Almost every person believes in God: some come to the holy monastery only in need, according to the trend of fashion or on great holidays, others confirm their faith by deeds, confess, take communion. Prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ passes through the human heart and opens the way for all the virtues in it. Without prayer, the soul will not be pious.
Why You Should Thank God
The main duty of a pious Christian is prayerful gratitude to the Almighty for everything that happens in our lives. Sorrow and joy are all providential.We come into life naked and poor, we need absolutely everything. All blessings, spiritual and physical, we receive from God. Food and clothing, the beauty of nature and the abundance of the harvest, loving parents, the blessings of civilization - all this is given to us from above. Therefore, the words of thanksgiving, uttered at the behest of the heart, are the minuscule from us to the Savior for what He sends to us.
In liturgical practice Orthodox Church there are many examples of thanksgiving to the Most High: prayers for Holy Communion, prayer prayers, thanksgiving for every good deed, after listening to the Divine Liturgy, and others.
Thanksgiving prayer of St. John Chrysostom:
We give thanks for all Your good deeds, rendered to us unworthy from the first day of our life to the present - we thank for everything that we know and what we do not know, for everything obvious and implicit, revealed by deed and word, accomplished by will and against our will, for everything , with us unworthy of the past, for sorrow and weakening of sorrow, for hell, for torment, for the Kingdom of Heaven
The Holy Church, at the end of the Divine Liturgy, performs a thanksgiving service to Jesus Christ with the prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. I thank you for my daily bread and grace from above. Thank you for your patience and long-suffering sorrows. Thank you, God, for day and night, for good and true friends. Thank you for your mercy and faith, for your guardian angel and holy love. Amen.
How to order a prayer service in the temple
The Holy Gospel speaks of the healing by Christ of a dozen people with leprosy. One of them, having become healthy, returned and thanked the Savior, for which he was justified, while the Lord condemned the others. In order not to stand in line with the condemned, the Church advises to follow the pious example of a recovered person and to give thanks for every good deed of God.
More about thanksgiving prayers:
To order a prayer of thanksgiving to the Heavenly Father, you must:
- come to the temple, write a note with the name of the prayer service and the names of the benefactors;
- they should be written down in a column, in the genitive case (that is, from whom: Irina, Svetlana, Vasily) and in no case from Volodya, Mashenka, Seryozha;
- the names of people baptized in Orthodoxy are indicated;
- it is allowed to attribute “statuses” to the names: sick, youth, baby, non-idle, warrior;
- give the completed form to the candle maker and make the recommended donation;
- the reason for gratitude does not need to be indicated;
- it is advisable to purchase a candle and put it in front of the prayer service in a candlestick set in front of the face of Christ.
spiritual rules
The Heavenly Father loves all people, both the righteous and sinners. He strives to save everyone, his love for us is the way to eternal life. This great gift awaits each of us in heaven.Words of gratitude are lifted up not only for generosity, health and well-being, but also for God's wrath and punishment. Life's sorrows are a test for us, a path to salvation.
About prayers in sorrows and temptations:
To be heard by God, it is necessary to adhere to spiritual rules when performing a prayer service.
Personal presence at the prayer service is required. In the event that a person is bedridden by illness, it is possible to ask someone to be present on their behalf.
You must not be late for the prayer service. Often, prayer services are served at the end of the Liturgy, in the morning hours, so you should know in advance the start time of the prayer service.
Prayers should be taken seriously and consciously.
Listen and ponder the words of the prayer, silently pronounce them after the priest. Do not be indifferent - after all, this is an appeal to God personally by each person who ordered a prayer service.
Church services are performed in Church Slavonic. It is not understandable to everyone, so you should work hard and parse the text of the prayer in advance. It will be useful to study the course of worship. It is not necessary to buy special liturgical books or prayer books, now almost everything can be found on the Internet.
Often, prayers of thanksgiving are read along with other requests: supplications, blessings of water, for unbelievers, for healing, and others. In most parishes, a common prayer service is served, which combines all the prayers ordered on this day. Do not worry, the "quality" of the prayer will not suffer from this.
Foundation for the salvation of the soul Orthodox Christian- Faith in God's work. Everything that happens in our life, joy and sorrow, is sent by the Almighty for our benefit.
As long as everything is fine and there is shelter, delicious food, health, prosperity in the family - we are sure that the Lord loves us. But as soon as difficulties, illnesses and sorrows happen, we begin to grumble and believe that Christ has turned away, forgotten about us. This is not so, believing people are obliged to reverently endure the trials sent to them and not groan at the same time. In such cases, people say: "So the Lord has visited."
Words needed thanksgiving prayer praise the Lord Jesus Christ. After all, He thus directs the atoning cross for the sins we have committed.
Prayer of thanksgiving to Christ
Prayers to the Presentation of the Lord
4.4 (87.27%) 11 votes.Prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ
“Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son and the Word of God, seen in the prophets of old, as if mirrored in divination, in the last days of these days of the flesh of the Blessed Virgin Mary incorruptibly born and on this fortieth day in the Sanctuary to meet the whole world from Toya, as the Infant we hand , manifested and carried in the arms of the righteous Simeon for the salvation of all things from Adam! How glorious and bright is Your offering on the hand of the Mother of God to the temple of the Lord, and from the holy elder Your divine meeting! Today the heavens rejoice and the earth rejoices, as if Thy processions were seen, O God, the processions of God our King, Who is in the Holy One. In ancient times, Moses ascends to see Your glory, but it is not possible to see Your face, for Thou didst not show him Your back. On the most bright day of this meeting of Yours, You revealed to Yourself a man in the sanctuary, shining with the inexpressible Light of the Divine, and together with Simeon they see You face to face and with their hands, let them touch You, and take them into their arms, and come to know You God in the flesh. For this reason, we glorify Your indescribable condescension and great philanthropy, as if by Your coming You have now granted heavenly joy to the human race that has fallen of old: You, with Your righteous judgment, have expelled our forefathers from paradise of sweetness into this world, now have mercy on us and again opened the heavenly abode to us and have turned our weeping to joy, may the fallen Adam no longer be ashamed of You for disobedience and may Your Face, invoked by You, not be hidden, as You have come now, take his sin upon Yourself, and wash him with Your blood and Yes, clothe him naked in a robe of salvation and a garment of joy and adorn him, like a bride with beauty. To all of us who remember Your Divine Meeting, make it worthwhile with the wise virgins to come to Your meeting, our Heavenly Bridegroom, with burning lamps of faith, love and purity, let us see with the eyes of faith Your Divine face, let us perceive Thee in our spiritual embrace, and let us carry Thee in your heart all the days of your life, may you be God to us and we to your people. On the last and terrible day of Your coming, when all the saints come out to the last and great meeting of Yours in the air, grant us to usrest Thee, so that we will always be with the Lord. Glory to Thy mercy, Glory to Thy Kingdom, Glory to Thy look, the only Lover of mankind, as Thy is the Kingdom and Power, and Glory with Your Beginningless Father and Your Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen."
Prayer to Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos
“Oh, Blessed Virgin, shining with heavenly purity, meek Dove, undefiled Lamb, good Helper of the world, Mother of Christ our God! You are the beginning, the middle and the end of our present joy, as if from You the Sun of Truth has risen Christ our God, and You brought Him in Your holy arms on this fortieth day in the Sanctuary for our meeting and for the joy and salvation of the whole world. For this sake, we appease and glorify Thee, as if You were the Tabernacle of God with the people of the Theologian, foreseeing it, did God dwell with us, and we will be His people? Thou art the Heavenly Door foretold by Ezekiel, which opens to us the entrances to the heavenly abode. You are the high Ladder, foreseen by Jacob; The same we pray to Thee, looking, as if you entered the Sanctuary, carrying the Fire of Heaven by Your hand, God, Gracious. By the fire of Thy prayer, the fire of our passions has fallen, so that we may be delivered from the eternal fire of Gehenna. Thou hast come to the Sanctuary for purification for the sake of the lawful, not requiring purification, as the Virgin is pure and teach us how it is fitting for us to keep ourselves in chastity and purity, and with what humility it is fitting for us to carry out the feat of virginity, remembering how You, above the Cherubim Existing, have become place of unclean women. You, O Most Holy Mother, the Existence Itself, the God-bearing temple of God, brought to the lawful Church Your Most Eminent Son, Christ our God, vouchsafe us more than anything on earth to love the temples of Your Son, I visit all the days of our belly, see there the beauty of the Lord, as if it were better to wander one day in the courts of the Lord, rather than to live in the villages of sinners. Most of all, grant us, Most Pure One, like Simeon, uncondemnedly carry Your Son and our God in Your heartfelt embraces, when we are partakers of the Most Pure Body and His Blood, and help us then to keep ourselves strictly in holiness and fear of God, so that we do not corrupt the temple of flesh ours. And so I will take out, O Mother of God, Thy Son in our hearts and souls, may we be blessed with Thy prayers to reach the blessed meeting of the Lord in the air, when with all the saints we will glorify and sing His Most Holy Name with the Father and the Holy Spirit and Thy merciful intercession now and forever and forever and ever. Amen."
mother's blessing
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, in prayers for the sake of Your Most Pure Mother, hear me, a sinful and unworthy servant of Yours.
Lord, in the grace of Your power, my child, have mercy and save him for Your name's sake.
Lord, forgive him all the sins, voluntary and involuntary, committed by him before You.
Lord, guide him on the true path of Thy commandments and enlighten him and enlighten him with Thy light of Christ, for the salvation of the soul and the healing of the body.
Lord, bless him in the house, around the house, at school, in the field, at work and on the road, and in every place of Your possession.
Lord, save him under the roof of Your Holy from a flying bullet, arrow, knife, sword, poison, fire, flood, from a deadly ulcer (rays of the atom) and from vain death.
Lord, protect him from visible and invisible enemies, from all kinds of troubles, evils and misfortunes.
Lord, heal him of all diseases, cleanse him of all filth (wine, tobacco, drugs) and ease his mental suffering and sorrow.
Lord, grant him the grace of Your Holy Spirit for many years of life, health and chastity.
Lord, increase and strengthen his mental abilities and bodily strength.
Lord, give him Your blessing on the pious family life and pious childbearing.
Lord, grant me, your unworthy and sinful servant, a parental blessing on my child at the present time, morning, afternoon, evening and night for the sake of your name, for your Kingdom is eternal, omnipotent and omnipotent. Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, bless, sanctify, save my child by the power of Your Life-giving Cross.
Lord Jesus Christ, be Thy mercy on my children (names), keep them under Thy shelter, cover from all evil lust, drive away from them every enemy and adversary, open their ears and eyes of the heart, grant tenderness and humility to their hearts. Lord, we are all Your creation, have pity on my children (names) and turn them to repentance. Save, Lord, and have mercy on my children (names) and enlighten their minds with the light of the mind of Your Gospel and guide them on the path of Your commandments and teach them, Savior, to do Your will, for You are our God.
Holy Father, Eternal God, every gift or every good comes from You. I diligently pray to you for the children whom your grace has bestowed on me. You gave them life, revived them with an immortal soul, revived them with holy baptism, so that they, in accordance with Your will, inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, save them, according to Your goodness, until the end of their lives. Sanctify them in Thy truth, that Thy name may be sanctified in them. Help me by Your grace to educate them for the glory of Your name and for the benefit of others, give me the necessary means for this: patience and strength. Lord, enlighten them with the light of Your Wisdom, may they love You with all their soul, with all their thoughts, instill in their hearts fear and aversion from all lawlessness, may they walk in Your commandments, adorn their souls with chastity, diligence, longsuffering, honesty, protect them with truth from slander vanity, abominations, sprinkle with the dew of Thy grace, may they succeed in virtues and holiness, and may they grow in Thy good pleasure, in love and piety. May the guardian angel always be with them and keep their youth from vain thoughts, from the seduction of the temptations of this world and from all kinds of crafty slander. If, however, when they sin against You, Lord, do not turn Your face away from them, but be merciful to them, arouse repentance in their hearts according to the multitude of Your bounties, cleanse their sins and do not deprive them of Your blessings, but give them everything that is necessary for their salvation, preserving them from every illness, danger, trouble and sorrow, overshadowing them with Your mercy all the days of this life. God, I pray to You, give me joy and joy about my children and make me stand with them at Your Last Judgment, with shameless boldness to say: “Here I am and the children whom You gave me, Lord. Amen". Let us glorify Your All-Holy Name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist Lord John
Troparion, tone 2: The memory of the righteous with praises, but the testimony of the Lord is sufficient for you, Forerunner: you showed yourself truly and the most honest prophets, as if you were honored to be baptized in jets of the Preaching. Having suffered for the truth, rejoicing, you proclaimed the good news to those who are in hell, God manifested in the flesh, taking away the sin of the world and giving us great mercy
Kontakion, tone 5: The forerunner of the glorious beheading, watching was some kind of Divine, and even those who are in hell preach the coming of the Savior; let Herodia sob, having asked for an unlawful murder: not the law of God, nor love the living age, but feigned, temporary.
Prayer: To the Baptist of Christ, preacher of repentance, do not despise me who repents, but copulating with your heavenly ones, pray to the Lord for me unworthy, dejected, weak and sad, fallen into many troubles, burdened by the stormy thoughts of my mind: I am a den of evil deeds, having no end to sinful custom; nailed more is my mind by an earthly thing. What will I do, I do not know, and to whom will I resort, so that my soul will be saved? Only to you, Saint John, give the name of grace, as before the Lord, according to the Theotokos, it is greater for all of you to be born, for you were honored to touch the top of the King of Christ, who takes away the sins of the world, the Lamb of God: Pray for him for my sinful soul, but from now on in the first ten hours, I will bear a good burden, and I will receive wages with the latter.
To her, the Baptist of Christ, an honest Forerunner, an extreme prophet, the first in the grace of a martyr, a mentor of fasting and hermits, a teacher of purity and a close friend of Christ, I pray, I resort to you, do not reject me from your intercession, but raise me up, fallen by many sins; renew my soul with repentance, as with a second baptism, better than both, thou shalt wash away sin with baptism, but preach repentance for the cleansing of every bad deed; cleanse me with sins defiled and compel me to enter, even if it enters badly, into the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.
Prayer to the Guardian Angel
Holy Guardian Angel of my children (names), cover them with your cover from the arrows of the demon, from the eyes of the seducer and keep their hearts in angelic purity. Amen.
Prayers to the Mother of God
O Most Holy Lady Virgin Mother of God, save and save under Your 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.
Mother of God, introduce me into the image of Your heavenly motherhood. Heal the spiritual and bodily wounds of my children (names), inflicted by my sins. I entrust my child entirely to my Lord Jesus Christ and Yours, Most Pure, heavenly patronage. Amen.
From convent in Shuya, Ivanovo region.
Prayer for children, Rev. Ambrose of Optina
Lord, You are One in all weight, You can do everything and want to be saved by everyone and come to the mind of Truth. Enlighten my children (names) with the knowledge of Thy truth and Thy Holy will and strengthen them to walk according to Thy commandments and have mercy on me, a sinner.
Holy Great Martyr Barbara
Prayer: Holy Glorious and All-Praised Great Martyr of Christ Barbara! Gathering today in your Divine temple people and the race of your relics worshiping and kissing with love, your martyr's suffering and in their Samago the passion-bearer of Christ, who gave you, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him, appeasement praises, we pray thee , known to the desire of our intercessor: pray with us and for us, praying from His mercy to God, may he graciously hear us asking for His grace, and will not leave us all for salvation and life in need of petition, and will grant a Christian death to our stomach, painless, shameless, I will partake of peace, the Divine Mysteries, and to everyone in every place, in every sorrow and situation, requiring His philanthropy and help, His great mercy will give, but by the grace of God and your warm intercession, soul and body are always in good health, we glorify the wondrous God in His saints Israel, who does not withdraw His help from us always, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ, my God, cover me and your servant (names) from the malice of our adversary, because his strength is strong, our nature is passionate and our strength is weak. You, O Good One, save me from the confusion of thoughts and the flood of passions. Lord, my Sweet Jesus, have mercy and save me and Your servants (names).
Prayer two
Oh Lord Jesus Christ! Do not turn Your face away from us, your servants (names) and turn away with anger from Your servants: be an assistant to us, do not reject us and do not leave us.
Prayer three
Have mercy on me, Lord, and do not let me perish! Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am weak! put to shame, O Lord, the demon that fights me. My hope, fall over my head on the day of the battle of demons! Overcome the enemy that is fighting me, Lord, and tame the thoughts that overwhelm me with Thy silence, the Word of God!
Prayer Four
God! This is Your seven vessel: fill me with the gifts of Your Holy Spirit, without You I am empty of all goodness, or rather full of all sin. God! Behold Your ship is seven: fill me with a load of good deeds. God! This is your ark: fill it not with the charm of the love of money and sweets, but with love for you and for your animated image - man.
Prayer Five
To you, O Lord my God, I bow my head, and in confession of the heart I cry out: I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned against heaven and before You, and I am worthy to ask forgiveness from You; but You, like a prodigal son, have mercy on me, Your servant (name), justify me like a publican, and like a thief of Your Kingdom, make me worthy. God! Let me see my sins, so that I do not despise sinners like me, and do not bear evil towards them in my heart for their sins, and would despise myself worthily, as the first sinner, to myself - to my carnal man - always irreconcilable malice.