The history of the icon of the Mother of God "Quick Hearer" begins in ancient times. This is an amazing image of the Virgin. Description, spiritual meaning, prayer and troparion "Quick Hearing" - all this you will find in this article.
Historical background
It is believed that it was created during the life of St. Neophyte, who founded the Dochiar monastery on Athos in the 10th century. Looking at this icon, you can see for yourself both its antiquity and the amazing properties that are attributed to it. Although over the past centuries the colors have faded, it seems that the Lord himself protected the image from decay with his hand, so that even today every true believer could resort to the help and intercession of the Mother of God. Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos "Quick to Hear" are incredibly effective.
Spiritual meaning
The Mother of God for Orthodox peoples was and is a symbol of just such a person, whom the Lord intended him to be at creation. It is no coincidence that she was chosen by him to show the worldgreat miracle. And now, in another world, she continues to provide people with support and intercession.
The icon of the Quick Listener is of great importance. How does the Mother of God help in this face? The images on the icon and their relationships are not accidental - they have a deep subtext. Embracing her son, she simultaneously embraces every person in the world, while with a gesture of her right hand she herself accepts a blessing from him. Despite the fact that her eyes are full of sadness for the human race, mired in sins, the Mother of God patiently listens to every prayer addressed to her, consoles any sadness. The troparion "Quick Hearing One" will satisfy every need of the soul.
Description
In the left hand of the Savior is a scroll, personifying the Holy Scripture, because it is from it that mankind will learn about the sacrifice made by Jesus Christ. The baby in the arms of the Mother is like a sovereign on the throne, and for good reason - only thanks to the Most Pure Virgin, the divine plan was embodied, and God the Son appeared to people in human form. The Virgin Mary looks at the Son of God, thus showing that people are ready to reunite with him in the Kingdom of Heaven. With her hand pointing to Christ, she shows the direction to his kingdom - in order to find it, a person should believe in the Savior, be baptized and live in accordance with Holy Scripture.
How do the troparion and kontakion of "Quick Hearing" sound?
Troparion
To the Mother of God, we are in trouble, and now let us fall down to Her holy icon, with faith calling from the depths of the soul: soon ourHear the prayer, Virgin, like the quick-to-be-named, You are Your servants in need, the ready Assistant of the imam.
Kondak
"In the sea of life, we are overwhelmed, we fall into anxiety of passions and temptations. Give us, Madam, a helping hand, like Petrov Thy Son, and speed up us from troubles, let us call Thee: rejoice, all-good quick hearer."
Let each of us, surrounded in a vain life by our troubles and misfortunes, come to the Most Holy Theotokos, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and each of us kneel before her holy icon, calling to her with a deep, sincere, pure faith and hope in the soul and heart: hear our desperate prayers addressed to you, oh, the All-Merciful Mother of God, who was called the Quick Listener. Your modest and obedient servants, in deepest humility, with the greatest reverence, turn to you in an hour of grief and severe need, praying for all kinds of help and intercession from you, trusting in your boundless love and unearthly mercy.
What helps
The troparion to the icon "Quick Hearing One" should be read to pregnant women with a request for a successful birth and a he althy baby. The Mother of God also helps young mothers who do not have milk to feed the baby. In a request for the he alth of loved ones, especially children, the icon of the Quick Listener also comes to the rescue. The meaning, what helps, what emotional wounds this image heals - all these questions can be answered in this article.
Short Prayer
"Incessantly overwhelmed by the cruel, merciless waves of the vain sea of life, we are in a constant, unceasing whirlwind of passions, temptations and temptations that are destructive to the body and soul. faithful, just as your Son shows the afflicted the way, showing it even to Peter, that he renounced him in the hour of great danger, protect and deliver us from misfortunes, troubles and sorrows, we humbly turn our desperate prayers to you: rejoice forever eternal, O All-good and All-Merciful Quick Listener".
The troparion and the prayer to the "Quick Hearer" are read under various circumstances.
Prayer for Intercession
Overshadowed by all possible blessings, the Lady, the Most Holy Theotokos, the Blessed Mary, who was the first to receive the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and revealed it to the whole world, as the Word, which is above any other word, and which is a boundless, immense, boundless sea of blessed divine gifts, and, like a wonderful river, pouring out grace to all who come to you humbly, bowing their heads, with sincere and pure faith in their hearts and souls!
Kneeling humbly and humbly before your life-giving, blessed, holy image, we tirelessly cry out to you, the Most Generous Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, the kindest Ruler of the whole human race and the whole world: strike us, unworthy slavesyours, with your unlimited mercy, love and grace, and fulfill those humble prayers that we, the orphans and the poor, turn to you, turn your mercy to us in support and consolation. Illuminate every humble servant of yours with your good word, show great, boundless heavenly mercy, give everyone who needs healing from illness deliverance from any illness, grant him perfect bodily and spiritual he alth, integrity, long life in this world, grant peace and quiet to everyone, who needs peace and quiet, free all the prisoners imprisoned in dungeons and jails, and to all those who suffer, who are looking for a way, grant mercifully what they strive for in soul and body, O Our All-Merciful Lady, Blessed Mary.
Deliver all lands, every city and every country from hunger, from plague, from black thoughts and machinations of enemies, from conflagration, from the flood, from any other misfortune, transient or eternal, which appeared from outside or from within. Turn away God's wrath from everyone who is guilty before you and your Son with your maternal desire: free your humble servants, overwhelmed with passions, but falling into the abyss of sin, bogged down in it without hope of salvation, for this will be their greatest lesson and gift of true, sincere faith into your boundless love and mercy, which will fill their hearts with true gratitude and infinite, eternal love for the human race. May your son, our Lord Jesus Christ, always be accompanied by everlasting glory and humble worship, may deeds be glorified in the world, may his name shine forever and ever, as well as the name of his Father, Beginningless and Eternal,like the name of the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.
Full prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Oh, Most Holy Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, Quickly Obedient Intercessor of every person, every servant of yours, who has come to you with sincere, pure faith in heart and soul and bowed head humbly! Look at me with heights of your boundless heavenly majesty and purity, on me, indecent and sinful, unworthy, falling to your holy, wonderful, life-giving icon, hear the humble prayer of your humble servant, a sinner repenting of his deeds, addressed to you, and convey my desperate prayers and modest hope to your Son, the Lord of the human race, our Lord Jesus Christ: ask him that my gloomy soul, wandering in the dark for many years, be illuminated by his wonderful divine light, so that his boundless grace heals and cleanses my mind from sinful, vain, vile, unworthy aspirations and thoughts, so that my tired restless heart would calm down in the light of it, but be healed of all sorts of wounds and scars Amov, found peace. May he, the Lord of all things, enlighten me, and guide me, his servant repenting of my sins, to the light, to good, charitable deeds for his glory.
I beg him to forgive me for the atrocities committed by me intentionally and out of ignorance, not to doom my soul to eternal torment in the next world and not to deprive me of my Eternal Blessed Kingdom of Heaven. Oh, Most Holy Most Pure Blessed Virgin Mary,countless times, blessed Mother of God: you order, quick to hearken, to every servant of yours to come to your face, filling your heart and soul with sincere and pure faith, so do not despise me, wretched, lost and unworthy, do not turn away from me in your boundless love and mercy, stretch out your hand to me so that I do not perish in the boundless black abyss of the abyss of my sins, temptations and temptations. On you alone, O Most Pure, all my hopes, and, filled with pure and sincere faith, I entrust myself into your hands, hoping for your mercy and boundless goodness. Amen.
In many circumstances, the icon of the Mother of God helps. The troparion "to the quick to hearken" is an invocation of a lost soul for any need - both physical and spiritual.
