to many whims and sins for a person, but the weakness of the body closes it. During an illness, we feel that human life is like a flower that immediately dries up as soon as it blooms.

And St. Theophan the Recluse wrote: “God sends something else as a punishment, like penance, another as reason, so that a person comes to his senses; otherwise, to get rid of the misfortune that a person would fall into if he were healthy; otherwise, so that a person shows patience and deserves a greater reward; otherwise, to cleanse from what passion, and for many other reasons. There are illnesses, the cure of which the Lord imposes a ban, when he sees that the illness is more necessary for salvation than health... Sometimes the Lord takes away strength in order to calm down a person at least by this. He doesn't know how else to fix it." On my own behalf, I can only add that there is no such disease that, through our prayers, could not be cured.

After all, there is no human sin that would exceed the mercy of God…

– Why do the same sufferings benefit some people and harm others?

– And you remember the robbers crucified near the Lord on two crosses. One, suffering, thanked the Lord and asked Him to help him and bring him into His Kingdom, while the other blasphemed God. So all people relate to the cross of diseases sent to them: some ask God, while others blaspheme Him. The prudent thief inherited paradise, and the evil thief inherited hell, although both were at the cross of the Lord.

- What should you do if you get sick?

- If a serious illness has begun, you must first resort to prayer, as St. Nilus of Sinai taught: "And before any medicine and doctor, resort to prayer." Then it is good to ask the Lord to send a doctor who would understand your illness and help you heal.

During an illness, each person needs to resort to shrines: eat the holy prosphora, anoint himself with holy oil, take it inside and sprinkle with holy water, read prayers before the icons of the Mother of God, the saints of God who help in illness, especially the holy Great Martyr Panteleimon.

– Often, when ill, Orthodox people do not go to the doctor, they say: “God’s will for everything!” How does the Church feel about this issue?

The Lord created doctors to heal sick people. Therefore, when we treat ourselves or do not treat ourselves at all, we commit a sin against our health. Treatment is a must! But prayer should not be forgotten either, because prayer is our best helper and faithful healer in illness. It is very useful to drink Epiphany (Epiphany) water during illness, which has tremendous healing power. There are many cases when just a few drops poured into the mouth of an unconscious patient brought him to his senses and changed the course of the disease.

Water of small consecration (it can be taken on any day in any temple) is drunk as needed, saying the same prayer. In addition, they lubricate with holy water, moisten sore spots, sprinkle themselves and sprinkle their things, the ward and hospital bed, food. With headaches or other pains, a compress with Epiphany water helps.

The suffering of a sick person is also relieved by holy oil. For the sick, the oil, which is consecrated during the unction, is important. They are anointed and added to food. The oil from lamps from holy places, from the relics of saints, has great power, miraculous icons. Even greater miraculous power is possessed by the holy myrrh. You can only anoint yourself with the world, and cross your forehead and sore spots.

A sincere, faithfully uttered prayer, holy water, anointing with oil from the relics of God's saints or from miraculous icons contribute to a speedy recovery from any, even the most severe, illness.

- What if neither medicine nor doctors help, and the person suffers?

– We must try to endure the disease complacently, endure the coming sufferings and remember that the Lord will not place a cross on a person that he cannot bear. Therefore, one should endure and ask the Lord to strengthen the soul to endure the disease. And of course keep praying!

– How should we pray for our neighbors when they are sick?

– There are some very simple prayers, they should be read every day. These are the prayers:

The first prayer for the healing of the sick

Lord, Almighty, holy King, punish and do not celebrate, affirm those who fall and raise up the overthrown, bodily people, cope with sorrow, we pray to You, our God, visit Your weak servant (name) with Your mercy, forgive him any sin, voluntary and involuntary. To her, Lord, send down Your healing power from heaven, touch the body, extinguish the flame, tame the passion and all the infirmity that is lurking, wake up the Physician of Your servant (name), raise him up from the painful bed and from the bed of embitterment, whole and all-perfect, grant him to Your pleasing Church and doing your will. Yours is, hedgehog to have mercy and save us, our God, and we give glory to You, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer two for the healing of the sick

O Most Merciful God, Father, Son and Holy Soul, worshiped and glorified in the Indivisible Trinity, look kindly on your servant (name), obsessed with illness; forgive him all his sins; give him healing from the disease; return to him health and bodily strength; give him a long and prosperous life, your peaceful and worldly blessings, so that he, together with us, brings grateful prayers to you, the All-Bountiful God and my Creator.

Holy Mother of God, by Your all-powerful intercession, help me to beg Your Son, my God, for the healing of God's servant (name).

All saints and angels of the Lord, pray to God for His sick servant (name). Amen.

- How do you feel about herbal medicine - herbal treatment, homeopathy, reflexology, acupuncture?

- I have a positive attitude towards professional herbal treatment. Homeopathy was widely used by priests before the revolution. St. John of Kronstadt, St. Theophan the Recluse, St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, St. Ambrose of Optina and other fathers spoke with approval about this science and blessed the use of its methods. If acupuncture is carried out by acupuncturists who are not at the same time bioenergetics or psychics, based on the knowledge of the meridians and the amplitude of the potentials of each biologically active point, this does not contradict the Orthodox doctrinal truth.

In principle, many treatments can be combined with each other. And, of course, we must not forget to pray during illness. And when recovery comes, you should definitely thank the Lord for healing! I always advise my parishioners to read this prayer:

Prayer of thanksgiving, St. John of Kronstadt, read after healing from an illness

Glory to Thee, Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of the Fatherless Father, heal every ailment and every ailment in people, as if you had mercy on me a sinner and delivered me from my illness, not allowing it to develop and kill me for my sins. Grant me from now on, Lord, the strength to firmly do Your will for the salvation of my wretched soul and for Your glory with Your Father without Beginning and Your Consubstantial Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Why do we pray to saints?

Why pray to the saints when there is Christ? Sooner or later every Orthodox person asks himself (and then not only himself) this question. This is what happens? Does God not hear us? Do we absolutely need intermediaries to communicate with Him? And it turns out that the host of saints is something like the “referential service” of the Lord, through which all our requests for help, our prayers pass?

No, that's not how it works! As proof, I want to give you the story of the priest Dionisy Svechnikov, who in practice often has to deal with people who are perplexed why we pray to the saints.

Once I had a conversation with a young man who, having come to the temple, was very indignant at the presence in the church of a large number of icons. It was clear that the young man was well versed in the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, had an idea about some Christian dogmas, although somewhat distorted, but at the same time he was an absolutely non-church person ...

... He supported his arguments with the words of the Holy Scriptures: “It is said, “You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him alone”” (Mt 4:10). So why is there such a large number of icons of saints in Orthodox churches, when there should be nothing but images of Christ? And when you enter the church, all you hear is pray to the Mother of God, Nicholas the Wonderworker, Panteleimon the Healer and someone else. Where does God go? Or have you already replaced Him with other gods?”

I felt that the conversation was going to be difficult and, apparently, a long one. I will not retell it all, but I will try to highlight only the very essence, because in our difficult time many people ask similar questions ...

To begin with, I invited the young man to deal with the definitions, following a simple logic ... So, who are the saints and why should they pray? Are they really some gods of a lower order? After all, the Church calls to honor them and offer prayers to them. To begin with, the veneration of saints is an ancient Christian tradition that has been preserved since apostolic times. The martyr who suffered for Christ, immediately after his death, became the object of reverence for the reverent veneration of believers. On the tombs of the first Christian saints, the Divine Liturgy was performed, prayers were offered to them. It is clear that special reverence was given to the saint, but not at all as a separate god. These were people who gave their lives for God. And, first of all, they themselves would be against exalting them to the rank of a deity. After all, we, for example, honor the memory of people who laid down their lives for the Fatherland on the battlefields. And we even erect monuments to them so that future generations would know and honor these people. So why can't Christians honor the memory of people who especially pleased God with their lives or martyrdom while calling them saints? I have asked young man answer this question. An affirmative answer followed. The first bastion of sectarian thinking has collapsed...

... Thus, the Orthodox do not worship the saints at all, but revere them. They are revered as senior mentors, as people who have reached spiritual heights, as people who live in God and for God. People who have reached the Kingdom of Heaven. And the basis for the veneration of mentors was given by St. Paul: “Remember your leaders…. and beholding the end of their lives, imitate their faith” (Heb. 13:7). And the faith of the saints is the Orthodox faith, and it calls for the veneration of the saints from apostolic times. And one of the greatest saints, John of Damascus, spoke of this veneration: “The saints are venerated – not by nature, we worship them, because God glorified and made them terrible for enemies and benefactors for those who come to them in faith. We worship them not as gods and benefactors by nature, but as servants and co-servants of God, having boldness towards God because of their love for Him. We worship them, because the King himself refers honoring to Himself when he sees that they honor the person he loves not as a King, but as an obedient servant and a friend well-disposed towards Him.

Our conversation with the young man turned into a more relaxed channel, and now he listened more than he spoke. But for greater persuasiveness, it was necessary to give a couple more weighty arguments for being right, and I hastened to do so.

The saints are our intercessors and patrons in heaven and therefore living and active members of the militant, earthly Church. Their grace-filled presence in the Church, outwardly manifested in their icons and relics, surrounds us like a prayerful cloud of God's glory. It does not separate us from Christ, but brings us closer to Him, unites us with Him. These are not mediators between God and people who would remove the One Mediator of Christ, as Protestants think, but our fellow-prayers, friends and helpers in our service to Christ and our fellowship with Him.

Now I could safely move on to the question of prayer to the saints. As I have already shown above, the saints are our prayer partners and friends on the path of serving God. But can't we ask to intercede for us before the throne of the Almighty? Isn't the same thing happening in our Everyday life when we ask our relatives and friends to put in a good word for us in front of the authorities? But our Heavenly Father is much higher than any earthly authorities. And everything that cannot be said about ordinary earthly people is really possible for Him. But when praying to the saints, one should not forget about praying to the Lord at all. For He alone is the Giver of all blessings.

And this is a very important point, because many Orthodox Christians in prayer to the saints forget about the One to whom, in the end, the prayer request will be directed, even if it is the intercession of one of the saints. A Christian should not forget about the Lord his God. After all, the saints also served Him. By this I showed the young man how important it is not to go too far even in such a seemingly simple matter as prayer. It was clear that the guy was in some confusion, but having collected his thoughts, he gave out the last question: “Tell me, why is it necessary to pray to different saints on a specific issue?” I expected this question and the answer was already ready. Saints can help us not because of the abundance of their merits, but because of the spiritual freedom they acquire in love, which is achieved by their feat. It gives them the power of intercession before God in prayer, as well as in active love for people. God gives the saints, along with the angels of God, to do His will in the lives of people with active, albeit usually invisible, help. They are the hands of God with which God does His works. Therefore, it is given to the saints even beyond death to do works of love, not as a feat for their own salvation, which has already been accomplished, but, indeed, to help in the salvation of other brethren. And this help is given by the Lord Himself in all our worldly needs and experiences through the prayers of the saints. Hence the saints - the patrons of certain professions or intercessors before God in everyday needs. pious church tradition, based on the lives of the saints, ascribes to them effective help to his earthly brethren in various needs. For example, George the Victorious, who was a warrior during his lifetime, is revered as the patron of the Orthodox army. The Great Martyr Panteleimon, who was a doctor during his lifetime, is prayed for deliverance from bodily ailments. Nicholas the Wonderworker is greatly revered by sailors, and girls pray to him for a successful marriage, based on the facts of his life. People who live off fishing pray for a successful catch to the apostles Peter and Andrew, who, before their high calling, were simple fishermen. And, of course, one cannot but say about the highest of all angels and archangels, the Most Holy Theotokos, who stands at the head of the host of saints. She is the patroness of motherhood.

Our conversation was coming to a logical end. I very much hoped that the arguments I had advanced should have left a mark on the soul of this young man. And I was not mistaken. Finally, he said a phrase for which one could talk for a very long time: “Thank you! I realized that I was wrong in many ways. Apparently, my knowledge of Christianity is still not enough, but now I know where to look for the truth. In Orthodoxy. Thank you very much again." With these words, my interlocutor left. Left alone with my joy, I hurried to the temple to raise thanksgiving prayer To the Lord and all the saints who helped me on this day in my pastoral ministry. But that's a completely different story...

Why do we venerate holy relics?

What are holy relics? Why did the Orthodox Church establish their veneration? Where does the confidence of believers come from that through prayers at the holy relics they will certainly receive the help and intercession of the saints?

“The word “relics” in literal translation from Greek means “remains”. The word “relics” has always been used in the same sense in the Church Slavonic language. However, it would be more accurate to say that it is customary to call relics the bones of a deceased person, something that remains for a long time after his departure to another world.

In one chronicle of 1472, this is how the opening of the coffins of Moscow metropolitans resting in the Assumption Cathedral is described: “Jonah has been found whole, Photeya is not everything, the “relics” are one” (Collection of Russian Chronicles. T. VI. P. 195).

In 1667, Metropolitan Pitirim of Novgorod was informed of the discovery of the relics of the Monk Nil Stolbensky: “The coffin and body of his holy land were betrayed, and the relics of his saints are all intact” (Acts collected in the libraries and archives of the Russian Empire by the archeographic expedition of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg T. IV. S. 156). In general, “in the language of ancient church literature, imperishable relics are not imperishable bodies, but preserved and undecayed bones” (E. E. Golubinsky, Canonization of the Saints, pp. 297–298).

IN church history it is said that the remains of the holy martyrs and great ascetics have always been called relics. Relics are revered, even if they are preserved only in the form of ashes or ashes.

In 156, the Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, was killed with a sword and burned, but the bones that survived the fire and the ashes were for Christians "more honest than valuable stones and more expensive than gold."

St. John Chrysostom writes about the relics of the Antiochian martyr Babyla: “Many years have passed since his burial, only bones and ashes remained in his tomb, which were transferred with great honor to the tomb, on the outskirts of Daphne.”

The Blessed Lucian tells the following about the relics of the holy Archdeacon Stephen he found: “Very small particles remained of his bones, and his whole body turned to dust ... With psalms and songs they carried these relics (remains) of Blessed Stephen to the holy church of Zion ...” Blessed Jerome says that the highly revered relics of the prophet Samuel existed in the form of dust, and the relics of the apostles Peter and Paul - in the form of bones (Golubinsky E.E. Decree. cit. P. 35, approx.).

At the present time, at the opening of the relics Reverend Seraphim Sarovsky (1903), St. Pitirim of Tambov and Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow (1914), only the bones of the saints were found, which serve as an object of reverent veneration for all believers.

Why did the Orthodox Church establish the veneration of holy relics?

Explanation of this Orthodox tradition can be found in the works of the Holy Fathers.

John Chrysostom says: “The sight of the tomb of a saint, penetrating into the soul, strikes it, and excites, and brings it to such a state, as if he himself lying in the tomb prays together, stands before us, and we see him, and thus a person experiencing this, filled with great zeal, and descends from here, having become a different person ... Indeed, as if a light breeze blows from everywhere on those present at the tomb of the martyr, the breeze is not sensual and strengthens the body, but is able to penetrate into the very soul, arranging it in all respects and overthrowing her every earthly burden.

One of the teachers of the ancient Church, Origen, says: “There is a twofold society in prayer meetings: one is made up of people, the other is made up of celestials…” This means that when we pray at the relics of the saints, we seem to be praying together with them, in one prayer.

By the end of the 7th century, the Frankish Council decided that the throne could only be consecrated in a church that contained the relics of saints, and VII Ecumenical Council(787) determined that "for the future, every bishop who consecrates a church without relics must be deposed" (Rule 7). Since then, in every church there are antimensions, in which particles of holy relics are necessarily embedded and without which it is impossible to celebrate the Sacrament of the Eucharist. This means that in any church there are necessarily the relics of saints, which, according to our faith, serve as a guarantee of the presence of saints during worship, their participation in our prayers, their intercession for us before the Lord.

The third basis for the veneration of holy relics is the teaching of the Orthodox Church about relics as carriers of grace-filled powers. “Your relics, like a full vessel of grace, overflowing on all who flow to them,” we read in prayer to St. Sergius of Radonezh.

The grace of God is taught to humanity through those or other holy people who, during their lifetime, worked miracles, and after death imparted this miraculous power to their remains.

The grace-filled forces that act through the bodies of the saints during their lifetime continue to act in them even after death. This is precisely the basis for the veneration of holy relics as bearers of grace. The relics of the saints, says the prophet Ephraim the Syrian, heal the sick, cast out demons, for the grace of the Holy Spirit is always in the holy remains ...

Based on the article "Veneration of the Holy Relics", Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate, No. 1, 1997.

Faith in the power of prayer has accompanied humanity for thousands of years. Even now, in the scientific age, when everything is being questioned, believers are turning to spiritual world for support and help.

But skeptics rightly ask: who did prayers help? Do they really get rid of troubles, or is it just a kind of way to console yourself with faith in something higher.

After all, so many people suffer, and heaven, despite their prayers, did not interfere in their lives.

Prayer is a way of communicating with the Higher powers, and not a method of managing life

Manipulation other world with the help of spells and ritual actions - this is magic. It has nothing to do with the Orthodox religion. Believing Christians understand that it is impossible to read a prayer in such a way as to order the Lord God to fulfill their desire.

Let's be honest: the King of Heaven is wiser than any representative of the human race. He knows better what is needed and what is not needed in the life of a particular person. To believe that God, prior to our request, did not know that we need something would be strange.

The miracle of prayer happens only to those who have left a sinful life. So it was with the paralytic when Jesus healed him

A man asks for recovery, but was it not worth wondering why God allowed this servant of God to fall ill? Apparently, there are deep reasons.

A person should think about his life, correct mistakes. The disease is needed to draw his attention to the problem. There is such a pseudo-scientific discipline, psychosomatics.

For example, if a person is short-sighted, it means that in his life he does not seek to look ahead, he is too short-sighted, and the Universe seeks to draw his attention to this problem.

Psychosomatics has nothing to do with Orthodoxy, and in general, many people have a wary attitude towards it. But if not like this, then God can use a similar principle.

Say, remember how He blinded the Apostle Paul? Is it because he lived in the era of Christ and did not see the obvious?

Of course, in such cases it is useless to ask the Almighty for recovery. You need to change something in yourself.

Prayer will not help if a person does nothing for himself.

Man destroys himself. Suppose there is a certain alcoholic. He has poor immunity, cirrhosis of the liver, delirium tremens. Do prayers help such people? No.

If you yourself do not want to get rid of what is destroying you, you hold on to the bottle, why does God need to deprive you of your freedom of choice? You cannot destroy yourself and magically recover along the way. Either one or the other.

Man holding on to disease. Orthodox Christian understands that life is work on oneself. You can't just trust Christ and expect Him to solve all your problems. This doesn't happen.

It is very strange when we do nothing, knowing that some kind of disease is eating us from the inside. God created a world where there is medicine, not in vain.

Sitting in front of the icon, making the signs of the cross, is an escape from the reality given to us by the Creator. Diseases are treated not at the relics, not in the church, but in hospitals and clinics.

Prayer can help in 3 ways: psychologically, spiritually and sometimes really

How does prayer really help? In at least three ways:

1. Psychological help. It seems strange, but only at first glance. Of course, prayer is a consolation. We communicate with God, offer him a prayer of thanksgiving, remember that there is our Intercessor in heaven. Many people spend enormous amounts of money to tell their therapist about their problems. God is the best listener, and His answer comes in many ways: in the heart, through other people, or by some other signs.
2. spiritually. Prayer strengthens us on the spiritual path. It helps to hold on to the faith, to remember the vector to which the Gospel calls us. Prayerful concentration is a charitable direction of the mind, the longer we sincerely stay in it, the more spiritually mature we become. This is how prayer affects a person, because we pray for ourselves, and not for God.
3. Really. We have all heard of miracles where prayer has done miracles. But in these cases, the miracle was not an end in itself. It was a consequence of the right attitude of the person himself. Let us remember the paralytic who was healed by Christ.

Did the Savior himself do this, or did the person reach that degree of spiritual maturity when all his old sins could be left in the past?

“Your sins are forgiven you,” says Christ, and allows a person to regain the ability to move. And at the same time around dozens of other patients.

Why doesn't the Messiah heal them? Because the point is not that He, like a good magician, came to fight ailments. On the contrary - the Savior shows the way.

Miracles happen through prayer, but for those who are not about a miracle, but about spirituality.

Sincere prayer can affect not only the spirit of a person, but also his real life. But you need the right priorities. Praying by faith is one thing, praying for the good of this world is another.

In the video below, Father Vladimir (Golovin) advises never to ask God for anything, but to trust him:

Does it make sense to beg from God for something that He does not give for our benefit? (Arch. Vladimir Golovin)

Only sincere prayer helps

So what kind of prayer helps? The answer to this question is not the name of some text from the prayer book or the number of readings.

No one can say: "Read 70 times" Our Father "and you will become rich, healthy and attractive." So it doesn't work.

The only useful prayer is sincere. Even if we do not have a canonical text at hand, a prayer in our own words will be More pleasing to the One God than a formula read from memory for show.

Since the time of the Bible, people have been helped by prayer, and this is happening today.

Remember Rachel? She was barren, but fervent prayer helped her cope with the illness and give birth to two sons. True, the birth of the latter ended in death for Rachel, but this was probably the maximum that her body was capable of.

Miraculous answers to prayer are happening today.

Rachel is a woman from the Bible, to whose prayers for children God answered and allowed her to become a mother. Photo: xn--80ancrr3a.xn--p1ai

Here is a story from the book “Ask, and it shall be given to you. Uninvented stories about the miraculous help of God":

“Outside the city lived two sisters I knew - very devout women and zealous prayer books. Many wonderful things happened in their lives. Once, during the war, they, having exchanged something for potatoes, loaded them onto a sled - it was winter - and took them away.

The path was long. Exhausted and hungry, they were exhausted. They prayed: "Holy Mother of God, help us." They stand on the road exhausted and see that a fine woman comes up to them and says:

“You are very tired, let me help you bring the potatoes.” And she undertook to carry them together. And it became so easy for them with Her, and they were amazed, looking at Her, and were afraid to ask Her Who She was. As soon as they brought the potatoes to the house, they lost sight of Her.

They then understood that it was the Quick Hearer Herself - the Most Holy Theotokos.

The most famous Christian prayer is the Lord's Prayer.

Jesus Christ Himself taught His disciples amazing prayer"Our Father". It is addressed to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and capaciously contains in a few lines the whole mood of a pious Christian:

Our Father, Who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth.

Give us our daily bread today; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

There are several editions of this prayer. If you have met or know by heart a slightly different option, there is nothing to worry about.

The Lord does not look at words, but in the heart, so do not worry if somewhere the Holy Spirit is spoken of as the Holy Spirit, for example. These are particulars.

The Holy Mother of God helps Orthodox Christians in any problems

Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos in Orthodoxy are countless. For some reason, it was the Virgin Mary who became especially popular with our people.

She occupies a special place among Christian saints, and therefore her intercession or, if I may say so, protection before God for many is the most convenient communication with the Almighty.

After all, the Most Holy Theotokos is a mother. And each person is free to consider her his own spiritual mother. The need for such a supreme patroness has always been with humanity. Archaeologists are familiar with the Paleolithic "Venuses", the Sumerians worshiped Astarte, the Hindus worshiped Shakti.

The Virgin Mary is one of the most beloved saints in Orthodoxy. She is approached by the most different prayers. Photo: pravlife.org

Christians found their intercessor in the form historical personality- Mary, and prayers to her are especially loved and popular. Here is an example of one of them:

The Virgin Mistress of the Theotokos, who bore the Savior Christ and our God in her womb, I place all my hope in You, I trust in You, the highest of all Heavenly powers. You, Most Pure One, guard me with Your Divine Grace. Manage my life and guide according to the holy will of Your Son and our God.

Grant me the remission of sins, be my refuge, cover, protection and guide, leading me to eternal life. In the terrible hour of death, do not leave me, my Lady, but hasten to help me and rescue me from the bitter torment of demons.

For in your will you have power; do this, as truly the Mother of God and dominating over everything, Receive the venerable and the only gifts brought to you from us unworthy servants of yours, the most merciful, all-holy Lady of the Mother of God, chosen from all generations, who turned out to be the highest of all creatures of heaven and earth.

Inasmuch as through You we have come to know the Son of God, through You the Lord of hosts has become with us, and we have become worthy of His holy Body and Blood, then blessed are You throughout the generations of generations, most God-blessed, most holy of the Cherubim and most glorious of the Seraphim; and now, chanted, the All-Holy Theotokos,

Do not stop pleading for us, Your unworthy servants, so that we can get rid of every wiles of the evil one and from every extreme, and keep us unharmed in every poisonous attack. Even to the end, by Your prayers, keep us uncondemned, and saved by Your intercession and Your help, we will always send glory, praise, thanksgiving and worship to the one God in the Trinity and the Creator of all.

Good and blessed Lady, Mother of the good, all-good and all-good God, look at the prayer of Your unworthy and indecent servant with Your merciful eye, and act with me according to the great mercy of Your inexpressible kindness and do not look at my sins, both in word and in deed, and by every feeling made, voluntarily and involuntarily, with knowledge and in ignorance,

and renew all of me, making the temple of the all-holy, life-giving and dominating Spirit, which is the power of the Most High, and hath overshadowed Your all-pure womb, and dwelt in it. For You are the helper of the troubled, the representative of the distressed, the savior of the overwhelmed, the haven of the troubled, the protector and intercessor of those in extremes.

Grant to Your servant contrition, silence of thoughts, constancy of thought, a chaste mind, sobriety of the soul, a humble way of thinking, a holy and sober mood of the spirit, a prudent and well-organized disposition, which serves as a sign of spiritual composure, also piety and peace, which our Lord gave to His disciples.

May my supplication come to Thy holy temple and to the habitation of Thy glory; May my eyes exhaust the sources of tears, and may You wash me with my own tears, whiten with streams of my tears, cleansing me from the filth of passions.

Erase the handwriting of my sins, dispel the clouds of my sorrow, the darkness and confusion of thoughts, remove from me the storm and the desire of passions, keep me in serenity and silence, expand my heart with spiritual expansion, rejoice and rejoice me with unspeakable joy, unceasing joy, so that by the right paths of the commandments Thy Son, I walked faithfully and with an unreproachable conscience I went through an uncomplaining life.

Give me, who prays before You, a pure prayer, so that with an undisturbed mind, unwandering reflection, and with an insatiable soul, I constantly learn the words of the Divine Scriptures day and night, sing in confession,

and in the joy of the heart he brought prayer to the glory, honor and magnificence of your only begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ. He deserves all glory, honor and worship now, and always, and forever and ever! Amen.

Prayer to the Cross of the Lord gives a person hope

In general, if you understand, of course, no one prays to the Cross. Otherwise, from any point of view, it would turn into fetishism - the worship of objects.

Icons, Christian shrines, all kinds of relics are receptacles of the Holy Spirit.

We must keep in mind that through such prayers we turn to one of the hypostases of the Trinity, and all kinds of Crosses and Shrouds serve only as an image, a conductor of our thoughts and Divine energies.

The Orthodox do not pray to the Life-Giving Cross. Through it, they turn to the Holy Spirit. Photo: i.pinimg.com

Prayer to the Cross of the Lord says a lot about the enemies of man, sins and difficulties of the spiritual path. Her reading strengthens in faith, gives a person hope and protects from enemies:

Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Him flee from His presence.

As the smoke disappears, let them disappear; as wax melts from the face of fire, so let the demons perish from the face of those who love God and are marked by the sign of the cross, and in joy they say: Rejoice, Most Honorable and Life-Giving Cross Lord, drive away the demons by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, crucified on you, who descended into hell and corrected the power of the devil, and gave us His Honest Cross to drive away any adversary.

O Most Honorable and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord! Help me with the Holy Lady Virgin Mother of God and with all the saints forever. Amen.

In Orthodoxy there are prayers for eternal life, help, recovery

A number of prayers are directed to specific saints. It is generally accepted that through such a prayer we ask the saint to join us, turn to God with some kind of petition.

But at the same time, we must keep in mind the main thought: “Thy will be done.” If God allows, it will be our way. For demand, as they say, they do not take money.

But here it is appropriate to talk not about whether prayer helped, but about whether what we ask is useful.

You can read the prayers themselves to anyone and at any time. In Orthodoxy, a tradition has been established to do this in front of images of saints, but the circumstances are different, so there are no strict formalities.

Now let's give some especially popular prayers among Orthodox Christians.

Prayer "Free and involuntary" asks God to help to get on the righteous path to eternal life.

Prayer Free and involuntary:

Weaken, let go, forgive, God, our sins, voluntary and involuntary, committed in word and deed, consciously and unconsciously, day and night, in the mind and in thought - forgive us everything, as the Merciful and Humanitarian.

Forgive those who hate and offend us, Lord Lover of mankind! Do good to those who do good. To our brothers and relatives, graciously fulfill their petitions in what leads to salvation, and grant eternal life. Visit the weak and give them healing.

Help those at sea. Accompany travelers. Help Orthodox Christians in the struggle. Grant remission of sins to those who serve us and pity us. Those who instructed us, the unworthy, to pray for them, have mercy on Your great mercy. Remember, Lord, before our departed fathers and brothers, and give them rest where the light of Your Face shines.

Remember, Lord, our brothers who are in captivity, and deliver them from every misfortune. Remember, Lord, those who bear the fruits of their labors and adorn Your holy churches. Give them, according to their requests, that which leads to salvation, and eternal life.

Remember, Lord, also us, Thy humble, sinful and unworthy servants, and enlighten our minds so that we may know Thee, and lead us on the path of following Thy commandments, through the prayers of our most pure Lady, the Ever-Virgin Mary, and all Thy saints, for Thou art blessed forever and ever. Amen.

Fragment of painting depicting the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. They pray to him before doing a good deed. Photo: i.pinimg.com

It is better to successfully do a good deed by enlisting the help of the Holy Spirit through such a prayer:

Kontakion, voice 5:

Imitate this Merciful, and receive healing grace from Him, passion-bearer and martyr of Christ God, with your prayers, heal our spiritual ailments, driving away the fighter of temptations from those who cry out truly: save us, Lord.

Prayer:

Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, God's merciful imitator! Look with mercy and hear us sinners, praying fervently before your holy icon.

Ask us of the Lord God, Him with the Angels stand in heaven, the forgiveness of our sins and transgressions: heal the diseases of the soul and body of the servants of God, now commemorated, standing here and all Orthodox Christians, flowing to your intercession: be we, according to our sin we are so obsessed with many ailments and not imams of help and consolation: we resort to you, as if we were given grace to pray for us and heal every ailment and every disease;

grant to all of us with your holy prayers health and well-being of soul and body, the advancement of faith and piety, and all that is needed for temporary life and salvation, as if, having been honored by you with great and rich mercies, let us glorify you and the Giver of all blessings, wondrous in the saints, God ours, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Psalm 90 is the prayer "Alive in help"

Psalm 90, known as the “Alive in Help” prayer, helps from troubles and evil people:

Alive in the help of the Most High, in the blood of the God of Heaven will settle. The Lord says: Thou art my intercessor and my refuge, my God, and I trust in Him.

It is as if He will deliver you from the snares of the net, and from the rebellious word, His splash will overshadow you, and under His wings you hope: His truth will be your weapon. Do not be afraid of the fear of the night, from the arrow flying in the days, from the thing in the darkness of the transient, from the scum, and the demon of the noonday.

A thousand will fall from your country, and darkness at your right hand, but it will not come close to you, both look at your eyes, and see the reward of sinners. As you, O Lord, are my hope, the Most High have laid down your refuge.

Evil will not come to you, and the wound will not approach your body, as if by His Angel a commandment about you, save you in all your ways.

They will take you in their hands, but not when you stumble your foot on a stone, step on the asp and the basilisk, and cross the lion and the serpent. For I have trusted in Me, and I will deliver, and I will cover, and, as I know My name.

He will call to Me, and I will hear him: I am with him in sorrow, I will crush him, and I will glorify him, I will fulfill him with long life, and I will show him My salvation.

There are also a lot of prayers to Nicholas the Wonderworker on a variety of topics. This one is about help on the spiritual path:

Oh, all-holy Nicholas, the most beautiful servant of the Lord, our warm intercessor, and everywhere in sorrow a quick helper!

Help me a sinner and despondent in this present life, beg the Lord God to grant me the remission of all my sins, having sinned from my youth, in all my life, deed, word, thought and all my feelings; and at the end of my soul, help me the accursed one,

implore the Lord God, all creatures of the Sodetel, to deliver me air ordeals and eternal torment: may I always glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your merciful intercession, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

Most detailed description: our father's prayer to whom it is dedicated - for our readers and subscribers.

Hello Father. Please tell us, in the prayer “Our Father”, which was given to us by Jesus Christ himself, to whom do we turn if our god is Jesus himself? Forgive me for my ignorance. With deep regards, Vladimir.

Hello! The Holy Trinity- God, one in essence and trinity in Persons (Hypostases); Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Father is without beginning, not created, not created, not born; The Son is eternally (timeless) born of the Father; The Holy Spirit always proceeds from the Father. Earthly measurements habitual for us, including the category of number, are inapplicable to God. After all, only objects separated by space, time and forces can be calculated. And between the persons of the Holy Trinity there is no gap, nothing inserted, no section or division. The Divine Trinity is absolute unity. The mystery of the trinity of God is inaccessible to the human mind. Knowledge of the Trinity of God is possible only in a mystical revelation through the action of Divine grace, to a person whose heart is cleansed of passions. God bless and help you!

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Our Father. Lord's Prayer

The text of the prayer "Our Father" should be known and read by every Orthodox believer. According to the Gospel, the Lord Jesus Christ gave it to his disciples in response to a request to teach them how to pray.

Our Father, Thou art in Heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in Heaven and on earth. Give us our daily bread today; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Our Father who art in heaven! May your name be hallowed; Let your kingdom come; may Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Give us our daily bread for this day; And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors; And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. (Matthew 6:9-13)

After reading the prayer, it should be completed with the sign of the cross and a bow. Our Father is pronounced by believers, for example, at home in front of the icon, or in the temple during the service.

Interpretation of the prayer Our Father of St. John Chrysostom

Our Father, Who art in Heaven! See how He immediately encouraged the listener and at the very beginning remembered all the blessings of God! In fact, the one who calls God the Father, already confesses by this name both the forgiveness of sins, and the release from punishment, and justification, and sanctification, and redemption, and sonification, and inheritance, and brotherhood with the Only Begotten, and the gift of the spirit, so as one who has not received all these blessings cannot call God the Father. Thus, Christ inspires His listeners in two ways: both by the dignity of those who are called, and by the greatness of the benefits they received.

When does he say in heaven then with this word it does not contain God in heaven, but distracts the one who prays from the earth and sets him up in lofty countries and in mountain dwellings.

Further, with these words He teaches us to pray for all brothers. He does not say: “My Father, Who art in Heaven”, but - Our Father, and thus commands to offer up prayers for the whole human race and never have in mind your own benefits, but always try for the benefits of your neighbor. And in this way it destroys enmity, and overthrows pride, and destroys envy, and introduces love - the mother of all good things; destroys the inequality of human affairs and shows complete equality between the king and the poor, since we all have an equal share in the highest and most necessary affairs.

Of course, the title of God the Father also contains a sufficient teaching about every virtue: whoever called God the Father, and the Father in common, must necessarily live in such a way as not to be unworthy of this nobility and show zeal equal to the gift. However, the Savior was not satisfied with this name, but added other sayings.

May your name be hallowed, He says. To be holy means to be glorified. God has his own glory, full of all majesty and never changing. But the Savior commands the one who prays to ask that God be glorified in our life. Of this He said before: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven (Matt. 5:16). Vouchsafe us, - as if the Savior teaches us to pray like this, - to live so pure that through us all glorify You. To show unreproachable life before everyone, so that each of those who see it praises the Lord - this is a sign of perfect wisdom.

May your kingdom come. And these words are appropriate for a good son, who does not attach himself to visible things and does not regard present blessings as something great, but strives for the Father and desires future blessings. Such prayer comes from a good conscience and a soul free from everything earthly.

May Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth. Do you see a great connection? He first commanded to wish for the future and strive for his fatherland, but until this happens, those living here should try to lead such a life as is characteristic of the celestials.

So, the meaning of the words of the Savior is this: just as in heaven everything happens without hindrance and it does not happen that the Angels obey in one thing, and disobey in another, but obey and submit in everything - so do we, people, not half do Your will but do everything as you please.

Give us our daily bread today. What is daily bread? Everyday. Since Christ said: Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth, and He talked with people clothed with flesh, who are subject to the necessary laws of nature and cannot have angelic dispassion, even though He commands us to fulfill the commandments in the same way as the angels they fulfill them, but condescends to the weakness of nature and, as it were, says: “I demand from you an equal-angelic rigor of life, however, without demanding dispassion, since your nature does not allow this, which has the necessary need for food.”

Look, however, as in the bodily there is a lot of spirituality! The Savior commanded us to pray not for wealth, not for pleasures, not for valuable clothes, not for anything else like that - but only for bread, and, moreover, for everyday bread, so that we do not worry about tomorrow, which is why he added: daily bread, that is everyday. Even with this word he was not satisfied, but after that he added another: give us today so that we do not overwhelm ourselves with concern for the coming day. Indeed, if you don't know if you will see tomorrow, then why bother worrying about it?

Further, since it happens to sin even after the font of rebirth (that is, the Sacrament of Baptism. - Comp.), The Savior, wanting to show His great love for humanity in this case as well, commands us to approach the human-loving God with a prayer for the remission of our sins and say this: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Do you see the abyss of God's mercy? After taking away so many evils and after the inexpressibly great gift of justification, He again honors the sinners with forgiveness.

With a reminder of sins, He inspires us with humility; by the command to let others go, he destroys rancor in us, and by the promise of forgiveness to us for this, he affirms good hopes in us and teaches us to reflect on the indescribable love of God.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Here the Savior clearly shows our insignificance and casts down pride, teaching us not to give up heroic deeds and arbitrarily rush to them; thus for us the victory will be more brilliant, and for the devil the defeat is more sensitive. As soon as we are involved in the struggle, we must stand courageously; and if there is no challenge to her, then they should calmly wait for the time of exploits in order to show themselves both unconceited and courageous. Here, Christ calls the devil the evil one, commanding us to wage irreconcilable warfare against him and showing that he is not such by nature. Evil does not depend on nature, but on freedom. And that the devil is predominantly called evil, this is because of the extraordinary amount of evil that is in him, and because he, not being offended by anything from us, wages an irreconcilable battle against us. Therefore, the Savior did not say: “deliver us from the evil ones,” but from the evil one, and thereby teaches us never to be angry with our neighbors for the insults that we sometimes endure from them, but to turn all our enmity against the devil as the culprit of all angry By reminding us of the enemy, having made us more cautious and stopped all our carelessness, He inspires us further, presenting to us that King under whose authority we are fighting, and showing that He is more powerful than all: For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen, says the Savior. So, if it is His Kingdom, then no one should be afraid, since no one resists Him and no one shares power with Him.

The interpretation of the prayer Our Father is given in abbreviations. "Interpretation of St. Matthew the Evangelist of Creation" T. 7. Book. 1. SP6., 1901. Reprint: M., 1993. S. 221-226

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Lord, forgive me for my sins, for not saving my son. Give me and my sister health and strength to repay all debts. Thanks for all! Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Amen

God! Help! Heal me from the diseases that oppress me. Take care of diseases and troubles. let the tests be good. I also ask for the daughter of the servant of God Veronica. To find a good groom. She was happy and healthy. Amen

Lord, dear Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner, Save me Lyudmila, from very big troubles, from evil people, envious and greedy, from their violence, from their penetration into our apartment with my daughter, save from theft, from their evil affairs, Lord, save me from torment, Lord protect me Lyudmila and my daughter Irina. Save us Lord. Protect. Glory to you Lord, glory to you. Aliluya, Lord, Glory to Thee. HELP LORD. SAVE me Lyudmila and my daughter Irina, Save us.

God! Please help my daughter get well. Please help my daughter find the cause of her illness and cure it. To keep my daughter healthy and happy. Amen.

God. Thank you for everything!! For food, work, shelter, for helping solve a friend's problems. I'm glad he's doing well. You heard me, I think it was not in vain that I asked for him and my children all winter. Please hear me and my pain. Give me strength and patience to move on….. Amen

Lord forgive me for my sins. Help me pay off all my debts. It's impossible to live like this anymore. I'm sorry

God! I beg you, help me to reason with my daughter, your servant Elena, so that she wants a child. Send her a thrill of desire to become a mother. Do not refuse my prayer. Help, Lord. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!

Lord our Father! Forgive me all my sins, I beg you, Lord, cure my daughter Mary, take away the illness, Lord, I ask you, Our Father, give her health and long life, please do not leave us, Lord, please! Give my children health! Lord, have mercy on your slave Love, help me in my request.

God! Forgive me my sins, I beg you, give my children health, so that they do not get sick, let them all wake up well, health to my mother and sister to health, happiness to her children and her family. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen!

I thank you, Our Father, Lord, for helping us! I ask you, our Lord, do not leave my family, protect us my children from all diseases, sorrows, take away troubles from my family, do not let them touch us. Our Lord faith only in you protect my children and me from all troubles.

God! I thank you for everything I have. Help my daughter meet a good, kind, loving, caring, faithful, wealthy groom. I ask for the health of my daughter. And also, to be healthy, I r.b. Irina and all my relatives. God help me so that my husband loves me and we live in prosperity and mutual understanding. Amen.

God! Thank you for everything I have! Please help my daughter to defend her diploma and meet a good groom!

God! Thank you for everything. Help my daughter r.b. Veronica find a loving, faithful, kind groom. I ask for the health of myself and all my relatives. Amen.

Lord, I thank you for everything and ask you to forgive me! for all my sins and heal me, accept me among yours, grant me more faith in myself, love you with all my heart and soul, belong only to you and be under your protection. Glory to you Lord our glory to you!

God! Help me get well. For the disease to subside. Please help me heal and stay healthy. Amen.

God help me! Lord save! I feel very bad, help me.

God help me! Lord save! Help me so that this trouble at work bypasses me and so that they don’t call me anywhere. Help, Lord.

Lord, help me get rid of the disease. Save me, Lord!

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, help my daughter Ekaterina to conceive a child! Please, Lord! Help! Amen.

Lord Jesus Christ, give my son, baby Kirill and God's servant Alexander, health. Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Lord, help me give birth to a daughter from a beloved man!

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us. I ask you, Jesus Christ, forgive me and my family all our sins, free and not free.

Forgive me, please, I know that sometimes I do wrong. I'm sorry. Amen

God help my father to recover from a serious illness. He suffers and suffers greatly. He has never done anything wrong to anyone in his life. Give him some health and strength to live a little longer

God help me. So that Oleg is alive and well. Amen

Lord, forgive me for my sins! Forgive me for my sin. Give health to my family and friends! I ask for love, peace, stability! For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me! I ask you Jesus Christ, forgive me my sins, voluntary and involuntary. Please forgive me, everything that I did wrong, said and thought badly, please forgive me, please

Our Father, Lord, forgive me for my sins! Forgive my children parents! I ask you Jesus Christ, forgive me my sins, voluntary and involuntary, forgive me that sometimes I think badly. Give health to my family and friends. Son Ivan willpower to never return to the past. Amen.

God! Please help, let the disease recede from my mother, the servant of God Valentina! Amen.

Lord, help me, let the medical examination of my mother, the servant of God Alla, be easy and painless. Let there be no terrible diagnoses. Please, Lord, help me!

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me! I beg you Lord! help the slave God's Andrew, give him the strength to overcome the disease, help him, let the disease recede.

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Her whole life has become an example of a great spiritual feat of love, patience, self-denial and compassion. People came for help to mother for tens of kilometers with their illnesses, anxieties, sorrows.

The flow of pilgrims to venerate her holy relics does not dry out even today.

The Mystery of the Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven!

Let your name shine

Let your kingdom come

Let your will be done

Like in heaven and on earth

Give us our daily bread today

And leave us our debts

Like we leave our debtor.

And lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from the evil one.

Why is she so popular?

Easy to remember, stays in your head forever. Not without reason, it has become a saying “memorize, like“ Our Father ”.

Chatters fast, bounces off teeth. “Our Father, who art in heaven. »

If you read the prayer in 8-12 minutes (!) “with feeling, with sense, with arrangement”, with fixation on the very process of reading, then a completely different state will be revealed.

Read 10 short lines in 10 minutes ! Be sure to find that some words fall immediately "on the soul." Others don't lay down. Stubborn, contradict, false. This is an exercise for introspection. If some words of the prayer sound false to you, it means.

I learned a lot about myself when I did this simple exercise with the Lord's Prayer.

No, it's not the words from the prayer that sound false, it's something in the soul that is false. Something with prayer does not resonate. And words only help to reveal this falsity. Yep, it's dirty somewhere. If you want to be sincere with yourself, find it out to the end. Honestly. For myself! No one will check this homework.

Rate yourself. Why is there no deep resonance with prayer somewhere? What do you need to change in yourself? And How? And perhaps nothing needs to be changed. So far, it is not given to hear this contradiction. Well, this is a given. Not given yet.

So, there is no real faith yet. You can go to church, you can smoke with candles, you can even hit your forehead on the floor. Well, no faith yet. The main thing in the process of prayer is the realization of striving towards Him. Not that He would hear us and heal us, reward us, share our anxieties, etc. We must hear Him in ourselves. Share with Him His peace.

The version of the prayer "Our Father" for the initiated

I read a new interesting fact from Vitaly Bogdanovich in the “Big Book of Protective Things”. It turns out that the prayer "Our Father" (version Pater Noster - Latin) originally had two different forms of reading. One for the initiates, the other for everyone else. Would you like to become a little dedicated for a moment?

The initiate, when he made the sign of the cross, said the following.

Raising a hand to the forehead: "You",

Carrying the hand to the chest: "Kingdom."

Then a hand to the left shoulder: "Justice."

To the right shoulder: "And mercy."

Then both hands join: "In all nascent cycles."

And all this, again, is not chattering. Pronounced (=stretch=fixation) for 20-30 seconds.

I tried to make the sign of the cross as an initiate, with feeling, with prayer. I won’t say that I brightened up, but the state, indeed, was no longer the same. As if the corridor opened straight. From me to Him. And it became somehow quiet and calm.

Have a look at the page with the prayer of John Chrysostom. Only 6 words, but how it works!

Also on topic "Russian Mantra". This is already a modern masterpiece, with the help of which life becomes brighter and clearer, and you are more confident and stronger. Mantra, she prayer and there is.

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  To the right shoulder: "And mercy." -

  Since when is the Orthodox cross placed from left to right?

  And the name does not shine, but it shines.

  He got sanctified. for Jesus in the gospel is compared to Adam.

  If it doesn't work, don't be embarrassed! Modify in your own way, adapt! If Spiritual aspirations cannot be used in everyday life or in the production of useful things, then all this is nonsense .. :))

  Well done! The main thing is that everything that is from the Spirit, try to make it more practical. adapt! If Spiritual aspirations cannot be used in everyday life or in the production of useful things, then all this is nonsense .. :))

  here is an example of clear clouding

  This is how the reptilians powdered the truth for us, divided outer space into spiritual space, which is somewhere separate from the material. my answer will be this - yes, everything is one, there is no need to tear the world (this paradise given to us) into parts, they are inseparable, and sing in harmony together!

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  what do we ask, so that the Lord does not lead us into temptation? what can be entered?

  Or the creation of the grave.

  Mola (lat) - spring in Romance languages

  Mohla or grave - in Russian, and in Turkic

  Example: Akmolinsk is a “white grave” or a grave from which they resurrected.

  The one who prays to himself springs himself into a point, which very effectively complains about his pointiness and loneliness in the crowded world of ordinary handshaking.

  The complaint invariably receives the resource of writing off obstacles to the healing of the situation. After all, by pressing a switch or a piezo button, we do exactly the same thing: we ask the resource to enter and make atonement for mistakes (sin)

  There are no rejections. Unless he (herself) praying to himself is not so shaved and erased inside that the light meets in him (in her) the Sayano-Shushenskaya flesh, across the road of life and good luck.

  Negligence in the creation of a prayer (grave) leads to a disruption in the flow, and help without proper formalization is not released.

  And three and four times during the night the Angel offers to “reread heartily.” By 9 o'clock in the morning, it is already possible to defeat the grumbling of laziness.

  When enlightenment comes, a person who has entered the world already sees the world of arrows and signs, circles and texts that ensure his efforts to pass light to places of the cry of the soul, to repair the body according to the drawings of the human canon.

  The whole organism deserves trust from the Lord and can already heal the world around it and the planet with its presence - distances do not play a role in other orders of frequencies of purity.

  Water is instantly blessed both in Singapore and Australia. And the healings are also global

  The feat of redemption of the world by Christs is built on this: they exchange light with the world, like blood, secretly.

  You just need to become transparent to the Lord and not interfere with the march of Victory.

  Or just slowly draw the control vertical from the crown of the head - to the tailbone, as they remove dust or fat.

  Or outline the head with an imaginary halo, erasing all the reliefs of sin from the name of the person who applied.

  Putting a plus on that minus is the sign of the cross: it is also the case when haste leads to being late.

  Calling on the light, remember that you are handing it over to be crucified!

  Therefore, first put things in order in your head with the knowledge of the sacred blueprints of life: the one who needs himself needs a revelation - he simply does not know much. Help him gather himself into a man of knowledge! Weasel.

  This is also the basis for the feat of the redemption of the world by Christ:

  Are you like over Christs? then how would you get?

  Why did Jesus, apparently the last leader of the sect, recommend her to his followers? Because it touches on all the problems in a concise form Jewish people for that period.

  Turning to God as a Father, of course a spiritual one, is a normal attitude for Jews who have risen to this level. King David was the first to do this, in his psalms we read: “The Lord said to Me: You are My Son; I have now begotten you; ask me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession” (Ps. 2:7-8). At the same time, God is perceived as a caring father who, at the right time, will praise, reward, intercede, but if the son is guilty, he will punish. At this level, the obligatory observance of the commandments follows from the desire of a person to be worthy of his rank.

  Christians cannot call God a father, because believe that all people are his slaves, and only one and only son - Jesus. And the commandments given by God are not fulfilled.

  When Jesus comes to one city, he goes to demon-possessed people who live in tombs. “Coffins” are burial caves. They had nowhere to live, everything was taken away from them, so they lived in the cemetery. When they say to Jesus, we are a legion, they mean: we are a legion of the dispossessed. Evangelists say he cured them. Of course he healed. He said that he was the messiah, i.e. anointed to the Jewish throne, who will drive out the invaders and local kings.

  The expectation of the Messiah is the national idea of ​​the Jewish people.

  The “evil ones” are all those whose thoughts and actions come from ignorance. Ignorance is darkness, darkness is ruled by Satan, who, by the way, is also a servant of God. Everything in this world is subject to God.

  The Christian opposition of Satan to God is a direct insult to God.

  The main ignorance, those. manifestation of Satan, Jesus considered ignorance of the Torah.

  This is how the “Law and the Prophets” was briefly called by the Jews the first two parts of their sacred Scriptures. was against the Greek translation of the scriptures, which follows from the following phrase:

  “For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will pass from the law until everything is fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18).

  This is the requirement for the fulfillment of the Law (Torah) to the “last line and jot”, i.e. to the last letter and vowel line of Hebrew spelling, not Greek.

  “So whoever breaks one of these least commandments and teaches people so, he will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever does and teaches, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19).

  According to Jesus, whoever does not fulfill at least one of the commandments of the Torah, and even worse teaches others this way, is “the least”, read “the most unworthy, the most stupid”. And stupidity is the most extensive area of ​​sin.

In those cases when a person’s strength leaves, he is haunted by turmoil, he lost heart, and experiences many difficulties, it certainly makes sense to turn to the Almighty for help with the help of prayer.

Believers are well aware of its healing power, and if it is uttered from pure heart God will certainly hear the prayers and help in the most difficult moment. Naturally, the choice of prayer depends on the type of your request, but this is not mandatory. The main prayer in Christianity is the prayer "Our Father" and you can use it in any case.

What is the history of prayer?

This prayer is considered universal. Therefore, it can be read in hours of illness, despondency, trouble and deterioration in health. Its history goes back to ancient times. It is known that it was Jesus Christ who gave prayer to the disciples who asked to teach them.

In subsequent years, it could already be found among many peoples, but with different texts. For example, in the first century it was considered the center of worship. Prayer illuminated the morning, evening and day. The Eucharist also began with her.

The fulfillment of prayer also has its own history. So, the chant was originally performed by all the people. And later, the prayer began to be performed by the choir. This tradition slowly gained popularity, but still took root. Now the chant has supplanted the ancient custom of performing prayer by the people, thereby disappearing the personal that each person put into it when reading.

In the Gospels, prayer can be found in several versions: from Luke in a short way and from Matthew in a more complete one. The first option, according to biblical scholars, was constantly added, which erased the boundaries of the difference between it and the prayer from Matthew. The second option is more common in Christian world and is used much more frequently.

Prayer text

Our Father, Who art in heaven!

May your name be hallowed,

let your kingdom come,

let your will be done

as in heaven and on earth.

Give us our daily bread today;

and leave us our debts,

as we leave to our debtors;

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.

For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

Amen.

Interpretation of prayer

Before proceeding to the interpretation of the prayer, one should recall its text: “Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth. Give us our daily bread today, and forgive us our debts, as we leave our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

It should be noted that all priests explain the text of the prayer in different ways. So, according to the interpretation of the clergyman Anthony of Sourozh, the prayer is divided into several parts.

The first contains the invocation of God, the second - the invocation of the sinner, representing the path to the Kingdom of Heaven. The last words of the prayer are a glorification of the Holy Trinity, blessing the sinner himself on this path. Usually these words should be spoken exclusively by the priest.

In prayer, God is referred to as the Father. And this means that all people are equal before the Saviors. For the Lord, there are no boundaries associated with nationality, material wealth or origin. Only those who live in accordance with the commandments and lead a pious lifestyle have every right to call themselves the Son of the Heavenly Father.

As you can see, prayer carries the broadest meaning.

Healing properties of prayer

Prayer "Our Father" considered to be the strongest. With the help of it, many people found peace, restored health and self-confidence, and all because it has healing properties. By reading its text, a person can:

• Overcome depression;
• Reveal yourself;
• Develop an optimistic outlook on life;
• Get rid of diseases and troubles;
• Cleanse the soul from sinful thoughts.

But in order for the properties of prayer to really activate their power, it is also important to follow some rules for its pronunciation. Coming to church, or just saying the text of the prayer to yourself, it is important to fully open your soul before God, become yourself without pretense and deceit, ask for help sincerely without lies and tricks. Then the chances that the Almighty will hear the prayers will only increase.

From a psychological point of view, it is believed that reading this prayer it is also important to accept all difficulties. After all, denying them, you only move away from solving problems.

Even such a science as biorhythmology confirms that sound vibrations when reading a prayer really help to heal, tune in a positive way and calm down. Reading the text with all your heart, you will certainly tune in to a specific result and feel spirituality.

Examples of the miraculous effect of prayer

Usually science and religion are incompatible in their concepts and views on life. But, the only thing that science cannot contradict is the healing properties of the Lord's Prayer.

Behind last years Scientists have done a lot of experiments. So on one of these it was proved miraculous power prayers. For research, a certain amount of water was taken from various reservoirs. In all samples, the content of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli was recorded. Over the water, unbelievers and believers read the prayer "Our Father" and the samples were overshadowed by the sign of the cross.

The results of the study showed that the number of bacteria in different containers decreased by hundreds, and in some by thousands of times.

In addition, prayer had a beneficial effect on the well-being of the people who took part in the experiment. In hypertensive patients, a decrease in pressure was recorded, in the subjects the composition of the blood improved, and fatigue disappeared.

It was also observed that for those who did not touch certain points with their fingers, the effect of prayer was much lower.

As you can see, prayer is not only a text, but words that have healing power. With their correct pronunciation, as well as the sincerity of feelings, this power can only be increased. Even those who did not previously believe in the miraculous properties of prayer change their minds after they are convinced in reality of their activity. If you really want the Almighty to hear you and lend a helping hand, turn to him with all your heart without lies and insincerity. Then the result from reading the prayer will not keep you waiting, and you will receive the support that you have been asking for.

Video about the prayer "Our Father".

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

So Orthodox Christians begin morning and evening prayers. In this prayer we call for help Holy Trinity, one in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we ask that God bless all our labors and undertakings, both prayerful and everyday. This prayer can be read before starting any business.

Word "Amen"(Heb. amen - right) at the end of the prayer means: truly so. Many prayers end with this word, it confirms the truth of what was said.

God bless.

This prayer is also pronounced before every deed. All our actions, deeds, and labors will then be successful when we call on God for help, ask Him for help and blessings.

Lord have mercy.

We often hear these words during worship. "Lord have mercy!" (Greek "Kyrie eleyson") - the oldest prayer. To strengthen our repentant attitude, we repeat it three, twelve, and forty times. All these three numbers in the holy Bible symbolize fullness.

A deacon or priest, on behalf of all those praying in the church, pronounces a litany, asking the Lord to forgive us our sins and bestow His heavenly and earthly blessings. The chorus replies: "Lord, have mercy!" - as if on behalf of all those who pray. We also say this prayer to ourselves. This is the shortest confession, even shorter than the repentance of the publican, who said five words from the depths of a contrite heart. In it, we humbly ask God for forgiveness for all our sins and pray for help.

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.

(Pronounced three times)

This prayer is called Trisagion- it repeats the word "Holy" three times. It is addressed to the Holy Trinity. We call God Holy because He is without sin; Strong because He is omnipotent, and Immortal because He is eternal.

In Constantinople in 439 there was a strong earthquake. The people were in fear. People walking around procession city, prayed to God for an end to the disaster. They repentantly, with tears, exclaimed: “Lord, have mercy!” During the prayer, one boy was lifted into the air by an invisible force. When he sank to the ground, he said that he saw a choir of Angels singing: “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us!” As soon as this chant was repeated by the believers, the earthquake stopped. This sacred angelic song has become an integral part of worship and prayer rule among Orthodox Christians.

Glory to Thee, Lord, glory to Thee.

We should not only ask God for something, but also thank Him for everything He sends us. If something good has happened to us, we should give thanks to God, at least briefly, by saying this prayer. Let us during the day notice everything that the Lord gives us, and go to sleep to thank Him.

Lord's Prayer

Our Father, Who art in heaven. May your name be hallowed. May Your kingdom come, may Your will be done, as in heaven and on earth. Give us our daily bread today. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Our Father Who is in Heaven! May your name be hallowed. May your kingdom come; May Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us our daily bread today. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from the evil one. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

This prayer is special. It was given to His disciples-apostles by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, when they asked Him: "Lord, teach us to pray." That is why this prayer is called the Lord's Prayer. It is also called the prayer "Our Father" - in the first words. All Orthodox Christians, even small ones, should know it by heart. There is even a saying: “To know as “Our Father””, that is, to remember something very well.

This small prayer contains a request to God for everything that a person needs. We turn to God with the words: “Our Father!”, because He created all people, gave us life, takes care of us and Himself calls us His children: gave the power to be children of God(John 1:12). We are His children, and He is our Father. God is everywhere, but His Throne, the place of special presence, is in the inaccessible, high realms in the sky where the Angels dwell.

May your name be hallowed. First of all, the name of God, His glory must be sanctified in His children - people. This light of God should be visible in us, which is manifested in good deeds, words, in purity of heart, in the fact that we have peace and love among ourselves. The Lord Himself said this: So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven.(Mt 5:16).

May your kingdom come. It also says that the Kingdom of God must first come in the heart and soul of every Christian. We Orthodox must set an example for other people, how the Kingdom of God begins in our family, in our parish, how we love each other and treat people well and kindly. The future Kingdom of God, which has come in power, will begin on earth after the Lord Jesus Christ comes to it for the second time to judge all people with His last Judgment and establish the kingdom of peace, goodness and truth on earth.

May Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth. The Lord wants only good and salvation for us. People, unfortunately, do not always live the way God wants. Angels in heaven are always in obedience to God, they know and do His will. We pray that people will understand that God wants them all to be saved and happy, and that they will obey God. But how do you know the will of God for yourself? After all, we are all different, and everyone has their own path. To live according to the will of God, you need to build your life the way God commands, that is, in your life be guided by His commandments, by what the word of God tells us, Holy Bible. It is necessary to read it more often, to look for answers to questions in it. We need to listen to our conscience, it is the voice of God in us. It is necessary with humility and gratitude to accept everything that happens to us in life as sent from God. And in all difficult, difficult circumstances, when we do not know what to do, it is necessary to ask God to enlighten us and consult with spiritually experienced people. If possible, it is desirable for everyone to have their own spiritual father and, when necessary, ask him for advice.

Give us our daily bread today. We ask God to give us everything that is necessary for the soul and for the body for every day of our life. Bread here is primarily understood as Heavenly Bread, that is, the Holy Gifts that the Lord gives us in the Sacrament of Communion.

But we also ask for earthly food, clothing, shelter, and everything necessary for life. Therefore, Orthodox Christians read the prayer "Our Father" before meals.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. We all have something to repent of before the Heavenly Father, we have something to ask for His forgiveness. And God in His great love always forgives us if we repent. So we must forgive our "debtors" - people who cause us grief and resentment. If we do not forgive our offenders, then God will not forgive us our sins.

And lead us not into temptation. What are temptations? These are life trials and circumstances in which we can easily commit sins. They happen to everyone: it can be difficult to resist irritation, harsh words, ill will. We need to pray that God will help us cope with temptation and not sin.

But deliver us from the evil one. From whom do temptations, bad, sinful thoughts, desires most often come? From our enemy, the devil. He and his ministers begin to inspire us with evil thoughts, induce us to sin. They deceive us, they never tell the truth, therefore the devil and his servants are called wicked - deceitful. But there is no need to be afraid of them, God has assigned a Guardian Angel to us, who helps us in the fight against demonic temptations. God protects from the evil devil all those who turn to Him.

For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. The prayer "Our Father" ends with a glorification of God, glorification of Him as the King and Ruler of the world. We believe that God is the All-Perfect Power that can help us, protect us from all evil. In confirmation of our faith, we say: "Amen" - "truly so."

When explaining the Lord's Prayer to children, one can recall the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen "The Snow Queen" in its full version. The heroine of the fairy tale, the girl Gerda, read "Our Father", and the prayer helped her a lot. When Gerda approached the Snow Queen's palace to rescue Kai, terrible servants blocked her way. “Gerda began to read “Our Father”; it was so cold that the girl's breath immediately turned into a thick fog. This fog thickened and thickened, but then small bright angels began to stand out from it, which, having stepped on the ground, grew into large formidable angels with helmets on their heads and spears and shields in their hands. Their number kept increasing, and when Gerda finished her prayer, a whole legion had already formed around her. The angels took the snow monsters into spears, and they crumbled into a thousand pieces. Gerda could now boldly go forward: the angels stroked her hands and feet, and she was no longer so cold. Finally, the girl reached the halls of the Snow Queen.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

This prayer is addressed to the third Person of the Holy Trinity - the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is everywhere, for God is a Spirit. He is the giver of life and grace-filled help to all living. It is especially important to read this prayer before the start of any good deed, so that the grace of the Holy Spirit instills in us, strengthens our strength and gives us help. It is customary to read the prayer “To the King of Heaven” before training sessions.

Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos

("Our Lady of the Virgin")

This prayer is based on greeting of the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary at the moment of the Annunciation when the holy Archangel brought the news of the birth from Her to the Mother of God Savior of the world(see: Lk 1:28).

The Church honors and glorifies the Theotokos above all saints, above all angels. The prayer “Virgin Mary, rejoice” is ancient, it appeared in the first centuries of Christianity.

Words blessed is the fruit of thy womb, glorifying Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, are taken from the greeting of the righteous Elizabeth, when the Most Holy Theotokos, after the annunciation, wished to visit her (Lk 1, 42).

This prayer is glorious. We magnify, glorify in it the Mother of God as the Most worthy and righteous of all people, the Virgin, Who was honored with the great honor to give birth to God Himself.

We also turn to the Mother of God in a short prayer of supplication:

Holy Mother of God, save us.

We ask God for salvation through the prayers of the person closest to Him - His Mother. The Mother of God is our first Intercessor and Intercessor before God.

Praise to the Mother of God

("It is worthy to eat")

The Most Holy Theotokos is truly worthy of veneration, indulgence as the immaculate Mother of Christ the Savior.

We glorify Her more than all the Heavenly Forces, Cherubim and Seraphim, and magnify the Mother of God, who gave birth to God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, without birth pains and illnesses.

Prayer "It is worthy to eat" - glorifying, laudatory . “It is worthy to eat” and “Our Lady of the Virgin” are the most famous and important prayers to the Mother of God. Most often they are sung in the temple by all the worshipers.

This prayer usually concludes some parts of the church service. At home prayer, “It is worthy to eat” is usually read at the very end. This prayer is read after study and work.

Arkhangelsk song

The prayer “It is worthy to eat” is called the Arkhangelsk song. According to the legend of Mount Athos, during the reign of Basil and Constantine the Porphyrogenic, Elder Gabriel and his novice, also called Gabriel, labored in a cell near the monastery of Karei. On Saturday evening, June 11, 980, the elder went to the monastery for an all-night vigil, and left the novice to serve in private. At night, an unknown monk knocked on the cell. The novice gave him hospitality. They began to serve together. While singing the words “Most Honorable Cherubim,” the guest said that they glorify the Mother of God in a different way. He sang “It is worthy to eat, as if truly Blessed are You, the Mother of God, the Blessed and Immaculate and Mother of our God ...”, and then added: “The most honest Cherubim ...” The icon of the Mother of God “Merciful”, in front of which they prayed, shone with heavenly light. The novice asked to write down this song, but there was no paper in the cell. The guest took a stone, which became soft in his hands, and inscribed this prayer with his finger. The guest called himself Gabriel and disappeared. When Elder Gabriel came, he realized that the Archangel Gabriel had come. The stone with the song inscribed by the Archangel was delivered to Constantinople.

Prayer to the Guardian Angel

Angel of God, my holy guardian, given to me from God from heaven, I diligently pray to you: enlighten me today, and save me from all evil, guide me to a good deed and direct me to the path of salvation. Amen.

Each person is given a Guardian Angel at baptism. He protects us, saves us from all evil, and especially from the wiles of the forces of demons.

In this prayer, we turn to him and ask him to enlighten our mind to the knowledge of God, save us from all evil, direct us to salvation and help in all good deeds.

Prayer for the Living

Save, O Lord, and have mercy on my spiritual father(his name) , my parents(their names) , relatives, mentors, benefactors and all Orthodox Christians.

Our duty is to pray not only for ourselves, but also for the people closest to us: parents, the priest with whom we confess, brothers, sisters, teachers, all those who do good to us, and for all brothers in faith - Orthodox Christians.

Prayer for the dead

Give rest, O Lord, to the souls of your departed servants: my parents(their names) , relatives, benefactors(names) , and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them the Kingdom of Heaven.

God has no dead, He has all alive. Not only those who live on earth, people close to us need our prayerful help, but also those who have left us, all our deceased relatives and friends.

Prayer before study

Good Lord, send down to us the grace of Your Holy Spirit, bestowing and strengthening our spiritual strength, so that, attentively taught to us, we may grow up to You, our Creator, to the glory, our parent for consolation, the Church and the Fatherland for the benefit.

For schoolchildren, their studies and studies are the same work as for adults their daily work. Therefore, it is necessary to start such an important and responsible business as teaching with prayer, so that the Lord would give us strength, help us assimilate the teaching taught, so that later we can use the knowledge received for the glory of God, for the benefit of the Church and our country. In order for work to bring joy to us and benefit people, we need to learn a lot, work hard.

Prayer after eating

We have already said that before eating food, the prayer "Our Father" is read. After eating, we also read a prayer, giving thanks to God for the sent meal.

God sends us food, but people prepare it, so we also do not forget to thank those who fed us.

Jesus Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

The Jesus Prayer is addressed to our Lord Jesus Christ. In it, we ask for the most important thing: that the Savior forgive our sins and save us, have mercy on us.

This prayer is usually read in monasteries; it is included in the daily prayer rule. Monks - people who have dedicated their lives to the service of God - read it many times, sometimes almost without a break all day. Prayer is read on the rosary so as not to get lost in the count, for it is read a certain number of times. A rosary is usually a string tied with knots or beads. People living outside the monastery, in the world, can also read the Jesus Prayer and pray with the rosary, but for this you need to take a blessing from the priest. It is very good to do the Jesus prayer during work, calling on God for help, on the road and in general at any convenient time.

Prayer has great power. In the Lives of the Saints, Patericons, Fathers and other spiritual books there are many examples of the miraculous effect of prayer.

The Power of Prayer

Abba Dula, a disciple of the elder Vissarion, says: “Abba Vissarion had to cross the Chrysoro River. Having made a prayer, he went along the river, as if on dry land, and came to the other side. In amazement, I bowed to him and asked: what did your feet feel when you walked on the water? The elder answered: my heels felt water, but the rest was dry. Thus, more than once he crossed the great river Nile ”(Otechnik).