Prayer for enlightenment: the power of faith, the order of reading, the instructions of the clergy

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

Everything happens in life. There lived a family. We lived together well. And there was a misfortune: the husband went on a spree. Nothing helps: neither the tears and requests of the wife, nor the young children, nor the persuasion of elderly parents.

What to do in this case? Is there a prayer for the return and admonition of the husband? We will talk about this in more detail in the article.

What is enlightenment

Before moving on to the main issue of our topic, let's talk about what enlightenment is.

The explanatory dictionary helpfully suggests: admonition is guidance on the true path. Who is instructing whom? Usually the parents of their children. Especially in adolescence, when they see themselves as adults. And they do things that make you want to cry.

Is there a prayer for enlightenment? Yes, there are such prayers. But they will be discussed a little later.

Be careful with requests

Strange sub title. What is it about asking God to enlighten your children, relatives or other half? Guide to the true pathmay be different. It is not for nothing that they say: the Lord will instruct, so he will instruct.

Let's give an example: there was an old mother with a divorced son. Her son is not bad: he did not offend his mother, he carried a bag of groceries home, he earned well. One problem - drinking. From the word "strong". God rewarded him with a heroic he alth. And to get drunk, the son needed to drink a decent enough amount of alcohol.

Once an old woman went to visit her granddaughter. The son went into all serious trouble. It got to the point that he got hit on the head by a drinking buddy. Bottom line: a concussion and a long sick leave.

And the old mother before that kept asking God to enlighten her erring son. Did you ask? Receive and sign.

So be careful in your requests for enlightenment of loved ones.

Who to pray to

To whom to contact, to whom to read a prayer for enlightenment? First of all, our Lord Jesus Christ. To the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, to the holy saints of God. Now let's talk about this in more detail.

Prayer to God

What prayer to read for the preservation and admonishment of the family? When everything is falling apart before your eyes and everything seems to be over?

Start with the Jesus Prayer. It would seem, what does admonition have to do with it, when in it we ask for mercy for ourselves? Remember the words of St. Seraphim of Sarov: "Save yourself - and thousands around will be saved"?

People naturally tend to blame others for their problems. Is the family falling apart? It's the husband/wife's fault. But not me. Conflict at work? This is the boss - a bastard, and colleaguesvile. Is the child not listening? Disgusting grew up, no respect for parents. Before throwing accusations around, let's take a look at ourselves. Everything around cannot be bad if it does not go well on all fronts. This does not happen, so the fault is in us.

You can't see your sins, it's understandable. But somewhere you need to be able to be silent. Be smarter and wiser than we are. It doesn't always work out. We prefer to look at the behavior of our spouses, colleagues and children under the microscope instead of looking at ourselves.

How to read a prayer for admonishment to the Lord? Very simple. Repeat it mentally or out loud. While doing physical labor or household chores, say a prayer. And from yourself ask God to enlighten. Prayer words:

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

Prayers to the Mother of God

Who should read prayers for the preservation of the family and the admonition of her husband? Of course, Mother of God. She is the Mother of God, our Helper and Intercessor. The Virgin Mary has a special, maternal prayer before God. We ask for Her help as we ask for our own mother. Without hesitation, but with all my heart. Knowing that we will be helped and heard.

Pray in front of the icon "Recovery of the Lost". Mothers turn to her for help, praying for their lost and perishing children. They ask for those who have fallen away from the church and the Christian faith. They pray before the image and in illness. And the husband, who was about to leave the family, is he not lost andsick spiritually? Pray for him:

Oh, Most Holy and Blessed Virgin, Lady Mother of God! Look with Your merciful eye on us, standing before Your holy icon and praying to You with tenderness, raise us up from the depths of sin, enlighten our mind, darkened by passions, and heal the ulcers of our souls and bodies. Not imams of other help, not imams of other hope, unless you, the Lady, weigh all our infirmities and sins, we resort to you and cry out: do not leave us with your heavenly help, but appear before us and with your inexpressible mercy and bounty save and have mercy on us who are dying. Grant us the correction of our sinful life and deliver us from sorrows, troubles and illnesses, from vain death, hell and eternal torment. You are Bo, Queen and Mistress, an ambulance Helper and Intercessor to all who flow to You, and a strong refuge for penitent sinners. Grant to us, Blessing and All-Immaculate Virgin, the Christian end of our belly, peaceful and shameless, and vouchsafe us with Your intercession to settle in the abodes of Heaven, where the unceasing voice of those celebrating with joy glorifies the Most Holy Trinity, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

Troparion, tone 4

Seek us who are perishing, Blessed Virgin, punish us not by our sin, but by philanthropy, dear, deliver us from hell, sickness and need and save us.

Kontakion, tone 6

The intercession of Christians is shameless, the intercession to the Creator is immutable, do not despise the voices of sinful prayers, but precede, like the Good, to help us, rightly calling Ty: hasten to prayer and rush to supplication, intercessorsever, Mother of God, honoring Thee.

Magnificence

We magnify Thee, Blessed Virgin, and honor Your holy image, heal our sickness and raise our souls to God.

There is another image before which they ask for help in the same situations. Before the icon of the Mother of God "The Sign" ("Korchemnaya") they ask for those who have strayed from the Orthodox faith and stopped attending church. About the guidance of the lost and help to the sick. If the spouse drinks, then the prayer for admonishing the husband before this image will be very useful:

O Most Holy Lady Theotokos, Heavenly King Mother, God-chosen Maiden! Unreliable hope, sick healing, orphan intercessor, grieving consolation and joy, offended patroness and all in trouble and adversity, quick help and intercession! Help, O Mother of God, and us sinners in our sorrow, rejoice with the joy of the hearts of Your people; rule our lives in peace and silence and do not let us fall into despair, You are the only one more than all the saints and more than all the higher minds, our representative to God, like the All-good Tsar Good Mother. The same we, sinners, look at Your Most Pure image “The Sign”, tenderly bowing our knees and, reverently kissing, we pray to Thee, Merciful Mother: do not reject our humble prayer and show us the sign of Your mercy: no one, resorting to You with hope, comes I am put to shame from You, but asks for grace and accepts a gift for a useful petition, glorifying Your Son and God, and You with Him, forever and ever. Amen.

Magnificence

We magnify Thee, Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Christ our God, and honorYour holy image, from the worthless you exude healing to all who flow to You with faith.

Prayer to the guardian angel

What kind of prayer for enlightenment to do? How to ask your angel for help? First of all, don't hesitate. A guardian angel is given to us at baptism and accompanies us until the end of our lives. We, by nature, tend to sin. How we upset him. An angel leaves us and cries. But he does not leave his unlucky wards.

Let's, instead of giving him feelings, let's better pray, ask for forgiveness for our actions and help:

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

John Chrysostom

Big request: do not confuse John the Baptist (apostle) and John Chrysostom. The latter was born into a noble family. His father died when Chrysostom was just a baby. The mother, left a 20-year-old widow with two children, was able to adequately raise her son. And gave him a good education. What happened to the second child - John's sister - is unknown. She must have died.

Chrysostom was not baptized as a child. I came to God through the study of the Holy Scriptures. In the world, Chrysostom was engaged in advocacy, but left it for the sake of God.

In the church, this saint is on a par with Gregory the Theologian and Basil the Great.

He can be approached with a prayer forunderstanding of wife and husband. How? Below is how to pray. In the meantime - the text of the prayer to John Chrysostom:

Oh, great Saint John Chrysostom! You have received many and various gifts from the Lord, and like a good and faithful servant, you have multiplied all the talents given to you for good: for this reason, you were truly a universal teacher, as every age and every rank is learned from you. Behold, the image appeared to you as a youth of obedience, to the young - chastity shone, the husband - diligence mentor, the old - teacher of malice, the monk - the rule of abstinence, to those who pray - the leader from God inspired, to those seeking wisdom - the enlightener of the mind, to the well-spoken vortices - the words of the living source are inexhaustible, beneficent - a star of mercy, to those in charge - the rule of a wise image, truth to a zealot - boldness inspirer, truth for the sake of the persecuted - patience a mentor: all were thou, but save every one. Over all of these, you acquired love, even if there is a union of perfection, and by that, as if by the power of God, all the gifts in your souls were united into one, and there the love divided reconciling, in the interpretation of the words of the apostles, preached to all the faithful. But we are sinners, according to each one our own gift of property, unity of the spirit in the union of the world are not imams, but there are vanities, irritating each other, envying each other: for the sake of this gift, our divided one is not in peace and salvation, but in enmity and condemnation to us. The same to you, the saint of God, we fall down, servants of God (names), we are overwhelmed with discord, and in contrition of heart we ask: with your prayers, banish all pride and envy from our hearts, usdividing, yes in many places we will abide one church body unhindered, yes, according to your prayerful word, we will love each other and with one mind confess the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity Consubstantial and Inseparable, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

And this prayer was composed by the saints to the Lord. Feel free to read it:

Give, Lord, to my unworthiness the grace of understanding, to recognize what is pleasing to You, but useful to me, and not only to recognize, but also to do, so as not to be carried away and not cling to the empty, to sympathize with the suffering and condescend to sinners.

Prayer to Silouan of Athos

What is the prayer for enlightenment, family to save? Seek help from St. Silouan of Athos. He can be called our contemporary, for this great ascetic died in 1938.

Silouan of Athos comes from a simple peasant family. He was born in the Tambov province, and his parents were illiterate people. But very kind and compassionate. They lovingly accepted the beggars and wanderers, shared the last piece. Simeon (the worldly name of the monk) grew up in an environment where love for one's neighbor is above all else. He worked with his brothers in the fields, helped his father. And secretly dreamed of becoming a monk.

His father, seeing his son's desire, was worried that he would make the wrong choice. For Simeon was young. And his parent ordered him to do military service first. The future reverend did not argue, he postponed his plans. But worldly life is getting stronger and strongersucked it in.

It is not known how it would have ended. At one point, having come from another party, the future saint dozed off. And in a dream he saw a huge, vile snake entering him. Simeon was disgusted to look at this.

He immediately heard a voice. This voice belonged to the Mother of God. She said that just as it was disgusting for him to swallow a snake, it was hard for her to see the sinful life of Simeon.

Woke up, he was horrified. He repented of his deeds, thanked the Blessed Virgin Mary and became even more firmly established in his desire for a monastic life.

After completing military service, Simeon went to Athos. Where he labored until the end of his days, took monastic vows and was given the name Silouan.

Resort to him with a prayer for the family, admonishing husband/wife or children:

O wonderful servant of God, Father Silouan! By the grace given to you by God, pray tearfully for the whole universe - the dead, the living and the future - do not be silent for us to the Lord, who diligently fall to you and tenderly ask for your intercession (names). Move, O all-blessed, to prayer the Zealous Intercessor of the Christian race, the Most Blessed Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, miraculously calling you to be a faithful worker in Her earthly garden, where the chosen one of God is merciful and long-suffering for our sins, they beg God to be, in a hedgehog not to remember our iniquities and iniquities but by the unspeakable goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ, have compassion and save us by His great mercy. She, the servant of God, with the Most Blessed Lady of the World - the Most Holy Abbess of Athos and the holy ascetics of Her earthlyask the lot from the saints of the most holy Word of the holy mountain of Athos and its God-loving desert-dweller from all the troubles and slander of the enemy in the world will be preserved. Yes, we deliver the Angels from evil with the saints and strengthen them with the Holy Spirit in faith and brotherly love, until the end of the age about the Ones, Saints, Cathedrals and Apostles of the Church, they pray and show everyone the way of salvation, yes the Church on Earth and Heaven unceasingly glorifies the Creator and Father of Lights, enlightening and illuminating peace in the eternal truth and goodness of God. Ask the people of the whole earth for a prosperous and peaceful life, the spirit of humility and brotherly love, good-nature and salvation, the spirit of the fear of God. May not malice and lawlessness harden human hearts, which can destroy the love of God in men and overthrow them into godly enmity and fratricide, but in the power of Divine love and truth, as if in heaven and on earth, hallowed be the name of God, may His holy will be done in men and may peace and the Kingdom of God reign on earth. So also for your earthly Fatherland - ask for the land of Russia, servant of God, longed-for peace and heavenly blessing, covered in a hedgehog by the all-powerful omophorion of the Mother of God, get rid of hunger, destruction, coward, fire, sword, invasion of foreigners and internecine warfare and from all visible enemies and invisible, and thus the most holy house of the Most Blessed Mother of God until the end of the century, he will remain, the Life-Giving Cross by power, and in the love of God, the inexhaustible be affirmed. But for all of us, plunging into the darkness of sins and repentance of warmth, below the fear of God, who do not have and who endlessly loves us, the Lord incessantly offends, ask, all-blessed, from the All-merciful Godours, may He visit and revive our souls with His Almighty divine grace, and abolish all malice and pride of life, despondency and negligence in our hearts. We also pray for the hedgehog and for us, strengthened by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit and warmed by the love of God, in philanthropy and brotherly love, humbly crucified for each other and for all, to be established in the truth of God and in the grace-filled love of God to be well strengthened, and son-loving to Him draw near. Yes, so, doing His all holy will, in all piety and purity of temporal life, we will shamelessly pass the path and with all the saints of the Kingdom of Heaven and His Lamb marriage we will be honored. To him, from all earthly and heavenly things, may there be glory, honor and worship, with His Beginningless Father, His Most Holy and Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen.

How to pray

We are talking about the prayer for enlightenment, here are its texts. How should you pray?

Heart and soul. Was it not clear at all? Heartily - from the bottom of my heart. Sincerely - from the bottom of my heart. That is, they did not just stand in front of the icons, muttered the text of the prayer under their breath, they themselves did not understand anything. They closed the prayer book and, with a sense of accomplishment, began to wait for a miracle.

It doesn't happen. In fact, the Lord can do anything. He wants to help immediately - and will do it. But who needs a prayer "forget it"? God? Hardly. Saints? Also no. To ourselves? What's the use of this.

When we pray, we should focus all our attention on the words of the prayer. It's complicated. Thoughts crawl in all directions, and we think about anything, onlynot about the words of prayer. It's okay, everything comes with experience. Gathering thoughts together and turning our attention back to prayer.

Preferably, before starting the prayer for enlightenment, light a candle or lamp in front of the icons. A candle is a small sacrifice to God. Ideally, the lamp should burn in front of the icons constantly.

Is it possible to pray in the temple

Not only possible, but necessary. It is one thing to say a prayer for enlightenment at home, and another thing to serve prayers in a church. What prayers? About help to the Mother of God, the saints of God and to the Savior himself.

Come to the temple, write notes about he alth, give a prayer service. Buy candles and place them in front of the images of those from whom you ask for help. Stand in silence, pray with concentration, ask for help.

If you want to stand quietly and pray, come to church after the service or on weekdays. Sunday mornings are usually crowded. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't attend services. An Orthodox Christian must attend church at least once a week.

Summarizing

We talked about the prayer for enlightenment, discussed who to contact and how. Let's highlight the main aspects:

• With requests for enlightenment, you need to be careful. God can instruct so that a person does not have enough strength of spirit to withstand.
• Start with yourself, as they say. Before rushing in requests for the admonition of the accursed spouse and harmful children, ask God for help for yourself, for your admonition. How it's done? Through the Jesus Prayer.
• Don't be afraid to take your troubles to the Mother of God. Textsprayers before her images are given above.
• John Chrysostom and Silouan the Athonite will not leave those who, with faith and hope, ask them for help.
• Don't forget about the guardian angel. We often upset him. Rather than do this, let's pray and ask for help.

Conclusion

Now the reader knows what prayer for enlightenment is, who should be prayed to and how to do it.

It is worth remembering that prayer must be sincere. Priests talk about it. There is no sense in the prayers that we read somehow, just to subtract as soon as possible. And do not grumble at God if nothing came right away. Ask even more, from the bottom of your heart. Everything that is good for us, the Lord will surely give.