Prayer for a believer is not just a formality. Prayer is a living conversation with God and the saints. There are so-called prayer rules, but this is only a collection of prayers recommended at different times of the day. Most often, they are used, but often they add something from themselves according to the situation to such a rule. It can be thanksgiving to God for a successfully resolved spiritual or material situation, a request for the he alth or repose of relatives.
Prayer for different needs
There is even a tradition to pray to a certain saint with a request to solve this or that problem. For example, the Mother of God especially pray for children. This is quite understandable, because She herself had a child, if a woman addressed her personally, during Her lifetime, cares and worries about children would be close and understandable to her. So any woman is ready to pray for her child to another Mother.
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is often prayed while traveling. From his life, a case is known of how he saved a sinking ship, so any Orthodox traveler always has the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with him.
Helpfrom the saint
Prayer to Spyridon Trimifuntsky sounds in many homes. This is an amazing saint! He helps in the most difficult life situations that seem completely hopeless. Moreover, it often seems that no miracle is happening - just a lucky coincidence. And only believers know that the prayer to Spyridon Trimifuntsky actually helped.
In Orthodoxy, it is believed that spiritual problems are much more important than material ones. The problems of this world are only prayed for when there is real trouble. It can be war, famine or pestilence, that is, an epidemic. Against this background, a request for a new apartment, a salary increase or a successful exam seems completely frivolous.
But prayer to Spiridon of Trimifuntsky helps in all these purely material cases. Entire families pray to this saint to get an apartment, and after a housewarming party they pass the icons to their friends so that they also pray. There is even a tradition to resort to this saint in case of problems with housing. Prayer to Spyridon of Trimifuntsky for marriage is often heard and performed in the best way.
Amazing Powers
The relics of the saint are on the island of Corfu in Greece. Modern people treat miracles with great skepticism, but they revere Spiridon of Trimifuntsky. His shrine is adorned with many golden lamps, which were donated by grateful believers. But the most amazing facts cantell the keepers of the crayfish. The relics of a saint have the temperature of a human body. And the most interesting thing is that clothes are regularly worn out on the saint. It seems that the prayer to Spyridon of Trimifuntsky for he alth or other help makes him personally visit those in need. It seems that he is not constantly in cancer, but walks around the island, and maybe around the world, for the sake of helping everyone who prays to him.
Prayer to Spyridon of Trimifuntsky is an effective tool, but we must not forget about gratitude if we managed to get what we asked for. In this case, you need to go to the temple and order a thanksgiving prayer service. True, it is customary to give thanks for all good deeds not to the saints, but to God Himself.
St. Father Spiridon, pray to God for us!
