What prayers must be read every day. Prayer to St. Spyridon of Trimifuntsky, bestowing a serene, comfortable existence. The result of prayer is humility and obedience, not complacency and selfishness

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TO what should be the daily prayer rule Orthodox Christian? Is it possible to read akathists according to a personal spiritual desire, or are akathists read only with a blessing and on certain days? How to read akathists correctly - aloud or silently, in a singsong voice, and in what order? How to read the canons at home? Sitting or standing?

Archimandrite Ambrose (Fontrier) answers these questions:

"P There is a rule and it is mandatory for everyone. These are morning and evening prayers, one chapter from the Gospel, (...) if possible, you can read the kathisma from the Psalter, as well as read the canon.

I once asked one person:

Should I have lunch and dinner every day?

- It is necessary, - he answers, - but besides this, I can also intercept something, drink some tea.

- What about praying? If our body requires food, is it not more than that - the soul? We feed the body so that the soul can be kept in the body and cleansed, sanctified, freed from sin, so that the Holy Spirit abides in us. She needs to be united with God already here. And the body is the clothes of the soul, which grows old, dies and crumbles into the dust of the earth. And we are on this temporary, perishable Special attention pay. We take care of him so much! And we feed, and give water, and paint, and dress in fashionable rags, and give peace - we pay a lot of attention. And for the soul, sometimes our care is not left. Have you read the morning prayers?

So you can't have breakfast. And if you're not going to read evening books, then you can't even have dinner. And you can't drink tea.

“I will die of hunger!”

So your soul is dying of hunger!

Now, when a person makes this rule the norm of his life, then he has peace, peace and quiet in his soul. The Lord sends grace, and the Mother of God and the Angel of the Lord pray. In addition, Christians still pray to the saints, read other akathists, the soul is fed like that, contented and glad, peaceful, a person is saved.

But it is not necessary to read like some, to do proofreading. They read it, rattled it - through the air, but it didn’t hit the soul. Just touch this - it flared up! But he considers himself a great prayer book - he “prays” very well. The Apostle Paul says: “It is better to say five words with my mind, in order to instruct others, than the darkness of words in an unfamiliar language”(1 Cor.14:19) Better five words will pass into the soul, than the darkness of words bypass the soul.

- You can read akathists at least every day. I knew one woman (her name was Pelagia), she read 15 akathists every day. The Lord gave her special grace. Some Orthodox sometimes have many akathists collected - both 200 and 500. They usually read a certain akathist every holiday celebrated by the Church. For example, tomorrow is the feast of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. People who have an akathist to this holiday will read it.

- Akathists are good to read with fresh memory, i.e. in the morning, when the mind is not burdened with worldly affairs. In general, it is very good to pray from morning to dinner, until the body is burdened with food. Then there is an opportunity to feel every word from akathists, canons.

All prayers and akathists are best read aloud. Why? Because words enter the soul through hearing and are better remembered. I constantly hear: “We cannot learn prayers ...” And they don’t need to be taught - they just need to be read constantly, every day - in the morning and in the evening, and they are remembered by themselves. If “Our Father” is not remembered, then it is necessary to attach a piece of paper with this prayer where our dining table is.

Many refer to a bad memory due to old age, and when you start asking them, asking various everyday questions, everyone remembers. They remember who was born when, in what year, everyone remembers birthdays. They know how much what is now in the store and on the market - and yet the prices are constantly changing! They know how much bread, salt, butter cost. Everyone remembers well. You ask: "What street do you live on?" - everyone will say. Very good memory. But they can't remember prayers. And this is because we have flesh in the first place. And we care so much about the flesh, we all remember what it needs. But we don’t care about the soul, that’s why our memory is bad for everything good. On the bad, we are masters ...

—The holy fathers say that those who daily read the canons to the Savior, the Mother of God, the Guardian Angel, the saints, are especially protected by the Lord from all demonic misfortunes and evil people.

If you come to any boss for a reception, you will see a sign on his door “Reception hours from ... to ...” But you can turn to God at any time. Night prayer is especially valuable. When a person prays at night, then, as the holy fathers say, this prayer is, as it were, paid for with gold. But in order to pray at night, one must take a blessing from the priest, because there is a danger: a person may become proud that he prays at night and fall into delusion, or demons will especially attack him. Through the blessing, the Lord will protect this person.

Sitting or standing? If the legs do not hold, then you can kneel down and read. If your knees are tired, you can read while sitting. It is better to sit and think about God than to think about your feet while standing. And one more thing: prayer without prostrations is a premature fetus. Fans are a must.”

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.

Failures and lack of money, uncertainty about the future and one's strengths, fears for one's children and loved ones - this ninth wave covers us almost constantly. And no, no, yes, 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 the 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, which are now brought 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, by your intercession, no wounds, neither ban, nor pestilence, nor any wrath from our Creator will be diminished, 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 the Orthodox world, it is difficult to find a second saint as 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 about happy life for myself and my household, 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, St. Nicholas of Christ! 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 Humanity God, may he not condemn us according to our iniquities, but may he do with us by His grace! 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 on the upcoming holy icon of your people (names), tenderly praying and asking you for help and intercession. Prayerfully stretch out your honest hands to the Lord God and ask Him for forgiveness of our sins, voluntary and involuntary, in sickness suffering healing, intercession attacked, consolation grieving, distressed ambulance to all those who honor your peaceful and Christian life and a good answer at the terrible Judgment Seat of 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, visit the sick, protect the weak and intercessor, widows and orphans, the patroness, sad mothers, all-reliable comforter, weak babies fortress, and all the helpless 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 will pass: the same Ubo, O Mother, loving child, heed the voice of our prayer, comfort us in the sorrow of those who are, as 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, like 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 Father without beginning 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: quench the sinful flame burning in us and our hearts dried up by repentance; cleanse our mind from sinful thoughts, accept prayers, from the soul and heart with a sigh, offered 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! Receive this laudatory and thankful singing from us, unworthy Thy servants, and offer up our prayers to the Throne of God Thy Son, may he be merciful to our unrighteousness and give His grace to those who honor Thy all-honorable name and with faith and love bow down to Thy miraculous image. 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 with 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 roof of the Almighty, who lived, guided and strengthened by the Mother of God, gladness and thirst, cold and heat, reproach and persecution, endured, the gift of insight and miracle-working from God, you accepted 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, before 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 ill, send down family love and consent, worthy of a 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, O those who were deprived of communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ at the dying hour beg: you are our hope and hope, speedy 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. Swindlers 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 the Last Judgment, weaken 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 with 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 vouchsafe me there 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 Honorable 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, 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 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 implore 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, John, the stratilate, 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. Lose everything you have long years when it’s already difficult and hard for all of us, it’s 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 rainlessness, drought, rain, for weather changes, as well as for successful trading, from hunger and in cases where you want to receive 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, suffering for our iniquity and melting with hunger, heat and thirst. 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 don’t think of anything else, except for luck in my life path 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. But 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, each of us needed help will give.

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 all the centuries-old experience Orthodox Church, in fact, 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, having picked 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 this in church families, when small children, imitating praying adults, raise their hands, make the sign of the cross, perhaps clumsily, pick up 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 with 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 of 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 and 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, returned, 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. Of great power is oil from lamps from holy places, from the relics of saints, 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 knowledge Holy Scripture, 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 it in Orthodox churches a large number of icons of saints, 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, Divine Liturgy, 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 to 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? Doesn't the same thing happen in our daily life when we ask our loved ones and acquaintances to put in a good word for us in front of our superiors? 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 it's very important point, since many Orthodox Christians in prayer to the saints forget about the One to whom, in the end, the prayer request will be sent, 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. The pious church tradition, based on the lives of the saints, ascribes to them effective help to their 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 church to offer a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord and all the saints who had helped me that day in my pastoral service. 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 ”(Golubinsky E.E. Canonization of saints. S. 297–298).

Church history says 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, during the opening of the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov (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?

The 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 are like a vessel full of grace, overflowing on all who flow to them,” we read in prayer. Reverend Sergius 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.

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List of prayers for daily reading, after the rituals of removing negativity

1. Read prayers are needed daily (morning and evening)) - to develop a “prayer shield”, after a ceremony to remove “curses”, “crown of celibacy”, spoilage and purification of fate from the influence of negative programs, and in many other cases.
Any other prayers can (and should) be read additionally, if there is a desire, or there is a desire to start living in a new way, without making the same mistakes.
All prayers are taken from the Orthodox prayer book for the laity.
In addition to the obligatory prayers for every day, we can additionally recommend other prayers (depending on the diagnosis). The obligatory prayers are the minimum required set. You need to read prayers in the morning, (in the afternoon - if possible) and in the evening.
2. "Crusading" — obligatory daily ritual is done in the morning and evening at least 40 times . That is, baptize yourself 40 times, while reading:
-or "Prayer of the publican";
-or " A Brief Prayer to the Holy Cross
3. "Crucifixion with a burning candle» — in the morning, at noon (if possible) And in the evening - at least 40 times . At the same time, you also read prayers (see paragraph number 2)
4. Cleansing yourself with holy water – daily morning and evening . The use of Holy Water inside separately, or with food - daily.
5. It is necessary to carry out cleaning your home, office, your workplace (incense, church candle, Holy Water). Well protects the room - a sticker in the openings and piers of protective Orthodox amulets (buy in the Temple). In the workplace - if conditions permit. The apartment and the house must be protected.

Prayers for every day

Publican's Prayer
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!”
It is read forty times along with the bearing of the cross.

Predestinatory prayer

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

Read in the morning and in the evening 3 times

Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Heavenly King, Comforter, Soul of truth, who is everywhere and fills everything, the treasure of the good and the Giver of life, come and dwell in us, and cleanse us from all filth, and save, O Blessed, our souls.

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

It is read in the morning and in the evening 3 times with the bearing of the cross and bowing from the waist

Prayer to the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Lord, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Your name's sake.
Read in the morning and in the evening 3 times

Lord's Prayer
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.

It is read in the morning and in the evening 3 times.

Song of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mother of God, Virgin, rejoice! Blessed Mary, the Lord is with you! Blessed are You in women and blessed is the fruit of Your womb, as if the Savior gave birth to our souls.

It is read in the morning and in the evening, as well as when help and support are needed.

Symbol of faith
I believe in one God the Father, Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten, who was born of the Father before all ages; Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, Whom all was. For us for the sake of man and for our sake of salvation, he descended from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and Mary the Virgin, and became human. Crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried. And resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father. And the packs of the future with glory to judge the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord of Life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets. Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. Amen.

Read in the morning and evening as well as in turmoil in the soul to strengthen faith,when you need help and support.
Prayer to the Holy Cross
Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered, and let all 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 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, who descended into hell and corrected his strength 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 Virgin Mother of God and with all the saints forever. Amen.
Request for help and protection in case of all kinds of misfortunes and attacks of enemies and evil. Morning and evening.

Psalm 90
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. As if He will deliver thee from the net of the hunter, and from the rebellious word, His splash will overshadow thee, 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 passing, 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.

Read in the morning and evening to protect from any negativity.

St. Archangel of God Michael
Oh, Saint Michael the Archangel, have mercy on us sinners who demand your intercession, save us, the servants of God (names), from all visible and invisible enemies, moreover, strengthen us from the horror of death and from the embarrassment of the devil, and make us shamelessly present to our Creator in the hour of His terrible and righteous Judgment. Oh, all-holy, great Michael the Archangel! Do not despise us, sinners, who pray to you for help and your intercession in this life and the future, but make us worthy there together with you to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

In the morning and in the evening.

Guardian Angel
Angel of God, my holy guardian, given to me by God from heaven! I diligently pray to you: enlighten me today, and save me from all evil, instruct me in every deed, and direct me on the path of salvation. Amen.

Prayer to Cyprian and the martyr Justina
(only from the prayer book, not from social networks)
O Holy Hieromartyr Cyprian and Martyr Justina! Listen to our humble prayer. Even if your temporary life was martyred for Christ, but you do not depart from us in spirit, always, according to the commandment of the Lord, teach us to walk and patiently bear your cross helping us. Behold, boldness to Christ God and His Most Holy Mother acquired nature. The same and now wake up prayer books and intercessors for us unworthy (names). Wake us the intercessors of the fortress, but by your intercession keep intact, from demons, sorcerers and from evil people, we will remain, glorifying the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

It is read for protection from evil spirits and witchcraft. Morning and evening.

Psalm to David, 140
Lord, I call to You, hear me.
Hear me, Lord.
Lord, I cry to Thee, hear me: hearken to the voice of my supplication. Every now and then call to Thee. Hear me, Lord. May my prayer be corrected, like a censer before Thee: the lifting up of my hand is the evening sacrifice. Hear me, Lord.
Set, O Lord, a guardianship with my mouth, and a gate of protection against my mouth.
Do not turn my heart into words of deceit, do not forgive the guilt of sins.
With men who do iniquity, and I will reckon with their chosen ones.
The righteous will punish me with mercy and rebuke me, but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head.
Likewise, my prayer is in their favor, they were sacrificed at the stone of their judge.
My words will be heard, as if I were able: as if the thickness of the earth had sat down on the earth, their bones were wasted in hell.
As to Thee, Lord, Lord, my eyes, in Thee I hope, do not take away my soul.
Save me from the snare that has made me south, and from the temptation of those who do iniquity.
Sinners will fall into their netherlands, I am one, until I pass away.

There is nothing superfluous here, but this is just the minimum set from which you need to learn to read prayers.

After our rites of removal of the negative one must learn to work with prayers. To begin with, read prayers for 40 days, you need to develop the habit of reading and begin to form a prayer protective shield.

Everyone should have protection from negativity.

• Protected from negativity with a prayer shield.
• Have a special, made by us, magical amulet.
• Do not send negative messages to other people.
• Use the Slavic amulet.
• Learn energy protection in difficult situations.

Accustoming yourself to the daily reading of prayers, having the necessary protection, cleansing your home and your body will lead you to results that a person cannot achieve in other ways.

Vladimir Russ

The power of prayer is proven and undeniable. However, it is important to know how to read prayers correctly so that they work.

What is prayer for a believer

Prayer is an integral part of any religion. Any prayer is a communication of a person with God. With the help of special words that come from the depths of our souls, we praise the Almighty, thank God, ask the Lord for help and blessings in earthly life for ourselves and our loved ones.

It has been proven that prayer words can greatly influence a person's consciousness. The clergy say that prayer can change the life of a believer and his fate as a whole. But it is not necessary to use complex prayer appeals. You can pray in simple words. Often in this case it is possible to invest a lot of energy in prayer appeal, from which it becomes more powerful, which means it will certainly be heard by the Heavenly forces.

It has been noticed that after prayer, the soul of a believer calms down. He begins to perceive the problems that have arisen differently and quickly finds a way to solve them. True faith, which is invested in prayer, gives hope for help from above.

Sincere prayer is able to fill spiritual emptiness and quench spiritual thirst. A prayer appeal to the Higher Forces becomes an indispensable assistant in difficult life situations when no one can help. A believer not only receives relief, but also strives to change the situation for the better. That is, we can say that prayer awakens inner strength to resist the prevailing circumstances.

What are the prayers

The most important prayers for a believer are thanksgiving. They glorify the greatness of the almighty Lord, as well as the mercy of God and all the Saints. This type of prayer should always be read before asking the Lord for any blessings in life. Any divine service in the church begins and ends with the glorification of the Lord and the chanting of his holiness. Such prayers are always obligatory during evening prayers, when gratitude is offered to God for the day lived.

In second place in terms of popularity are petitionary prayers. They are a way of expressing requests for help in any spiritual needs or bodily needs. The popularity of petitionary prayers is explained by the weakness of man. In many life situations, he is not able to cope with the problems that have arisen and he definitely needs help.



Pleading prayers not only ensure a prosperous life, but also bring them closer to the salvation of the soul. They necessarily contain a request for the forgiveness of known and unknown sins and the acceptance of repentance by the Lord for unseemly deeds. That is, with the help of such prayers, a person purifies the soul and fills it with sincere faith.

A sincere believer must be sure that his pleading prayer will be sure to be heard by the Lord. You need to understand that God knows about the misfortunes that befell the believer and his needs even without prayer. But at the same time, the Lord never takes any action, leaving the believer the right to choose. A true Christian must offer his petition by repenting of his sins. Only a prayer that includes words of repentance and a specific request for help will be heard by the Lord or other heavenly Heavenly Powers.

There are also separate penitential prayers. Their purpose is that with their help the believer frees the soul from sins. After such prayers, spiritual relief always comes, which is due to liberation from painful experiences about committed unrighteous deeds.

Prayer of repentance provides for sincere repentance of a person. It must come from the depths of the heart. In such cases, people often pray with tears in their eyes. Such a prayerful appeal to God can save the soul from the most serious sins that interfere with life. Penitential prayers, purifying the soul of a person, allow him to move on life path, find peace of mind and acquire new spiritual strength for new achievements for the good. Use this species clergymen recommend prayer appeals as often as possible.

Prayers that are written in Old Church Slavonic are very difficult to read in the original. If this is done mechanically, then such appeals to God are unlikely to be effective. In order to convey a prayer to God, one must fully understand the meaning of the prayer text. Therefore, it is hardly worth bothering with reading prayers in the church language. You can simply listen to them by attending a service in the temple.

It is important to understand that any prayer will be heard only if it is conscious. If you decide to use the canonical prayer in the original, then you first need to familiarize yourself with its semantic translation into modern language or ask the priest to explain its meaning in accessible words.

If you constantly pray at home, be sure to organize a red corner for this. There you need to install icons and put church candles, which will need to be lit during prayer. It is allowed to read prayers from a book, but it is much more effective to read them by heart. This will allow you to concentrate as much as possible and put stronger energy into prayer appeal. You shouldn't stress too much about this. If prayers become the rule, then it will not be difficult to remember them.

What actions accompany Orthodox prayer

Very often, believers have a question, what additional actions strengthen prayer. If you are in a church service, then the best advice that can be given is to carefully monitor the actions of the priest and other worshipers.

If everyone around is kneeling or crossing themselves, then you need to do the same. Indicative for repetition are all the actions of priests, who always conduct services in accordance with church rules.

There are three types of church bows that are used when offering prayers:

• A simple bow of the head. It is never accompanied by the sign of the cross. It is used for words in prayers: “fall down”, “worship”, “grace of the Lord”, “God's blessing”, “peace to all”. In addition, you need to bow your head if the priest blesses not with the Cross, but with a hand or a candle. Also, such an action takes place when a priest passes with a censer in a circle of believers. It is imperative to bow your head while reading the Holy Gospel.
• Belt bow. In the process of this, you need to bend at the waist. Ideally, such a bow should be so low as to be able to touch the fingers to the floor. It is important to remember that before such a bow, it is imperative to overshadow yourself with the sign of the cross. A bow is used in words in prayers: “Lord, have mercy”, “Give me, Lord”, “Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit”, “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us”, “Glory to You, Lord, Glory You". This action is obligatory before the beginning of the reading of the Gospel and at the end, before the beginning of the prayer "Symbol of Faith", in the process of reading akathists and canons. It is necessary to make a bow from the waist when the priest blesses with the Cross, the Icon or the Holy Gospel. Both in church and at home, you must first cross yourself, perform a bow from the waist, and only after that read the well-known and very important for all Orthodox Christians prayer “Our Father”.
• Earth bow. It involves kneeling and touching the forehead to the ground. When such an action should be performed in a church service, the attention of the clergy is necessarily drawn to this. By praying at home, such an action can enhance the effect of any prayer appeal. It is not recommended to use prostrations in prayers, between Easter and Trinity, between Christmas and Epiphany, on the days of the twelve great church holidays, on Sunday.

You should know that in Orthodoxy it is not customary to pray on your knees. This is done only in exceptional cases. Very often, believers do this in front of a miraculous icon or a particularly revered church shrine. After bowing to the ground during ordinary prayer, it is imperative to rise and continue the prayer.

You should make the sign of the cross after simply bowing your head before starting to read any independent prayer. After its completion, you should also cross yourself.

How to read morning and evening prayers

Morning and evening prayers are read in order to strengthen faith in the soul. To do this, there are morning and evening rules that must be followed. After waking up and before going to bed, it is recommended to pray using the prayers below.

This prayer was conveyed to the apostles by Jesus Christ himself with the aim that they spread it throughout the world. It contains a strong petition for seven blessings that make the life of any believer full, filling it with spiritual shrines. In this prayer appeal, we express respect and love for the Lord, as well as faith in our own happy future.

This prayer can be used for reading in any life situations, but in the morning and before going to bed it is mandatory. It is always necessary to read a prayer with increased sincerity, this is precisely what distinguishes it from other prayer appeals.

The text of the prayer is as follows:

Prayer for an agreement at home

It is believed that the power of Orthodox prayers increases many times if several believers pray together. This fact is also confirmed from the energy point of view. The energy of people praying at the same time unites and enhances the effect of the prayer appeal. Prayer by agreement can be read at home with your household. It is considered the most popular and effective in cases when one of the close people fell ill and it is necessary to make common efforts for his recovery.

For such a prayer, you need to use any directed text. With it, you can turn not only to the Lord, but also to various Saints. The main thing is that the participants of the ceremony should be united by a single goal and the thoughts of all believers should be pure and sincere.

Prayers Detention

Especially for reading is the prayer to the icon "Detention". Its text is available in the collection of prayers of the elder Pansofius of Athos and it is necessary to pronounce it during prayer in the original. She happens to be powerful weapon against evil spirits, therefore priests do not recommend using this prayer at home, without the blessing of a spiritual mentor. The thing is that the wishes and turns that it contains are close to the Old Testament, and are far from the traditional petitions of Orthodox believers. The prayer is read nine times a day for nine days. In this case, you can not miss a single day. In addition, there is a requirement that this prayer must be said in secret.

This prayer allows you to:

• Provide reliable protection from demonic forces and human evil;
• Protect from household damage and the evil eye;
• Protect yourself from the actions of selfish and malicious people, including the meanness and cunning of enemies.

When the prayer to Saint Cyprian is read

A bright prayer to Saint Cyprian is an effective way to ward off all sorts of troubles from a believer. It is recommended to use it in cases where there is a suspicion of damage. It is allowed to speak water with this prayer, and then drink it.

The prayer text reads as follows:

“O holy saint of God, Hieromartyr Cyprian, you are the helper of all those who turn to you for help. Accept from us sinners praise to you for all your deeds earthly and heavenly. Begged for us from the Lord in our infirmities, strengthening, in severe illnesses, healing, in bitter sorrows, consolation, and ask him to grant us other earthly blessings.

Lift up Saint Cyprian, revered by all believers, your pious prayer to the Lord. May the Almighty protect me from all temptations and falls, teach me true repentance, and save me from the demonic influence of the influences of unkind people.

Be my real champion for all my enemies, visible and invisible, give me patience, and at the hour of my death, become my intercessor before the Lord God. And I will sing your holy name and pray to our Most High God. Amen".

How to turn to Nicholas the Wonderworker in prayer

Very often they turn with a variety of requests to Nicholas the Wonderworker. This Saint is often addressed when a black streak comes in life. The prayer appeal of a sincerely believing person will certainly be heard and fulfilled, since Saint Nicholas is considered the closest Saint to the Lord.

It is possible to express a specific request in prayers, but there is a universal prayer for the fulfillment of a desire.

It sounds like this:

“O Holy Wonderworker Nicholas, help me, the Servant (s) of God (s) ( given name) in my mortal desires. Help me to fulfill my cherished desire, and do not be angry at my bold request. Don't leave me alone with vain things. My desire is only for the good, not and not to the detriment of others, fulfill your mercy. And if I conceived something dashing according to your understanding, then avert the attack. If I want dashing, avert adversity. Make sure that all my righteous desires are fulfilled, and life is filled with happiness. May your will be done. Amen".

Only baptized people can read the Jesus Prayer. This prayer appeal is considered the first step in the formation of faith in the human soul. Its meaning is to ask for mercy from the Lord God through His Son. This prayer is a real daily amulet for a believer and can help overcome any difficulties. Also, the Jesus Prayer is an effective remedy against the evil eye and corruption.

In order for the prayer to be effective, the following recommendations should be followed:

• While pronouncing words, you need to focus on them as much as possible;
• One should not memorize a prayer mechanically, it should be memorized by fully understanding each word;
• It is necessary to pray in a calm and quiet place;
• If faith is very strong, then it is allowed to pray during vigorous activity;
• During prayer, all thoughts should be directed to true faith in the Lord. In the soul there must be love for God and admiration for the Almighty.

Prayer for a talisman - a red thread

A very common amulet is a red thread on the wrist. The history of this talisman is rooted in Kabbalah. In order for the red thread on the wrist to acquire protective properties, you must first read a special prayer above it.

A red thread for a talisman must be bought for money. It should be woolen and quite durable. A close relative or relative should tie it on the wrist and conduct the accompanying ritual. It is very good if the native mother will tie the thread. But in any case, you must be sure that the person who will perform the ceremony sincerely loves you.

For each knot tied, the following prayer is said:

“Lord Almighty, blessed is the Kingdom on Earth and in Heaven. I bow before your Power and Majesty and glorify You. You do many good deeds, heal the sick and support those in need, you show your true love, and only you have universal forgiveness. I ask you to save the Servant of God (the name of the person), protect him from troubles and protect him from visible and invisible enemies. Only you can do this on Earth and in Heaven. Amen".

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How to pray and what mistakes to avoid.

In order to express to God our reverence for Him and reverence for Him, we stand during prayer, not sit: only the sick and the very old are allowed to pray while sitting.
Recognizing our sinfulness and unworthiness before God, we, as a sign of our humility, accompany our prayer with bows. They are waist, when we bend down to the waist, and earthly, when, bowing and kneeling, we touch the ground with our heads *.
Law of God

[*] On Sundays, as well as from the day of St. Easter until the evening of St. Trinity, as well as from the day of the Nativity of Christ to the day of Baptism, also on the day of the Transfiguration and Exaltation (on this day it is supposed to make only three earthly bows before the cross), Sts. the apostles completely forbade bending the knee and making prostrations to the earth ... for Sundays and other Lord's feasts contain recollections of reconciliation with God, according to the apostle's words: "Already carry a servant, but a son" (Gal. 4, 7); it is not fitting for sons to create slavish worship.

The sign of the cross, according to the teachings of the holy fathers, should be performed as follows: folding three fingers right hand, laying it on the forehead, on the womb, on the right shoulder and on the left, and then, having put the sign of the cross on themselves, they bend down. About those who signify themselves with the whole five or bow before they have finished the cross, or wave in the air or on their chest, it is said in Chrysostom: “The demons rejoice at that frantic waving.” On the contrary, the sign of the cross, performed earnestly with faith and reverence, frightens demons, calms sinful passions and attracts Divine grace. Orthodox prayer book

The first three fingers folded together (thumb, index and middle) express our faith in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, as the Consubstantial and indivisible Trinity, and the two fingers bent to the palm mean that the Son of God, after His descent to earth , being God, became a man, that is, His two natures mean - Divine and human.
Overshadowing ourselves with the sign of the cross, we put our fingers folded like this on our forehead - to sanctify our mind, on the womb (stomach) - to sanctify our inner feelings, then on the right and left shoulders - to sanctify our bodily forces.
It is necessary to overshadow oneself with the sign of the cross, or to be baptized: at the beginning of prayer, during prayer and at the end of prayer, as well as when approaching everything holy: when we enter the temple, when we kiss the cross, to icons, and in all important cases of our life : in danger, in grief, in joy, etc.
Law of God

When approaching prayer, one must always sober one's thoughts, divert them from earthly affairs and interests, and for this purpose one should stand quietly, sit or walk around the room. Then think about whom you intend to stand before and whom to turn to, so that a feeling of humility and self-abasement appears. After that, you should put a few bows and begin prayers, slowly, delving into the meaning of each word and bringing them to the heart. When you read, the holy fathers teach: cleanse us from all filthiness - feel your filthiness; you read: forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors - in your soul forgive everyone, and in your heart ask the Lord for forgiveness, etc. order of thought in prayer. This order was once revealed by an angel to a holy monk (Lestv. 28:7). The beginning of prayer should consist of praise to God, of thanksgiving for His countless good deeds; then we must offer God a sincere confession of our sins in contrition of heart and, in conclusion, we can express with great humility our petitions for the needs of our soul and body, reverently leaving the fulfillment and non-fulfillment of these petitions to His will. Each such prayer will leave a trace of prayer in the soul; daily continuation of it will root prayer, and patience, without which nothing can be achieved in life, will undoubtedly instill a prayerful spirit. Shmch. Met. Serafim Chichagov

Man sees on the face, but God sees on the heart (1 Sam. 16:7); but in a man the location of the heart is most consistent with the position of his face, his appearance. And therefore, during prayer, give the most reverent position to the body. Stand like a convict, with your head bowed, not daring to look at the sky, with your hands down... Let the sound of your voice be the pitiful sound of weeping, the groan of a deadly weapon or tormented by a fierce disease. St. Ignaty Brianchaninov

When you pray, do everything intelligently. When you add oil to the lamp, then imagine that the Life-Giver every day and hour, every minute of your life supports your life with His Spirit, and, as it were, every day through sleep in the body, and through prayer and the word of God in the spiritual sense, pours into you the oil of life that burns your soul and body. When you put a candle in front of the icon, remember that your life is like a burning candle: it will burn out and go out; or that others make it burn faster than it should, with passions, polygamy, wine and other pleasures. St. rights. John of Kronstadt

Standing before the icon of the Savior, stand as if before the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, omnipresent according to the Divinity, and His icon present in the place where it is located. Standing before the icon of the Mother of God, stand, as it were, before the Most Holy Virgin herself; but keep your mind formless: the greatest difference is to be in the presence of the Lord and stand before the Lord, or imagine the Lord.
The elders said: do not want to see Christ or an angel sensually, so that you do not completely go crazy, accepting a wolf instead of a shepherd and worshiping your enemies, demons.
Only the holy saints of God, renewed by the Holy Spirit, ascend to the supernatural state. Man, before being renewed by the Holy Spirit, is incapable of communion with holy spirits. He, as he is still in the realm of the fallen spirits, in captivity and in slavery to them, is able to see only them, and they often, noticing in him a high opinion of themselves and self-delusion, appear to him in the form of bright angels, in the form of Christ Himself, for destruction of his soul.
St. Ignaty Brianchaninov

When you pray, pay attention to yourself so that your inner person prays, and not only the outer one. Although he is sinful without measure, but all pray. Do not look at the devil's kindling, craftiness and despair, but overcome and defeat his intrigues. Remember the abyss of philanthropy and mercy of Spasov. The devil will present to you the face of the Lord as formidable and unmerciful, rejecting your prayer and your repentance, and you remember the words of the Savior, filled for us with all hope and boldness: He who comes to Me I will not get out of (John 6, 37), and - come to Me those who labor and are burdened with sins and iniquities, and devilish wiles and slander, and I will give you rest (Matt. 11, 28). St. rights. John of Kronstadt

Read prayers slowly, pay attention to every word - bring the thought of every word to the heart, otherwise: understand what you are reading, and feel what you understand. This is the whole point of pleasing God and fruitful reading of prayer. St. Theophan the Recluse

Ask for what is worthy of God, don't stop asking until you get it. Although a month, and a year, and three years, and more years will pass, until you receive it, do not back down, but ask in faith, doing good without ceasing. St. Basil the Great

Do not be reckless in your petitions, so as not to anger God with your foolishness: he who asks the King of kings for something insignificant humiliates Him. The Israelites, ignoring the miracles of God performed for them in the wilderness, asked for the fulfillment of the desires of the womb - and I still exist in their mouths, the wrath of God is lifted up on them (Ps. 77, 30-31). The one who seeks in prayer his perishable earthly blessings arouses the indignation of the Heavenly King against himself. Angels and archangels - these His nobles - look at you during your prayer, looking at what you ask from God. They wonder and rejoice when they see an earthly one who has left his earth and brings a petition for receiving something heavenly; they grieve, on the contrary, for the one who left the heavenly things without attention, and who asks for his land and corruption. St. Ignaty Brianchaninov

Praying to the Lord, the Mother of God or saints, always remember that the Lord gives according to your heart (the Lord will give you according to your heart - Ps. 19, 5), what is the heart, such is the gift; if you pray with faith, sincerely, with all your heart, without hypocrisy, then according to your faith, the degree of fervor of your heart, a gift from the Lord will be given to you. And vice versa, the colder your heart, the more incredulous, hypocritical it is, the more useless your prayer is, moreover, the more it angers the Lord ... Therefore, whether you call on the Lord, the Mother of God, angels or saints, call with all your heart; whether you pray for any of the living or the dead, pray for them with all your heart, pronouncing their names with warmth of heart; whether you pray for granting yourself or another any spiritual blessing, or for the deliverance of yourself or your neighbor from any disaster or from sins and passions, bad habits - pray for this with all your heart, wishing with all your heart for yourself or another the requested good, having a firm intention to lag behind, or wishing others to be freed from sins, passions and sinful habits, and a gift according to your own heart will be given to you from the Lord. St. rights. John of Kronstadt

The beginning of prayer is to drive away incoming thoughts at their very appearance; its middle is that the mind is contained in the words that we pronounce or think; and the perfection of prayer is admiration for the Lord. Rev. John of the Ladder

Why long prayer? In order to warm up our cold hearts, hardened in a long vanity, by the duration of fervent prayer. For it is strange to think, all the more so to demand, that a heart that has matured in the bustle of life could soon be imbued with the warmth of faith and love for God during prayer. No, it takes work and work, time and time. St. rights. John of Kronstadt

If you remain in prayer for a long time and do not see the fruit, do not say: I have gained nothing. For the very presence in prayer is already a gain; and what good is higher than this, to cling to the Lord and abide unceasingly in union with Him? Rev. John of the Ladder

At the end of your home morning and evening prayers, call on the saints: patriarchs, prophets, apostles, saints, martyrs, confessors, reverends, abstinences or ascetics, unmercenaries, so that, seeing in them the realization of every virtue, you yourself become an imitator in every virtue. Learn from the patriarchs childlike faith and obedience to the Lord; among the prophets and apostles - zeal for the glory of God and for the salvation of human souls; among the hierarchs - zeal to preach the word of God and, in general, to contribute by writings to the possible glorification of the name of God, to the affirmation of faith, hope and love in Christians; among martyrs and confessors - firmness for faith and piety before unbelieving and ungodly people; for ascetics - the schedule of the flesh with passions and lusts, prayer and contemplation; among the disinterested - non-possessiveness and gratuitous assistance to those in need.

When we call on the saints in prayer, then to pronounce their name from the heart means to bring them closer to our very heart. Ask then undoubtedly their prayers and intercession for yourself - they will hear you and your prayer will be presented to the Lord soon, in the twinkling of an eye, as if to the Omnipresent and all Leading. St. rights. John of Kronstadt

One day the brethren asked Abba Agathon: what virtue is the hardest of all? He replied, “Forgive me, I think the hardest thing is praying to God. When a person wants to pray, the enemies try to distract him, because they know that nothing counteracts them as much as praying to God. In every feat, no matter what a person undertakes, he receives peace after hard work, and prayer until the last minute of life requires struggle. Rev. Abba Agathon

Prayer rule.

What is a prayer rule? These are prayers that a person reads regularly, daily. Everyone's prayer rule is different. For some, the morning or evening rule takes several hours, for others it takes several minutes. Everything depends on a person's spiritual disposition, on the degree of his rootedness in prayer, and on what time he has at his disposal.
It is very important that a person fulfill the prayer rule, even the shortest one, so that there is regularity and constancy in prayer. But the rule should not turn into a formality. The experience of many believers shows that with constant reading of the same prayers, their words become discolored, lose their freshness, and a person, getting used to them, stops focusing on them. This danger must be avoided by all means.
I remember when I took monastic vows (I was twenty years old then), I turned to an experienced confessor for advice and asked him what my prayer rule should be. He said: “You must daily read the morning and evening prayers, three canons and one akathist. Whatever happens, even if you are very tired, you must read them. for the rule to be read." I tried. Things didn't work out. Daily reading of the same prayers led to the fact that these texts quickly got bored. In addition, every day I spent many hours in the temple at services that spiritually nourished me, nourished me, inspired me. And the reading of three canons and an akathist turned into some kind of unnecessary "appendage". I started looking for other advice, more suitable for me. And I found it in the works of St. Theophan the Recluse, a remarkable ascetic of the 19th century. He advised the prayer rule to be calculated not by the number of prayers, but by the time that we are ready to devote to God. For example, we can make it a rule to pray in the morning and in the evening for half an hour, but this half hour must be completely given to God. And it is not so important whether we read all the prayers during these minutes or only one, or maybe we will devote one evening entirely to reading the Psalter, the Gospel or prayer in our own words. The main thing is that we should be focused on God, so that our attention does not slip away and that every word reaches our hearts. This advice worked for me. However, I do not rule out that for others the advice of the confessor I received will be more suitable. Much here depends on the personality of the person.
It seems to me that for a person living in the world, not only fifteen, but even five minutes of morning and evening prayer, if, of course, it is pronounced with attention and with feeling, is enough to be a real Christian. It is only important that the thought always correspond to the words, the heart responds to the words of the prayer, and the whole life corresponds to the prayer.
Try, following the advice of St. Theophan the Recluse, to allocate some time for prayer during the day and for the daily fulfillment of the prayer rule. And you will see that it will bear fruit very soon.

What prayers should a layman's prayer rule consist of?

The lay prayer rule consists of morning and evening prayers, which are performed daily. This rhythm is necessary, because otherwise the soul easily falls out of the life of prayer, as if waking up only from time to time. In prayer, as in any big and difficult task, inspiration, mood and improvisation alone are not enough.

There are three basic prayer rules:
1) a complete prayer rule, designed for monks and spiritually experienced laity, which is printed in the Orthodox Prayer Book;
2) a short prayer rule designed for all believers; in the morning: “King of Heaven”, Trisagion, “Our Father”, “Virgin Mother of God”, “Rising from sleep”, “Have mercy on me, God”, “I believe”, “God, cleanse”, “To You, Master”, “ Holy Angele”, “Most Holy Lady”, invocation of the saints, prayer for the living and the dead; in the evening: “King of Heaven”, Trisagion, “Our Father”, “Have mercy on us, Lord”, “Eternal God”, “Good King”, “Angel of Christ”, from “Choose Governor” to “It is worthy to eat”; these prayers are contained in any prayer book;
3) a short prayer rule of St. Seraphim of Sarov: three times “Our Father”, three times “Virgin Mother of God” and once “I believe” - for those days and circumstances when a person is extremely tired or very limited in time.

The duration of prayers, their number are determined by the spiritual fathers, priests, taking into account the lifestyle of each and his spiritual experience.

It is impossible to completely omit the prayer rule. Even if the prayer rule is read without due attention, the words of the prayers, penetrating into the soul, have their cleansing effect.

St. Theophan writes to one family person: “In case of emergency, one must be able to shorten the rule. Whether it is not enough in family life of accidents. When things do not allow you to make a complete prayer rule, then make it abbreviated.

And one should never rush... The rule is not an essential part of prayer, but is only its outer side. But the main thing is - the prayer of the mind and heart to God, offered up with praise, thanksgiving and petition ... and finally with complete surrender to the Lord. When there are such movements in the heart, there is prayer there, and when there is no such movement, there is no prayer, even if you stand on the rule for whole days.

A special prayer rule is performed during the preparation for the Sacraments of confession and communion. On these days (they are called fasting and last at least three days), it is customary to more diligently fulfill their prayer rule: those who usually do not read all the morning and evening prayers, let them read everything in full, those who do not read the canons, let them read at least on these days one canon. On the eve of communion, one must be at the evening service and read at home, in addition to the usual prayers for the future, the canon of repentance, the canon of the Mother of God and the canon of the Guardian Angel. The canon for communion is also read and, whoever wishes, an akathist to Jesus the Sweetest. In the morning, morning prayers are read and all the following to Holy Communion.

During fasting, prayers are especially long, in order, as the holy righteous John of Kronstadt writes, “in order to disperse our cold, hardened hearts in a long vanity. For it is strange to think, all the more so to demand, that a heart that has matured in the bustle of life could soon be imbued with the warmth of faith and love for God during prayer. No, it takes work and time. The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force, and those who use force take it by force (Matthew 11:12). It is not soon that the Kingdom of God comes into the heart when people run away from it so diligently. The Lord God Himself has expressed His will that we pray not briefly, when he presents as an example a widow who went to the judge for a long time and for a long time (for a long time) bothered him with her requests (Luke 18: 2-6).

When to make your prayer rule.

In the conditions of modern life, given the workload and accelerated pace, it is not easy for the laity to set aside a certain time for prayer. It is necessary to develop strict rules of prayer discipline and strongly adhere to your prayer rule.
Morning prayers are best read before starting any business. In extreme cases, they are pronounced on the way from home. Prayer teachers recommend reading the evening prayer rule in free minutes before dinner or even earlier - late in the evening it is often difficult to concentrate due to fatigue.

How to Prepare for Prayer.

The main prayers that make up the morning and evening rule should be known by heart so that they penetrate deeper into the heart and so that they can be repeated in any circumstances. First of all, in your free time, it is advisable to read the prayers that are part of your rule, translate the text of the prayers for yourself from Church Slavonic into Russian in order to understand the meaning of each word and not pronounce a single word meaninglessly or without accurate understanding. This is what the Church Fathers advise. “Take the trouble,” writes St. Nikodim the Holy Mountaineer, “not at the hour of prayer, but at another, free time, to think over and feel the prescribed prayers. Having done this, you will not encounter any difficulty during prayer to reproduce in yourself the content of the prayer being read.

It is very important that the person approaching prayer banish resentment, irritation, and bitterness from the heart. St. Tikhon of Zadonsk teaches: “Before praying, it is required not to be angry with anyone, not to be angry, but to leave all offense, so that God himself will leave sins.”

“Coming to the Benefactor, be yourself benevolent; approaching the Good, be good yourself; approaching the Righteous, be righteous yourself; approaching the Patient One, be patient yourself; approaching the philanthropic, be philanthropic; and also be everything else, approaching the Kind-hearted, the Benevolent, the Sociable in blessings, the Merciful of everyone, and if anything else is seen as the Divine, likening in all this by your own will, acquire boldness for prayer,” writes St. Gregory of Nyssa .

How to make your prayer rule at home.

During prayer, it is recommended to retire, light a lamp or a candle and stand in front of the icon. Depending on the nature of intra-family relations, one can recommend reading the prayer rule together, with the whole family, or for each family member separately. Common prayer is recommended above all on solemn days, before a festive meal, and on other similar occasions. Family prayer is a kind of church, public prayer (the family is a kind of home church) and therefore does not replace individual prayer, but only complements it.

Before the beginning of prayer, one should make the sign of the cross and make several bows, half-length or earthly, and try to tune in to an inner conversation with God. “Stand silently until feelings subside, put yourself in the presence of God to the consciousness and feelings of Him with reverent Fear and raise in your heart a living faith that God hears and sees you,” the prayer book says at the beginning. Saying prayers out loud or in a low voice helps many people focus.

“When starting to pray,” advises St. Theophan the Recluse, “in the morning or in the evening, stand a little, or sit, or walk around, and at this time take the trouble to sober up the thought, diverting it from all earthly affairs and objects. Then think about who is the One to whom you will turn in prayer, and who you are, now having to begin this prayerful address to Him - and arouse in your soul the corresponding mood of self-abasing and reverent fear imbued with standing before God in your heart. This is the whole preparation - to stand reverently before God - small, but not insignificant. Here is the beginning of prayer, but a good beginning is half the work.

Having thus established yourself inwardly, then stand before the icon and, having made several bows, begin the usual prayer: “Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee,” “King of Heaven, Comforter, Soul of Truth,” and so on. Read slowly, delve into every word, and bring the thought of every word to the heart, accompanying it with bows. This is the whole point of reading a prayer that is pleasing and fruitful to God. Delve into every word and bring the thought of the word to the heart, otherwise - understand what you are reading, and feel understandable. No other rules are required. These two - understand and feel - performed properly, adorn any prayer with full dignity and impart to it all fruitful action. You read: “cleanse us from all filthiness” - feel your filthiness, desire purity and seek it with hope, it is with the Lord, You read: “forgive us our debts, as we leave our debtors” - and in your soul forgive everyone, and With a heart that has forgiven everyone, ask the Lord for forgiveness. You read: "Thy will be done" - and in your heart completely surrender to the Lord your fate and express an unquestioning readiness to complacently meet everything that the Lord will please to send you.

If you act like this with every verse of your prayer, then you will have the proper prayer.

In another of his admonitions, St. Theophan so briefly systematizes advice on reading the rule of prayer:
a) never read in a hurry, but read as if in a singsong voice... In ancient times, all prayers read were taken from psalms... But nowhere do I see the word "read", but everywhere "sing"...
b) delve into every word and not only reproduce the thought of what you read in your mind, but also arouse a corresponding feeling ...
c) in order to cut off the urge to hastily reading, put - do not read this and that, but stand on the reading prayer for a quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour ... how long you usually stand ... and then do not worry ... how many prayers you read, - but when the time has come, if there is no desire to stand further, stop reading ...
d) having put this down, however, do not look at the clock, but stand like that in order to stand endlessly: the thought will not run ahead ...
e) in order to promote the movement of prayerful feelings in your free time, reread and rethink all the prayers that are included in your rule - and re-feel them, so that when you begin to read them on the rule, you know in advance what feeling should be aroused in the heart .. .
f) never read prayers without interruption, but always interrupt them with your own prayer, with bows, whether in the middle of prayers you have to do this or at the end. As soon as something falls into your heart, immediately stop reading and bow down. This last rule is the most necessary and most necessary for cultivating the spirit of prayer... If some other feeling takes a lot, you will be with him and bow down, and leave the reading ... so until the very end of the allotted time.

What to do when distracted by 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.

Praying is very difficult. Prayer is primarily a spiritual work, therefore one should not expect immediate spiritual delight from it. “Do not look for pleasures in prayer,” writes St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov), “they are by no means characteristic of a sinner. The desire of a sinner to feel pleasure is already self-delusion... Do not seek prematurely high spiritual states and prayerful delights.”
As a rule, attention to words, prayers can be held for several minutes, and then thoughts begin to wander, the eye glides over the words of the prayer - and our hearts and minds are far away.
If someone prays to the Lord, but thinks of something else, then the Lord will not listen to such a prayer,” writes St. Silouan of Athos.
At these moments, the Fathers of the Church advise to be especially attentive. St. Theophan the Recluse writes that we must prepare in advance for the fact that when reading prayers we are distracted, often mechanically read the words of a prayer. “When a thought runs away during prayer, bring it back. Runs back again - return again. So every time. Every time that is read while thoughts are running away and, therefore, without attention and feeling, do not forget to reread. And even if your thought runs back several times in one place, read it several times until you read it with understanding and feeling. Once you overcome this difficulty, another time, maybe it won’t happen again, or it won’t happen again with such force.
If during the reading of the rule a prayer breaks through in one's own words, then, as St. Nicodemus says, "not allowing this occasion to pass fleetingly, but dwell on it."
We find the same thought in St. Theophan: “Another word will affect the soul so strongly that the soul will not want to prolong further in prayer, and although the tongue reads prayers, and the thought keeps running back to the place that had such an effect on her. In this case, stop, do not read further, but stay with attention and feeling in that place, feed your soul with them, or with those thoughts that it will produce. And do not rush to tear yourself away from this state, so if time does not endure, it is better to leave an unfinished rule, and do not ruin this state. It will overshadow you, maybe all day, like a guardian angel! This kind of beneficial influence on the soul during prayer means that the spirit of prayer begins to take root and that, consequently, the preservation of this state is the most reliable means of educating and strengthening the prayerful spirit in us.

How to end your prayer rule.

It is good to end the prayer with thanksgiving to God for the gift of fellowship and contrition for one's inattention.
“When you finish your prayers, do not immediately go on to your own activities, but also, at least a little, stop and think about what you have done and what it obliges you to do, trying, if something is given to feel during prayer, to keep it after prayers,” writes St. Theophan the Recluse. “Do not immediately rush into everyday affairs,” teaches St. Nikodim, “and never think that, having completed your prayer rule, you have finished everything in relation to God.”
Getting down to business, you must first think about what you have to say, do, see during the day, and ask God for blessings and strength to follow His will.

How to learn to spend the day in prayer.

Having finished the morning prayers, we should not think that everything has been fulfilled in relation to God, and only in the evening, during the evening rule, should we return to prayer again.
Good feelings that arose during morning prayers will be drowned out in the bustle and busyness of the day. Because of this, there is no desire to stand for the evening prayer.
We must try to make the soul turn to God not only when we stand in prayer, but throughout the whole day.

Here is how St. Theophan the Recluse advises to learn this:
“Firstly, during the day it is necessary to cry out to God more often from the heart in short words, judging by the need of the soul and current affairs. You start something, for example, say: “Bless, Lord!”. When you finish the job, say: “Glory to you, Lord!”, and not only with your tongue, but also with the feeling of your heart. What passion rises, say: "Save, Lord, I'm dying!" Finds the darkness of confusing thoughts, cry out: "Bring my soul out of prison!". Wrong deeds are coming and sin attracts to them, pray: “Guide me, Lord, on the path” or “Do not give my feet into confusion.” Sins suppress and lead to despair, cry out with a publican's voice: "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." So, anyway. Or just say often: “Lord, have mercy; Mother of God, have mercy on me. Angel of God, my holy guardian, protect me, ”or call out with some other word. Just make these appeals as often as possible, trying in every possible way so that they come from the heart, as if squeezed out of it. When you do this, we will often make intelligent ascents to God from the heart, frequent appeals to God, frequent prayer, and this increase will impart the habit of intelligent conversation with God.
But in order for the soul to begin to cry out like this, it is necessary in advance to force it to turn everything to the glory of God, all its deeds, large and small. And this is the second way to teach the soul to turn to God more often during the day. For if we make it our law to fulfill this apostolic commandment, to do everything for the glory of God, whether you eat or drink, or do anything else, you do everything for the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31), then we will certainly remember in every deed God, and let us remember not simply, but with apprehension, how not to do something wrong in any case and not offend God in any way. This will make you turn to God with fear and prayerfully ask for help and admonition. Just as we do something almost incessantly, we will almost incessantly turn to God in prayer, and, consequently, we will almost continuously go through the science of prayer in the soul to God of exaltation.
But in order for the soul to fulfill this, that is, doing everything for the glory of God, as it should, it must be set up for this from early morning - from the very beginning of the day, before a person goes out to his work and to his work until evening. This mood is produced by the thought of God. And this is the third way of training the soul to turn often to God. God-thinking is a reverent reflection on the Divine properties and actions and on what the knowledge of them and their attitude towards us obliges us, this reflection on the goodness of God, justice, wisdom, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, about creation and providence, about the dispensation of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ, about the goodness and word of God, about the holy sacraments, about the Kingdom of Heaven.
Which of these subjects you do not begin to reflect on, this reflection will certainly fill the soul with a reverent feeling for God. Begin to meditate, for example, on the goodness of God - you will see that you are surrounded by the graces of God both bodily and spiritually, and unless you are a stone, so as not to fall before God in an outpouring of humiliated feelings of thanksgiving. Begin to meditate on the omnipresence of God, and you will understand that you are everywhere before God and God is before you, and you cannot help but be filled with reverent fear. Begin to meditate on the omniscience of God - you will know that nothing in you is hidden from the eye of God, and you will certainly resolve to be strictly attentive to the movements of your heart and mind, so as not to somehow offend the all-seeing God. Start to reason about the truth of God, and you will be sure that not a single bad deed will go unpunished, and you will certainly set out to cleanse all your sins with contrition and repentance of your heart before God. So, no matter what property and action of God you begin to discuss, any such reflection will fill the soul with reverent feelings and dispositions for God. It directs the whole being of man directly to God, and is therefore the most direct means of accustoming the soul to ascend to God.
The most decent, convenient time for this is the morning, when the soul is not yet burdened with many impressions and business concerns, and precisely after the morning prayer. When you finish your prayer, sit down and, with a thought sanctified in prayer, begin to meditate today on one thing, tomorrow on another of God's property and action, and make an arrangement in your soul accordingly. “Go,” said St. Demetrius of Rostov, “go, holy contemplation, and let us plunge into contemplation of the great deeds of God,” and he went through the thought or the deeds of creation and industry, or the miracles of the Lord Savior, or His sufferings, or something else, touched the heart and began to pour out his soul in prayer. So anyone can do it. There is little work, only desire and determination are needed; and a lot of fruit.
So here are three ways, in addition to the rule of prayer, to teach the soul to prayerfully ascend to God, namely: dedicate some time in the morning to contemplation, turn every deed to the glory of God, and often turn to God with short invocations.
When contemplation of God is well done in the morning, it will leave a deep mood for contemplation of God. Thinking about God will force the soul to perform every action, both internal and external, carefully and turn it to the glory of God. And both will put the soul in such a position that prayerful appeals to God will often be torn out of it.
These three are contemplation of God, creation of everything for the glory of God, and frequent invocations are the most effective instruments of intelligent and heartfelt prayer. Each of them elevates the soul to God. Whoever sets out to practice them will soon acquire to believe in his heart the habit of ascending to God. This work is like climbing a mountain. The higher someone climbs the mountain, the freer and easier he breathes. So here too, the more one masters the exercises shown, the higher the soul will be raised, and the higher the soul will rise, the more freely prayer will act in it. Our soul by nature is an inhabitant of the heavenly world of the Divine. There she should have been non-originating both in thought and heart; but the burden of earthly thoughts and passions attracts and burdens her dale. The shown methods tear it off the ground little by little, and there it will be completely torn off. When they are completely torn off, then the soul will enter its own region and will sweetly dwell on the mountain - here heartily and mentally, after that, with its very being, it will be able to abide before the face of God in the faces of angels and saints. What may the Lord vouchsafe to all of you with His grace. Amen".

How to force yourself to pray.

Sometimes prayer does not come to mind at all. In this case, St. Theophan advises to do this:
“If this is a prayer at home, then you can postpone it a little, for a few minutes ... If it doesn’t work after that ... force yourself to fulfill the prayer rule forcibly, straining, and understand what is being said, and feel ... like when a child does not want to bend down, they take him by the forelock and bend him over... Otherwise, this is what can happen... now there is reluctance - tomorrow there is reluctance, and then the prayer is completely over. Beware of this... and force yourself to pray willingly. The labor of self-compulsion overcomes everything.”

The holy righteous John of Kronstadt, also advising to force oneself in prayer when it does not go, warns:
“Forced prayer develops hypocrisy, makes it incapable of any occupation that requires reflection, and makes a person sluggish to everything, even to the performance of his duties. This should convince all who thus pray to correct their prayer. One should pray willingly, with energy, from the heart. Pray to God neither out of sorrow nor out of need (forcibly), - Everyone give according to the disposition of the heart, not with chagrin and not with compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7).

What is needed for successful prayer.

“Desiring and seeking success in the work of prayer, adapt everything else to this, so that you do not destroy with one hand what the other builds up.
1. Keep your body strictly in food, and in sleep, and in rest: do not give it anything just because it wants it, as the apostle commands: Do not turn the cares of the flesh into lusts (Rom. 13:14). Give no rest to the flesh.
2. Reduce your external relations to the most inevitable. This is at the time of teaching yourself to pray. Afterward, prayer, acting in you, will indicate what can be added without damage to it. Especially watch over the senses, and among them the most - the eyes, hearing, tie the tongue. Without observing this, you will not make a step forward in the matter of prayer. Just as a candle cannot burn in the wind and rain, so prayer cannot be kindled by a surge of impressions from without.
3. Use all your free time after prayer for reading and meditation. For reading, choose mainly those books that deal with prayer and in general about the inner spiritual life. Meditate exclusively on God and Divine things, on the Incarnate Economy of our salvation, and in it especially on the suffering and death of the Lord Savior. By doing this, you will be immersed in the sea of ​​Divine light. Add to this going to church as soon as you can. One presence in the temple will overshadow you with a prayer cloud. What will you get if you stand in a truly prayerful mood throughout the entire service!
4. Know that you cannot succeed in prayer without succeeding in the Christian life in general. It is necessary that not a single sin lie on the soul that is not cleansed by repentance; and if during the time of prayer you do something that confuses your conscience, hasten to cleanse yourself with repentance, so that you can boldly look to the Lord. Always keep humble contrition in your heart. Do not miss a single upcoming opportunity to do some good or to show any good disposition, especially humility, obedience and renunciation of one's own will. But it goes without saying that zeal for salvation must burn unquenchably and, filling the whole soul, in everything, from small to great, must be the main driving force, with the fear of God and unshakable hope.
5. Being in such a mood, bother yourself in prayerful work, praying: either with ready-made prayers, or with your own, or with short invocations to the Lord, or with the Jesus Prayer, but without missing anything that can contribute to this work, and you will receive what you are looking for. Let me remind you what Saint Macarius of Egypt says: “God will see your prayer work and that you sincerely wish success in prayer – and will give you prayer. For know that although prayer done and achieved by one's own efforts is pleasing to God, the real prayer is that which dwells in the heart and becomes unrelenting. It is a gift of God, a work of God's grace. Therefore, when praying about everything, do not forget to pray about prayer” (St. Nikodim the Holy Mountaineer).