“Oh, great saint of Christ, holy righteous father John of Kronstadt, wonderful pastor, quick helper and merciful intercessor!
Giving praise to the Triune God, you prayerfully called out: Your name is Love: do not reject me as a delusional; Your name is strength: strengthen me who is weak and falling; Your name is Light: enlighten my soul, darkened by worldly passions; Your name is Peace: die my restless soul. Your name is Grace: Don't stop loving me.
Now, grateful for your intercession, the All-Russian flock prays to you: Christ-named and righteous servant of God! With your love, illumine us, sinners and the weak, make us worthy to bear the fruits of repentance and partake without condemnation of the Holy Mysteries of Christ; Strengthen your faith in us by your strength, support in prayer, heal illnesses and diseases, deliver us from misfortunes, enemies visible and invisible; with the light of the face of your servants and primates of the Altar of Christ, move on the holy feats of pastoral work, grant upbringing to babies, instruct youth, support old age, shrines of temples and holy cloisters illumine; die, miracle worker and visionary of the greatest, the peoples of our country, by the grace and gift of the Holy Spirit, deliver from internecine strife, squandered gather, squandered conversion and community of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; By your mercy, keep marriages in peace and like-mindedness, grant prosperity and blessings to those who are monks in good deeds, give cowardly comforts, suffering from unclean spirits of freedom, have mercy on the needs and circumstances of those who exist, and guide us all on the path of salvation.
Living in Christ, our Father John! Lead us to the non-evening light of eternal life, may we be vouchsafed with you eternal bliss, praising and exalting God forever and ever. Amen".
Prayer to John of Kronstadt for healing
“Father John is wonderful! You have drawn close to God with many virtues and you have been honored with spiritual gifts from Him: heal ailments, drive away passions and quench sorrows. Meanwhile, we humbly pray to you: grant healing with our illness and healing with passion, but satisfy those who find sorrow on us and instill spiritual joy in our hearts. And help us to be imitators of your holy life and all your good deeds, as if we were worthy with you of the heritage of the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen."
Prayer to John of Kronstadt for healing from demons
“O great miracle worker and wonderful servant of God, God-bearing Father John! Despise us and graciously listen to our prayer, as if the Lord vouchsafed great gifts to you, may you be an intercessor and a constant prayer book for us. Behold, we are overwhelmed with sinful passions and consumed with malice, we neglected the commandments of God, did not bring repentance of the heart and tears of sighing, for this sake we are worthy of many sorrows and sorrows. But you, righteous father, having great boldness towards the Lord and having compassion for your neighbors, implored the All-Generous Lord of the World to grant His mercy to us and tolerate our iniquities, not to destroy our sin for our sakes, but graciously grant us time for repentance. O Holy One of God, help us to keep the Orthodox faith undefiled and to keep the commandments of God piously, may not any lawlessness possess us, the Truth of God will be put to shame in our iniquities, but may we be able to reach the end of the Christian, painless, shameless, peaceful and sacraments of God involved. We also pray to you, righteous father, for the hedgehog of our Church of the Holy Ones until the end of the age to be affirmed, but ask for peace and sojourn for our Fatherland and save from all evils, so that our people, God save, in the unanimity of faith and in all piety and purity, in the beauty of spiritual brotherhood, sobriety and harmony testify: for God is with us! In Him we live and move, and we are, and we shall remain forever. Amen."
Prayer to John of Kronstadt from drunkenness
“Lord, look graciously on Your servant (name), deceived by the flattery of the womb and carnal fun. Grant him to know the sweetness of abstinence in fasting and the fruits of the Spirit flowing from it. Amen."
Prayer of John of Kronstadt from corruption
“Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of the Father without beginning,One, heal every ailment and every ide in people, as if you had mercy on mea sinner and delivered me from my illness, not allowing it to develop and killme according to my sins.
Grant me from now on, Lord, the strength to firmly do the willThy for the salvation of my accursed soul and for Thy glory with Thy beginninglessFather and Thy consubstantial Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen."
Thanksgiving Prayer of John of Kronstadt
“Thank you, Lord my God, for giving me life, for giving birth to me in the Christian faith, for the Most Pure Virgin Mary, Intercessor for the salvation of our family, for Your holy saints, praying for us, for the Guardian Angel, for public worship, supporting in us faith and virtue, for Holy Bible, for the Holy Mysteries, and especially Your Body and Blood, for the mysterious grace-filled consolations, for the hope of receiving the Kingdom of Heaven and for all the blessings You have given me.
A prayer of thanksgiving for all the blessings of God, St. John of Kronstadt
"God! What will I bring to You, how will I thank You for Your unceasing, Your greatest mercy to me and to Your other people? For, behold, every moment I am enlivened by Your Holy Spirit, every moment I breathe the air, poured by You, light, pleasant, healthy, strengthening, I am enlightened by Your joyful and life-giving light - spiritual and material; I feed on spiritual food, sweet and life-giving, and drinking the same, the holy Mysteries of Your Body and Blood, and food and drinks of material sweetness; You dress me with a bright, beautiful royal robe - by Yourself and material clothes, cleanse my sins, heal and purify my many and fierce passions of sin; you will take away my spiritual corruption in the power of your immeasurable goodness, wisdom and strength, fill you with your Holy Spirit - the Spirit of holiness, grace; you give my soul truth, peace and joy, space, strength, boldness, courage, strength, and you endow my body with precious health; you teach my hands to fight and my fingers to fight with the invisible enemies of my salvation and bliss, with the enemies of the sanctuary and the power of Your glory, with the spirits of malice in high places; you crown with success my deeds done in your name ... For all this I thank, glorify and bless your all-good, paternal, all-powerful power, God, Savior, our Benefactor. But be known by Your other people as well, as if You appeared to me, Lover of mankind, may they know You, the Father of all, Your goodness, Your providence, Your wisdom and strength, and glorify You, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen."
New article: the prayer of John of Kronstadt before the liturgy on the site site - in all details and details from the many sources that we managed to find.
Prayer to John of Kronstadt for teaching
“Oh, great saint of Christ, holy righteous Father John of Kronstadt, wonderful shepherd, quick helper and merciful intercessor!
Giving praise to the Triune God, you prayerfully called out: Your name is Love: do not reject me as a delusional; Your name is strength: strengthen me who is weak and falling; Your name is Light: enlighten my soul, darkened by worldly passions; Your name is Peace: die my restless soul. Your name is Grace: Don't stop loving me.
Now, grateful for your intercession, the All-Russian flock prays to you: Christ-named and righteous servant of God! With your love, illumine us, sinners and the weak, make us worthy to bear the fruits of repentance and partake without condemnation of the Holy Mysteries of Christ; Strengthen your faith in us by your strength, support in prayer, heal illnesses and diseases, deliver us from misfortunes, enemies visible and invisible; with the light of the face of your servants and primates of the Altar of Christ, move on the holy feats of pastoral work, grant upbringing to babies, instruct youth, support old age, shrines of temples and holy cloisters illumine; die, miracle worker and visionary of the greatest, the peoples of our country, by the grace and gift of the Holy Spirit, deliver from internecine strife, squandered gather, squandered conversion and community of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; By your mercy, keep marriages in peace and like-mindedness, grant prosperity and blessings to those who are monks in good deeds, give cowardly comforts, suffering from unclean spirits of freedom, have mercy on the needs and circumstances of those who exist, and guide us all on the path of salvation.
Living in Christ, our Father John! Lead us to the non-evening light of eternal life, may we be vouchsafed with you eternal bliss, praising and exalting God forever and ever. Amen".
“Father John is wonderful! You have drawn close to God with many virtues and you have been honored with spiritual gifts from Him: heal ailments, drive away passions and quench sorrows. Meanwhile, we humbly pray to you: grant healing with our illness and healing with passion, but satisfy those who find sorrow on us and instill spiritual joy in our hearts. And help us to be imitators of your holy life and all your good deeds, as if we were worthy with you of the heritage of the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen."
Prayer to John of Kronstadt for healing from demons
“O great miracle worker and wonderful servant of God, God-bearing Father John! Despise us and graciously listen to our prayer, as if the Lord vouchsafed great gifts to you, may you be an intercessor and a constant prayer book for us. Behold, we are overwhelmed with sinful passions and consumed with malice, we neglected the commandments of God, did not bring repentance of the heart and tears of sighing, for this sake we are worthy of many sorrows and sorrows. But you, righteous father, having great boldness towards the Lord and having compassion for your neighbors, implored the All-Generous Lord of the World to grant His mercy to us and tolerate our iniquities, not to destroy our sin for our sakes, but graciously grant us time for repentance. O Holy One of God, help us to keep the Orthodox faith undefiled and to keep the commandments of God piously, may not any lawlessness possess us, the Truth of God will be put to shame in our iniquities, but may we be able to reach the end of the Christian, painless, shameless, peaceful and sacraments of God involved. We also pray to you, righteous father, for the hedgehog of our Church of the Holy Ones until the end of the age to be affirmed, but ask for peace and sojourn for our Fatherland and save from all evils, so that our people, God save, in the unanimity of faith and in all piety and purity, in the beauty of spiritual brotherhood, sobriety and harmony testify: for God is with us! In Him we live and move, and we are, and we shall remain forever. Amen."
Prayer to John of Kronstadt from drunkenness
“Lord, look graciously on Your servant (name), deceived by the flattery of the womb and carnal fun. Grant him to know the sweetness of abstinence in fasting and the fruits of the Spirit flowing from it. Amen."
Prayer of John of Kronstadt from corruption
“Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of the Father without beginning, One, heal every ailment and every ide 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 according to my sins.
Grant me from now on, Lord, the strength to firmly do the will Thy for the salvation of my accursed soul and for Thy glory with Thy beginningless Father and Thy consubstantial Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen."
“Thank you, Lord my God, for giving me life, for giving birth to me in the Christian faith, for the Most Pure Virgin Mary, Intercessor for the salvation of our family, for Your holy saints, praying for us, for the Guardian Angel, for public worship, supporting in us faith and virtue, for the Holy Scriptures, for the Holy Mysteries, and especially Your Body and Blood, for the mysterious grace-filled consolations, for the hope of receiving the Kingdom of Heaven and for all the blessings You have given me.
A prayer of thanksgiving for all the blessings of God, St. John of Kronstadt
"God! What will I bring to You, how will I thank You for Your unceasing, Your greatest mercy to me and to Your other people? For, behold, every moment I am enlivened by Your Holy Spirit, every moment I breathe the air, poured by You, light, pleasant, healthy, strengthening, I am enlightened by Your joyful and life-giving light - spiritual and material; I feed on spiritual food, sweet and life-giving, and drinking the same, the holy Mysteries of Your Body and Blood, and food and drinks of material sweetness; You dress me with a bright, beautiful royal robe - by Yourself and material clothes, cleanse my sins, heal and purify my many and fierce passions of sin; you will take away my spiritual corruption in the power of your immeasurable goodness, wisdom and strength, fill you with your Holy Spirit - the Spirit of holiness, grace; you give my soul truth, peace and joy, space, strength, boldness, courage, strength, and you endow my body with precious health; you teach my hands to fight and my fingers to fight with the invisible enemies of my salvation and bliss, with the enemies of the sanctuary and the power of Your glory, with the spirits of malice in high places; you crown with success my deeds done in your name ... For all this I thank, glorify and bless your all-good, paternal, all-powerful power, God, Savior, our Benefactor. But be known by Your other people as well, as if You appeared to me, Lover of mankind, may they know You, the Father of all, Your goodness, Your providence, Your wisdom and strength, and glorify You, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen."
Prayer for the agreement of John of Kronstadt
“Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, You said with Your pure lips: “Amen, I say to you, as if two of you confer on the earth of any thing, if you ask it, you will have it from My Father, Who is in Heaven: where is two or three are gathered in my name, so I am Az in the midst of them. Thy words are immutable, O Lord, Thy mercy is unapplied, and Thy philanthropy has no end. For this sake, we pray to You: grant us, Your servants (names), who agreed to ask You (request), the fulfillment of our petition. But both not as we want, but as You. May Your will be done forever. Amen."
Prayers to John of Kronstadt
Prayers are addressed to John of Kronstadt for help in healing and getting rid of any ailment. You can ask both for yourself and for your neighbors (children, relatives).
- Prayers
- About healing
- From drunkenness
- From despondency, demons, Satan
- From spoilage
- Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving (short)
- Gratitude (full)
Prayer to John of Kronstadt for healing
Holy Father John!
You have drawn close to God with many virtues, and you have been honored with spiritual gifts from Him:
heal ailments, drive away passions and quench sorrows.
We also humbly pray to you:
grant healing with our illness and healing with passion, but those who find sorrow on us, quench and instill spiritual joy in our hearts.
And help us to be imitators of your holy life and all your good deeds, as if we were worthy with you of the heritage of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Prayer to John of Kronstadt for deliverance from drunkenness
Lord, look mercifully on Your servant (name), deceived by the flattery of the womb and carnal fun.
Grant him to know the sweetness of abstinence in fasting and the fruits of the Spirit flowing from it.
Prayer to John of Kronstadt from despondency, demons, Satan
O great miracle-worker and marvelous servant of God, God-bearing Father John!
Despise us and graciously listen to our prayer, as if the Lord vouchsafed great gifts to you, may you be an intercessor and a constant prayer book for us.
Behold, we are overwhelmed with sinful passions and consumed with malice, we neglected the commandments of God, did not bring repentance of the heart and tears of sighing, for this sake we are worthy of many sorrows and sorrows.
But you, righteous father, having great boldness towards the Lord and having compassion for your neighbors, implored the All-Generous Lord of the world,
May He grant His mercy to us and endure our iniquity, sin will not destroy us for our sakes, but will graciously grant us time for repentance.
O saint of God, help us to keep the Orthodox faith undefiled and keep the commandments of God piously, so that no lawlessness possesses us,
below, the Truth of God will be put to shame in our unrighteousness, but may we be vouchsafed to reach the death of a Christian, painless, shameless, peaceful and participating in the Mysteries of God.
We also pray to you, righteous father, for the hedgehog of our Holy Church until the end of the century to be affirmed, ask our Fatherland for peace and stay and save from all evils,
so our people, God save, in the unanimity of faith and in all piety and purity, in the beauty of spiritual brotherhood, sobriety and harmony testify: for God is with us!
In Him we live and move, and we are, and we shall remain forever.
Prayer from corruption to John of Kronstadt
Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of the Father without beginning, 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 accursed soul and for Your glory with Your Father without beginning and Your Spirit consubstantial, now and forever and forever and ever.
Brief thanksgiving prayer of John of Kronstadt to the Lord God
I thank You, Lord my God, for giving me life, for giving birth to me in the Christian faith, for the Most Pure Virgin Mary, Intercessor for the salvation of our family,
for your holy saints, praying for us, for the Guardian Angel, for public worship, which supports faith and virtue in us,
for the Holy Scripture, for the Holy Mysteries, and especially for Your Body and Blood, for the mysterious grace-filled consolations, for the hope of receiving the Kingdom of Heaven and for all the blessings You have given me.
Thanksgiving Prayer of John of Kronstadt
What will I bring to You, how will I thank You for Your unceasing, Your greatest mercy to me and to Your other people?
For, behold, every moment I am enlivened by Your Holy Spirit, every moment I breathe the air, poured by You, light, pleasant, healthy, strengthening, I am enlightened by Your joyful and life-giving light - spiritual and material;
I feed on spiritual food, sweet and life-giving, and drinking the same, the holy Mysteries of Your Body and Blood, and food and drinks of material sweetness;
You dress me with a bright, beautiful royal robe - by Yourself and material clothes, cleanse my sins, heal and purify my many and fierce passions of sin;
you will take away my spiritual corruption in the power of Your immeasurable goodness, wisdom and strength, fill with Your Holy Spirit - the Spirit of holiness, grace;
you give my soul truth, peace and joy, space, strength, boldness, courage, strength, and you endow my body with precious health;
you teach my hands to fight and my fingers to fight with the invisible enemies of my salvation and bliss, with the enemies of the sanctuary and the power of Your glory, with the spirits of malice in high places;
you crown with success my deeds done in your name.
For all this I thank, glorify and bless the all-good, fatherly, all-powerful state of Yours, God, Savior, our Benefactor.
But be known by Your other people as well, as if You appeared to me, Lover of mankind, may they know You, the Father of all, Your goodness, Your providence, Your wisdom and strength, and glorify You, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever.
Prayer to John of Kronstadt for help in teaching and work
Oh, great saint of Christ, holy righteous Father John of Kronstadt, wonderful shepherd, quick helper and merciful intercessor!
Giving praise to the Triune God, you prayerfully cried out: “Your Name is Love: do not reject me who am mistaken;
Your name is Strength: strengthen 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 Grace: do not cease to have mercy on me.
Now, grateful for your intercession, the All-Russian flock prays to you: Christ-named and righteous servant of God!
With your love, illumine us, sinners and the weak, make us worthy to bear the fruits of repentance and partake without condemnation of the Holy Mysteries of Christ;
Strengthen your faith in us by your strength, support in prayer, heal illnesses and diseases, deliver us from misfortunes, enemies visible and invisible;
with the light of the face of your servants and primates of the Altar of Christ, move on the holy feats of pastoral work, grant upbringing to babies, instruct youth, support old age, shrines of temples and holy cloisters illumine;
die, miracle worker and visionary of the greatest, the peoples of our country, by the grace and gift of the Holy Spirit, deliver from internecine strife, squandered gather, squandered conversion and community of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church;
By your mercy, observe marriage in peace and unanimity, grant prosperity and blessing to monastics in good deeds, cowardly consolations,
free those who suffer from unclean spirits, have mercy on those who are in need and circumstances, and guide us all on the path of salvation.
Living in Christ, our Father John!
Lead us to the non-evening light of eternal life, may we be vouchsafed with you eternal bliss, praising and exalting God forever and ever.
Prayers of St. Righteous John of Kronstadt
Prayers of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt from the book "My Life in Christ"
643. God! let not Thy gifts, spiritual and material, be idle in us and with us, give them a saving and useful movement. Do this in everyone. May your talents be multiplied, O Lord, by the own activity of each of us.
658. Lord, do not allow for a moment that I do the will of Your enemy and mine - the devil, but that I do unceasingly Your one will, my God and King; You are the only one, my true King, by whom kings reign, let me obey You, revere You always sincerely and firmly. Come, let us worship our King God, let us work with Him with fear and rejoice in Him with trembling (cf. Ps. 94:6; 2:11).
686. 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; malice. If anyone does not hate ... his soul, he cannot be My disciple (Luke 14:26), says the Lord.
708. Communion of the Holy Mysteries, O priest, say in your heart: come to me, Life-Giver, snatch me from the jaws of the hellish serpent, purify me from the filth of passions, pacify my restless heart, revive my mortified soul, rejoice my mournful and despondent spirit; you are coming to nourish me, tormented by sinful smoothness, clothe me, naked from all virtue, strengthen me weak, honor me dishonest, exalt me low, ennoble me contemptible, enlighten me dark. You grant me every good deed: I thank You, Most Merciful!
709. Our heart is like a dark earth; The gospel is like the sun that enlightens and enlivens our hearts. Shine in our hearts the true sun of Your righteousness, Lord!
733. ... pray for me, St. God's people: prophets, apostles, saints, martyrs, reverend, righteous and all saints, may I be like you!
740. Like every word of the prayer: have mercy on me, God, the Lord hears and fulfills every word (experience), if only they speak from the heart; so are all the words of other prayers, even our own sincere prayers. Oh, obedient Lord! Glory to Thee! Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, push and it will be opened to you. Everyone who asks accepts… (Matt. 7:7,8). Only in simplicity of heart, pray without hesitation.
743. I thank You, Lord, my Master and Judge, as if you taught me to simply pray to You, and hear me crying out to You, and save me from my sins and my sorrows, and set my feet on the open space. Behold, I called to Thee in the sin of my cunning with the words of the church prayer: Lord our God, granting repentance to man ... and as soon as I finished it, peace and lightness settled in my soul. June 29, 1864
746. Lover of mankind, Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I thank you from all my heart, as if you heard my prayer for loving your neighbor and contemplating the earthly, and you poured out peaceful, reasonable and sweet love in my heart. Establish, O God, this in me by the prayers of Our Most Pure Lady Theotokos, and may I be Thy child, Lord, and Her truest child. July 26, 1864, 11 p.m.
747. ... Incarnate us for the sake of the Word of God and God! save us in Your sanctuary! Our Holy Head! do not betray our hearts and our bodies to the filthy Belial, so that he does not defile them with thoughts, but abide with us and keep us clean and blameless. Grant us, Lord, to always have with You, our Most Divine Head, a living connection, like the members of Your body - a connection in the thoughts of the heart, in prayer and in deeds. The falling away from You of our hearts is darkness and death, Lord, there is sorrow and oppression, shame and humiliation and spiritual abomination, but with you we have light, life, peace, joy, space for the heart, boldness, and greatness, and holiness.
752 . … Vladyka Lord Jesus Christ! enlighten our eyes of the heart and may your good Spirit guide us all to the land of justice (Ps. 143:10). Give us Your Spirit!
770. God! You came to save us by faith even in You, I believe that You are my Savior, save me! You have come to renew my nature, corrupted by sin, - renew me, who have corrupted myself with passions and lusts, renew both mentally and bodily, so that I will be pure in heart and strong in body for the glory of Your name. You have come to deliver us from the work of the enemy—deliver me from the work of the all-malicious, impure, filthy, and loathsome enemy, who fights in my members and inclines me to sin by violence. You came to enlighten us - enlighten my heart darkened by passions. You came to collect what was squandered, - gather my thoughts, squandered by the enemy. You came to strengthen us in our weakness and said: My strength is made perfect in weakness, and Your Apostle says: I boast more sweetly than in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me (2 Corinthians 12:9); behold, I am extremely weak and cannot do anything good without you; without You I can neither think nor feel good, nor wish good, neither speak nor do; I am decidedly weak for all good without You; give me grace, give me light and strength to think and feel good and conveniently do it, say and do what pleases You. I commend my whole life to Thee, Christ God, my Savior, my Renovator; cleanse, sanctify and save me. Create a pure heart in me, O God, and renew a right spirit in my womb (Ps. 50:12)! Help me: my death is near and quick without You for every hour.
780. Who am I? - On the one hand, sin, the abyss of sin, all opposition to God the All-Creator and Omnipotent, worthy of all condemnation and torment, on the other - complete poverty in every virtue and weakness for every virtue. So I fell deeply, corrupted, exhausted. I cannot do anything without my Savior, according to His word and my countless experiences. He created my soul and body, He increased, He formed my abilities, He creates everything good in me, if I do something good, and mine is only evil. But, my Creator and my Redeemer! You created me, I am Your creation, Your servant. You control me. Do Thy will through me, give me the grace to completely subdue my will to Thy will, for I cannot do this without Thy grace. You, my Shepherd, shepherd me. You, my Savior, save me. You, my Light, enlighten me. You, my Strength, strengthen me.
782. O infinitely great Benefactor, my Savior! When I imagine the endless corruption of my nature by the sins and passions of many different things, and at the same time my spirit falls and languishes, then only I will remember You that You came to renew my nature corrupted by sin and to give my dishonor, my shame, angelic nobility, even higher than angelic, nobility Son of God, for the sake of faith in You, for the sake of being born with water and the Spirit, and for the sake of partaking of Your Holy Mysteries, my spirit will instantly rise from despondency, shake off the dishonor of passions and be filled with gratitude to You. Glory to Thee, infinite Goodness and Strength, Son of God!
785. … Establish me on the stone of Your commandments, Lord!
788. You alone know the cares, labors and sweats of Your saints, to purify them, to please You, the Father of all, You weigh Your saints. Teach us to imitate them in our life, so that we may be united with all by love.
789. Why do the sons of this age scoff at what is truth, light, peace, sweetness, our life, I mean church services, church readings and hymns, or at your saints, glorified by you? They do not see, they blaspheme (Jude 1:10). Father! let them go, for they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34), and enlighten them.
795. Your power (exalted), i.e. You contain everyone and everything in Your power and strength - even evil spirits; Yours is the kingdom: You are the King over all and over evil spirits; Your strength: You sustain all by Your strength, and glory: for You created everything for Your glory.
814. Grant me, Lord, to love every one of my neighbors as yourself, always, and for no reason be angry with him and not work for the devil. Let me crucify my vanity, pride, covetousness, lack of faith and other passions. Let there be a name for us: mutual love; let us believe and hope that for all of us everything is the Lord; let's not bake, let's not worry about anything; May You, our God, one God our hearts and nothing but You. Let us be among ourselves in the unity of love, as it befits, and let everything that separates us from friend from friend and from love be despised by us, like dust trampled underfoot. Wake up! Wake up! If God has given Himself to us, if He abides in us and we are in Him, according to His infallible word, then what will He not give me, what will He spare, what will He deprive me of, what will He leave me in? The Lord shepherds me, and deprives me of nothing (Ps. 22:1). With Him, how does he not give us everything (Rom. 8:32)? So, be very calm, my soul, and know nothing but love. This I command you, that you love one another (John 15:17).
Prayers of Saint Righteous John of Kronstadt
from the book "My Life in Christ" Vol.2
815. God! I am a miracle of Your goodness, wisdom, omnipotence, since I was brought by You from non-existence into existence, since I am preserved by You until now in being, since I have, by the goodness, generosity and philanthropy of Your only-begotten Son, to inherit eternal life, if I remain faithful to You, since I am a terrible priesthood offering myself as a sacrifice by your Son, I am raised from a terrible fall, redeemed from eternal death. I praise Your goodness, Your infinite power, Your wisdom! But perform the wonders of Your goodness, omnipotence and wisdom over me, accursed, and by their own destinies save me, Your unworthy servant, and lead me into Your eternal Kingdom, vouchsafe me an ageless life, a non-evening day.
816. … God! draw my heart to you by your Holy Spirit. God! turn my heart away from the vanity of the earth. God! without You I can do nothing.
865. God! I confess before You that life and health and strength of spiritual and bodily forces are not in the country, not in the forest, but with You in the temple, especially in the liturgy and in Your life-giving Mysteries! Oh, the greatest bliss of the Holy Mysteries! O belly givers of the Holy Mysteries! Oh, love inexpressible Divine Mysteries! Oh, the wonderful and unceasing thought of the Lord God about our salvation and deification, Divine Mysteries! Oh, a vision eternal life Divine Secrets!
866. my mistress, Holy Mother of God! I prayed to you before the liturgy, but ask me the grace to perform it with great power, to the glory of God, for the salvation of the world and my own! You made everything good. Thank you, all-good Helper, quick to hearken, shameless hope!
868. Lord, I thank You from the bottom of my heart for the grace-filled inspirations of Your Holy Spirit during public and domestic Divine services, for the cleansing of sins, for peace, tenderness and tears, for paternal consolation, for boldness, for strength.
877. … Marvelous are Your works, Lord! You are wondrous, sitting on the throne of Your glory, in Christian churches. Lord, most righteous Judge and Savior, most merciful and Almighty! Glory to Thy invincible goodness, King of the ages!
883. Hurry not to food and drink, but hasten to the work of God, and while doing the work of God, do not think about food and drink. Remember firmly before whom you stand, with whom you are talking. Whom do you sing; be wholly in God, belong wholly to Him alone, pray with all your heart, sing with all your heart, serve your neighbors as for yourself, cordially, wholeheartedly, without double heart and thoughts. God! help: without you I can do nothing (John 15:5).
900. To the glory of the most holy name of the Master of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lady of the Mother of God. - I felt a thousand times in my heart that after communion of the Holy Mysteries or after fervent prayer at home, ordinary or on the occasion of some sin, passion and sorrow and tightness, the Lord, through the prayers of the Lady, or the Lady Herself, by the goodness of the Lord, gave to me, as it were, a new nature of the spirit, pure, kind, majestic, bright, wise, blissful instead of impure, dull and lethargic, cowardly, gloomy, stupid, evil. I have been changed many times by a wonderful, great change, to the surprise of myself, and often to others. Glory to Your power, Lord! Glory to Your goodness, Lord! Glory to Your mercies, Lord, even if you show me a sinner!
903. Christian! always remember and carry in your thoughts and in your heart the great words of the Lord's prayer: Our Father, Who art in heaven (remember, who is our Father? - God is our Father, our Love; who are we? we are His children, and among ourselves brothers; in what kind of love should the children of such a Father live among themselves? Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. Give us our daily bread today (our bread (everything is common), and not your own; self-love must be expelled from the hearts of the children of God: we are one), and leave us our debts (you want and love God to forgive you sins, for the usual consider forgiving sins to people who sin against you, knowing that love is long-suffering and merciful); and do not lead us into temptation (and do not enter into temptation yourself; do not let your feet fall into turmoil, keep you slumber below. The Lord will protect you on your right hand (Ps. 120:3,5)), but deliver us from the evil one ( do not give yourself up to his will, and the Lord will not betray you to him). As Yours is the Kingdom (recognize the one King of God and work on Him alone) and power (trust in His almighty power) and glory (jealous for His glory with all your might and all your life) forever (He is the eternal King, and the kingdom of Satan will soon pass away, as predatory, false). Amen. All this is true. Remember this prayer most of all and read it in your mind more often and think about it, what every word, expression and petition means in it.
905. Save us, Thy race, Lady! Save us, your kindred! Save us, Mother of the Life and Mother of all of us, although we are unworthy to call You our Mother! Cleanse, sanctify, strengthen and save us with your prayers!
916. Good Lady! manifest and manifest Thy dominion over me and Thy people, God-fearing and well-behaved - by delivering us, through our prayer, from bad, crafty and blasphemous thoughts, from all sins and passions and from all the machinations of demons, like the good Mother of God.
943. When making the sign of the cross, believe and always remember that your sins are nailed to the cross. When you fall into sin, immediately condemn yourself sincerely and make the sign of the cross on yourself, saying: Lord! nail our sins on the cross, nail my real sin to your cross, and have mercy on me according to your great mercy (Ps. 50:3), and your sin will be cleansed. Amen.
959. When in your eyes people fall into various sins against you, against the Lord, against your neighbors and against yourself, do not be angry with them, for even without you there is a lot of malice in the world, but pity them from the bottom of your heart and forgive them when they offend you saying to himself: Lord! let them go, for sin confuses them, they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34).
961. God! give me always a meek heart, a clear, direct, meek look. Wake up! - Glory, Lord, to the change made in me by Your right hand, I thank You, as if You took away from me the burning thorns of my passions and my narrowness, and my shame, and my infirmity, gave me peace, silence, freedom, strength, boldness . Affirm, the hedgehog you have made in me. Glory to the power of faith, the power of prayer: for every tree I ask of you in believing prayer, I will accept according to your word (Mark 11:24). I thank you, Lord, as you raise me from the dead so many times (2 Cor. 1:9), and you destroy the mortal, sinful kingdom in me.
982. Great is Your love, O Lord: thou hast exhausted Thyself for the sake of love for me. I look at the cross and marvel at Your love for me and for the world, for the cross is a clear imprint of Your love for us, No one has greater love than this, but who lays down his life for his friend (John 15, 13). Your life-giving Mysteries, Lord, serve as an everlasting loud proof of Your love for us sinners, for this divine Body of Yours was broken for me, for all of us; this Blood was shed for me, for all of us, Lord! I glorify the miracles of Thy Holy Mysteries over Thy faithful, to whom I taught them; I praise the innumerable healings that I have witnessed; I glorify their all-saving action in me; I glorify Your mercy to me, manifested to me in them and through them, Your life-giving power, acting in them. God! for your great love for me, let me love you with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself, to love my enemies, not only those who love me.
983. God! teach to live in mutual love and strengthen with Your Holy Spirit; gusts of passions, stuttering love of heaven, evangelical, tame, and make our hearts dead for earthly sweets. Grant me, Lord, to always prefer Thy grace, Thy peace, Thy righteousness and holiness to all earthly blessings, and always abide in it, all the days of the stomach, until the last breath!
992. Thank you, Lord, as you grant me new life every time I celebrate the Divine Liturgy with tears of repentance and thanksgiving and partake of Your most pure and life-giving Mysteries. To Thy Holy Mysteries I owe the continuation of my being, the purity of my ways, and the good glory in Thy people. May Your great name be sanctified more and more in me and in all Your people, on them is the name Your holy is called, - and in all your world; may your kingdom come, the kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, in all our hearts, as you said: I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their Father, and they will be my sons and daughters (2 Cor. 6, 16, 18 (Lev. 26, 12; Jer. 3, 19)), and may Thy will be done, holy, wise, all-good, all-perfect, all-blessed, as in heaven and on earth in all Your people, and in me sinful, for our own will is erroneous, short-sighted, sinful, disastrous, unloving, evil, envious, proud, lazy, luxurious, greedy, stingy.
1003. What a wealth of light, air, water, earth, fire, the Lord has - these five elements of matter, of which our body is composed, by which it lives! What a wealth of products of earth and water, and all this is mainly used by man, the king of creation! Thanks be to Thee, our Creator! Glory to Thee, our Providence and Redeemer, who created us in His image and likeness and deigned to take upon Himself our nature!
1010. God! let me extend to You prayers for the whole world and for all the fulfillment of the Church, always with all-embracing love, without hypocrisy, for I, by Your grace, am a prayer book for everyone and for my sins. Grant me, Lord, God the Father, to contemplate Thy inexpressible love for the world, which has given us Thy beloved, only-begotten Son. Give me God, Son of God, to contemplate Your exhaustion in the world and on our cross for the sake of salvation; grant me God, Holy Soul, to contemplate Thy grace, poured out abundantly and pouring out on the world for the sake of the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, fulfilling so often my accursed heart; Holy Trinity, let me praise You unceasingly with my heart and lips, and even more so with my deeds.
1025. … Glory to Thee, all-good, all-wise and all-powerful Artist!
1026. Oh, my invisible Benefactor, by whom I live unceasingly! You, listening to me, fulfilling the good desires of my heart, saving me from my sins, from the villainy of invisible enemies, You, arranging my fate, my enlightenment, my help, my glory, my strength, my affirmation, when will I see You? When will I see the Benefactor and my Creator face to face?
1027. What I need? I do not need anything on earth, except for the most necessary. What I need? I need the Lord, I need His grace, His Kingdom is in me. On earth, the place of my wandering, my temporary education, there is nothing of my own, everything is God's and everything is temporary, assigned to my temporary services; my surplus is the property of those who do not have it. What I need? I need true, Christian, tenacious, active love, I need a loving, compassionate heart, I need joy for their contentment and well-being, grief for their sorrows and illnesses, for their sins, weaknesses, disorders, shortcomings, misfortunes, poverty; they need warm, sincere sympathy in all the circumstances of their lives, joy with those who rejoice and weeping with those who weep. It is full to give place to self-love, selfishness, to try to live only for yourself and attract everything only to yourself: both wealth, and sweets, and the glory of this world, and not to live, but to die, not to rejoice, but to suffer, carrying the poison of self-love in yourself, for self-love there is the poison constantly poured into our hearts by veliar. Oh, let me exclaim with the psalmist: what do we have in heaven, and what do I desire from you on earth? My heart and my flesh are gone, O God of my heart, and my part, O God forever (Ps. 72:25,26). Lord, witness of my heart, the movement of it and these lines! Grant me this which I ask of You! From me this is impossible, but everything is possible with You (Mark 10:27). Give me true life, dispel the darkness of passions, live by Your power their strength!
1033. God! In prayer to Thee we bring the saints for us, these spiritual incense, this is the world of Your aromas! Accept their prayers fragrant with love and purity for us and deliver us from the stench of sin, for our hearts are unclean and our lips are filthy, and we are not worthy of the sweetest conversation with You. Everything in us is earthly, perishable, foul, deceitful, and they, Your saints, are the purest world, - most of all, Your Most Pure Mother, Your animated luminous chamber, the purest lordship of the sun, the most fragrant more than all aromas, for the fragrance of Her holiness, Her divine virtues are full heaven and earth.
1038. … Lord, have mercy on us, have mercy on mankind!
1041. Oh, how bitter were my sins for You, Christ my Savior, my God, when You were beaten, beaten, spat on, Your head was pierced with thorns and nailed on the cross - when You hung on the cross for me in torments unspeakable, delivering me from the bitterest , inexpressible torments of hell! But I should remember this self-exhaustion of Yours, these torments of Yours more often, so as not to commit sins and diligently perform every virtue, to love You with all my heart, to fulfill Your saving commands! Meanwhile, I often forget this terrible sacrifice, made for me by the Son of the Heavenly Father, the only-begotten, co-eternal, co-eternal. Give me, O Lord, a pure heart and unchanging repentance for salvation, give me other time of my life to please You!
1044. God! I thank You from the bottom of my heart, as if You saved me without number from dishonor, violence, ferocity of passions and quenched the arrows of the evil one kindled in me and protected my soul with peace and cooled You with the dew of Your grace. Glory to Thee, the Many-merciful and Omnipotent, as if hitherto by Thy grace I remain safe and sound, despite the countless deceit over me of invisible and all-malicious enemies who seek to devour me. We know, Lord, as if from all their machinations and slander, deliver me and save me, in the image of fate, into Your Kingdom of Heaven, and not only me, but also all those who live piously and are slandered by the spirits of malice: Yours is a hedgehog to have mercy and save wanting and not even wanting salvation. Either I want, it is said, or I don’t want, save me (they say, Eternal St. John. Damascus.)!
1052. ... Lord and Master of my life, grant me the spirit of love, Thy servant!
1087. ... Glory to Thee, Holy and Consubstantial, and Life-Giving, and Inseparable Trinity (exalted to the great eternity)! Holy Trinity! teach me to despise everything earthly, teach me to believe peace, contentment, bliss in You alone! And in order not to become proud of me, because of the gracious attention to me of the Most Holy Trinity and the salvation She gives me, let me remember that She graciously listens to every worm, every chick. I also recall that some Christians, who have created many powers in the name of God, will once hear from the Lord the words: get away from Me, we do not know you (Matt. 7, 23; 25, 12), for your unevangelical life. Holy Trinity! save me from pride and teach me humility! You graciously and soon listen to me and save me; I can be proud of this mercy. Turn your infinite goodness and mercy into a pretext for self-praise, supposedly I myself was worthy of such attention, as having done some good! Cover me, most merciful Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Soul, with the shelter of Your wings from all sin.
1119. My Master, Lord Jesus Christ! My quick, quick, shameless Intercessor! I thank You with all my heart that You mercifully listened to me - when I called to You in darkness, narrowness and flame of the enemy - very quickly, sovereignly, graciously delivered me from my enemies and gave my heart space, lightness, light! Oh, Lord, how I suffered from the machinations of the enemy, how timely You showed me help, and how obvious was Your almighty help! I praise Your goodness, obedient Master, the hope of the desperate; I praise You that You did not shame my face to the end, but mercifully delivered me from the darkening and dishonor of hell. How then can I ever despair of Your hearing and mercy on me, the accursed one? I will, I will always call on Your sweetest name, my Savior; You, O innumerable Blessing, as always, save me in the past, according to Your immeasurable kindness, as Your name is the Lover of mankind and the Savior!
1122. … God, Your name is Love! Teach me true love, like strong death. Here I tasted her sweetness most abundantly from communion in the spirit of faith, even in Thee, with Your faithful servants and servants, and I am exceedingly pacified and enlivened by her. Establish, O God, this which thou hast done in me! O! If only it were so all the days! Grant me more often to have the fellowship of faith and love with Your faithful servants, with Your temples, with Your Church, with Your members!
1123. My sweetest Savior! You, having gone to the service of the human race, did not only preach the word of heavenly truth in the temple, but flowed around cities and villages, did not alienate anyone, went to everyone’s houses, especially to those whom You foresaw warm repentance with Your divine gaze. So You did not sit at home, but had fellowship of love with everyone. Grant us to have this communion of love with Thy people, so that we, shepherds, are not confined from Thy sheep in our houses, as in castles and dungeons, leaving only for service in the church or for needs in houses, according to one duty, only memorized prayers. Let our mouths be opened for free speech in the spirit of faith and love with our parishioners. May our Christian love for spiritual children be revealed and strengthened through a lively, free, paternal conversation with them. Oh, what sweetness You have hidden, Lord, our boundless Love, in the spiritual, warmed by love, conversation of the spiritual father with his spiritual children, what bliss! And how can I not strive on earth with all my might for such bliss? And it is still only weak beginnings, only some faint semblance of the heavenly bliss of love! Love especially the communion of goodness, both material and spiritual. Do not forget doing good and fellowship (Heb. 13:16).
1151. To the Lord my God, the God of my salvation, I will write thanksgiving! Before confession on Holy Week, the enemy stumbled upon me, striking my heart with tightness, embarrassment and evil despondency. But here I prayed with all my heart with undoubted faith to Him, the God of my salvation, and said: God the All-good Father! You are your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, saying: ask, and it will be given to you ... everyone who asks accepts ... or who is a person from you, if his son asks for bread, will he give him food a stone? How much more will your Heavenly Father give good things to those who ask Him (Matt. 7:7-11). By faith, by faith, I embrace in my heart what You have spoken, I cry out to You: give me now Your Holy Spirit, may it strengthen my heart to raise the labor of confession, to a prudent decision or knitting of human consciences, to patience and complacency, to a kind and edifying treatment of my spiritual children . And what? Oh God of mercy! I spent the whole confession perfectly: calmly, kindly, instructively, without any burden or restless haste. I glorify the merciful right hand of the all-good Heavenly Father. So it is always necessary to strengthen oneself with heartfelt prayer to the Heavenly Father for every spiritual achievement, just as our Lord Jesus Christ prayed before the appearance of the human race, before the election of the Apostles, before His sufferings.
1175. … Glory to the grace of the Holy Comforter-Spirit! … We thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for for Your sake the Holy Spirit is in the world!
1193. I thank Thee, my Joy, the Lord of glory, for thou hast taken my image through incarnation from the Most Pure Virgin, and honored, and exalted, and deified humanity; I thank You, as you raise me from corruption to incorruption, cleanse my filth, heal infirmities and illnesses, turn sorrows into joy, turn sinful narrowness into the space of Your justification, even from faith and repentance of the heart, drive away the darkness of passions and give Your spiritual light, take away confusion and send peace from above, take away cowardice and give courage with boldness. Glory to Your mercy!
1211. Give me, Mistress, purity of heart, simplicity of heart, filial trust, devotion and love for You always, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
1216. … Wonderful creation of God – man! Glory to the Creator and Provider! Glory to the Savior of the human race, who draws our race out of the mire of passions, from corruption and death, and leads us into the eternal life.
Relics: Ioannovsky female. convent on Karpovka (St. Petersburg)
Studying the life and works of John of Kronstadt, one is surprised by the boldness with which he prayed for people who needed help. Even Jesus, on the night before the sufferings, asked: to carry this cup past, adding: "Not My will, but Yours, God, be done".
It is recommended to end any petition with this phrase, believing that the Lord will choose the best option. Until a certain time, Saint John acted in this way. Until he received the blessing to “demand” healing, admonition, help to those in need.
All-Russian priest
Receiving letters asking for help, the Holy Righteous prayed, and the sick recovered, without seeing the priest himself. The fame of the power of his prayers was so great that St. Andrew's Church, where he served (with a capacity of 5,000! thousand people) was always crowded. The worshipers of shrines tore the stole into pieces when they visited Riga. Here is an example of how he prayed:
They called o. John to a patient who had a volvulus of the intestines. Doctors could not do anything, the man was dying. The father began to pray like this: “Lord, you made him the father of six children. Don't leave them orphans. Heal the afflicted". In the morning, to the surprise of the doctors, the dying man recovered.
All people are different, especially in misfortunes, but the saints are very similar to each other. They possess amazing ability to love both good and bad, seeing in everyone the Image of God. John of Kronstadt dreamed that everyone was like that. A person, with the help of God, must acquire the Spirit of Love, then there will be no poor, hungry and suffering on earth.
The pain inherent in the saint of God for the fate of the country, the future of which he saw, made him a fiery fighter against the destructive trends of unbelief - the All-Russian priest. With his sermons he visited many cities. There were no indifferent listeners. Despite the attempts of the revolutionaries to erase the dear name from the memory of the people by destroying St. Andrew's Church and pouring concrete over the relics, his fame is growing. How do they remember about John:
Listen online prayer of St. John of Kronstadt:
Memories of his former care for needs are alive ordinary people. Now miraculous help is given to all who turn to him. For him there is no rejected soul, he is ready to serve anyone both during his lifetime and after his death.
Death of the humble righteous
Arriving at the address, he was pushed aside from the alarmed attendants, allegedly inviting him to the sick man. They attacked with a knife. Sensing trouble, the coachman broke down the doors and burst into the room, but the priest had already been stabbed several times. The humble priest forbade talking about this, completely giving himself into the hands of God. After that, he fell ill a little and peacefully went to the Lord.
What is asked of John of Kronstadt?
The lamp of the Russian land died not so long ago in 1908. Since then, people have not stopped turning to him for help. Per last years volumes will be collected describing the miraculous healings that they received while praying both at the shrine with relics and at home. Before you ask for anything, find out about this amazing person.
Reading about John Sergius of Kronstadt, people's worldview changes, unbelievers come to church, those in need receive what they ask for. The saint had a special affection for children. He loved everyone, but the children are immeasurably more. He told one drunkard husband: “Your house is a paradise, because children live in it, and you exchanged it for a tavern.”
There was so much love and compassion in these words that the man stopped drinking. The priest became famous as a healer of any addiction, especially drunkenness. Do not believe in the narrow specialization of saints or icons. In the end, all petitions are directed to Christ. The saints share in our requests. They strengthen their weak prayers, being before the throne of the Lord. Here is a small part of what we asked for, received help:
- Relief from the disease of drunkenness.
- Healing severe cancer.
- Discovery of learning abilities (languages, mathematics).
- University admission.
- Treatment of a brain tumor - the disease passed without surgery.
- There is a known case when a woman who died on the resuscitation table came to life at the moment of her sister's prayer under the window of the church with the relics of I. Kronstadt.
- Lamp oil, which is illuminated at the shrine of the Holy One, cured many years of asthma.
- Help received: from the effects of frostbite; when immobilizing the hand; nerve damage, threatening paralysis; stomach ulcer; inflammation of the lungs; severe burns after the explosion; kidney disease and many others.
Conclusion: Turn to the saints for help. Believe that illnesses, sorrows, failures in business and relationships can be corrected. You are not alone in your trouble. The Lord and the holy righteous are always there to save and protect from all evil. The main thing is to ask in time, to turn, to know how the Heavenly Powers love us. With whom once, God forbid, we will meet.
Prayer to the holy righteous John, presbyter of Kronstadt, miracle worker
O great miracle-worker and marvelous servant of God, God-bearing Father John! Look upon us and listen graciously to our prayer, as if the Lord vouchsafed great gifts to you, may you be an intercessor and a constant prayer book for us. Behold, we are overwhelmed with sinful passions and consumed with malice, we neglected the commandments of God, did not bring repentance of the heart and tears of sighing, for this sake we are worthy of many sorrows and sorrows.
But you, righteous father, having great boldness towards the Lord and having compassion for your neighbors, implored the All-Generous Lord of the World to grant His mercy to us and tolerate our iniquities, not to destroy our sin for our sakes, but graciously grant us time for repentance.
O saint of God, help us to keep the Orthodox faith without blemish and keep the commandments of God piously, may not any lawlessness possess us, lower the Truth of God will be put to shame in our unrighteousness, but may we be able to reach the end of the Christian, painless, shameless, peaceful and sacraments of God involved.
We also pray to you, righteous father, about the hedgehog of our Church of the Holy Ones until the end of the age of being affirmed, but for our fatherland, ask for peace and prosperity in the Truth of God and save from all evils, so that our people, God keep, in the unanimity of faith and in all piety and purity, in the beauty of spiritual brotherhood, sobriety and harmony testify: for God is with us! In Nemzha we live, and we move, and we are, and we will abide forever. Amen.
Prayer to John of Kronstadt (2)
Oh, holy righteous Father John, All-Russian luminary and marvelous miracle worker! You were chosen by God from infancy, and, with a fiery spirit, like a true shepherd, with life, in a word, love, faith, purity, you served people. For this sake, we pray to you, righteous father: pray to the Lover of God, protect the holy Church with peace and silence, preserve the Russian land in prosperity, fulfill the shepherds of grace and truth abundantly, make the authorities wiser, strengthen the Orthodox army, heal the weak, correct the corrupt, educate the young, elders and widows console us all in the Kingdom of Heaven to be honored with all the saints to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit now and forever and forever and ever. Amen
Prayer to John of Kronstadt (3)
O great saint of Christ, holy righteous Father John of Kronstadt, wonderful shepherd, quick helper and merciful intercessor! Giving praise to the Triune God, you prayerfully cried out: Your name is Love: do not reject me, the erring one. Your name is Strength: strengthen 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 Grace: do not cease to have mercy on me. Now, grateful for your intercession, the All-Russian flock prays to you: Christ-named and righteous servant of God! With your love, illumine us, sinners and the weak, make us worthy to bear the fruits of repentance and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ without condemnation. Strengthen your faith in us by your strength, support us in prayer, heal illnesses and diseases, deliver us from misfortunes, enemies, visible and invisible. With the light of the face of your servants and primates of the Altar of Christ, move on the holy feats of pastoral work, grant upbringing as a baby, instruct youth, support old age, illuminate the shrines of temples and holy cloisters! Die, miracle worker and seer of the most wonderful, the peoples of our country, by the grace and gift of the Holy Spirit, deliver from internecine strife, gather squandered, deceived convert and gather the Holy Councils and Apostles of the Church. By your mercy, keep marriages in peace and unanimity, grant prosperity and blessings to those who are monks in good deeds, give cowardly comforts, suffer from unclean spirits of freedom, have mercy on the needs and circumstances of those who exist, and guide us all on the path of salvation. Living in Christ, our Father John, lead us to the Non-Evening Light of eternal life, may we be vouchsafed with you eternal bliss, praising and exalting God forever and ever. Amen.
PRAYER OF GRATITUDE
I thank You, Lord my God, for giving me life, for giving birth to me in the Christian faith, for the Most Pure Virgin Mary, the Intercessor for the salvation of our family, for Your holy saints, praying for us, for the Guardian Angel, for the public worship that supports us faith and virtue, for the Holy Scriptures, for the Holy Mysteries, and especially Your Body and Blood, for the mysterious grace-filled consolations, for the hope of receiving the Kingdom of Heaven and for all the blessings You have given me.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD
Oh, Lady! Yes, not in vain and in vain do we call You the Mistress: reveal and manifest over us Your holy, living, active dominion. Reveal, for you can do everything for good, as the Mother of the all-good of the all-good King; disperse the darkness of our hearts, reflect the arrows of crafty spirits, flatteringly moved at us. May the peace of Thy Son, Thy peace reign in our hearts, may we all joyfully exclaim: who is after the Lord, like our Lady, our all-good, all-merciful and most swift Intercessor? For this you are exalted, Mistress, for that an abundance of unspeakable divine grace has been given to you, for that inexpressible boldness and strength at the throne of God and the gift of almighty prayer have been given to you, for this you have been adorned with indescribable holiness and purity, for this you have been given unapplied power from the Lord, so that you can preserve, protect, intercede, purify and save us, the inheritance of your Son and God, and yours. Save us, O most pure, all-good, all-wise and all-merciful! You are the Mother of our Savior, Who of all names deigned to be called the Savior more than anyone else. It is natural for us, wandering in this life, to fall, for we are overlaid with many-passionate flesh, surrounded by spirits of malice in high places, seducing to sin, we live in an adulterous and sinful world, seducing to sin; and You are above all sin, You are the brightest Sun, You are the Most Pure, All-good and All-pleasing, You tend to cleanse us, defiled by sins, as a mother cleanses her children, if we call on You humbly for help, You tend to raise us, who are constantly falling, to intercede to protect and save us, who are slandered by the spirits of evil, and to instruct us to walk towards every path of salvation.
PRAYER TO THE LORD
God! Your name is Love - do not reject me, the erring one.
Your name is Strength - strengthen 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 Grace - do not cease to have mercy on me. Amen.
MORNING PRAYER
God! Creator and Lord of the world! look graciously on your creation, adorned with your divine image in these morning hours: may it live, may it enlighten your Eye, with darkness that times the brightest rays of the sun, my soul is dark and mortified by sin. Take away despondency and laziness from me, grant me gladness and cheerfulness of soul, and in the joy of my heart I glorify Your goodness, holiness, Your boundless greatness, Your endless perfections at every hour and in every place. Thou art my Creator and Lord of my life, O Lord, and glory befits Thee from Thy intelligent creatures at every hour, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
PRAYER FROM DRUNKNESS
Lord, look graciously on your servant (name), deceived by the flattery of the womb and carnal joy: grant him (name) to know the sweetness of abstinence in fasting and the fruits of the spirit flowing from it. Amen
PRAYER FOR RECOVERY
Glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of the Father without beginning, heal every ailment and every ailment among 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 accursed soul and for Your glory with Your Father without beginning and Your Spirit consubstantial, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
PRAYER TO SAVE SOMEONE FROM BODY DEATH
Blessed be your faith, according to your faith, may the Lord grant the fulfillment of my unworthy, unbelieving prayer, and may he add faith to me.
PRAYER FOR THE PROUD AND THE STRONG
Lord, teach Your servant, who has fallen into the devil's pride, meekness and humility, and drive away from his heart the darkness and the burden of satanic pride!
PRAYER FOR THE EVIL
Lord, do good to this servant of yours by your grace!
PRAYER FOR THE MONEY-LOVERING AND GREEDY
Our incorruptible treasure and inexhaustible wealth! Grant this servant of yours, created in your image and likeness, to know the flattery of wealth, and like all earthly things - vanity, shade and sleep. Like the grass is the days of every person, or like the abyss, and like You, the only wealth, our peace and joy! Do not be embittered by anything, conquer everything with love: all sorts of grievances, whims, all sorts of family troubles. Know nothing but love. Blame always sincerely yourself, recognizing yourself as the culprit of troubles. Say: I am guilty, I am sinful. Remember that just as you are weak, so is your neighbor, and weakness for weakness is destroyed, and there is nothing to blame the weak and sinners if they confess their weakness. The devil, mighty in evil, must be blamed.
PRAYER FOR THE ENVY
Lord, enlighten the mind and heart of this Thy servant to the knowledge of Thy great, innumerable and inexhaustible gifts, they are also received from Thy innumerable bounties, in the blindness of their passion, forget Thee and Thy rich gifts, and be poor yourself, rich in Thy blessings, and for this sake, it looks more charming at the good of Thy servants, image, O unspoken Blessing, have compassion on everyone, every time against his strength and according to the intention of Thy will. Take away, O all-merciful Master, the veil of the devil from the eyes of the heart of Thy servant and grant him heartfelt contrition and a tear of repentance and thanksgiving, may the enemy not rejoice over him, caught alive from him in his own will, and may not tear him out of Thy hand.
PRAYER TO THE MOTHER OF GOD
Lady Mother of God! You, whose love for Christians surpasses the love of any earthly mother, any wife, hearken to us in our prayer and save us! May we always remember You! May we always pray to You! May we always run under Your holy roof without laziness and without doubt.
Give me, Lord, to love every one of my neighbors as yourself, always, and for no reason be angry with him and do not work for the devil.
Let me crucify my vanity, pride, covetousness, lack of faith and other passions.
Let there be a name for us: mutual love; let us believe and hope that for all of us everything is the Lord; let's not bake, let's not worry about anything; May You, our God, be the only God of our heart, and besides You, nothing.
Let us be among ourselves in the unity of love, as it befits, and let everything that separates us from each other and separate us from love be contemptible among us, like dust trampled underfoot. Wake up! Wake up! Amen.If God has given Himself to us, if He abides in us and we are in Him, according to His infallible word, then what will He not give me, what will He spare, what will He deprive me of, what will He leave me in?
The Lord shepherds me, and deprives me of nothing (Ps. 22:1).
So, be very calm, my soul, and know nothing but love.
This I command you, that you love one another (John 15:17)
PRAYER FOR HEALING TO THE LORD
(9 votes : 4.4 out of 5 )Lord, it is possible for You to do (that) and (that) to Your servant (name); do this to him, for your name is the good Lover of mankind and the Almighty. If we, a crafty being, know how to give good things not only to children, but also to strangers, how much more do You give all kinds of blessings to those who ask You. Good Man-lover! Even though you made a creature with a single word and created a man out of it, visit your fallen servant with your inexpressible love of mankind, as if the work of your hand will not perish to the end. Amen.
Prayers of the holy righteous
from the book "My life in Christ" (part 1, 2, 3).
from the book "My Life in Christ" Vol.1
46. All my troubles occur in my invisible thought and in my invisible heart, therefore I need an invisible Savior, who guides our hearts. O my strength, Jesus, the Son of God! About the light of my mind! peace, joy, breadth of my heart - glory to Thee! Glory to Thee, Deliverer from my invisible enemies, fighting my mind and heart and killing me at the very source of my life, in my most sensitive place.
52. With the mental eyes of my heart I see how I mentally breathe Christ into my heart, how He enters into it and suddenly calms and delights it. Oh, may I not remain alone, without You, the Giver of Life, my breath, my joy! I'm bad without you.
62. I am with you all the days until the end of time(). So, Master, You are with us - all the days, we do not live a single day without You, without Your co-presence. You are with us especially in the mystery of Your Body and Blood. Oh, how truly and essentially You are in the Mysteries! You, Vladyka, clothe yourself every liturgy in a body obedient to us, except for sin, and nourish us with Your life-giving flesh. Through the Mysteries You are wholly with us, and Your flesh is united with our flesh and Your spirit is united with our soul - and we feel, we feel this life-giving, most peaceful, most sweet union, we feel that, clinging to You in the Eucharist, we become one spirit with You. as said: cling to the Lord, one spirit is with the Lord(). We become like You, good, meek and humble, as You said about Yourself: I am meek and lowly in heart(). True, often crafty and blind flesh or the prince of this age living in our sinful flesh whispers to us that in the Mysteries there is only bread and wine, and not the very Body and Blood of the Lord, and sends sight, taste and touch as crafty witnesses for this. But we do not allow ourselves to listen to his slanders and reason like this: for You, Lord, everything is possible; You create flesh for people, animals, fish, birds, reptiles - all creatures; Are you for yourself? everywhere Syi and fulfill everything won't you make flesh? What sculptor, making sculptures for others, is not able to make it for himself? Not only that, You turn dead matter into a living being, such as the staff of Moses into a serpent, and nothing is impossible for You. Will you not make flesh for yourself out of bread and wine, which are so close to our flesh, being used for food and drink and being changed into our flesh and blood? You do not give our faith be tempted more than you can she is incur(), You do not transubstantiate a lump of earth into Your most pure Body and Blood, but white, soft, clean, tasteful bread; You do not create water with Your Blood, but wine that matches the color of blood (which is called storm blood in Holy Scripture ()), pleasant to the taste and gladdening the heart of man; You know our weakness, the weakness of our faith, and therefore deigned to use for the sacrament of Your Body and Blood the most suitable substances for them. Let us firmly believe that under the guise of bread and wine we partake of the true Body and true Blood of Christ, that in the sacrament of communion the Lord will be with us. all the days until the end of time ().
66. When you see the painful destruction of the body, do not grumble at the Lord, but say: The Lord has given, the Lord has been taken away... bless the name of the Lord(). You are used to looking at your body as an inalienable property, but this is extremely unfair, because your body is God's building.
67 . … Lord Jesus! Your priests Yes clothed with righteousness(), may they always remember the height of their rank, and may they not be entangled in the nets of the world and the devil, may they run away from their hearts and the sorrows of this world, and the flattery of riches, and other lusts that enter() in their heart.
71. Morning prayer. God! Creator and Lord of the world! look graciously on your creation, adorned with your divine image in these morning hours: may it live, may it enlighten your Eye, with darkness that times the brightest rays of the sun, my soul is dark and mortified by sin. Take away despondency and laziness from me, grant me gladness and cheerfulness of soul, and in the joy of my heart I glorify Your goodness, holiness, Your boundless greatness, Your endless perfections at every hour and in every place. Thou art my Creator and Lord of my life, O Lord, and glory befits Thee from Thy intelligent creatures at every hour, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
80. ... O almighty and all-righteous power of our God, ruling invisibly by our invisible souls, all glory to You! Glory to Thee, O God, our Savior! May Your will be done with us!
81. … Oh, save, save, save me, good Lord, accept me into Your Kingdom of Heaven! Everything is possible for You. To our Lord we stand or fall, let us stand: for God is mighty to set us(cf.).
93. … Glory to the One, glory to the one who loves everyone and who generously gives his spiritual and bodily gifts to everyone! Glory to the one who does not see faces and reveals the secrets of His love, omnipotence, wisdom - to babies ().
105. ... Oh, how great are you, Lord! and how marvelous are thy works! How infinite is Your omnipotence! Whatever Thy power and Thy grace touches, it itself becomes life-giving.
110. In the life of pious Christians there are hours of abandonment by God - hours of darkness of the devil, and then a person from the depths of his heart cries out to God: why did You reject me from Your presence, O Light that cannot be set? For behold, the alien darkness of the accursed, evil Satan has covered me, my whole soul; it is hard for the soul to be in its tormenting darkness, which makes it possible to foresee the torments of a gloomy hell; turn me, Savior, to the light of Your commandments and correct my spiritual path, I fervently pray to You.
155. … Glory to Thee, Jesus, the Son of God! You are the cleansing of our sins, not just about ours, but also about the whole world! ()
156. … Glory to the One eternally unchanging God – the almighty Creator!
162. When you receive healing from any illness, give thanks to the Lord with the following short doxology: glory to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Father without beginning, heal every ailment and every disease in people(cf.), 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 damned soul and for Your glory with Your Father without beginning and Your Spirit consubstantial, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
167. Glory to Thee Savior, Omnipotent Power! Glory to Thee Savior, Omnipresent Power! Glory to Thee, O womb, most merciful! Glory to Thee, Hearing ever-opening to hear the prayers of the accursed me, in the hedgehog have mercy on me and save me from my sins! Glory to Thee, most radiant Eyes, I will take out on me kindly seeing and despising all my secrecy! Glory to Thee, glory to Thee, glory to Thee, Sweetest Jesus, my Savior!
169. … Glory to Thee, immaterial, uncreated Light, who enlightens every man who comes into the world! ()
171. When you see shortcomings and passions in your neighbor, pray for him; pray for everyone, even for your enemy. If you see a proud and obstinate brother, proudly speaking with you or with others, pray for him so that God enlightens his mind and warms his heart with the fire of His grace, say: Lord, teach Your servant, who has fallen into the devil's pride, meekness and humility and repent from his heart is darkness and the burden of satanic pride! - If you see an evil one, pray: Lord, do good to this servant of Yours by Your grace! - If - avaricious and greedy, say: Our treasure is incorruptible and wealth is inexhaustible! grant this servant of yours, created in your image and likeness, to know the flattery of wealth, and like all earthly things - vanity, shade and sleep. Like grass is the days of every person, or like cobwebs, and like You alone are wealth, our peace and joy! - When you see an envious one, pray: Lord, enlighten the mind and heart of this Thy servant to the knowledge of Thy great, innumerable and unsearchable gifts, they are also received from Thy innumerable bounties, in the blindness of your passion, forget Thee and Thy rich gifts, and be poor yourself He is rich in Thy blessings, and for this reason he looks more charmingly at the goodness of Thy servants, image, O unspoken Blessing, have compassion on everyone who is against his strength and according to the intention of Thy will. Take away, all-good Lord, the veil of the devil from the eyes of the heart of Thy servant and grant him heartfelt contrition and tears of repentance and thanksgiving, may the enemy not rejoice over him, caught alive from him in his own will, and may not tear him away from Thy hand. When you see a drunk, say with your heart: Lord, look mercifully upon Your servant, deceived by the flattery of the womb and carnal joy, grant him to know the sweetness of abstinence and fasting and the fruits of the spirit flowing from him. – When you see someone passionate for brashns and placing his bliss in them, say: Lord, our sweetest Brasno, who never perishes, but dwells in the eternal belly! purify this servant of Yours from the filth of gluttony, all the flesh created and alien to Your Spirit, and grant him to know the sweetness of Your life-giving spiritual brush, which is Your Flesh and Blood and Your holy, living and active word. - So, or in a similar way, pray for all those who sin and do not dare to despise anyone for his sin or take revenge on him, for this would only increase the ulcers of sinners - correct with advice, threats and punishments that would serve as a means to stop or keep evil within the boundaries moderation.
241 . … Glory to your omnipotence and goodness, Lord!
296 . The new man (renewed) delights in obedience, while the old man wants to resist and disobey. So, Lord, may Thy will be done! I accept as an expression of Your will everything that the authorities placed over me require of me, everything that others do with me (patience), everything that happens to me, for nothing happens without You. You are in everything, through everyone and everything.
314. … Christ the King! grant me apostolic zeal and the fire of the Holy Spirit in my heart, may I boldly always rise up against the impudent, especially vice that has infected many, and may I not spare anyone for the sake of their own salvation and your other people, so that they would not be offended, seeing the spill of vice, and would not fall themselves . Even if he seduces the one from these little ones who believe in Me, he will not eat, but the millstone of the donkey will be worn down on his neck, and drown in the abyss of morsels. For the Son of Man has come to seek and save the lost ().
318. My God! What terrible mysteries you perform! What unspoken Mysteries You have made me a spectator and a partaker. Glory to Thee, my Creator! Glory to Thee, Creator of the Body and Blood of Christ!
335. … God! send zealous workers to your garden, not looking for their si(), but those who seek even your Christ. Grant them zeal, prophetic, apostolic strength and wisdom, so that they tirelessly till day and night the fields of human hearts.
338. … Our Father, Who art in heaven! May your name be hallowed- all of us! Let Your Kingdom Come as in the beginning before the fall; let your will be done good and perfect, as in heaven - forever, so on earth, and let not self-will reign! Give us our daily bread today, and forgive us our debts, etc.
339. … Glory to Your goodness! Glory to Your bounty! Glory to your wisdom! Glory to your power!
424. Earnest, tearful prayer not only cleanses sins, but also heals bodily infirmities and illnesses and renews the whole being of a person and, so to speak, regenerates (I speak from experience). “Oh, what an invaluable gift—prayer! Glory to Thee, Father of mercy and God of all joy! Glory to Thee, Son of God, the only-begotten, who interceded for us the infinite forgiveness of our sins! Glory to Thee, Holy Spirit, intercede for us with groanings unspoken(), giving a fiery prayer with sighs and tears, warming a cold soul, giving tenderness and sorrow for sins, cleansing, sanctifying, appeasing, strengthening and renewing us! Glory to Thee, Holy Trinity, Beginningless, Life-Giving, forever blessed from all intelligent creatures!
430. God! how I will praise You, how I will glorify You for Your powers, for the miracles of healing from Your Holy Mysteries, manifested on me and on many of Your people, to whom I, unworthy, taught these holy, heavenly, life-giving Your Mysteries after the sacrament of repentance! Here they confess before me Your power, Your goodness, they say in public that You stretched out Your miraculous hand on them and raised them from the bed of illness, from the bed of death, when no one expected that they would be alive - and now, after communion of the Body and Your Blood, Life-Giver, they soon came to life, healed, at the same hour and day they felt Your life-giving Right Hand on themselves. But I, Lord, - an eyewitness of Your deeds - have not glorified You until now in public, to confirm the faith of Your people, and I do not know how and when to glorify You, for every day I am busy with some deeds. You yourself make a name for yourself, Lord, as you also created it; Glorify thy name thyself, thy secrets.
437. Your name is the Almighty, Lord, as if I do not turn heaven and earth, but the whole human race, the life of every person, hold the hearts of everyone in Your hand, and not only every person, but also every animal, every bird, fish, insect, worm , reptile and invisible to the eye ciliates. Glory to Thy infinite sovereignty, O Lord! Glory to the all-good, wise and almighty providence of Yours, Lord of heaven and earth! Almighty Lord! You and all hell with Satan and his countless hordes are in Your hands, and only by Your permission, for our admonition and punishment, Satan and his angels build intrigues over us. We will pray to You, our Savior, we will repent before You without hypocrisy of our sins - and You, admonishing us, will take away our enemies from us, saying: It is right for you to do evil against My servants, they still belong to Me. So, Lord, when Thy unceasing mercies to us do not admonish us, what remains to be done? It remains punishments, bitterness, tightness, fire, our own malice to admonish us - us, voluptuous, loving space, carnal coolness, vain, lazy, negligent, evil.
444. If not for Your salvation, Lord, if not for Your goodness, then we would have burned in our own furnace of passions, we would have completely decayed, Satan would have tormented us - and we would not have seen any joy in life. If the Lord were not in us, no one from us could overcome the enemy’s battle against us: those who overcome are lifted up from here(antiph., ch. 6). But now Thy mercy comforts us, Thy grace, which Thou hast acquired for us through Thy sufferings, Thy blood, Thy death for us. Glory to Thee about this, Lover of mankind! But what will happen to those Christians who do not want to know You, Your commandments, Your teachings? Woe to them.
445. What if You, Lord my God, Jesus Christ, shone forth the light of Your Divinity from Your Most Pure Mysteries, when they rest on St. on the altar - on the diskos during the Liturgy, or in the tabernacle, or the monstrance, when Your priest carries them on his forehead, going to the sick or from him! From this light, all those who meet or look at them from their homes would fall in fear to the ground, for even the Angels are covered with fear of Your unapproachable glory!
447. In everything and at all times, please God and think about saving your soul from sins and the devil and assimilating it to God. Get out of bed, cross yourself and say: “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” and again: Lord, vouchsafe to us on this day without sin and teach me to do Your will(from the Great Doxology); you wash at home or in the bath, say: sprinkle me with hyssop, God, and I will be cleansed, having washed me, and I will be whiter than snow(); put on underwear, think about purity of heart and ask the Lord for a pure heart: create a pure heart in me, O God(Ps. 50, 12); sewed a new one and put it on, think about the renewal of the spirit and say: the spirit of rights, God, renew in my womb(ibid.); ...whether you are going anywhere, think about the rightness of spiritual walking before the face of God and say: direct my steps according to thy word, and let no iniquity possess me ()…
448. God! what will I bring to you, than I will thank you for your unceasing greatest mercy to me and to other people of yours? For here I am every moment enlivened by Your Holy Spirit, every moment I breathe the air poured by You, light, pleasant, healthy, strengthening, I am enlightened by Your joyful and life-giving light - spiritual and material; I feed on spiritual food, sweet and life-giving, and drinking the same, the Holy Mysteries of Your Body and Blood, and food and drinks of material sweetness; You dress me with a bright, beautiful royal garment - by Yourself, according to the Scriptures: baptized into Christ, clothed in Christ(Gal. 3:27) and with material clothes - you cleanse my sins, heal and cleanse my many and fierce passions of sin; you will take away my spiritual corruption in the power of your immeasurable goodness, wisdom and strength, fill you with your Holy Spirit - the Spirit of holiness, grace; give my soul truth, peace and joy, space, strength, boldness, courage, strength, and endow my body with precious health, teach my hands for militia and my fingers for battle() with the invisible enemies of my salvation and bliss, with the enemies of the holiness and power of Your glory, with the spirits of evil in heaven; you crown with success my deeds done in Thy name ... - For all this I thank, glorify and bless Thy all-good, fatherly, omnipotent power, God Savior, our Benefactor. But be known by Your other people as well, as if You appeared to me, Lover of mankind, may they know You, the Father of all, Your goodness, Your providence, Your wisdom and strength, and glorify You with the Father and the Holy Spirit now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
455. ... Glory to the one who gives me a fortress! Glory to the one who acts by me and in me!
476. … Oh you even God's glorious man Your Christmas united and rejected the nature of our heavenly copulation(From the prayer of the Most Holy Bogor. in commemoration), glory to Thee, worthy of glory from all intelligent creatures, for You have found such purity and grace from God that You were able, by the good pleasure of God the Father, with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, to incarnate the Son of God! But honor us, O Lady, and purity of spirit and body has been achieved through the communion of the Divine Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Your Son!
478. ... Grant, therefore, Lord, to completely avoid sin, to get used to every virtue, by Your grace. Hey, Lord, Lord, without You we can not do anything good, evil exist(Matthew 12:34).
495. Holy Spirit, we are all Christians - Your breath. Your birth after baptism, and according to the first creative breath in the person of the first person, we are all, all the tribes of the earth - Your breath, Your birth! Have mercy on us and build us all. Soul Holy! drive away the stench of our sins and passions with your breath, eradicate the stench of all sinful inclinations!
500. … Oh, wise and almighty Artist! life-giving artist! How beautiful, comfortable, lively everything is with You! With You the dust is alive, with You the dust moves!
507. …O! Glory, glory to Your victory, Lord! So let me conquer in the power of Your fortress the enemies invisible and visible, all the days of my stomach, until my last breath. Amen. Oh, the simplicity of faith! do not leave me.
520. … Praying, say: Lord! it is possible for you to do this and that to this servant of yours; do this to him, for your name is the good Lover of mankind and the Almighty. If we, being cunning, are able to do good deeds of giving not only to children, but also to strangers, more so you give all sorts of blessings to those who ask you ().
522. ... everything is possible for You, Master, but nothing is impossible for You. Amen.
523. Oh, Thou Almighty Master, Whose mania alone everything obeys, the whole world visible and invisible, grant me to glorify Thee unceasingly by the simplicity of my faith in Thy infinite power. Grant me shameless faith, firm hope, unhypocritical love for You and for my neighbor!
530. Lord, You Yourself spoke with Your pure lips: awake, therefore, you are perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect(). I want to be perfect. Thou art every perfection for me, for Thou hast said: without me you can do nothing ().
533. … Heavenly Father! You, the leader, we demand them, and before the supplication of our giver(cf.), have mercy on us, infidels, ungrateful and malevolent! We hear Your merciful word, Lord: (), but, being seduced daily by earthly blessings, we disobey him and violate Your will.
538. … If one royal word is the cause of great deeds in his kingdom: he will speak, and the deed will begin, and it will be completed; then the word of the King of every creature, material and spiritual, visible and invisible, the King of all-powerful and all-wise, will it not accomplish everything that He alone desires? He speaks, and will he not create? He speaks, and will he not abide? Oh, almighty Power, able to accomplish everything in an instant, do not leave us for our sins, and even more so for our lack of faith and despair, torment us with our own infirmities, so that we will not be broken, like frail vessels. Grant us with all our hearts to believe in Your almighty power! let us not doubt the fulfillment of our every good petition.
545. … Speak in your heart with all your heart: the Lord is everything to me, I am nothing, I am powerlessness, weakness. Without me you can't do anything (),
551. ... Oh, meek and humble in heart, Creator, Life-Giver, Redeemer, Feeder and Guardian of ours, Lord Jesus! Teach us love, meekness and humility by Your Holy Spirit and strengthen us in these virtues most dear to You, so that Your rich gifts do not puff up our hearts, so that we do not imagine that we feed, content and support anyone; You, the Common Provider of all, nourish, satisfy and keep; all are content and rest under the wings of Your goodness, generosity and philanthropy, and not under ours, for we ourselves have the need to hide in the shadow of Your wings every moment of our life. Our eyes are fixed on You, our God, like the eyes of a servant into the hand of the Lord, the eyes of a slave into the hand of her mistress, until you have mercy on us(). Amen.
577. … God! I said, heal thy servant from his sickness. He is worthy, give this to him, he loves your priests and sends his gifts to them. - He also prayed in the church at the throne of the Lord at the liturgy, during the prayer: “who is common and agrees to grant us prayers ...” and before the Mysteries. I prayed among other things like this: Lord! Our belly! As it is easy for me to think about healing, so it is easy for You to heal any disease; as it is easy for me to think about the resurrection from the dead, so it is easy for you to raise every dead person. Heal Thy servant Basil from his fierce illness and do not let him die, so that his wife and children will not indulge in weeping, and the obedient Vladyka had mercy. And that was on the verge of death. Glory to Thy omnipotence, goodness and obedience, O Lord!
580. How many times, O Master Lord Jesus, have You renewed my nature carelessly corrupted by my sins! There is no number and measure! How many times have You rescued me from the cave that burns within me, from the cave of many different passions, from the abyss of despondency and despair! How many times by Thy name alone, invoked by me with faith, have Thou renewed my corruption of the heart! How many times has he done this through the life-giving Mysteries. Oh Lord! Your mercy to me, a sinner, truly has no number and measure. What will I bring to You, or what will I repay You for Your immeasurable good deeds to me, Jesus, my Life and my lightness! May I be careful in my ways, according to Your grace, for You all prudent on the way are pleasant how you, through your Spirit, through the mouth of our father, David, said thou (cf. and others); I will try to be faithful to You, humble, meek, not irritable, not malice, long-suffering, industrious, merciful, generous, not covetous, obedient.
604. ... Oh, Christ God, Life and our Resurrection! how futile we are, how blind we are! And what would happen to us if we were looking for You, if we had You in our hearts? The tongue cannot express the bliss that those who have You in their hearts taste. You are for them and strong food, and inexhaustible drink, and bright clothes, and the sun, and world, transcend all mind(), and unspeakable joy, and everything, and everything. With You, all earthly dust, decay.
610. Glory to Thee, Life-Father, Life-Son, Life-Soul, Holy – Simple Being – God, ever delivering us from spiritual death, caused by passions to our soul; Glory to Thee, trinitarian Master, as if from the mere invocation of Thy name You enlighten the gloomy face of our soul and body and grant Thy peace, which surpasses all earthly and sensual goodness and all understanding.
617. The human soul is a free force, for it can become either a good or an evil force, depending on what direction you yourself give it. Lord, Almighty Power! strengthen my feeble soul in every virtue! On the immovable stone of Your commandments, establish my heart, weak for all good! God! and I daily experience that without You I am nothing, that without You I can do no good; without You, there is only evil in me in its various forms; without You I am a son of destruction. Oh, unspeakable Blessing! Fill my heart with Your goodness! Above all, I pray: Grant me to love You with all my heart and my neighbor as to myself. May I not be malicious, proud, contemptuous, rebellious, but may I be gentle, humble, respectful with tenderness and obedient. Amen.
625. … I glorify the all-good, holy, almighty, wise power of Yours, Lord! Reveal to me, O Lord, Thy wonderful power and, in the image of fate, save me, Thy unworthy servant, despising my voluntary and involuntary sins, sins known and unknown, instructing me ever on Your path and strengthening me on this path by Your grace, through me, and others, for whom You have made me a lamp, a shepherd, a teacher, and a priest.
626. When you taste immortal food and drink - the Body and Blood of the Lord, ascend with a grateful heart to the Lord and say: I thank You, Lord, the Bread of life and the Source of immortality. Giving us His Body and Blood for food and drink, yes, being cleansed and sanctified here, let us enter into Your eternal kingdom - to enjoy forever Your contemplation and Your blessed life. Lord, do not let me bake only about bodily bread and drink; When you taste perishable sweets, give thanks to the Lord, saying: I thank Thee, Eternal sweetness, incomparable, without number surpassing all earthly, carnal and coarse sweetness, Sweetness incorruptible, life-giving, holy, quiet, light, most peaceful, joyful, not drying up; I thank Thee, as if you gave me these perishable sweets to taste pleasure, yes, although in part, I know how sweet You are, that You are all sweetness, all desire. Shining with a material light, say: glory to Thee, the Light of the unstoppable, sweet and all-joyful, as if by this corruptible, but beautiful light - the image of Your impregnable divine light shines on us, and from this material light we constantly flow with thoughts to You, the eternal, unstoppable Light, and yes we strive by the purity of life to reach Your all-blissful contemplation. Breathing through the lungs with air - this life-giving and refreshing element, which is incessantly necessary for us to maintain corruptible life, again ascend in thought to the Life-Giving Lord, the Holy Spirit, with the Father and the Son, by Whom we live, move and have our being, thanks to Him for unceasing breathing, and know that like a body without air, so a soul without the Holy Spirit cannot live a true life for a minute, and with a pure, temperate life, try to be unceasingly in communion with God: for without Him the soul dies; so ascend unceasingly from every creature to the Creator, for everything give thanks to Him and do not cling to any creature, do not serve any creature more than the Creator: for the service or slavery of the creature, addiction to earthly things is idolatry.
631. Glory to the power of Thy grace, Lord, but nothing can stand against it, no violence of sin can resist those who call on it with faith. Thus, being raped by the enemy of all goodness - the devil and carried away by passions, I made the sign of the cross on myself and said inwardly: nothing can resist the power of Thy grace - and the violence ceased, embarrassment and tightness passed, their place was replaced by silence and calmness. Glory to Your power, Lord!
633. Give me, Lord, the grace to deny myself - this devil, which I became by succession from Adam. New Adam, Lord Jesus, transform me, make me a new man, clothe me in Thee.
637. God! may my heart cleave to Thee alone, and cleave not to anything earthly: for in clinging to earthly sorrow, oppression, torment; let nothing be dear to the earthly heart, but I value the one Lord above all else and everything heavenly, and the soul created in His image is immortal, rational, verbal, free, the breath of the mouth of God. May there be no earthly idols for the heart: money, food, clothes, ranks and insignia, and so on. It is necessary to use the simplest, most indulgent food, so as not to attract the heart, to use a little - only for reinforcement.
641. … Wise and strengthen us, O God, to live according to Your will! for You are our Father, and we are Your children in Christ Jesus our Lord.
643. God! let not Thy gifts, spiritual and material, be idle in us and with us, give them a saving and useful movement. Do this in everyone. May your talents be multiplied, O Lord, by the own activity of each of us.
658. Lord, do not allow for a moment that I do the will of Your enemy and mine - the devil, but that I do unceasingly Your one will, my God and King; You are the only one, my true King, by whom kings reign, let me obey You, revere You always sincerely and firmly. Come, let us worship our King God, let us work with Him with fear and rejoice in Him with trembling(cf.).
686. 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; malice. If anyone does not hate ... his soul, he cannot be My disciple(), says the Lord.
708. Communion of the Holy Mysteries, O priest, say in your heart: come to me, Life-Giver, snatch me from the jaws of the hellish serpent, purify me from the filth of passions, pacify my restless heart, revive my mortified soul, rejoice my mournful and despondent spirit; you are coming to nourish me, tormented by sinful smoothness, clothe me, naked from all virtue, strengthen me weak, honor me dishonest, exalt me low, ennoble me contemptible, enlighten me dark. You grant me every good deed: I thank You, Most Merciful!
709. Our heart is like a dark earth; The gospel is like the sun that enlightens and enlivens our hearts. Shine in our hearts the true sun of Your righteousness, Lord!
733. ... pray for me, St. God's people: prophets, apostles, saints, martyrs, reverend, righteous and all saints, may I be like you!
740. Like every word of prayer: have mercy on me God The Lord hears and fulfills every word (experience), if only they speak from the heart; so are all the words of other prayers, even our own sincere prayers. Oh, obedient Lord! Glory to Thee! Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, push and it will be opened to you. Everyone who asks accepts ...(). Only in simplicity of heart, pray without hesitation.
743. I thank You, Lord, my Master and Judge, as if you taught me to simply pray to You, and hear me crying out to You, and save me from my sins and my sorrows, and set my feet on the open space. Behold, I called to Thee in the sin of my wickedness with the words of the church prayer: Lord our God, granting repentance to man… and as soon as I finished it, peace and lightness settled in my soul. June 29, 1864
746. Lover of mankind, Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I thank you from all my heart, as if you heard my prayer for loving your neighbor and contemplating the earthly, and you poured out peaceful, reasonable and sweet love in my heart. Establish, O God, this in me by the prayers of Our Most Pure Lady Theotokos, and may I be Thy child, Lord, and Her truest child. July 26, 1864, 11 p.m.
747. … Incarnate us for the sake of the Word of God and God! save us in Your sanctuary! Our Holy Head! do not betray our hearts and our bodies to the filthy Belial, so that he does not defile them with thoughts, but abide with us and keep us clean and blameless. Grant us, Lord, to always have with You, our Most Divine Head, a living connection, like the members of Your body - a connection in the thoughts of the heart, in prayer and in deeds. The falling away from You of our hearts is darkness and death, Lord, there is sorrow and oppression, shame and humiliation and spiritual abomination, but with you we have light, life, peace, joy, space for the heart, boldness, and greatness, and holiness.
752. … Vladyka Lord Jesus Christ! enlighten our heart eyes and may your good Spirit guide us all down to earth(). Give us Your Spirit!
770. God! You came to save us by faith even in You, I believe that You are my Savior, save me! You have come to renew my nature, corrupted by sin, - renew me, who have corrupted myself with passions and lusts, renew both mentally and bodily, so that I will be pure in heart and strong in body for the glory of Your name. You have come to deliver us from the work of the enemy—deliver me from the work of the all-malicious, impure, filthy, and loathsome enemy, who fights in my members and inclines me to sin by violence. You came to enlighten us - enlighten my heart darkened by passions. You came to collect what was squandered, - gather my thoughts, squandered by the enemy. You came to strengthen us in our weakness and said: My strength is made perfect in weakness and your Apostle says: I boast more sweetly in my infirmities, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me(); behold, I am extremely weak and cannot do anything good without you; without You I can neither think nor feel good, nor wish good, neither speak nor do; I am decidedly weak for all good without You; give me grace, give me light and strength to think and feel good and conveniently do it, say and do what pleases You. I commend my whole life to Thee, Christ God, my Savior, my Renovator; cleanse, sanctify and save me. Create a pure heart in me, O God, and renew a right spirit in my womb.()! Help me: my death is near and quick without You for every hour.
780. Who am I? - On the one hand, sin, the abyss of sin, all opposition to God the All-Creator and Omnipotent, worthy of all condemnation and torment, on the other - complete poverty in every virtue and weakness for every virtue. So I fell deeply, corrupted, exhausted. I cannot do anything without my Savior, according to His word and my countless experiences. He created my soul and body, He increased, He formed my abilities, He creates everything good in me, if I do something good, and mine is only evil. But, my Creator and my Redeemer! You created me, I am Your creation, Your servant. You control me. Do Thy will through me, give me the grace to completely subdue my will to Thy will, for I cannot do this without Thy grace. You, my Shepherd, shepherd me. You, my Savior, save me. You, my Light, enlighten me. You, my Strength, strengthen me.
782. O infinitely great Benefactor, my Savior! When I imagine the endless corruption of my nature by the sins and passions of many different things, and at the same time my spirit falls and languishes, then only I will remember You that You came to renew my nature corrupted by sin and to give my dishonor, my shame, angelic nobility, even higher than angelic, nobility Son of God, for the sake of faith in You, for the sake of being born with water and the Spirit, and for the sake of partaking of Your Holy Mysteries, my spirit will instantly rise from despondency, shake off the dishonor of passions and be filled with gratitude to You. Glory to Thee, infinite Goodness and Strength, Son of God!
785. … Establish me on the stone of Your commandments, Lord!
788. You alone know the cares, labors and sweats of Your saints, to purify them, to please You, the Father of all, You weigh Your saints. Teach us to imitate them in our life, so that we may be united with all by love.
789. Why do the sons of this age scoff at what is truth, light, peace, sweetness, our life, I mean church services, church readings and hymns, or at your saints, glorified by you? They don't see, they blaspheme (). Father! let them go, they don't know what they're doing(), and enlighten them.
795. your state(excited), i.e. You contain everyone and everything in Your power and strength - even evil spirits; Yours is the kingdom: You are the King over all and over evil spirits; Your strength: You sustain all by Your strength, - and glory: for you created everything for your glory.
814. Grant me, Lord, to love every one of my neighbors as yourself, always, and for no reason be angry with him and not work for the devil. Let me crucify my vanity, pride, covetousness, lack of faith and other passions. Let there be a name for us: mutual love; let us believe and hope that for all of us everything is the Lord; let's not bake, let's not worry about anything; May You, our God, be the only God of our heart, and besides You, nothing. Let us be among ourselves in the unity of love, as it befits, and let everything that separates us from friend from friend and from love be despised by us, like dust trampled underfoot. Wake up! Wake up! If God has given Himself to us, if He abides in us and we are in Him, according to His infallible word, then what will He not give me, what will He spare, what will He deprive me of, what will He leave me in? The Lord shepherds me, and nothing will deprive me (). With Him, not everything gives us()? So, be very calm, my soul, and know nothing but love. I command you, that you love one another ().
Prayers of the holy righteous
from the book "My Life in Christ" Vol.2
815. God! I am a miracle of Your goodness, wisdom, omnipotence, since I was brought by You from non-existence into existence, since I am preserved by You until now in being, since I have, by the goodness, generosity and philanthropy of Your only-begotten Son, to inherit eternal life, if I remain faithful to You, since I am a terrible priesthood offering myself as a sacrifice by your Son, I am raised from a terrible fall, redeemed from eternal death. I praise Your goodness, Your infinite power, Your wisdom! But perform the wonders of Your goodness, omnipotence and wisdom over me, accursed, and by their own destinies save me, Your unworthy servant, and lead me into Your eternal Kingdom, vouchsafe me an ageless life, a non-evening day.
816. … God! draw my heart to you by your Holy Spirit. God! turn my heart away from the vanity of the earth. God! without You I can do nothing.
865. God! I confess before You that life and health and strength of spiritual and bodily forces are not in the country, not in the forest, but with You in the temple, especially in the liturgy and in Your life-giving Mysteries! Oh, the greatest bliss of the Holy Mysteries! O belly givers of the Holy Mysteries! Oh, love inexpressible Divine Mysteries! Oh, the wonderful and unceasing thought of the Lord God about our salvation and deification, Divine Mysteries! Oh, the prefiguration of eternal life Divine Mysteries!
866. My Lady, Holy Mother of God! I prayed to you before the liturgy, but ask me the grace to perform it with great power, to the glory of God, for the salvation of the world and my own! You made everything good. Thank you, all-good Helper, quick to hearken, shameless hope!
868. Lord, I thank You from the bottom of my heart for the grace-filled inspirations of Your Holy Spirit during public and domestic Divine services, for the cleansing of sins, for peace, tenderness and tears, for paternal consolation, for boldness, for strength.
877. … Marvelous are Your works, Lord! You are wondrous, sitting on the throne of Your glory, in Christian churches. Lord, most righteous Judge and Savior, most merciful and Almighty! Glory to Thy invincible goodness, King of the ages!
883. Hurry not to food and drink, but hasten to the work of God, and while doing the work of God, do not think about food and drink. Remember firmly before whom you stand, with whom you are talking. Whom do you sing; be wholly in God, belong wholly to Him alone, pray with all your heart, sing with all your heart, serve your neighbors as for yourself, cordially, wholeheartedly, without double heart and thoughts. God! help: I can't do anything without You ().
900. To the glory of the most holy name of the Master of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lady of the Mother of God. - I felt a thousand times in my heart that after communion of the Holy Mysteries or after fervent prayer at home, ordinary or on the occasion of some sin, passion and sorrow and tightness, the Lord, through the prayers of the Lady, or the Lady Herself, by the goodness of the Lord, gave to me, as it were, a new nature of the spirit, pure, kind, majestic, bright, wise, blissful instead of impure, dull and lethargic, cowardly, gloomy, stupid, evil. I have been changed many times by a wonderful, great change, to the surprise of myself, and often to others. Glory to Your power, Lord! Glory to Your goodness, Lord! Glory to Your mercies, Lord, even if you show me a sinner!
903. Christian! remember and always bear in your thoughts and in your heart the great words of the Lord's Prayer: Our Father, who art in heaven(remember, who is our Father? - God is our Father, our Love; who are we? We are His children, and brothers among ourselves; in what kind of love should the children of such a Father live among themselves? if the children of Abraham were quicker, the works of Abraham were quicker to do(); what are we supposed to do?) Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. Give us our daily bread today(our bread (everything in common), and not our own; pride must be expelled from the hearts of the children of God: we are one), and leave us our debts(you want and love God to forgive your sins, consider it usual to forgive sins to people who sin against you, knowing that love is long-suffering and merciful); and lead us not into temptation(and do not enter into temptations yourself; do not give your feet in confusion, below you will take a nap, save you. The Lord cover your hand on your right hand ()), but deliver us from evil(do not give yourself up to his will, and the Lord will not betray you to him). For Yours is the Kingdom(recognize the one King God and work for him alone) and strength(Trust in His Almighty Power) and glory(Jealous for His glory with all your might and all your life) forever(He is the eternal King, and the kingdom of Satan will soon pass away as a predatory, false one). Amen. All this is true. Remember this prayer most of all and read it in your mind more often and think about it, what every word, expression and petition means in it.
905. Save us, Thy family, Lady! Save us, your kindred! Save us, Mother of the Life and Mother of all of us, although we are unworthy to call You our Mother! Cleanse, sanctify, strengthen and save us with your prayers!
916. Good Lady! manifest and manifest Thy dominion over me and Thy people, God-fearing and well-behaved - by delivering us, through our prayer, from bad, crafty and blasphemous thoughts, from all sins and passions and from all the machinations of demons, like the good Mother of God.
943. When making the sign of the cross, believe and always remember that your sins are nailed to the cross. When you fall into sin, immediately condemn yourself sincerely and make the sign of the cross on yourself, saying: Lord! nail our sins on the cross, nail to your cross and my real sin and have mercy on me according to your great mercy(), and your sin will be cleansed. Amen.
959. When in your eyes people fall into various sins against you, against the Lord, against your neighbors and against yourself, do not be angry with them, for even without you there is a lot of malice in the world, but pity them from the bottom of your heart and forgive them when they offend you saying to himself: God! let them go, for they are confused by sin, they don't know what they are doing ().
961. God! give me always a meek heart, a clear, direct, meek look. Wake up! - Glory, Lord, to the change made in me by Your right hand, I thank You, as if You took away from me the burning thorns of my passions and my narrowness, and my shame, and my infirmity, gave me peace, silence, freedom, strength, boldness . Affirm, the hedgehog you have made in me. Glory to the power of faith, the power of prayer: all the more, I ask you in prayer believingly, I will accept according to your word (). I thank You, Lord, as you raise me from the dead so many times (), and destroy the mortal, sinful kingdom in me.
982. Great is Your love, O Lord: thou hast exhausted Thyself for the sake of love for me. I look at the cross and marvel at Your love for me and for the world, for the cross is a clear imprint of Your love for us, No one has more sowing love, but who will lay down his life for his friend(). Your life-giving Mysteries, Lord, serve as an everlasting loud proof of Your love for us sinners, for this divine Body of Yours was broken for me, for all of us; this Blood was shed for me, for all of us, Lord! I glorify the miracles of Thy Holy Mysteries over Thy faithful, to whom I taught them; I praise the innumerable healings that I have witnessed; I glorify their all-saving action in me; I glorify Your mercy to me, manifested to me in them and through them, Your life-giving power, acting in them. God! for your great love for me, let me love you with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself, to love my enemies, not only those who love me.
983. God! teach to live in mutual love and strengthen with Your Holy Spirit; gusts of passions, stuttering love of heaven, evangelical, tame, and make our hearts dead for earthly sweets. Grant me, Lord, to always prefer Thy grace, Thy peace, Thy righteousness and holiness to all earthly blessings, and always abide in it, all the days of the stomach, until the last breath!
992. I thank Thee, Lord, for granting me a new life every time I celebrate the Divine Liturgy with tears of repentance and thanksgiving and partake of Thy most pure and life-giving Mysteries. To Thy Holy Mysteries I owe the continuation of my being, the purity of my ways, and the good glory in Thy people. May Your great name be sanctified more and more in me and in all Your people, on them Your holy name is called, - and in all Your world; May Your Kingdom come, the kingdom of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, in all our hearts, as You said: I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be to them the Father, and these will be to me sons and daughters((; Jer. 3:19)), and may Thy will be done, holy, wise, all-good, all-perfect, all-blessed, as in heaven and on earth in all Your people, and in me a sinner, for our own will is erroneous, short-sighted, sinful, disastrous, unloving, evil, envious, proud, lazy, luxurious, greedy, stingy.
1003. What a wealth of light, air, water, earth, fire, the Lord has - these five elements of matter, of which our body is composed, by which it lives! What a wealth of products of earth and water, and all this is mainly used by man, the king of creation! Thanks be to Thee, our Creator! Glory to Thee, our Providence and Redeemer, who created us in His image and likeness and deigned to take upon Himself our nature!
1010. God! let me extend to You prayers for the whole world and for all the fulfillment of the Church, always with all-embracing love, without hypocrisy, for I, by Your grace, am a prayer book for everyone and for my sins. Grant me, Lord, God the Father, to contemplate Thy inexpressible love for the world, which has given us Thy beloved, only-begotten Son. Give me God, Son of God, to contemplate Your exhaustion in the world and on our cross for the sake of salvation; grant me God, Holy Soul, to contemplate Thy grace, poured out abundantly and pouring out on the world for the sake of the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, fulfilling so often my accursed heart; Holy Trinity, let me praise You unceasingly with my heart and lips, and even more so with my deeds.
1025. … Glory to Thee, all-good, all-wise and all-powerful Artist!
1026. Oh, my invisible Benefactor, by whom I live unceasingly! You, listening to me, fulfilling the good desires of my heart, saving me from my sins, from the villainy of invisible enemies, You, arranging my fate, my enlightenment, my help, my glory, my strength, my affirmation, when will I see You? When will I see the Benefactor and my Creator face to face?
1027. What I need? I do not need anything on earth, except for the most necessary. What I need? I need the Lord, I need His grace, His Kingdom is in me. On earth, the place of my wandering, my temporary education, there is nothing of my own, everything is God's and everything is temporary, assigned to my temporary services; my surplus is the property of those who do not have it. What I need? I need true, Christian, tenacious, active love, I need a loving, compassionate heart, I need joy for their contentment and well-being, grief for their sorrows and illnesses, for their sins, weaknesses, disorders, shortcomings, misfortunes, poverty; they need warm, sincere sympathy in all the circumstances of their lives, joy with those who rejoice and weeping with those who weep. It is full to give place to self-love, selfishness, to try to live only for yourself and attract everything only to yourself: both wealth, and sweets, and the glory of this world, and not to live, but to die, not to rejoice, but to suffer, carrying the poison of self-love in yourself, for self-love there is the poison constantly poured into our hearts by veliar. Oh, let me exclaim with the psalmist: what are we in heaven, and what do I desire from you on earth? My heart and my flesh are gone, O God of my heart, and my part, O God forever.(). Lord, witness of my heart, the movement of it and these lines! Grant me this which I ask of You! From me this is impossible, but All things are possible with You(). Give me true life, dispel the darkness of passions, live by Your power their strength!
1033. God! In prayer to Thee we bring the saints for us, these spiritual incense, this is the world of Your aromas! Accept their prayers fragrant with love and purity for us and deliver us from the stench of sin, for our hearts are unclean and our lips are filthy, and we are not worthy of the sweetest conversation with You. Everything in us is earthly, perishable, foul, deceitful, and they, Your saints, are the purest world, - most of all, Your Most Pure Mother, Your animated luminous chamber, the purest lordship of the sun, the most fragrant more than all aromas, for the fragrance of Her holiness, Her divine virtues are full heaven and earth.
1038. … Lord, have mercy on us, have mercy on mankind!
1041. Oh, how bitter were my sins for You, Christ my Savior, my God, when You were beaten, beaten, spat on, Your head was pierced with thorns and nailed on the cross - when You hung on the cross for me in torments unspeakable, delivering me from the bitterest , inexpressible torments of hell! But I should remember this self-exhaustion of Yours, these torments of Yours more often, so as not to commit sins and diligently perform every virtue, to love You with all my heart, to fulfill Your saving commands! Meanwhile, I often forget this terrible sacrifice, made for me by the Son of the Heavenly Father, the only-begotten, co-eternal, co-eternal. Give me, O Lord, a pure heart and unchanging repentance for salvation, give me other time of my life to please You!
1044. God! I thank You from the bottom of my heart, as if You saved me without number from dishonor, violence, ferocity of passions and quenched the arrows of the evil one kindled in me and protected my soul with peace and cooled You with the dew of Your grace. Glory to Thee, the Many-merciful and Omnipotent, as if hitherto by Thy grace I remain safe and sound, despite the countless deceit over me of invisible and all-malicious enemies who seek to devour me. We know, Lord, as if from all their machinations and slander, deliver me and save me, in the image of fate, into Your Kingdom of Heaven, and not only me, but also all those who live piously and are slandered by the spirits of malice: Yours is a hedgehog to have mercy and save wanting and not even wanting salvation. Or I want, said or I don't want to, save me(mol. Eve. St. John. Damascus.)!
1052. … Lord and Master of my life, grant the spirit of love to me, Thy servant!
1087. … Glory You, Holy and Consubstantial, and Life-Giving, and Indivisible Trinity(exalted at the great evening)! Holy Trinity! teach me to despise everything earthly, teach me to believe peace, contentment, bliss in You alone! And in order not to become proud of me, because of the gracious attention to me of the Most Holy Trinity and the salvation She gives me, let me remember that She graciously listens to every worm, every chick. I also recall that some Christians, who have created many powers in the name of God, will once hear the words from the Lord: get away from me, we don't see you(), for his non-evangelical life. Holy Trinity! save me from pride and teach me humility! You graciously and soon listen to me and save me; I can be proud of this mercy. Turn your infinite goodness and mercy into a pretext for self-praise, supposedly I myself was worthy of such attention, as having done some good! covered me, most merciful Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, blood to your wings from every sin.
1119. My Master, Lord Jesus Christ! My quick, quick, shameless Intercessor! I thank You with all my heart that You mercifully listened to me - when I called to You in darkness, narrowness and flame of the enemy - very quickly, sovereignly, graciously delivered me from my enemies and gave my heart space, lightness, light! Oh, Lord, how I suffered from the machinations of the enemy, how timely You showed me help, and how obvious was Your almighty help! I praise Your goodness, obedient Master, the hope of the desperate; I praise You that You did not shame my face to the end, but mercifully delivered me from the darkening and dishonor of hell. How then can I ever despair of Your hearing and mercy on me, the accursed one? I will, I will always call on Your sweetest name, my Savior; You, O innumerable Blessing, as always, save me in the past, according to Your immeasurable kindness, as Your name is the Lover of mankind and the Savior!
1122. … God, Your name is Love! Teach me true love, like strong death. Here I tasted her sweetness most abundantly from communion in the spirit of faith, even in Thee, with Your faithful servants and servants, and I am exceedingly pacified and enlivened by her. Establish, O God, this which thou hast done in me! O! If only it were so all the days! Grant me more often to have the fellowship of faith and love with Your faithful servants, with Your temples, with Your Church, with Your members!
1123. My sweetest Savior! You, having gone to the service of the human race, did not only preach the word of heavenly truth in the temple, but flowed around cities and villages, did not alienate anyone, went to everyone’s houses, especially to those whom You foresaw warm repentance with Your divine gaze. So You did not sit at home, but had fellowship of love with everyone. Grant us to have this communion of love with Thy people, so that we, shepherds, are not confined from Thy sheep in our houses, as in castles and dungeons, leaving only for service in the church or for needs in houses, according to one duty, only memorized prayers. Let our mouths be opened for free speech in the spirit of faith and love with our parishioners. May our Christian love for spiritual children be revealed and strengthened through a lively, free, paternal conversation with them. Oh, what sweetness You have hidden, Lord, our boundless Love, in the spiritual, warmed by love, conversation of the spiritual father with his spiritual children, what bliss! And how can I not strive on earth with all my might for such bliss? And it is still only weak beginnings, only some faint semblance of the heavenly bliss of love! Love especially the communion of goodness, both material and spiritual. Do not forget charity and fellowship ().
1151. To the Lord my God, the God of my salvation, I will write thanksgiving! Before confession on Holy Week, the enemy stumbled upon me, striking my heart with tightness, embarrassment and evil despondency. But here I prayed with all my heart with undoubted faith to Him, the God of my salvation, and said: God the All-good Father! You are your only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: ask, and it will be given to you ... everyone who asks will accept ... or who is a man from you, if his son asks for bread, will food give him a stone? how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him(). By faith, by faith, I embrace in my heart what You have spoken, I cry out to You: give me now Your Holy Spirit, may it strengthen my heart to raise the labor of confession, to a prudent decision or knitting of human consciences, to patience and complacency, to a kind and edifying treatment of my spiritual children . And what? Oh God of mercy! I spent the whole confession perfectly: calmly, kindly, instructively, without any burden or restless haste. I glorify the merciful right hand of the all-good Heavenly Father. So it is always necessary to strengthen oneself with heartfelt prayer to the Heavenly Father for every spiritual achievement, just as our Lord Jesus Christ prayed before the appearance of the human race, before the election of the Apostles, before His sufferings.
1175. … Glory to the grace of the Holy Comforter-Spirit! … We thank Thee, Lord Jesus, for for Your sake the Holy Spirit is in the world!
1193. I thank Thee, my Joy, the Lord of glory, for thou hast taken my image through incarnation from the Most Pure Virgin, and honored, and exalted, and deified humanity; I thank You, as you raise me from corruption to incorruption, cleanse my filth, heal infirmities and illnesses, turn sorrows into joy, turn sinful narrowness into the space of Your justification, even from faith and repentance of the heart, drive away the darkness of passions and give Your spiritual light, take away confusion and send peace from above, take away cowardice and give courage with boldness. Glory to Your mercy!
1211. Give me, Mistress, purity of heart, simplicity of heart, filial trust, devotion and love for You always, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
1216. … Wonderful creation of God – man! Glory to the Creator and Provider! Glory to the Savior of the human race, who draws our race out of the mire of passions, from corruption and death, and leads us into the eternal life.
1220. God! teach me to give alms willingly, kindly, with joy, and to believe that by giving it I do not lose, but gain infinitely more than what I give. Turn away my eyes from people with a cruel heart who do not sympathize with the poor, indifferently meet poverty, condemn, reproach, stigmatize it with shameful names and relax my heart so as not to do good, in order to harden me against poverty. Oh my God! how many such people there are! Lord, fix the work of mercy! Lord, may all my alms go to benefit, and not to harm! Lord, accept alms in the person of Your poor people! Lord, deign to build a house for the poor in this city, as if we repeatedly prayed to You, the all-good, all-powerful, wise, wonderful! (and raised).
1237. God! Grant that Your temple to all who come to it with faith, reverence and fear of God will inform the enlightenment of souls, the cleansing of sins, sanctification, peace, health, peace of mind, strengthen faith, hope and love, contribute to the correction of life, success in all good undertakings and affairs mutual love, pure Christian living, softening of hearts and cessation of self-love, hardness of heart, covetousness, greed, envy, malice, gluttony, drunkenness, depravity - these vices, so many harmful in public life and undermining its foundations. Grant this, grant, Lord, to all those who love to visit Your temple, and even those who do not love it, arrange to love it and correct their hearts and deeds: for the time is near and judgment is at the door for all people of every rank and state, of every sex and age, and to all a matter of infinitely great importance lies ahead - to give an answer at the Last Judgment of Christ.
1253. How good You are, my Lord, and how close You are to us, so close that we can always talk with You and be comforted by You. To breathe through You, to be enlightened by You, to have peace in You, to find space in the heart in You. God! teach me the simplicity of love for You and for my neighbor, may I always be with You, may I always have peace in You. God! do not let me commit adultery for a moment with a vile and all-evil enemy - the devil, neither malice, nor pride, nor envy, nor stinginess, nor covetousness, nor gluttony, nor fornication, nor blasphemy, nor despondency, nor lies, nothing sinful. May I always be yours!
1254. My infinite sweetness, Lord Jesus Christ, what sweetness did You not give me to taste in my temporary existence! Thank you, my Grace, my Sweetness! But if earthly sweets are so numerous, varied, and pleasant, then what are heavenly, spiritual sweets: they are truly endless, innumerable, unimaginably pleasant. Therefore, do not deprive me, many-merciful, most generous Lord, of Your heavenly sweets, which Thou hast prepared for those who love Thee. Do not deprive them and your other people! Let them all know Thee, O Lord, our Sweetness. After all, You, this Sweetness of ours, are everywhere and on earth, i.e. Your business is every sweetness. However, give me, Lord, to endure the sorrows of life complacently: they are needed for my many-passionate flesh, for my old man. Humanity! teach them to endure with good will and your other people, and let them know their need. Sorrow is tolerant (). In the world of sorrow you will ().
1264. God! Behold, I am Your 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, I am Your ship: fill me with a load of good deeds. God! Behold, 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.
1273. … Glory to Your creativity, Lord! May we know and remember our hardness, short duration, and may we revere the Creator. We are all the work of His hands, the sheep of His pasture.
1277. When you pray to God according to familiar prayers that you get used to, say in your heart: Lord! You are always the same. My heart changes and grows cold to the words of prayer, but meanwhile their power is one and the same, just like You are always the same.
1292. Oh, the sweetest name, the most holy name, the almighty name, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! My victory, Lord, glory to You Lord, we are Your members, we are one body, You are our Head. Lord, may all passions flee from us, may demons flee from us! God! give us the grace of love that never falls away! God! May we show respect and love to each other, as to You Yourself, as to those deified by You.
1293. How good it will be with you to your chosen ones in heaven, Lord! How all earthly delights are wearisome for the heart! How detrimental to the heart and instant addiction to something earthly! And in You what peace, what freedom, what space, what light, what joy!
1294. Glory, Lord, to the never-failing power of Your cross! When the enemy oppresses me with a sinful thought and feeling, and having no freedom in my heart, I make the sign of the cross several times with faith, then suddenly my sin falls away from me, and the tightness disappears, and I go out to freedom. Glory to Thee, Lord! God! let nothing tear me away from you, nothing carnal, material, may I always be with you! How good it is to be with you!
1295. God! do not deprive me of Your heavenly blessings, for You are the Lord and You can do this if You will; Lord, deliver me from eternal torment, for You are the Lord and You can also do this conveniently if You desire; Lord, whether I have sinned in mind or thought, in word or deed, forgive me, seeing the weakness of my soul. So, You are the Lord and You can do everything for me, who repents and asks for Your blessings. And You, the Mistress of all Angels and people, all-good and all-merciful, as a formidable sovereign, chasing and flame of all opposing forces, as conveniently able to destroy with the speed of lightning all the various machinations of evil spirits, deliver us from all sin and strengthen us by Your power for all virtue ; Make us conformable to Thy Son and our God, and to Thee, Most Holy Virgin, Mother of our Lord, for we are called by the name of Christ, Thy Son, as His members. May our name not be Christian empty sound, without power, but let us all be imitators of Christ, the Head of our faith, and You, the Head of the mental building. May we all, like living stones, being built into a spiritual temple, holy hierarchy, offer up sacrifices pleasing to God. Oh, Lady, Lady! let it not be in vain and in vain that we call you the Mistress: reveal and manifest over us your holy, living, active dominion. Reveal, as if you can do everything for good, as the Mother of the all-good of the all-good King; disperse the darkness of our hearts, reflect the arrows of crafty spirits, flatteringly moved at us. May the peace of Thy Son, Thy peace reign in our hearts, may we all joyfully exclaim: who is after the Lord, like our Lady, our all-good, all-merciful and most swift Intercessor? For this you are exalted, Mistress, for that an abundance of unspeakable divine grace has been given to you, for that inexpressible boldness and strength at the throne of God and the gift of almighty prayer have been given to you, for this you have been adorned with inexpressible holiness and purity, for this you have been given unapplied power from the Lord, so that you can preserve, protect, intercede, purify and save us, the inheritance of your Son and God and yours. Save us, O most pure, all-good, all-wise and all-merciful! Thou art the Mother of our Savior, Who of all the names deigned more than anyone to be called the Savior, just as His very name is Jesus, or the Savior. It is natural for us, wandering in this life, to fall, for we are surrounded by many-passionate flesh, surrounded by heavenly spirits of malice, seducing to sin, we live in an adulterous and sinful world, seducing to sin; and You, above all sin, You are the brightest Sun, You are the Most Pure, All-good and All-good. It is Your nature to purify us, defiled by sins, as a mother purifies her children, if we humbly cry out to You for help; It is your nature to raise us, who are constantly falling, to intercede, protect and save us, who are slandered from the spirits of evil, and instruct us to walk towards every path of salvation.
1309. Shall I forget Thee, Lord, invisible, incomprehensible Lord, ever filling my heart with life, light, peace, joy, strength, patience, Thee, Who is for me every blessing in my life and who alone constitutes my life? - O! don't let me forget you!
1310. God! Your name is Love: do not reject me, an erring person. Your name is Strength: strengthen 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 Grace: do not cease to have mercy on me.
1311. I sometimes pray in church for the people of God like this: behold, many of those who come in Your temple stand idle with their souls, like empty vessels, and let's pray for something, as it should be, not vemy; fill their hearts now, at this time favorable for them, on this day of salvation, with the grace of Your All-Holy Spirit and grant them to me, my prayer, my love, filled with the knowledge of Your goodness and contrition and tenderness of the heart, like filled vessels, grant them the Spirit Your Holy who intercedes in them with sighs unspoken(). I myself, a shepherd, am sinner and more unclean than any man, but do not look at my sins, Master, but despise them by Thy great mercy, and my prayer, for the sake of the grace of the priesthood, lying on me and abiding in me, hear this hour; May the grace of the priesthood not be idle in me, Lord, but may it always burn in me with faith, hope, love and filial boldness in prayer for Your people.
1312. Lord! accept my tearful prayer for my spiritual children and for all Orthodox Christians pleasing to You for my very concern for their salvation, for my pastoral care! Be, according to my prayer, You Yourself for them a voice and a trumpet, awakening from a sinful sleep, and an eye watching over their hearts, and a hand strengthening them on the way to the mountainous homeland and raising those who fall from lack of faith, cowardice and despondency, and motherly love , - which I am poor, - tenderly caring for their true good; wake them all, but save every one(). Thou alone art truly the Shepherd, the very souls of men invisibly and secretly shepherding. You are the only true and wise Teacher, speaking into the very hearts of Your people; You are the only true Lover of Your creatures and children by grace; with you and wisdom and omnipotence - the abyss. You alone are ever-vigorous and unsleeping, and in the very dream you teach us Your ways. - Be thou, Lord, instead of me, the Shepherd and Teacher to Your sheep entrusted to me from You; Himself lead them to green pastures; Protect them yourself from spiritual and carnal wolves; Thyself direct their feet to the path of truth, righteousness and peace. Be instead of me for them both light, and an eye, and a mouth, and a hand, and wisdom, and most of all, love, but I am a sinful one.
1318. ... Glory to Your truth, Lord!
1335. ... O great God, glorified God, God of miracles, God of mercy, generosity and unspeakable love of mankind, glory to Thee always, now and forever and forever and ever! Amen.
1337. When, during the prayer of the Mother of God, you do not find in your heart the proper reverence for Her, and you feel crafty and blasphemous thoughts, then exclaim the following commendable words that can be applied to Her according to her property: wisdom, all You can, like the Mother of the Almighty, You are always one and the same all-perfect, like the Mother of the all-perfect King of glory!
1403. Oh, marvelous proof of the omnipresence of God! For example, let's say, silver has wounded you: you have stuck to it even for a minute with your heart, and your heart hurts; but only you will say to God with all your heart: You are my only Treasure, You are my silver and gold, both food and clothing, and now it will be easy for you.
1459. ... God Almighty, wise and all-good! Your hand is constantly on me, a sinner, and there is no moment when Your goodness leaves me. Grant me always with living faith to kiss Your right hand! Why should I go far to seek traces of Your goodness, Your wisdom and Your omnipotence? Oh! these traces are so clearly visible in me. I am a miracle of God's goodness, wisdom and omnipotence. I - in a small form - the whole world, my soul is a representative of the invisible world; my body is a representative of the visible world.
1490. Prayer hopes to receive everything. Trishy Love, have mercy on me!
1504. … Speak to the Lord: my limited spirit came out of Your boundless all-perfect Spirit; behold, I am poor, my Lord, in wisdom and understanding, or in faith, hope and love, meekness and humility: look at the desire of my heart and grant me Your wisdom, faith is shameless, hope is unchanging, love is not hypocritical(8 prayers of the priest in the morning).
1526. God! grant me a simple, gentle, open, believing, loving, generous heart.
1557. Glory to the Spirit of God, proceeding from the Father to revive every creature and fulfilling the entire universe. Glory to Him, who gives life to Angels and men and every creature. Glory to Him, our Strength, our Holy. Glory to Him, co-eternal Father and Son!
1560. Glory to you, All-Holy One, life-giving Soul, proceed from the Father and rest in the Son forever, inseparable from the Father and the Son! Glory to Thee, the Son of God, O Spirit of God, casting out demons, and by Him build our salvation, sanctify, make wiser, strengthen us! Glory to Thee, Father, favor us forever in the Son by the Holy Spirit! Indivisible Trinity One - have mercy on us!
1566. Holy soul, living, personal, dominating, living connection between the Father and the Son - have mercy on me!
1567. Holy Soul, life-giving and uniting the whole creation, moreover rational creatures, the power of the whole creation - have mercy on me!
1571. … You are wondrous, our God, who created everything with Your hypostatic Word and accomplish everything with the hypostatic Spirit!
1572. This is the greatness of Your divine, Lord Savior, that the life of every creature is in You, as a hypostatic Life, so that everyone honors You, as if they honor the Father; This is your greatness, Holy Soul, life-giving, that you sanctify everyone, strengthen and live together with the Father and the Son, so that everyone honors You, as they honor the Father and the Son; This is your greatness, Holy Soul, that the Son of God is the only begotten, as if consubstantial with You, by You he worked powers and miracles, and by You he sanctifies, strengthens and guides us to His Father. That imams bringing in one Soul to the Father ().
1573. … Holy Life-Giving Soul, Soul of Grace, have mercy on us!
1575. … Glory to the Comforter Spirit!
1608. Capture me, Lord, into the sweet captivity of Your Holy Spirit, yes, like streams south() my words will flow for your glory and for the salvation of your people. Grant me this sweet and powerful inner urge to express freely on the charter the fullness of spiritual visions and feelings. Let my tongue be cane of the scribe scribe() - the Holy Spirit.
1687. Say: I have nothing of my own, everything is God's. Own is the dream of our sinful flesh. Everything in common - these are the words of a renewed man! - Byahu them all in common, and not a single one said that his being(). God! Yours is to give this to me.
1693. O Trinity, our God! simple Being, who created our soul in Your image, but in You we have our life and peace! O Trinity, Nourisher and our Hope! Give us in Thee alone, always our hope to believe, in Thee alone life and peace to find. O Trinity! You, like a mother, carry us all in Your arms and feed us all from Your hands, like a most tender mother! You will never forget us: for You Yourself said: more and forget whom wife(mother), I won't forget you(Isaiah 49:15), i.e. I will not stop nourishing, protecting, protecting and saving you. You yourself also said: not the imam to retreat from you, below the imam leave you (). …
1721. Establish, God, strengthen, God, help, God! - Oh Lord, save me! Oh Lord, hurry up ()!
1771. …Speak: yes it will, Holy Father, Your will! …
1801. … Glory to Your mercy, Lord! Glory to Your patience, Lord!
1809. ... Pray, brother, for me - (tell the reproacher) - may the Lord enlighten me and help me with His grace with due diligence and willingness to pass my title and fulfill the work of public service entrusted to me. …
Prayers of Saint Righteous John of Kronstadt
from the book "My Life in Christ" Vol.3
Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt
Thoughts on worship in the Orthodox Church
"My life in Christ" part 3
Russian Chronograph 1991, 2004, Moscow
We must most earnestly pray to the life-giving Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Pilot of the Holy Church of Christ, that the spirit of love breathe into the hearts of all Christians and illuminate everyone with His light, to the knowledge of the truth of God and Christ, to mutual union, to the rejection of all heresies and schisms, to the ruin of all social parties that oppose each other. All-good, all-powerful, all-wise, all-righteous Holy Soul, do this in the name of Christ! Oh, how close the Holy Spirit is always to us, how He always does good to us, cleanses sins, sanctifies, enlightens, pacifies, resolves, frees the soul from the bonds of sin and spiritual darkness, revives our souls, mortified by sin, strengthens, encourages, comforts, in tenderness and tears leads, prays, intercedes with us sighs unspoken! (). Glory and thanksgiving to Thee, Holy Father, excite the Holy Spirit forever, and thus give life to the world, perishing in evil, in the name of Thy Son, our Redeemer, who served us with such exhaustion, patience and long-suffering! Page 39-40
... Glory to Thee, All-Holy Soul, Source of our life, indifferent to the Father and the Word! Page 46
… Teach, Lord, help, Lord, confirm, Lord! Esma are weak, Esma are poor. Page 47
... Glory to Thee, Holy Spirit, life-giving Comforter, acting unceasingly and everywhere in the Church of Christ. Turn, Lord, in the image of the weight of fate, the lost peoples: Jewish, Mohammedan, pagan and, in Christianity itself, heretical and schismatic peoples and tribes; Reveal and eradicate vices, instruct and enlighten on piety; rebuke Orthodox Christians in wickedness and corruption, and guide everyone on the path of salvation; enlighten and guide youth, observe adolescence, grow infancy and guide the guardian angels, admonish husbands and elders, enlighten and strengthen everyone and everything with Your all-good power, strengthen wise and all-powerful, and instruct in every virtue, driving away, like darkness, sinful passions for the sake of Christ our Lord, with the good pleasure of the Father. Amen. Page 59
… Approve, God! Enlighten us, God! Page 82
... Glory to the Orthodox Church! Glory to Christ God - the most holy Head, the only Head of the Church of God on earth! Glory to God in the Trinity that we did not fall into blasphemy against God, did not recognize and do not recognize forever the head of the Church of the Holy sinful man! Page 86
The Most Holy Theotokos is my shameless, firm consolation; She is full of goodness, holiness, mercy, compassion. What I do not have, that is, in Her in abundance; I do not have purity, holiness, sincere goodness and mercy, but in Her all this is with every excess, and she can ask everything from Her Son and God with Her prayers and intercession. And therefore I pray to Her: Thy philanthropy abyss, philanthropy depth and goodness and innumerable bounties, show on me, the accursed one; quench sinful pasture, give up chastity and keep with my soul and my body undefiled - wake up, wake up! Page 89
What a wonderful power - repentance! Unhypocritical, all-round repentance incessantly bows to the mercy of God, enraged by our sins and all sorts of unrighteousness, and miraculously changes the state of our soul, taking away sorrow, crampedness, confusion, impenetrable darkness from it, establishes in the soul peace, tranquility, rightness of spirit, boldness, light, strength, vitality, renewal. Thank God for such a good deed! And this grace of repentance is given to all believers, without distinction, throughout their lives. Page 95
My God, what boundless love, what favor! What a complete gift! He gave himself entirely to me for food and drink with all the eternal and infinite blessings! He gave all of Himself to an insignificant worm - a man. God! What am I, as if remember me, and visit, and dwell in me! Page 96
... If I bring songs equal to the sand of the sea to You, Holy King, I will do nothing worthy of what You have given me! Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Life-Giving Mysteries!… Pg. 97
Lord, this is the beginning of my week, unworthy of Thee, the King without beginning and before the age of Being, of service, of my standing before the terrible and life-giving Thy throne, and of intercession for myself and for Thy people, but cleanse the transgressions of all; a week of service to the heavenly, most pure, all-redeeming Divine and terrible Your Mysteries, the service of truth, the service of incorruption and immortality, renewal and deification, the service of the highest, Divine, of which there is nothing holier and higher in the world. Help me in this service every day without ceasing, may the grace of Your Holy Spirit keep me from every sin, observing with the saints! Page 102
Give me, Lord, for this service a pure, courageous and invigorating, firm heart, a good-voiced organ of the tongue, a magnificent, calm, firm appearance; let me stand before Your throne with fear, love and thanksgiving, with a burning spirit. Let me pray for myself and for all people sincerely; to praise and thank You on behalf of all with a fiery heart and lips; To perform, use and teach the Holy Mysteries with fear and great love. So give me, Lord, to serve Thee in the power of my succession all the days of my life. Amen. Page 103
Glory to the wondrous power of Your Cross, Lord! … Pg. 103
… Wonderful are Your works, O Lord, for the salvation of the human race! Marvelous wisdom, truth, mercy, strength, deliverance and salvation! Save, O Holy Trinity, all of us! Page 126
I thank my Lord Jesus Christ, who vouchsafed me the indecent and this year to meet the all-joyful and all-saving day of Holy Pascha! Grant me without sin and in holiness to send the whole Bright Week and all the days of my stomach! Page 135
How exalted is the liturgy oh and! What a heavenly spirit! What a wide love for God and people! What a heavenly heart! Give me, Lord, a heavenly spirit, a pure, loving heart, not bound by any worldly lusts and passions: for none of those who are bound by worldly lusts and sweets can come, or draw near, or serve You, the King of glory(Prayer of the priest during the cherubic song)! A priest should be like an eagle, high-flown, strong, fast-moving. Grant, Lord! The whole earth, with all its treasures, beauties, sweets, is nothing before such a sacrament as the Most Pure Body and Blood of the Lord, as the sacrament of the liturgy! Page 197-198
... Glory to Your mercy, Lord! Page 200
Why does the priest raise his hands before the throne during mass, before the great entrance? As a reminder and depiction of the prayer of the God-Man in the Garden of Gethsemane, just before His betrayal by Judas, and in the depiction of the Calvary crucifixion. Great, wondrous, effective was this prayer; it was spoken for the whole world; immeasurably great and redemptive is the sacrifice of Golgotha. For the sake of this prayer and this sacrifice on the cross, have mercy on me too, Heavenly Father, Only Begotten Son and Holy Soul! Amen. Page 201
... Glory to the Holy Trinity forever from all of us people, so blessed by the Lord! Page 234
…Glory to God, who gave us communion with Himself in prayer, praise and thanksgiving to Him! Page 242
... Glory to Your Cross, glory to Your power, granted to him for victory over the enemies of our salvation: for it is right that the very tree, or the image of that Cross, on which You were crucified by will and suffered torment and unrighteous execution, became the surest instrument of our victory over the devil, who dreamed of killing You to the end, of smiting You, Lord, with infinite goodness and truth. May we depict, with faith in the Lord, His Cross! Page 270
… Glory to Thee, Mary, the Most Pure Bride of God! Page 277
Most holy, all-powerful, all-good Head of His Church, Lord Jesus, Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, give me grace always from beginning to end safely, holy, peacefully, firmly, ardently to perform any divine service under any circumstances, with many and small people, on holidays and weekdays, in the temple and outside the temple! Give me, give me this grace and cleanse your heart from all passion, filth of the flesh and spirit, deliver me from any slander of the enemy; ignite with heavenly fire during my ministry and the hearts of all those who are present and praying; humble the hearts of the rich and famous, the scholars or the wise of this age, enveloping their wisdom and subduing their minds and hearts to your word; soften the hearts of those who are hardened in passions, recreate, renew your people! Amen. I am weak, but may Your strength be made perfect in my weaknesses (cf. 2 Cor. 12:12, 9). I'm sinful and sinful, but where sin is multiplied, there is an abundance of grace(), so be it in me. Page 284
… glory to Thee, Lady! Remember us in Thy Kingdom and help us with Thy sovereign power against visible and, above all, invisible enemies, who are constantly seeking to devour us. Page 334
... Eternal God and the King of all creation (and therefore my Creator), forgive me every sin, voluntary and involuntary, and make me do Your will, as You are my God, as You have a source of life! Page 367-368
Praise to the Mother of God. Quiet light from the holy glory of your immortal Son and God, the holy blessed Jesus Christ, oh, most holy Virgin Mary, we sing to you: you are worthy at all times to be the voice of the reverend, like the Mother of God and the life of the Intercessor; the same kind of Christian unceasingly praises You. Page 370
Grant me, O Lady, with a pure heart to always call on you, thank you and praise you according to your property, although even the angelic mind is perplexed to praise you properly as the Mother of the Existing God Himself. Page 377
... Do not forget your purpose and strive with all your might to overcome sin and achieve truth and holiness in your heart and throughout your life; and encourage others to do the same, and God is ready to help you. Help, Master, Lord! Page 379
Prayers, praises, supplications, petitions, thanksgiving, the promise of mercy and salvation are repeated ( forgive and save), names: of God, the Mother of God, holy angels, saints, those in power and other authorities, so that prayers, petitions, thanksgiving, doxology are firmer, sincere, stronger and more effective and would bring great benefit to those who pray and those who do not pray, for the sake of those who pray ; but for some of us, due to the action of the devil, it often happens the other way around: prayers, praises, thanksgiving weaken and are not pronounced several times (repeatedly), due to laziness and striving for worldly vanity or because of the vain fear of demons. Destroy, Lord, the charm of this enemy in us and grant us to freely, with a pure heart, always pray, thank and glorify Thee and the Lady and Thy saints all, to our affirmation and salvation and to the glory of Thy name and Thy saints! Page 380-381
Oh saints of God! Excite us lazy and negligent, vain and many-passionate to prayer, unceasing prayer, for we are all in trouble incessant from evil and all-sly spirits, and pray for us, for you have been given the grace to pray for us! Amen. Page 393
... Glory to the All-good and All-Righte God our, punishing and merciful! Page 408
Oh, greatness, oh, deification, oh, holiness, oh, the beauty of human nature, in the person of the God-Man the Lord Jesus Christ and the Mother of God Ever-Virgin Mary! Oh, Blessed Mary! Out of You, the All-Blessed God, clothed in all of me as a person and clothed, unite to His Divinity with an inexpressible union! Oh, marvelous, inexpressible, supernatural union! …Pg. 412-413
Grant me, Lord, to fulfill Your law, which is love in all its strength, in all its vastness, in all its depth. Amen. Page 422
The Divine Liturgy contains the wondrous, unifying power of prayer for all, akin to all souls! Oh, the wonderful Liturgy is a sign of God's boundless love for the human race and the wonderful exaltation of human nature, deified through the incarnation of the Only Begotten Son of God and through the partaking of His Most Pure Body and Blood in the sacrament of communion. God! Grant us to be worthy of such Your indulgence towards us, such fellowship! Grant us Thy holiness and every day learn from Thy righteousness and become righteous in the Holy Spirit! Page 423
... I thank You, the One Father of all, the King, the Savior, the Shepherd, the Physician, the righteous Judge of all; The One Head of His Church, uniting everyone into one body, into one spirit! You arrange all this miraculously, you act in everyone by the Holy Spirit, uniting everyone in faith, hope and love, in truth and holiness! Page 425
… Thank God! Glory to the Lady Mother of God! Page 426
December 25, 1899. I thank the Lord, who vouchsafed me to still see the day of the glorious Nativity in the flesh of God the Word for the sake of world salvation, and more, and more grant for Your many, Lord, goodness, behold this day and sweetly sing and glorify Your immeasurable, Christ, goodness. Amen. Page 436
... All-good and all-powerful Sanctifier, Holy Soul, proceed from the Father and rest in the Son, come to purify, sanctify, heal, strengthen, enlighten and comfort us all with Your wonderful, life-giving and sweet autumn! Page 438
... How are we saved every day, if not by the cross, if not by the merits of Christ crucified for us! Without the Cross, we would all perish, would be the prey of the devil and hell! O Christ God, glory to Thee, who suffered for us and redeemed us with His cross from sin, damnation and death! Page 440
Easter of Christ. I thank the Lord, who has made it possible for me to live until this Bright Holiday and in joy, in good health, to meet him with praises to the Risen One. Vouchsafe the Resurrection, common to all, and to You, the Source of our life, transmigration! Page 440
Resurrection of Christ. I thank the Lord, who made it possible to celebrate this year the Bright Feast of His Resurrection. Give, Lord, to spend the bright week all worthy and all my life - to Your glory! Page 440
… Thank God! Glory to the Mother of God! Page 441
Some of my secret prayers 217-224
In addition to the prayers secretly recited by the clergy according to the service at the liturgy of the faithful, to awaken intensified feelings of thanksgiving and glorification of the Lord, who is immensely beneficent to us in the celebration of the Eucharist.
After the cherubic chant and the setting of the Divine Gifts at the holy meal, as well as the secret reading of the troparions relating to the removal from the cross and the placement in the tomb of the Most Pure Body of the Lord, I add from myself at the end of the prayer, beginning with the words: Lord God Almighty, the following words in this combination: vouchsafe us to find grace before You, if You are more favorable to our sacrifice and the Spirit of Your good grace dwells in us and on these Darehs presented; on all nurseries of youth and youth, spiritual and worldly, male and female, urban and rural, and on all unlearned youth; on all the seedbeds of spiritual, monastic - male and female, on Your poor people, widows, orphans and the poor, on those who suffered from fire, flood, storm and coward, from the lack of bread and hunger, on all those who commanded me unworthy to pray for them and for all your people, as all yours are: for you created them in your image and likeness; Thou hast revived them with water and the Spirit; You gave the grace of sonship to them; Thou hast given the pledge of the Spirit in their hearts; You feed them with the Flesh and Blood of Your Son, theirs is nothing sweeter; You give them all your good things, by nature and by grace, they are innumerable; Assign all of us to Thee, alienated by sin and the enemy who fights us, and let no one from us be an acquisition and a stranger. Have mercy on us yourself, Father of mercy and God of all comfort.
After reading the Symbol of Faith in secret, I add the following prayer from myself: establish in this faith and by this faith my heart and the hearts of all Orthodox Christians; sowing faith and this aspiration worthy of habitation enlighten; unite in this faith all of the great Christian society, which have fallen away miserably from the unity of the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Churches, even if you are your body and if you are the Head and Savior of the body, put down the pride and opposition of their teachers and those who follow them, grant them in their hearts to comprehend the truth and salvation of the Church Yours and it is unflattering for her to unite; gather the saints of Your Church and those who are ill with ignorance, delusion and stubbornness of schism, breaking by the power of the grace of Your Spirit their stubbornness and opposition to Your truth, may they not perish more fiercely in their opposition, like Korah, Dathan and Aviron, who resisted Moses and Aaron, Your servants (). To this faith all the tongues inhabiting the earth were attracted, and with one heart and one mouth all the tongues glorify Thee, the one and only God and Benefactor; in this faith unite us all with the spirit of meekness, humility, gentleness, simplicity, dispassion, patience and long-suffering, mercy, condolences and rejoicing.
After pronouncing the exclamation: woe we have hearts, I secretly say: exalt with Your Holy Spirit all those who come here to You, the God of our life, and reject from our hearts all the passions of the flesh and soul.
After the eucharistic exclamation: thank the Lord a prayer is read worthy and righteous to sing thee And so on; during the secret reading of this prayer, after the words You brought us from non-existence into existence, I add to strengthen the grateful feeling of the word: into rational being and immortal in the soul, i.e. brought thou; after the words: Thou didst restore the fallen us I add: and a hundred times every day you raise up those who sin and repent; after the words: until you raised us to heaven, and you gave the kingdom to the future, I add secretly: You, even in the very communion of our life-giving Your Mysteries, already raise us to heaven, for where You are, there is heaven and heaven in heaven, and having bestowed Yourself on the faithful, You together with You already grant the Kingdom of Heaven, the kingdom of the future, in pledge Your Most Pure Body and Blood. When reading a prayer: with these blessed forces... at the words: You betray yourself for the worldly belly I add from myself to deepen the feelings of gratitude and tenderness the words: more than all for me, a sinner, may I be delivered from deadly sin and may I live forever.
After the words : take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you for the remission of sins, I add secretly from myself to exalt the feeling of gratitude and amazement: oh, divine, oh, dear, oh, sweetest of Your voice!... Also after the words: Drink from her all, for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins. I add the same words. At the same time, I imagine, if possible, the immeasurable goodness and voluntary depletion of the Lord, who by the will of all Himself exhausted for the sake of our salvation to the cross and death, and His extreme desire that we all be partakers of His Divinity and humanity, having crucified his flesh with passions and lusts(). When I say the words: Yours from Yours, offering you about everyone and for everything I imagine the solemnity and grandeur of this moment, when a bishop or priest, standing face to face with the eternal, perfect, unchanging truth of the Heavenly Father, who punishes sin, offers on behalf of all and for all the one, immeasurable, all-righteous, propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ the Son of God, the one able to bend to the mercy of God the Father, to redeem the whole world from a righteous curse and to come forward to all believers forgiveness of sins and blessings, and to those who have fallen asleep in the faith and hope of resurrection and eternal life - the remission of sins and rest with the saints; The sacrifice by which all the saints were justified, who pleased God from the beginning, and in thanksgiving for whom it is also offered. Bringing this terrible, all-saving Sacrifice, the primate prays to God the Father or, according to the service, asks and prays and prays (that is, tenderly asks) to send down the Holy Spirit on the forthcoming throne of justice and mercy and on the gifts that are presented. In these especially moments, the whole heart of the clergy should be wholly given to God, who is so terribly celebrating our salvation and deliverance from the devil, from sin, damnation and eternal death, and not to think about anything earthly, so that the terrible Heavenly Sacrifice will not be offended by unworthy, base, passionate thoughts. After the blessing of the Eucharistic bread and wine, and after their transformation into the Most Pure Body and Blood, and after pronouncing the affirmative: amen, amen, amen, everyone bows to the ground, and I say to myself or in a low voice: God appears in the flesh(Tim. 3:16). The word became flesh and dwelt in us ().
After the exclamation: pretty about the Most Holy, Most Pure, Most Blessed, Glorious Our Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary remembering the greatest of all those born of women, the honorable glorious prophet, the Forerunner and Baptist John, the holy apostles and saints, whose memory is celebrated on the day of the celebration of the liturgy, and having prayed for the repose of the departed, the bishop or priest prays to the Lord to remember any Orthodox bishopric, and I add secretly from myself : remember, Lord, all Orthodox bishops, bearers of Thy Spirit, Thy righteousness, Thy power and Thy judgment, Thy holiness, Thy immortality, Thy new creation, Thy blessing, Thy good pleasure, Thy sanctification and Thy deification, bearers of Thy mind and Thy heart: we are the mind of Christ imams(), Your lordship and splendor, all presbytery, and I add secretly: you entrusted him with the ministry of reconciliation of people with God, repentance, reconciliation, renewal, enlightenment, blessing, multiplication of the family through the sacrament of marriage, sanctification and deification and all the heavenly sacraments, except for ordination - may it be worthy of its title, and may the right live and serve as a priest, and pleasingly bring prayers to You, the Lord, for everyone and everything. Remember also in Christ the deaconry that assists the priesthood and ministers to the most heavenly Mysteries, and every priestly rank.
We still bring Tee a verbal service about the universe, about the Saints, Councils and Apostles of the Church composed of all peoples; and in the storm of this world and the prince of darkness of the existing church, die and plant firm piety in them; about our Most Pious, Most Autocratic Sovereign, who is the image on earth of Your power, all-good, all-righteous, omnipotent, wise, about His Spouse, about His Heir - the hope of Your Church and Your kingdom ... and about the whole reigning House. And so on.
When the deacon reads the litany: all the saints remembered and when the priest secretly reads a prayer : We offer you our whole life and hope, Lord Humanity, and we ask, and we pray, and have mercy on us, make us partake of Your heavenly and terrible Mysteries, sowing sacred and spiritual meals, with a clear conscience, for the remission of sins, for the forgiveness of sins, for the communion of the Holy Spirit, for the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven, for boldness towards You, not for judgment or condemnation, I secretly add for myself: in boldness before all Your people, in the eradication of pernicious, flattering, vexing, raping, darkening, shaming, from You separating and soul-destroying passions, in planting, returning, affirming in the souls of all true, life-giving virtues, in fulfillment of wisdom in a hedgehog, teach all people faith and Thy commandments, in the enlightenment of my light before Thy people, as if they see my good deeds and glorify You our Father, Who is in heaven, but not in vain I wear such a high, angelic, idolizing, domineering dignity priesthood, not to judgment or condemnation.
When I partake of St. Mysteries after reading the prescribed prayers: I believe, O Lord, and confess... and your secret Supper... etc., then I say secretly: The Lord is in me personally, God and man, hypostatically, essentially, immutably, purifying, sanctifying, victorious, renewing, deifying, miraculous (which I feel in myself). Then I will add nothing more of my own. Page 217-224.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, before giving the Sacrament of Communion, said: “The bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” (John 6:51). That is, the food that I want to give you is My Flesh, which I want to give for the revitalization of the whole world. This means that Divine Communion for believers is a necessary component of spiritual and Christ-like life.
Sacrament Communions established by the Lord Himself last supper- the last meal with the disciples on Easter night before His arrest and crucifixion.
If you do not eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, you will not have life in you.
In. 6:53
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
In. 6:56
With these words, the Lord pointed out the absolute necessity for all Christians to participate in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. The Sacrament of the Eucharist itself was instituted by the Lord at the Last Supper. “Jesus took bread, blessed it, and broke it, and giving it to the disciples, he said, Take, eat: this is my body. And taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and said: drink all of you from it, for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:26-28). As the Holy Church teaches, a Christian, taking Holy Communion, is mysteriously united with Christ, for in every particle of the fragmented Lamb the whole Christ is contained. Immeasurable is the significance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist, the comprehension of which surpasses our reason. It ignites the love of Christ in us, elevates the heart to God, engenders virtues in it, restrains the attack of the dark force on us, grants strength against temptations, revitalizes the soul and body, heals them, gives them strength, cultivates virtues - restores that purity of soul in us. which was with the original Adam before the fall.
In his reflections on the Divine Liturgy of St. Seraphim of Zvezdinsky, there is a description of the vision of one elder ascetic, which vividly characterizes the significance for a Christian of communion of the Holy Mysteries. The ascetic saw “a sea of fire, the waves of which rose and churned, presenting a terrible sight. On the opposite bank stood a beautiful garden. From there came the singing of birds, the fragrance of flowers wafted. The ascetic hears the voice “Cross this sea!” But there was no way to go. For a long time he stood thinking about how to cross, and again he hears the voice, “Take the two wings that the Divine Eucharist gave: one wing is the Divine Flesh of Christ, the second wing is His Life-Giving Blood. Without them, no matter how great the feat, it is impossible to reach the Kingdom of Heaven. Elder Parthenius of Kyiv once, in a reverent feeling of fiery love for the Lord, repeated the prayer in himself for a long time: “Lord Jesus, live in me and let me live in You,” and the quiet one heard, sweet voice“He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood abides in Me, and I in him” (John 6:56).
In some spiritual illnesses, the Sacrament of Communion is the most effective remedy: for example, when so-called “blasphemous thoughts” attack a person, the spiritual fathers offer to fight them by frequent communion of the Holy Mysteries.
Righteous John of Kronstadt writes about the significance of the Sacrament of the Eucharist in the fight against strong temptations: “If you feel the severity of the struggle and see that you cannot cope with evil alone, run to spiritual father yours and ask him to partake of the Holy Mysteries. This is a great and omnipotent weapon in the struggle. For one mentally ill, Father John recommended living at home and partaking of the Holy Mysteries more often as a means of healing.
According to the custom of the Church, the Sacraments of Repentance (confession) and Communion follow directly one after the other. Saint Seraphim says that the rebirth of the soul is accomplished through two Sacraments: “through repentance and complete cleansing from all sinful filth by the Most Pure and Life-Giving Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ.”
Repentance alone is not enough to preserve the purity of our heart and strengthen our spirit in piety and virtue. The Lord said: “When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and, not finding it, says: I will return to my house from where I came out; and when he comes, he finds it swept and tidied up; then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and having entered they dwell there, and the last for that man is worse than the first” (Luke 11:24-26).
So, if repentance cleanses us from the filthiness of our soul, then the communion of the Body and Blood of the Lord will infuse us with grace and prevent the return of the evil spirit, expelled by repentance, into our soul. At the same time, no matter how necessary the communion of the Body and Blood of Christ may be for us, it cannot take place unless repentance precedes it. The Apostle Paul writes: “... whoever eats this bread and drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and thus let him eat from this bread and drink from this cup. For whoever eats and drinks unworthily, he eats and drinks condemnation to himself, not considering the Body of the Lord. That is why many of you are weak and sick, and many die” (1 Cor. 11:27-30). As we see from the words of the Apostle Paul, the Sacrament of Communion will be effective only with proper preparation for it, with prior self-examination and repentance for sins. And if the latter was not, then the person is doomed to weakness, illness and even death.
What could serve as an indicator for us that we have properly prepared for the Sacrament of Communion? Here is the opinion of the Monk Simeon the New Theologian on this matter: “Once, when the inspired words of our holy father Simeon of Studius were read: “Brother, never take communion without tears…” - then the listeners, hearing this, - and there were many of them not only laity, but also monks from famous and glorious in virtue, - they were surprised at this word and, looking at each other, smiling, they said unanimously, as if with one voice, “Therefore, we will never take communion, but we must all remain without communion ... ". Further, St. Simeon analyzes the features of an active life, full of labors of repentance, that those who go through such a life receive a tender, sensitive heart and tenderness, and their tears will always accompany communion. Those who spend their lives in self-pleasure, who are lazy, negligent, do not repent and do not humble themselves, they constantly remain with a callous, cruel heart and will not know what tears are at communion.
As Archbishop Arseniy (Chudovskoy) writes, “It is a great thing to receive the Holy Mysteries and the fruits of this are great: the renewal of our hearts by the Holy Spirit, the blissful mood of the spirit. And how great is this work, so careful it requires from us and preparation. Therefore, if you want to receive the grace of God from Holy Communion, do your best to correct your heart.” However, here we should also remember the words of St. Theophan the Recluse: “The action of the Sacraments is not always reflected in the feeling, but also acts secretly.”
How often should one partake of the Holy Mysteries?
In the fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer "Our Father" we ask for the daily granting of "daily bread" to us. According to the interpretation of many Church Fathers, these words most likely should not be understood as ordinary bread and food, which God gives us in abundance without our petition (see Matt. 6, 31-32). Thus, St. Cyprian writes: “We call Christ our bread, because He is the Bread of those who eat His Body… But we ask this bread to be given to us every day, who are in the temple and receive the Eucharist every day as food of salvation, in the sense that no grave sin has occurred and we have not been forbidden to partake of this Heavenly Bread... That is why we ask you to give us our Bread, i.e., Christ, so that we who abide in Christ never deviate from the sanctification of His Body.”
St. John Cassian the Roman writes on the same subject, “Give us our daily bread today.” “Daily”, i.e. “above-essential” - the highest of all essences, which can only be the Bread that came down from heaven. When it says “today”, it is shown that yesterday’s eating of it is not enough if it is not also given to us today, convincing us by such an everyday need for it to pour out this prayer at all times, since there is no day on which it would not be necessary to strengthen the heart of our inner man by accepting and eating this bread.” And here is the opinion of St. Basil the Great. In a letter to Caesarea, he writes: “It is good and beneficial to commune and receive the Holy Body and Blood of Christ every day. We commune four times a week: on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, as well as on those days when a saint is commemorated.” The Monk Nil of Sorsk communed the Holy Mysteries daily and said that this "apparently supports the strength of the soul and body." St. Ambrose of Milan thought the same way. In the book on the Sacraments, he writes: “If the Blood is poured out many times, which is poured out for the remission of our sins, then we must always accept it so that my sins are forgiven; and if I always sin, then medicine is always necessary for me ... Take every day that which can heal you. So live so that you will always be worthy of this acceptance (i.e., communion).
St. Theophan the Recluse also blessed one of the spiritual children to take communion every day from the reserve Holy Gifts. Righteous John of Kronstadt pointed to the forgotten apostolic rule to excommunicate those who had not been at Holy Communion for three weeks.
The Monk Seraphim of Sarov commanded the Diveyevo sisters to “unremittingly confess and commune during all the fasts and, in addition, the twelfth and great holidays: the more often, the better, without tormenting yourself with the thought that you are unworthy; and the opportunity should not be missed as often as possible to enjoy the grace bestowed by the communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. The grace bestowed by communion is so great that no matter how unworthy and no matter how sinful a person is, if only in a humble consciousness of his great sinfulness he would come to the Lord, who redeems all of us, even if from head to toe covered with ulcers of sins, then it will be cleansed by the grace of Christ, becomes more and more bright, completely enlightened, and saved.”
Of course, it is very good to take communion on the days of your name day and birth, and for spouses on the day of their marriage. Rev. Alexy Zossimovsky recommended that his spiritual children take communion also on the memorable days of their deceased loved ones - on the days of their death and name days. This contributes to the unity in Christ of the living and those who have gone to another world.
If you wish to receive communion even more often (perhaps even every day), you need to follow this instruction of the Monk Simeon the New Theologian: “Who does not reveal the secrets of his heart every day, who in them and in what he has done through ignorance does not bring due repentance, who does not go weeping and lamenting always and what has been said before with care does not pass, he is truly unworthy [of daily communion]. And whoever does all this and in sighs and tears completes the course of his life, he is very worthy to be a partaker of the Divine Mysteries, and not only on a holiday, but every day, and even - although I boldly say - from the very beginning of his repentance and conversion. .
As Archbishop Arseniy (Chudovskoy) writes, “constant communion should be the ideal of all Christians. But the enemy of the human race immediately understood what power the Lord had given us in the Holy Mysteries. And he began the work of rejecting Christians from Holy Communion. From the history of Christianity, we know that at first Christians took communion daily, then four times a week, then on Sundays and holidays, and there - in all fasts, i.e. four times a year, finally barely once a year, and others and even less often. “A Christian must always be ready for both death and communion,” said one of the spiritual fathers. So, it is up to us to frequently participate in the Last Supper of Christ and receive the great grace of the Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ at it. And if the heart lives entirely by God - both in deeds, and in words, and in thoughts, if a Christian cries in his soul about every sin of his and has the goal of his life to please God and acquire the Holy Spirit of God, then he has no obstacles for daily communion of the Holy Mysteries , as the Christians of the first centuries did it, and as Simeon writes about it New Theologian. One of the wisest modern pastors, Fr. Valentin Sventsitsky writes: “Spiritual life is not an abstract theology, but a real and most undoubted life in Christ. But how can it begin if you do not receive in this terrible and great Sacrament the fullness of the Spirit of Christ? How, without having accepted the Flesh and Blood of Christ, will you be in Him? And here, as in repentance, the enemy will not leave you without attacks. And here he will build you all sorts of intrigues. He will erect a lot of both external and internal barriers, You will have no time, then you will feel unhealthy, then you will want to. set aside for a while, "to better prepare." Do not listen. Go. Confess. Communion. You don't know when the Lord will call you."
Let each soul sensitively listen in his heart and be afraid to listen to the knocking at his door of the hand of the High Guest; let her be afraid that her hearing will be hardened by worldly fuss and will not be able to hear the quiet and gentle calls coming from the Kingdom of Light. Let the soul be afraid to replace the experiences of the heavenly joy of unity with the Lord with the muddy entertainments of the world or the base consolations of the bodily nature. And when she is able to tear herself away from the world and everything sensual, when she longs for the light of the heavenly world and reaches out to the Lord, let her dare to unite with Him in the great Sacrament, dressing herself in the spiritual garments of sincere repentance and the deepest humility and the unchanging fullness of spiritual poverty. Also, let not the soul be troubled because, with all its repentance, it is still unworthy of communion. Righteous Alexy Mechev says this about it: “Communion more often and do not say that you are unworthy. If you talk like that, you will never take communion, because you will never be worthy. Do you think that there is at least one person on earth who is worthy of communion of the Holy Mysteries? No one is worthy of this, and if we do receive communion, it is only through the special mercy of God. We are not created for Communion, but Communion is for us. It is we - sinful, unworthy, weak - more than anyone who need this saving source.
Why do we still not receive the blessings of our spiritual fathers for more frequent communion? Only due to our hardness of heart and negligence, because in our sinful life and the absence of constant repentance and sobriety, we would begin to receive the Body and Blood of the Lord unworthily.
If the Christians of the first centuries tried to partake of the Holy Chalice every day, then in the 19th century many Christians in Russia considered communion as a dying parting word. In our time, the desire to receive communion often has revived again. However, knowing that the Chalice must be approached after careful preparation - fasting, many cannot find the strength and time for fasting (which thereby turns into an end in itself).
At the heart of deciding how often we need to take communion lies the degree of preparedness of the soul, its jealousy, its love for the Lord, its strength of repentance. Therefore, the Church leaves this issue to the priests and confessors to decide. It is with the spiritual father that it is necessary to agree on how often to take communion, how long and how strictly to fast before this. Different priests bless in different ways, but to each according to his ability. Many modern pastors recommend that people who seek to church their lives take communion from one to two times a month. Sometimes priests bless even more frequent communion, but this is the exception rather than the rule. Of course, one cannot take communion “for show”, for the sake of fulfilling certain quantitative norms. The sacrament of the Eucharist must become Orthodox Christian a need of the soul, without the fulfillment of which one cannot live.
On the preparation for Communion of the Holy Mysteries
Those who wish to worthily partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ must prayerfully prepare themselves for this in two or three days: pray at home in the morning and evening, visit church services. Before the day of communion, you must be at the evening service. To home evening prayers a rule is added (from the prayer book) to Holy Communion. Its size is determined by the spiritual father. Usually it includes the canons: repentance to the Lord Jesus Christ, a prayer service to the Most Holy Theotokos, the Guardian Angel, as well as the Follow-up to Holy Communion.
At the same time, the following instructions of the righteous John of Kronstadt must be taken into account: “Some put all their well-being and service before God in reading all the prescribed prayers, not paying attention to the readiness of the heart for God - to their inner correction; for example, many read the rule for Communion in this way. Meanwhile, here, first of all, we must look at the correction of our lives and the readiness of the heart to receive the Holy Mysteries. If the right heart has become in your womb, by the grace of God, if it is ready to meet the Bridegroom, then glory to God, although you did not have time to subtract all the prayers. The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power” (1 Cor. 4:20). Good obedience in everything to the Mother Church, but with prudence; and, if possible, "he who can contain" a long prayer "may he contain". But “not all can bear this word” (Mt. 19:11; see also v. 12); if a long prayer is incompatible with the ardor of the spirit, it is better to make a short but fervent prayer. Remember that one word of the publican, spoken from a warm heart, justified him. God does not look at a lot of words, but at the disposition of the heart. The main thing is the living faith of the heart and the warmth of repentance for sins. Prayer is combined with abstinence from fast food - meat, eggs, milk and dairy products, with strict fasting and from fish. In the rest of the food, moderation should be observed.
Those who wish to take communion should, best of all, on the eve, before or after the evening service, bring sincere repentance for their sins before the priest, sincerely opening their soul and not concealing a single sin. Before confession, one must certainly reconcile both with one's offenders and with those whom one has offended oneself. At confession, it is better not to wait for the priest's questions, but to tell him everything that is on your conscience, without justifying yourself in anything and without shifting the blame to others. In no case should you condemn someone in confession or talk about other people's sins. If it is not possible to confess in the evening, you need to do it before the start of the liturgy, in extreme cases - before the Cherubic Hymn. Without confession, no one, except for infants up to seven years of age, can be admitted to Holy Communion. After midnight, it is forbidden to eat and drink, you must come to Communion strictly on an empty stomach. Children should also be taught to abstain from food and drink before Holy Communion.
How to approach the Holy Chalice?
Each communicant needs to know well how to approach the Holy Chalice so that communion takes place sedately and without fuss.
- Here are the rules.
- Before the Chalice it is necessary to make an earthly bow. If there are many communicants, then in order not to disturb others, you need to bow in advance.
- When the royal doors open, one must cross oneself and fold one’s hands crosswise on the chest, the right hand over the left, and with such a folded hands take communion; you need to move away from the Chalice without separating your hands
- It is necessary to approach from the right side of the temple, and leave the left free.
- Altar attendants receive communion first, then monks, children, and only then everyone else. It is necessary to give way to neighbors, in no case do not push.
- Women need to remove their lipstick before communion.
- Approaching the Chalice, one should loudly and clearly state one's name, accept the Holy Gifts, chew (if necessary) and immediately swallow Them, and kiss the lower edge of the Chalice like the rib of Christ.
- You can not touch the Chalice with your hands and kiss the priest's hand.
- It is forbidden to be baptized at the Chalice! Raising your hand for sign of the cross, you can accidentally push the priest and spill the Holy Gifts.
- Going to the table with a drink, you need to eat the antidor and drink the warmth. Only after that you can apply to the icons and talk.
- If the Holy Gifts are taught from several Chalices, they can only be received from one. You cannot take communion twice a day.
- On the day of Communion, it is not customary to kneel, with the exception of bows during Great Lent when reading the prayer of Ephraim the Syrian, bows before the Shroud of Christ on Holy Saturday and kneeling prayers on the day of the Holy Trinity.
- When you come home, you should first of all read the thanksgiving prayers for Holy Communion; if they are read in the temple at the end of the service, one must listen to the prayers there. After communion until the morning, one should also not spit anything out and rinse the mouth. Communicators should try to keep themselves from idle talk, especially from condemnation, and in order to avoid idle talk, one must read the Gospel, the Jesus Prayer, akathists, and Holy Scripture.
Communion of the sick
This rite is a special kind of teaching the Sacrament of the Eucharist to people who, due to a serious illness, cannot be in church during the celebration of the Sacrament at the full Liturgy and participate in its reception. In this case, already the ancient Church, condescending to the infirmities of the sick and looking at the Sacrament as the best and surest medicine of the soul and body, sent the Holy Gifts to the faithful at home. The Church is doing the same now. By custom Orthodox Church The Holy Gifts for the sick are prepared on Great Thursday, but they can be prepared at any other time at the full Liturgy. For this purpose, a second lamb is prepared, and in those churches where the liturgy is celebrated daily, only a part of the liturgical lamb is set aside. The whole lamb or part of the lamb is prepared for teaching to the sick in the same way as for the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, according to the instructions of the teaching message.
The very process of communion of the sick has this order: The priest takes a part of the Holy Mysteries, puts it into the chalice and pours in as much wine as the patient can comfortably take. After the usual beginning, they read: “Come, let us bow down” three times, the Symbol of Faith and prayers for Holy Communion. Then the patient prepared in this way confesses and receives permission from sins, if he has not been confessed, and otherwise receives direct communion. After communion, they read: Now you forgive, the Trisagion, Our Father, the troparion of the day, the Theotokos, and there is a dismissal of the present day.
Follow-up to Holy Communion
Through the prayers of our holy fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us. Amen.
Heavenly King, Comforter, Soul of Truth, Who is everywhere and fills everything, Treasury of good things and Giver of life, come and dwell in us, and cleanse us from all filth, and save, O Blessed, our souls.
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. (Thrice)
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.
Lord have mercy. (Three times)
Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.
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.
Lord have mercy. (12 times)
Come, let us worship our King God. (Bow)
Come, let us bow down and bow down to Christ, our King God. (Bow)
Come, let us worship and bow down to Christ Himself, the King and our God. (Bow)
